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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
Media and Arts Speaker Series | Capturing Reality
The fourth miniseries of the Media & Arts Speaker Series featured artist, photojournalist and co-founder of Sensorium Matthew Niederhauser. This talk looked at the concept of the lab, both as a philosophy and a methodology to see how these innovative approaches have impacted and transformed the production of culture, art and society. You can watch the recording here.
Journey of the Universe: Science, Philosophy, Cosmology
The student researchers of the PETAL Journey of the Universe Project presented their projects on April 27. You can watch the recording here.
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
Events at DKU
Thursday May 13, 2021
Literature Lunch JAM
AB Cafe
RSVP with Prof. Selina Lai-Henderson
12:00 - 13:00, Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Other Events
Monday May 10, 2021
Sectoral Shift, Technological Change, and Old Labor: Evidence from the U.S. and South Korea
20:00 EST (08:00 China Time May 11), UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
Tuesday May 11, 2021
Drugs, Willpower and the Biopolitics of Addiction in Colonial Vietnam
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time May 12), Harvard University Asia Center
Friday May 14, 2021
"The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa" Book Launch Conference
10:00 EST (22:00 China Time), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Duke Islamic Studies Center and Africa Initiative
Saturday May 15, 2021
"The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa" Book Launch Conference
08:30 EST (20:30 China Time), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Duke Islamic Studies Center and Africa Initiative
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
Thursday May 27, 2021
Injustice Has a Cure: Paul Farmer & Duke Global Health Projects in Latin America & the Caribbean
17:30 EST (05:30 China Time May 28), Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
May 28 - 29, 2021
InterAsia Water(s) Conference 2021
Yale InterAsia Initiative
Deadline: May 31, 2021
Call for Applications: 2021 Asia Fellows
APSA (American Political Science Association) Asia Program
Deadline: June 30, 2021
2022 MOFA Taiwan Fellowship
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
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 3 articles:
A Fair Shake for the Fair-Weather Fan Abstract
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 5 papers:
Talking with ‘Others’: Experiences and perspective transformation in a short-term study abroad program Abstract
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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