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Dear <<Given Name>>,
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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Calls for Proposals
Humanities Research Center Call for Proposals Spring 2021
The Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce a call for proposals for Spring 2021, to be completed by August 31, 2021. Applications are due via email to Chi Zhang by April 15, 2021, except for the writing retreat, for which application is via Qualtrics form. A separate funding round will take place for the fall.
- Application Deadline: April 15, 2021 23:59 China Time / 11:59 AM EST
DKU Health Humanities Laboratory Request for Proposals: Health Humanities Projects
The Health Humanities Lab seeks proposal submission for projects that focus on the interdisciplinary areas of Health Humanities. DKU students and faculty are invited to submit project proposals to address an important health question that incorporates a humanities perspective. Proposals may examine this humanities-oriented question using methodologies from different disciplines. Maximum funding per project is 10,000 RMB.
- Application Deadline: April 16, 2021 23:59 China Time / 11:59 AM EST
News
Confronting Anti-Asian Hate: Gendered, Racialized, and Transnational Perspectives
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Freedom Lab in response to the mass murders of 8 people in Atlanta, Georgia on March 16, 2021, this all-female panel delved into the histories and diversity of AAPI identities and experiences, and addressed a series of racial and immigration questions from historical and transnational perspectives. You can watch the recording here.
Mark Coeckelbergh: AI Ethics
Ruiheng Xu and Daniel Lim, a student and faculty member at Duke Kunshan University, interview Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna, on his new book, AI Ethics (2020 – MIT Press). Read More
The Thursday Night Tea Research Group Event Report | INTIMACY with Camila Gonzatto
By Anisha Joshi, Class of 2022
What is intimacy, actually? How do you put into words what this multifaceted experience can mean, how do you define it? In the second installment series on intimacy organized by the Thursday Night Tea Research Group, screenwriter and director Camila Gonzatto invited participants to workshop some ideas of how intimacy can be defined. Gonzatto has prolifically written and directed short films, feature films and films for TV, with many of them screened at various film festivals around the world. Read More
Events at DKU
Friday April 9, 2021
After the China Shocks: Understanding Negative Attitudes toward China in the US
IB 1055 / Zoom
09:00 China Time (21:00 EST April 8), Center for the Study of Contemporary China, Duke Kunshan University
Friday April 9, 2021
Third-Space Methodology: Finding DeCentred Threads in Small Culture Formation on the Go
RSVP
Zoom, 17:00 China Time (05:00 EST), Third Space Lab, Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
April 14 - 22, 2021
WATER TOWNS | 水乡. Environmental Film & Arts Festival. 环保电影艺术节
Duke Kunshan University
Other Events
Tuesday April 6, 2021
Histories of Global Health, COVID 19 and Asian Responses
10:00 EST (22:00 China Time April 7), India China Institute at The New School and Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs
Tuesday April 6, 2021
Latin American Politics in the Time of COVID
16:00 EST (04:00 China Time April 7), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Wednesday April 7, 2021
Black Muslims and the World: The Ideological Eclecticism of Black American Sunni Islam
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time April 8), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Duke Islamic Studies Center and John Hope Franklin Center
Thursday April 8, 2021
Making Peace with Nature: A Global Endeavor We Can Achieve
10:00 EST (22:00 China Time), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies and Rethinking Diplomacy
Thursday April 8, 2021
On the Politics of Presence: Afro-Asia in the Age of Black Lives Matter
16:00 EST (04:00 China Time April 9), Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, and Carolina Asia Center, UNC Chapel Hill
Thursday April 8, 2021
A Time for Diplomacy - 2021 Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture on International Studies
17:00 EST (05:00 China Time April 9), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture on International Studies and Rethinking Diplomacy
Thursday April 8, 2021
A Tale of Two Nations: Elijah Muhammad, Abdul Basit Naeem, and Muslim Solidarities in the Black Atlantic World
18:00 EST (06:00 China Time April 9), Duke University Middle East Studies Center and Duke Islamic Studies Center
Thursday April 8, 2021
Reading Group Discussion of Crisis Cultures: The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazi
18:00 EST (06:00 China Time April 9), Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Thursday April 8, 2021
Inequality of Equalities: The Taiwanese Buddhist Encounter with Liberal Humanism and Taiwan’s Indigenous People
19:00 EST (07:00 China Time April 9), East Asia Center, University of Virginia
Friday April 9, 2021
Ethnomusicology Working Group panel discussion: "Pleasure Seekers: Sound, Feeling, Action"
16:00 EST (04:00 China Time April 10), Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Friday April 9, 2021
Contemplative Pedagogy and its Application to CFL Course Design
17:00 EST (05:00 China Time April 10), Duke University Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
Monday April 12, 2021
What China’s S&T Modernization Means for the United States: A Strategic Perspective
19:00 EST (07:00 China Time April 13), Duke University Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
April 1 - 23, 2021
Online Conference - Empire Competition: Southeast Asia as Site of Imperial Contestation
Global Asia Institute, Pace University and NYSEAN
Thursday April 8, 2021
Identity, Security, and China: National Humiliation Discourse in the 2020s
11:15 China Time (23:15 EST April 7), Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai
April 22 - 24, 2021
Modern Chinese Foodways Conference 2021
April 22, 11:00 Keynote by Francesca Bray - Lord Millet in Alibaba’s cave: the resurrection of an iconic food
May 28 - 29, 2021
InterAsia Water(s) Conference 2021
Yale InterAsia Initiative
Announcements
China-U.S. Scholars Program (CUSP)
- Application Deadline: April 15, 2021 23:59 EST / April 16, 2021 11:59 AM China Time
Faculty Publications
Stephanie Anderson, Assist. Professor of American Literature at Duke Kunshan University, has published a book chapter titled Larry Eigner's Archives in Flight in a new edited volume.
Hyun Jeong Ha, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has recently published 2 articles:
The Reclamation Master Frame: A Visual Study of the Arab Uprisings Abstract
The Arab Spring Protests Abstract
Kyle Fruh, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, has recently published 2 articles:
Climate Change Driven Displacement and Justice: The Role of Reparations. Abstract
Duties and Demandingness, Individual and Collective
Xiangjun Feng, Visiting Lecturer, literary and cultural historian of late imperial and modern China, has recently published an article titled Rhythm Revolution: How Music 'Modernized' China (1903–1937). Abstract
Emmanuelle S. Chiocca, Assistant Professor of English Language, has authored and co-authored 4 papers:
Hearts and Minds: Goal-Orientation and Intercultural Communicative Competence of ROTC Cadets Learning Critical Languages Abstract
Language endangerment: Diversity and specificities of Native American languages of Oklahoma Abstract
Transformative learning in times of global crisis: Reflections on collaborative working practices Abstract
Rethinking orientation: Innovation and collaboration in a language and culture camp at a Sino-American university (forthcoming, 2021).
Ben Van Overmeire, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at DKU, has recently published 3 articles:
Zen and the Body: A Postmodern Ascetic? Bodily Awakening in the Zen Memoirs of Shozan Jack Haubner Abstract
Buddhism and Biography Abstract
‘Though gold dust is valuable, in the eyes it causes cataracts:’ Two Modern Zen Autobiographies Abstract
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