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Shanghai-Jiangsu Humanities Research Network Upcoming Events




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Here is an update for humanities events and activities in our Shanghai-Jiangsu Humanities Research Network. Read on below for more details. To advertise information on this email list, please write to Chi ZHANG chi.zhang323@dukekunshan.edu.cn. If you know someone who would like to be part of this list please forward this email to them and let them know they can subscribe here.

 

 

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News


ÀI: AI: ĀI | CAC://DKU Research-Creation Fellowship 2021 Call for Applications
The CAC://DKU Research-Creation Fellowship 2021 will take place during the autumn semester at Duke Kunshan University and Chronus Art Center from around 18th October to 18th December. Artists in any stage of their research and creation are encouraged to apply. The CAC://DKU Research-Creation Fellowship is in close collaboration with DKU’s Division of Arts and Humanities, Humanities Research Center, DKUNST Art at DKU, and CAC Lab at Chronus Art Center for new media art, Shanghai.
Application Deadline: October 4th by noon Beijing time
Apply [here]

Humanities Research Center Student Information Session
The Humanities Research Center organized an online information session on September 10 for undergraduate students. The information session explained the labs, projects and activities of the research center and offered guidance as to how students can participate in research projects and other programs. You can watch the recording here.
 


Events


Wednesday September 22, 2021
Haiti and the Haitians
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time September 23), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and Wednesdays at the Center Series

Thursday September 23, 2021
Diabetes in the media: a cross-cultural comparison of Chinese and German public discourse
Venue: HS436 and Zhumu
17:30 China, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Thursday September 23, 2021
CSCC Undergraduate Poster Exhibition
Meeting ID: 966 9220 0133, Passcode: 923923
21:00 China (09:00 EST), Center for the Study of Contemporary China, Duke Kunshan University

Thursday September 23, 2021
Collision Course? The 1980s and the Transformation of Water Politics in Asia
10:00 EST (22:00 China Time), India China Institute

Thursday September 23, 2021
Japan, Parasitology, and Framing Developmental Ambitions
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time September 24), Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Thursday September 23, 2021
Korean Reunification: A South Korean Perspective
16:30 EST (04:30 China Time September 24), Korea Institute, Harvard University

Thursday September 23, 2021
After the Fall: Ben Rhodes on the Rise of Nationalism Across the Globe
19:00 EST (07:00 China Time September 24), Asia Society Texas Center

Thursday September 23, 2021
Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Jiha Moon
19:00 EST (07:00 China Time September 24), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Thursday September 23, 2021
Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies
20:00 EST (08:00 China Time September 24), Northern Illinois University

Friday September 24, 2021
China’s COVID Response and the State of Local Finance in the Xi Jinping Era
09:00 EST (21:00 China Time), Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Friday September 24, 2021
Unruly Subjects, Disruptive Mobilities: On Telling Stories of Everyday Struggles for Justice
11:00 EST (23:00 China Time), Association for Asian Studies

Friday September 24, 2021
Writing Taboo: The Art in Political Subjects
15:00 EST (03:00 China Time September 25), UC Berkeley Center for Southeast Asia Studies

Friday September 24, 2021
Five Dimensions of the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) with Danny Russel
16:00 EST (04:00 China Time September 25), Asia Society Northern California

September 24 - 27, 2021
Asia Society at the Movies: If You Are the One
 Asia Society Museum and Asia Society Southern California

Sunday September 26, 2021
Syndromes and a Century: Thai Cinema Since 2000
Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Monday September 27, 2021
Investment Screening and Supply Chain Security: Japanese, EU, and U.S. Perspectives on China
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time September 28), Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, and Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Monday September 27, 2021
The Eye and the Whip: Corruption Control in the Americas
16:00 EST (04:00 China Time September 28), Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)

Tuesday September 28, 2021
"A Recipe for Daphne" Book Talk
10:00 EST (22:00 China Time), Duke University Middle East Studies Center and Duke Islamic Studies Center

Tuesday September 28, 2021
"Those Who Fall Behind Get Beaten Up": Can Science Build a Strong China?
10:30 EST (22:30 China Time), Harvard University Asia Center 

Wednesday September 29, 2021
Documentary Screening and Discussion with Professor/Director Cho, Eun
14:45 China (02:45 EST), Center for the Study of Contemporary China and Office of Undergraduate Studies, Duke Kunshan University

Wednesday September 29, 2021
CGA Lecture Series | Beyond the Two Shores: Literature, Decolonization and the Cold War
20:00 China (08:00 EST), Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai

Wednesday September 29, 2021
The Great Infrastructure Game: Why Asia, Europe and America are Competing to Build in the Developing World and What It Means for the Global Climate
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time September 30), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, John Hope Franklin Center and Wednesdays at the Center Series

Wednesday September 29, 2021
What is Grand Strategy? A discussion about Rethinking American Grand Strategy
17:00 EST (05:00 China Time September 30), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies

Thursday September 30, 2021
The Art of Time Travel: State Violence in South Korea and Korean Diasporic Aesthetics
16:30 EST (04:30 China Time October 1), Duke University Asian/Pacific Studies Institute and the Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program

Deadline: rolling; review begins August 10, 2021 
Research Fellowship: Shifting Geographies of Expertise and Policymaking
The India China Institute
 


Faculty Publications


Kristin E. Hiller, Assistant Professor of English Language and Associate Director for Writing and Language Studio at the Language and Culture Center, has got two papers published recently:
  • Introducing translanguaging in an EAP course at a joint-venture university in China. RELC Journal, 52(2), 307-317. Abstract
  • Coauthored: Davies, L. J., Chiocca, E. S., Hiller, K. E., Campbell, M. A., & Naghib, S. L. (2020). Transformative learning in times of global crisis: Reflections on collaborative working practices. CEA Critic, 82(3), 218–226. Abstract

Jesse Olsavsky, Assistant Professor of History at DKU, has 2 publications released this summer:
  • The Underground Railroad in Michael Roy, ed., Frederick Douglass in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2021) Abstract
  • Runaway Slaves, Militant Abolitionists, and the Critique of American Prisons, 1830-1860, History Workshop Journal Volume 91 Issue 1, 2021 (Oxford University Press), pgs. 91-112.  Abstract

If you have new publications, please contact Chi Zhang.


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