Portraits of Third Spaces: Your DKU/Kunshan/Durham Story – Narrative Contest
Your time studying at DKU, returning “home,” or living abroad may have been filled with unique and fascinating experiences; the Third Space Lab invites you to share them with the world! Submit your personal narrative about intercultural or international experiences for a chance to win recognition and prizes. Topics could include such things as culture […]
The Historicity of Crisis: Contingency and Continuity in Twentieth-Century Intellectual Histories
October 30-October 31, 2021 8-11pm CST/8-11am EST/2-5pm (UTC+2) Zoom: 912 3984 7450 In this workshop, we invite scholars from the field of intellectual history to engage a global conversation on how historians in various areas in the world have narrated the crises in the twentieth century through the perspectives of both continuity and contingency. To […]
The Humanities Research Center Welcomes Senior Program Coordinator Eugenie Chao
The Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Eugenie Chao as Senior Program Coordinator. Reporting to co-directors James Miller and Carlos Rojas, Eugenie is responsible for the overall co-ordination and administration of the Center’s programs. Currently working remotely from New York, Eugenie received her Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and her Master’s […]
WGDI Presents “Body Liberation & Feminism: A Series”
The Women’s, Gender, and Diversity Initiative (WGDI), in collaboration with the Humanities Research Center, is proud to present the first seminar in our pilot event series: Body Liberation and Feminism: A Series. The WGDI is an informal collective of DKU students and faculty who are working together to initiate conversations rooted in contemporary questions of […]
Ovarian Cancer Documentary
Ovarian cancer, known to be the most lethal gynecologic cancer, is the leading type of cancer death in women worldwide. However, the most recent year in the study saw more decreases in funding for research on ovarian cancer than for research on other cancers. In addition, there is a huge critical knowledge discrepancy between patients […]
The Mental Health Consequences of Ethnic Violence: Assessing Needs and Low-Cost Interventions
Exposure to ethnic violence instigates a wide range of psychiatric disorders, and the prevalence of mental health problems in conflict zones is more than double the average prevalence of mental disorders worldwide. Still, scholars know very little about the coping mechanisms available to individuals in post-conflict settings (Ng et al. 2020). This project fills in […]
How Misinformation Affects Public Support for Policies that Reduce Pandemic Risk
The WHO report on the Origins of COVID-19 suggest that the COVID-19 did not originate from the wet market in Wuhan, nor was manufactured in a lab. The most likely culprit is zoonotic transfer. 75% of newly emerging diseases are zoonotic. The risk of zoonotic transfer has been increasing due to anthropogenic impacts on wildlife […]
The Thursday Night Tea Research Group | Graphic Narratives with Racha Chatta
By Anisha Joshi Class of 2022 Translation is a familiar experience for much of the community at DKU- many juggle at least two (if not more) languages daily in a multitude of contexts as we navigate communicating with an international community. So what a gift that this semester the Thursday Night Tea Research Group is […]
TSL Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk | The Multi-Sensory Star Culture in the Late Qing and Early Republican Periods: A Case Study of the Snuff Bottles Featuring Tan Xinpei’s (1847–1971) Image
You are cordially invited to attend the first Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk in the fall semester by JI Wenting on The Multi-Sensory Star Culture in the Late Qing and Early Republican Periods: A Case Study of the Snuff Bottles Featuring Tan Xinpei’s (1847–1971) Image at noon on Friday September 17th, 2021 (China Standard Time). Please RSVP by 5 pm China Standard […]
ÀI: AI: ĀI | CAC://DKU Research-Creation Fellowship 2021 Call for Applications
Apply [here] Application Deadline: October 4th by noon Beijing time — All applications are to be submitted in English — Applicants must be currently based in China — Incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration — Shortlisted candidates might be invited for an online interview (if necessary) — Results by October 11; residency begins on October 18 ÀI: AI: […]
