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LILYPAD’S FALL 25 MAGAZINE IS HERE!
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5TH, 5:30–6:30 PM at Performance Cafe Snacks and drinks covered The LilyPad’s Fall 25 Magazine is ready, and we’re hosting a small launch get-together to share it with you! Stop by to pick up your free copy (filled with campus stories, student art, and all the DKU spirit), and chat with the team […]
Celebrating the Success of Prof. Richer’s Workshop and HUM Exhibit at NYU Shanghai
We are delighted that Prof. Renee Richer’s workshop, “Planting Relationships: A Sensorial Introduction to Plant Structure and Common Food Plant Families,” previously held at DKU, enjoyed a successful launch in NYU Shanghai. The HUM exhibit, “Flora and Feminists: The Subversive Science of Botany,” featuring the work by Professors Richer, Erin Wilkerson, and Dingyi Xu, and […]
Learn How to Discover the Past
Archives and History Initiative by Carl Zhang and Disty Mahmud In this talk, DKU archival specialist Ryder Kouba presented his insights and expertise as the university’s archivist and special collections librarian, discussing the types of archives he is building, the importance of preserving materials, and online resources available beyond DKU. He also shared thoughts on […]
Report on Entangled Cartographies: Mapping the Unmappable in a Digital Age
Report on Entangled Cartographies: Mapping the Unmappable in a Digital Age Reported by Kymbat Altybay, class of 2028 On November 6-7, 2025, the IB Lecture Hall at Duke Kunshan hosted the international conference “Entangled Cartographies.” For two days, a unique group of thinkers gathered to solve an urgent question: how do we chart digital, ecological, […]
Provincializing Earth: The Making of a Planet since 1946
Thursday December 4, 5-6:15 PM, AB1079 Speaker: Alexander C.T. Geppert, New York University and NYU Shanghai Global history is currently attempting to reinvent itself under the supposedly new label ‘planetary history’ yet without paying much attention to the planet’s outerspatial environment. Divided into four segments – planetization, picturization, satellization, extraterrestrialization – this talk argues that […]
The Sublime Body in Pain: Ballet, the Nation and the Female Ideal in Contemporary China
Thursday November 27, 5:00-6:15pm, Lib 2115 Speaker: Professor Ziying Cui, Visiting Lecturer of Dance at DKU In 2015, Huawei shocked the world with a striking advertisement: a ballerina’s foot, one perfectly poised in a satin shoe, the other bruised and bleeding beneath its bandages. For Huawei’s founder, this tortured foot symbolized both “pain and happiness” […]
Liberty and Power in a New Global Order | Nov. 24th
Monday Nov. 24th 12:00-13:15 WDR 2201 Lunch will be provided! Global governance is tightening and foreshadows that world state formation will become a live political issue in this century. Should this prospect be seen as a mere scaling-up of familiar ideas about statehood, to deal with global urgency around everything from climate change to public […]
Superdeep Nighthawks: Ruben Brandt, Collector (Krstić 2018) | Nov 20, 8:28pm
8:28pm | IB 1008 In a busy week, on a busy day, following our Superdeep collaboration with the Film Society on Věra Chytilová‘s 1966 Daisies (5:45pm CCT Theatre), let the Nighthawks steal you away for Milorad Krstić‘s 2018’s Ruben Brandt, Collector (…& food & drink). Time: Nov 20, 8:28pm pizza, 8:38pm film Place: IB 1008 […]
2nd Chinese Theater Night
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 19, 2025 · 6:30 PM–8:00 PM Venue: Performance Café Join us for this year’s Chinese Theater Night, where international and Chinese students come together to showcase their creativity and passion through theatrical performances in Chinese (English subtitles provided). After 3 months of preparation, including play selection, scriptwriting, table reads, rehearsals, […]
Report on Reading Group for “Embracing Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence for Inclusive Education”
On Friday, November 7, 2025, the DKU faculty, staff, and students were invited to our 3rd reading session on “Embracing Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence for Inclusive Education”. This time, our discussion focused on Formby’s (2017) article: “How should we ‘care’ for LGBT+ students within higher education?” The text explores the experiences of LGBTQ+ students in […]
