Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center
Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Arts, Humanities, and Interpretive Social Sciences at Duke Kunshan University
IB 1008 (IB Auditorium)
Superdeep Nighthawks unchangingly converge on Thu night, this week for Vasconcelos’s 2020 A Metamorfose dos Pássaros (& food & drink…). Thu, Apr 6, 9 pm, IB Auditorium.
HRC Superdeep Nighthawks meet on Thu eve (9pm till late). Their current screening series, revolving around dreams in film, is hosted in collaboration with the HouTu Research project Unforgotten Dreams.
IB 1008 (IB Auditorium)
Also in session 4 the Nighthawks render Thu nights Superdeep, this week by capturing Kleber Mendonça Filho‘s 2012 Neighboring Sounds (& food & drink…). Thu, Mar 30, 9 pm, IB Auditorium.
HRC Superdeep Nighthawks meet on Thu eve (9pm till late). Their current screening series, revolving around dreams in film, is hosted in collaboration with the HouTu Research project Unforgotten Dreams.
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Join us for our 18th Superdeep workshop meeting in its 18th month. Karen Nielsen (E&L Phil ’23) and Junyi Tao (DS ’23) will showcase via “Connecting Dots on Vanishing Voices: A Computational
Philosophical Inquiry”.
As always, everyone is welcome to join; no prior knowledge of philosophy is required. And, as always, snacks and refreshments will be served at the meeting.
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For more information on DKU’s Superdeep workshop,
see https://sites.duke.edu/dkuhumanities/superdeep/
or contact Nathan Hauthaler.
Date/Time: Thursday, March 16, 3-4p.m.
Location: IB 2025
Guest Speaker: JieKun Song 宋介堃
Biography: Song is an XR enthusiast. Works in XR/Metaverse industry for more than 6 years. Build more than 20 metaverse projects for fortune 500 companies. Also personally published a VR game on Steam.
宋介堃是一名非常资深的XR架构师。在XR、元宇宙领域有超过六年的工作经验。为世界五百强公司提供过20多个方案的咨询以及部署实施。同时还在Steam发布过VR游戏作品。
Linkedin: https://cn.linkedin.com/in/songjiekun
The Gender Studies initiative at DKU will be hosting a workshop on student papers as part of a series of events of the Women’s History Month. We invite student papers in any discipline which addresses the questions and concerns of gender studies broadly. For consideration, please submit an abstract of 150-200 words demonstrating the relevance of gender in the paper. We are particularly interested in the following themes:
Upon acceptance, participants will be required to submit finished papers of around 2000 words prior to the workshop. Each student paper will be paired with a faculty commentator.
Send your abstracts to this email: titas.chakraborty@dukekunshan.edu.cn
The deadline for abstract submission is March 31, 2023.
IB 1008 (IB Auditorium)
Session 3 Finals Week – a time to wish for more time; to bring the androids in us to more life; & to revel in Superdeep dreams of electric sheep… Join the Nighthawks for Ridley Scott‘s 1982 Blade Runner (Final Cut, & food & drinks…). Thu, Mar 9, 9 pm, IB Auditorium.
HRC Superdeep Nighthawks meet on Thu eve (9pm till late). Their current screening series, revolving around dreams in film, is hosted in collaboration with the HouTu Research project Unforgotten Dreams.
IB 1008 (IB Auditorium)
Week 7 — homework tests finals Signature Work Superdeep thoughts early till late… Are we even still awake or already dreaming…or still dreaming or already awake again? Join the Nighthawks to find out: this week with Richard Linklater‘s 2001 rotoscoped feature Waking Life (& food & drinks…). Thu, Mar 2, 9 pm, IB Auditorium.
HRC Superdeep Nighthawks meet on Thu eve (9pm till late). Their current screening series, revolving around dreams in film, is hosted in collaboration with the HouTu Research project Unforgotten Dreams.
Superdeep Philosophers’ Cave
Date/Time: Every Monday, 9am – open end (China time)
Location: IB2026
Superdeep is creating a space for students and faculty to meet one morning* each week for focused writing. Coffee & tea as well as snacks are served at each meeting. Philosophers’ Cave concludes with a brief debrief on what participants have been working on.
Snacks and drinks will be provided.
*morning broadly construed: Philosophers’ Caves tend to run into the night hours these days…
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Join us for our next Superdeep workshop meeting, in which Weifan Mo (E&L Philosophy ’23), and Siyu Wang (E&L Philosophy ’25), and Nathan Hauthaler will revel in “Lucid Dreams Elucidated”.
Soon after the workshop, the Superdeep Nighthawks will continue to shine their late projector light on dreams of Michel Gondry‘s 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
As always, everyone is welcome to join; no prior knowledge of philosophy is required. And, as always, snacks and refreshments will be served at the meeting.
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For more information on DKU’s Superdeep workshop,
see https://sites.duke.edu/dkuhumanities/superdeep/
or contact Nathan Hauthaler.
IB 1008 (IB Auditorium)
The Superdeep Nighthawks multiplied into a force of forty for their first gathering on Feb 9. On Thu, Feb 16 they will return in force, to savor Satoshi Kon‘s 2006 animated feature Paprika (…& food & drink).
HRC Superdeep Nighthawks meet on Thu eve (9pm till late). The Paprika screening is the second in a series of screenings hosted in collaboration with the Houtu Research project Unforgotten Dreams, in preparation for Superdeep #17 (“Lucid Dreams Elucidated”).
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