Public Square 2.0 is a video-based multi-projection installation about people’s interactions within the public space, as a reflection of people’s relationships within a community in Beijing under the COVID-19 context. The videos screened within are documentations of human interactions in a community in Beijing during the COVID-19 outbreak from March to August in 2020. Each video highlights different parts of a communal square, documenting individuals and their daily activities within it at different times. Continue reading “Public Square 2.0”

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 this gap by examining the mental health of ethnic conflict survivors in Konso—an Ethiopian region where ongoing inter-ethnic violence has resulted in the displacement of 132,000 people, more than 75 deaths, and severe damages to lands, crops, and livestock. Using the HHL funding, we interviewed 200 conflict survivors in three refugee camps. We use individual-level data on stressors, coping mechanisms, and conflict exposure and community-level data on the severity of the conflict to explain the variation in mental health symptoms of internally displaced persons. This project makes important contributions to global mental health research by (1) evaluating the extent to which depression, anxiety, and PTSD exist among conflict survivors in Ethiopia; (2) examining whether the choice of coping strategy affects the longitudinal mental health consequences of conflict exposure; and (3) examining how coping mechanisms can inform community-based mental health interventions in post-conflict settings. Continue reading “The Mental Health Consequences of Ethnic Violence: Assessing Needs and Low-Cost Interventions”

MediHealth Podcast is a student-led science podcast, bridging the gap between health professionals and the general public. Our podcast offers scientifically justified responses to the questions of public health and wellbeing. Anyone who wishes to gain insight into medicine and its repercussions on public or global health will benefit from engaging with this platform. Professionals in the field of health, including professors, consultants, students, and many more would share their experiences and thoughts on hot topics through engaging and thought-provoking interviews. Our project team includes the planning team, interviewers team, audio editors team, journalists team, and social media team. The podcast episodes are uploaded every Monday at 10pm China time on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and 喜马拉雅. The links to the website, social media and various podcast platforms can be found here: https://medihealth.carrd.co/ Follow us on Instagram, WeChat, and LinkedIn to get the most updated information from MediHealth Podcast! Continue reading “MediHealth Podcast”

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 and their habitats, as well as climate change. Yet, the ecological basis of COVID-19 appears to have not been widely acknowledged outside environmental communities. Various reasons may be at play, including psychological denial, the types of media consumed and misinformation. Therefore, we propose using a simple framed experiment in the context of a policy referendum to examine the question: How does exposure to misinformation about the origins of COVID-19 affect the public’s support for policy measures that scientists believe will reduce the risk of future pandemics? Continue reading “How Misinformation Affects Public Support for Policies that Reduce Pandemic Risk”

This project aims to create and exhibit (in the space of a website) a collection of infographics and episodic documentaries that explain the science of endometriosis and address the situation of endometriosis in China from a patient-centered perspective. The primary focus is the making of the documentary series which will target endometriosis patients at The Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University (Red House Hospital). This project serves two major purposes: 1) spread awareness of endometriosis and related female experiences among the Chinese audience; 2) record and archive the stories of Chinese endometriosis patients so as to provide referential materials for the field of research in medical anthropology and patient-centered care. Continue reading “Endometriosis in China: Documentary-focused Educational Website-building”

The Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce the launch of That’s Not How I Remember It: Rashomon at 70, organized by Dr. Richard M. Davis.

That’s Not How I Remember It is a one-night event celebrating Akira Kurosawa’s 1951 Rashomon, the film widely credited for “introducing Japanese cinema to the West.” This seventieth anniversary of its release, join us for a discussion of Rashomon’s outsized impact on global filmmaking norms and foreign perceptions of Japanese culture. That’s Not How I Remember It will involve a public screening of Rashomon (in Japanese with English subtitles), followed by a roundtable discussion with scholars from the United States and China.

Richard M. Davis is a Senior Lecturer of Cultural Studies at DKU. His work focuses on questions of aesthetics, ideology, and pleasure in various cinematic practices, such as the Japanese wartime film musical (1931-45), the subject of his in-progress monograph. He received his PhD in 2016 from the University of Chicago’s Joint Degree Program in East Asian Cinema and has previously taught at Singapore Management University and Tsinghua University in Beijing.