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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
Freedom Lab Essay / Creative Writing Competition
To celebrate the end of an incredibly challenging, and nonetheless fruitful, academic year, the Freedom Lab is inviting DKU students to submit essays or creative writing pieces for consideration of various prizes with topics related to the themes of the Lab. Students are invited to submit writing pieces of a maximum length of 5000 words to Chi Zhang by May 15. Three essays and three creative writing pieces will be selected for a first prize of 500 RMB, a second prize of 450RMB, and a bronze prize of 400 RMB respectively. Read More
The Thursday Night Tea Research Group Event Report | LOVE with Claire Nioche-Sibony
By Anisha Joshi, Class of 2022
How do we love, why do we love, and why do we love the people we love? For the third installment of the series on intimacy organized by the Thursday Night Tea Research Group, Claire Nioche-Sibony walked us through some classical psychoanalytical ideas about love, from Lacan to Freud, and examined love from her perspective as a psychoanalyst who has been practicing for ten years. Currently an assistant professor at the Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Nioche-Sibony’s research concerns issues of singularity, nomadism, madness and writing, and has drawn on the theoretical works of Derrida, Deleuze, Freud and Lacan, among others. Read More
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.
Events at DKU
Monday April 26, 2021
Ethics and Leadership Speaker Series | Consumers’ Compassionate Choices Post COVID
AB 3103 / Zoom (Passcode: 664337)
19:00 China Time (07:00 EST), Office of Undergraduate Studies, Duke Kunshan University
Tuesday April 27, 2021
Journey of the Universe: Science, Philosophy, Cosmology
CC 1095 / Zoom (Passcode: JOTU123)
RSVP
17:30 China Time (05:30 EST), PETAL Journey of the Universe Research Group, Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Wednesday April 28, 2021
Spring into Literature Reading Series Presents: Cecily Parks
AB 2107 / Zoom
11:00 China Time (23:00 EST April 27), Office of Undergraduate Studies and Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Thursday April 29, 2021
Bird Collision Prevention Project | Film Screening: October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927) dir. by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov
Water Pavilion
19:00 China Time, Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Thursday April 29, 2021
Contemporary China Workshop | Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South
Zoom (Passcode: 244719)
21:00 China Time (09:00 EST), Center for the Study of Contemporary China and Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Friday April 30, 2021
Bird Collision Prevention Project | Guest Lecture: The Mise-en-Scene of Disenchantment: Eisenstein’s Glass House, and the Dream of Transparency by Elena Vogman
Water Pavilion / Zoom
14:45 China Time (02:45 EST), Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Friday April 30, 2021
After The Myth of the Liberator: Slavery and Places of Memory in the French Petits Antilles
IB 1010 / Zoom
18:00 China Time (06:00 EST), Freedom Lab, Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Friday April 30, 2021
Third Space Lab – Guest Speaker Series – Michael Byram – Why intercultural (critical) competence in languaculture teaching?
Zoom
19:00 China Time (07:00 EST), Third Space Lab, Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Thursday May 6, 2021
Kunshan Digital Humanities Project Exhibition
AB Lobby
11:00 - 14:00, Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Other Events
Monday April 26, 2021
Conversations on Innovation: New Thinking and New Approaches
12:30 EST (00:30 China Time April 27), Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy
Monday April 26, 2021
Vulnerability and resilience: The future of East Asian supply chains
20:00 EST (08:00 China Time April 27), Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
Monday April 26, 2021
China Inside Out: A Conversation with Professor Susan Shirk
20:00 EST (08:00 China Time April 27), Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School and Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Tuesday April 27, 2021
The Thief Who Stole My Story: Self-Narration and Metafiction in Sinophone Literature from Thailand
19:00 China Time (07:00 EST), Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai
Wednesday April 28, 2021
A Conversation with His Excellency Taranjit Singh Sandhu Ambassador of India to the U.S.
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time April 29), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, India Initiative and Rethinking Diplomacy
Thursday April 29, 2021
India, China, Africa: Emerging Transnational Politics in the Global South
09:00 EST (21:00 China Time), India China Institute
Thursday April 29, 2021
Street Sounds - Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt
17:00 EST (05:00 China Time April 30), Duke University Middle East Studies Center and Duke Islamic Studies Center
Thursday May 6, 2021
Religions and Public Life Graduate Student Working Group Conference
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time May 7),
April 15 - May 25, 2021
Southeast Asia Views America: Perceptions, Policies, & Prospects
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, and New York Southeast Asia Network
April 16 - 19, 2021
Asia Society at the Movies: Forbidden Dream
Asia Society Museum, Asia Society Southern California, and Asia Society Korea Center
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
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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