Presented by HRC Anthropocene XR Lab
Time/Date: June 2, 2022, 8-9pm
Zoom ID: 953 0162 0473
Keynote speaker: Yong (Yutong) Ren, Class of 2023
Congratulations to Recipients of the 2022 Shirley Graham and W.E.B Du Bois Award!
Freedom Lab is thrilled to announce the following 9 recipients of the 2022 Shirley Graham and W.E.B. Du Bois Award. The Award (5000 rmb per recipient) will help with our DKU juniors on their Signature Work projects, including book purchasing, art installations, photo printing and exhibits, archival research, and field work.
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HRC Doc Lab Requests for Proposals: Documentary Projects
The Humanities Research Center’s Doc Lab seeks proposal submissions for documentary projects. The projects can be rooted in any discipline and/or be interdisciplinary in nature as long as they incorporate a humanities perspective. The projects can be based in any medium of preference.
Both students and faculty are invited to submit project proposals. Students who would like to submit proposals are required to find at least one DKU faculty member to mentor the project. Faculty who submit a proposal must incorporate at least one student role as part of the project. Teams featuring multiple student roles are highly encouraged. Proposals that include or consist of Signature Work projects are welcome.
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Student Report: The Ukraine Crisis – A Roundtable Discussion
Reported by Josh Manto, Class of 2024
On the 9th of March 2022, Duke Kunshan University’s Humanities Research Center organized a roundtable discussion to cover the recent 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The event saw the participation of four distinguished individuals who engaged in a rich discourse on its causes of the Ukraine crisis, and its impact on ordinary people’s lives, and the world’s economy.
Speaker List:
First, we have Professor Susan Coulborn, the Associate Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS) at the Sanford School at Duke University, and an international historian who specializes in strategy and security in the atomic age. She has authored her first book, Euromissiles, which explores the rise and fall of an arms race in Europe and its relationship with the Atlantic Alliance and NATO. Continue reading “Student Report: The Ukraine Crisis – A Roundtable Discussion”
Student Report: Students-led Workshop of “The Female Robot: Beneath the Skin, Between the Machines Panel Series”
By Hantian Zhang, Class of 2025
On April 30, 2022, Li Ruoyu and Chai Hua, students of Arts and Humanities at Duke Kunshan University, conceptualized and convened the workshop as a part of the one-day symposium “The Female Robot”. The purpose of the student working panel is to look back on the history of AI and look into its future.
Firstly, Chai Hua gave a presentation of her signature work that illustrated the ethical reflection on anthropomorphic artificial intelligence products. The research focused on two main questions. The first one was the reason why humans materialize and personify AI. The second question was ethical risks of AI products in private scenarios. When explaining the two questions, Chai provided the explicit description and logical analysis. In her conclusion, she advocated for further regulation in this realm. Next was the free discussion with audience, some questions of which were explained by Ruoyu in her following presentation.
The topic of Ruoyu’s presentation was the Glitch Art and human-machine relationship. To start with, she delivered a introduction of terms including Glitch and Glitch Art. Then she demonstrated the meaning of studying Glitch Art. In terms of Glitch Art and human-machine relationship, she provided models of logic and put forward with the primary argument. Glitch Art is a revolt against existing programs and gave back to humans the initiative that has gradually been taken by machines. For female robot, Glitch Art questioned systems and tended to eliminate duality of gender.
In the workshop, Li Ruoyu and Chai Hua provided profound illustration and critical thoughts, which greatly inspired audience to think more about the future of AI.
DKU’s First Hackathon, Hosted by the HRC Anthropocene XR Lab
HRC Citizenship Lab Grants for Faculty-Student Research Collaboration
The Citizenship Lab invites applications for funding from faculty, Class of 2023, and Class of 2024 students working on or developing Signature Work (SW) projects related to citizenship. Continue reading “HRC Citizenship Lab Grants for Faculty-Student Research Collaboration”
Recovering the Lost Art of Thinking in Education
Selina Lai-Henderson, DKU Associate Professor and American Literature and History and Co-Director of Humanities Research Center’s Freedom Lab, has been invited to speak at “Recovering the Lost Art of Thinking in Education – How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education ” presented by Princeton University Press.
Date/Time: April 28, 2022, 9-11am Beijing time
Speakers: Scott Newstok
Guest Speakers: David S. Hogsette & Selina Lai-Henderson
The event is open to the public: https://pupress.zoom.us/j/99652067439
The Citizenship Lab Presents: Bicultural approaches to extractivism in the Río de la Plata Basin
This event has passed. You can watch the recording here:
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 @ 9AM China Time
Speaker: Alejandro Meitin
Zoom ID: 933 1519 3947
Abstract:
The Río de la Plata Basin is China’s primary source of soy, and the world’s largest site of soy production. The Basin has become a laboratory to observe the social and ecological consequences of extractive industry, including the spawning of new political and ecological alliances and forms of resistance. Many local artists have focused their work on these urgent issues, asking a series of linked questions: On what territorial imaginaries does monoculture rest? What exercises of political imagination should we perform to move beyond monoculture? How might this lead us to reconceive the relationship between the cultural and the biological?
Speaker Bio:
He is an artist, lawyer, social innovator, and founder of the art collective Ala Plástica (1991-2016) based in the city of La Plata, Argentina. More recently, he founded Casa Río Power to Do Lab, collaborating with youth, farmers, artists, activists, architects, local authorities, and pollution control experts to create international alliances and proposals for wetlands management.
The Classical Confucian Conception of Heaven’s Mandate and Human’s Destiny
The Classical Confucian Conception of Heaven’s Mandate and Human’s Destiny
Time and Date: April 27, 2022, 8:00-9:00pm, China time
Online Webinar: Zoom ID: 979 2614 7323, Passcode: 369690
Speaker: Prof. Jinhua Jia, University of Macau, Wuhan University, Yangzhou University.
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