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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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News
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. Read More
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
Third Space Lab Guest Speaker Series Report | Whose Karate? Language and Cultural Learning in a Multilingual Karate Club in London
By Sihan Wang, Class of 2023
The third talk of the Third Space Lab Guest Speaker Series happened on the eve of Lantern Festival in China. We had the great honor to invite Dr. Zhu Hua, Chair of Educational Linguistics in School of Education from University Birmingham and the director of MOSAIC Group for Research in Multilingualism. In tune with the concept of Third Space, Dr. Zhu introduced the key theoretical notion developed by Kramsch in 2009, where she brought forward the “third culture” created through cultural translation from the language users’ point of view, playing an important role in language teaching and learning. This translation, different from its literal meanings, illustrates “a way of thinking how languages, people, and cultures are transformed as they move between different places”. Consequently, culture translations bring values and practices that have evolved in one specific community to another and expect adaptation, appropriation and changes. Read More
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. In our era of rapid globalization and interdependence, the sociocultural aspects of daily life create an important context for how we view and manage health among people and societies. A clear example: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has raised many questions that cannot be addressed with science alone. As such, 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. All DKU students and faculty are eligible to apply for funding. Proposals must be submitted by April 16th, 2021. Read More
Events at DKU
Thursday April 1, 2021
Building a Comprehensive Database for Social Science and Evidence-based Policy Research: Shanghai and Hong Kong
AB3107 / Zoom
09:30 China Time (21:30 EST March 31), Center for the Study of Contemporary China, Duke Kunshan University
Thursday April 1, 2021
Confronting Anti-Asian Hate: Gendered, Racialized, and Transnational Perspectives
IB 1047 / Zoom
11:00 China Time (23:00 EST March 31), Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Freedom Lab, Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Thursday April 1, 2021
Film Screening with Filmmaker | In Wuhan
IB 1008 / Zoom
19:00 China Time, Health Humanities Lab, Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Friday April 2, 2021
Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan
Zoom, 07:00 China Time (19:00 EST April 1), Urban Religion Reading Group, 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
Monday March 29, 2021
Northern Europe’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
10:00 EST (22:00 China Time), the Davis Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Monday March 29, 2021
Public Health and Wellness in the COVID-19 Era: Japan in Global Context
11:30 EST (23:30 China Time), Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Monday March 29, 2021
New Eras, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” – Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty, Emotion and Purpose (Lecture 3 of 3: "A Sense of Purpose?")
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time March 30), Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Monday March 29, 2021
Polarization and Social Unrest: The State of Affairs in Latin America U.S. Foreign Policy
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time March 30), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Monday March 29, 2021
In Honor of Nawal El Saadawi, "Daughter of Isis," 1931-2021
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time March 30), Duke University Middle East Studies Center and Duke Islamic Studies Center
Tuesday March 30, 2021
Gender Equality in Japan Post-Abe
10:00 EST (22:00 China Time), Asia Society
Tuesday March 30, 2021
The Crown, the Capitalists, and the ‘Milk Tea Alliance’ in Thailand
10:00 EST (22:00 China Time), Duke University Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
Tuesday March 30, 2021
Global Political Perspectives: A Crash Course on Peru’s Politics and Upcoming Election
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time March 31), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies and Global Political Perspectives Series
Wednesday March 31, 2021
Panel: Graduate Working Groups on Global Issues
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time April 1), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies and John Hope Franklin Center
Thursday April 1, 2021
Workshop with Author on Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading
18:00 EST (06:00 China Time April 2), Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Thursday April 1, 2021
Muslim Community Efforts against Domestic Violence: Sajida Jalalzai in conversation with Juliane Hammer, author of Peaceful Families (Princeton 2019)
18:00 EST (06:00 China Time April 2), Duke University Middle East Studies Center and Duke Islamic Studies Center
Friday April 2, 2021
Dr. Jeffrey Coleman | Book Workshop: "The Necropolitical Theatre: Race and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish Stage"
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time April 3), Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
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
Announcements
China-U.S. Scholars Program (CUSP)
- Application Deadline: April 15, 2021 11:59 PM Eastern US time / April 16, 2021 11:59 AM China Standard 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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