2020-10-28 - 2020-11-06
Dear Jeffrey,
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.
Friday, October 30,2020
Points Center for Contemporary Art Series Talk | Conversation with Li Tingwei and Long Pan
IB1046 / Zoom ID: 262-835-7204
18:00 China Time (06:00 EST), Duke Kunshan University
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics Conference: AI & SAFETY
Register for the conference
Zoom & AB3107, 09:00 China Time (20:00 EST November 4)
Planetary Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics Conference: AI & JUSTICE
Register for the conference
Zoom, 21:00 China Time (08:00 EST)
Planetary Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Friday, November 6, 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics Conference: AI & MORALITY
Register for the conference
Zoom & AB3107, 09:00 China Time (20:00 EST November 5)
Planetary Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Friday, November 6, 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics Conference: AI & PRIVACY
Register for the conference
21:00 China Time (08:00 EST November 4)
Planetary Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Online Events
Monday, October 26, 2020
Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience: A Workshop on the Intersection of Medical Advocacy and Medical Ethics
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time October 27), UNC Center for Bioethics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Monday, October 26, 2020
The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time October 27), Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Monday, October 26, 2020
Performing Waria: Genre as a Technology for Shaping Transgender Identity in Indonesia
17:30 EST (05:30 China Time October 27), Yale InterAsia Initiative, MacMillan Center & Yale Council on Southeast Asian Studies
Monday, October 26, 2020
National Belonging and Civic Integration: Evidence from North Korean Refugees
19:00 EST (07:00 China Time October 27), School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego
Monday, October 26, 2020
Mohammad Darawshe: Shared Society: Perspective of Israeli-Arabs
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time October 27), Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
WeChat, TikTok, Potential Bans, and the US-China relationship
19:00 EST (07:00 China Time October 28), Carolina Asia Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
"A Luta Continua" (The Struggle Continues): Anti-Racism in South Africa and the US
12:00 EST (00:00 China Time October 29), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, John Hope Franklin Center & Wednesdays at the Center Series
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Pandemic, Border Politics, and Xenophobia
19:30 EST (07:30 China Time October 14),
Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI),
International Center for Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University
Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol Migration Center, Mahidol University
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Environmental Defenders and Rights in Colombia (A Road to Geneva Event, Colombia Arc)
10:00 EST (22:00 China Time), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) & Rethinking Diplomacy
Online Resources
North Carolina Latin American Film Festival
The 35th season of NCLAFF will be an homage to some of the best Latin American films produced in the past 35 years, all available virtually and free to the public.
Participants can also take part in a three-part webinar, NC Conversations: Latin American and Caribbean Film in the Era of Neoliberalism (1985-2020). Register for NCLAFF Conversations
Harvard Asia Center Online Exhibition: Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape
This exhibit was on display in CGIS South, Friends of Japan Concourse, beginning February 26, 2020, and is currently available online through the Harvard University Asia Center's online exhibitions.
This exhibition offers the viewer the chance to reflect on the “new normal” in Xinjiang and to think about the meanings of “home.”
The Uyghur Series: Research by the Center for Global Policy (CGP)
The Center for Global Policy (CGP) and the Uyghur Scholars Working Group announces the Uyghur Series, an occasional series presenting research, analysis and policy recommendations on the events unfolding in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in the People’s Republic of China.
The reports provide expert analysis and novel data on China’s systemic targeting of Uyghur populations and assessment of global human rights legislation.
Conferences & Call for Papers
Proposals Due: October 30, 2020
CFP | Association of Asian Studies - Southeastern Conference Annual Meeting (January 2021)
The Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies & Carolina Asia Center, UNC-Chapel Hill
Friday, October 30, 2020
The Fourth Annual Jiangnan Conference on China Studies
China and the World: A Re-Examination in the New Global Landscape
The Xipu Institution (Think Tank), Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Humanities Research Center Student Recruitment Information Session
The HRC is recruiting students in all disciplines across DKU to participate in research programs led by the center. You can watch the recording of the information session and register your interest here.
Third Space Lab Calling for Research Participants: First-Year Students and Third Space Lab – Part 2
Calling for first-year students as research participants for our study on “Transformative Learning and Third Space Personae in International Education”. Randomly selected students will earn a RMB 100 gift card for participating in the survey. Please register here and find out more.
For any questions, please contact Dr. Emmanuelle Chiocca or Dr. Zhang Xin.
Egyptian Christians under Sisi: Where Do They Go Now?*
By Hyun Jeong Ha, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Who are Egyptian Christians and where do they stand under Sisi’s new authoritarian regime? Have sectarian relations between Christians and Muslims improved or deteriorated? After Abdul Fatah el-Sisi succeeded former president Muhammad Morsi in 2014, he began to entrench authoritarianism in Egypt. While he has introduced new laws to restrict civil society movements, he has also started trying to recover state-Church relations by celebrating Coptic Christmas with the Christian population. Approaching the 10th anniversary of the 2011 Arab Uprisings in Egypt, this essay examines a latent effect of political changes on sectarian relations. Many studies have investigated politics in transition with a focus on major political actors, including the state and Islamic militants, but little attention has been paid to Egypt’s sizable religious minority – Christians. This essay discusses where Christians stand under the current Sisi regime and how Christian-Muslim relations could look in the near future. Read More
CAC:// DKU 2020 Research/Creation Fellowship Winner Announcement
Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce that the CAC://DKU 2020 Research / Creation Fellowship (USD$10,000) has been awarded to the artist GUO Cheng for his project proposal Wind Verification. Guo will start the 3-month residency program at Chronus Art Center (CAC) and Duke Kunshan University. Read More
Humanities Conference Keynote Report: Carmen Tong on Human-Animal Relationships in a Posthumanistic Future
By Sinan Farooqui, Class of 2022
The third keynote lecture for the Duke Kunshan Humanities Fall Conference 2020: Hum/Animal, was led by Professor Carmen Tong, the Lecturer in Sociology at Hong Kong University. Her research expertise lies in the sociological and ethnographic investigation of schooling and student culture in Hong Kong, while her recent research has been inspired by the rapidly growing field of human-animal studies and their potential contribution to sociological inquiries, relating back to her keynote lecture: A New Reality? Human-Animal Relationships in a Posthumanistic Future.
Professor Tong began her talk discussing the environmental phenomena and crises that Earth is currently experiencing and gives an example of the two major nuclear accidents that have occurred in the past century i.e. the Chernobyl explosion and Japan’s Fukushima incident. Read More
Humanities Conference Keynote Report: Mylan Engel on Animal Ethics, Sustainability, and Commonsense
By Sinan Farooqui, Class of 2022
The second keynote lecture for the Duke Kunshan Humanities Fall Conference 2020: Hum/Animal, was led by Professor Mylan Engel, who is a Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University, specializing in epistemology and ethics, with an emphasis on animal ethics, environmental ethics, and global justice. Accordingly, he spoke on the topic of Animal Ethics, Sustainability, and Commonsense: Doing Right by Animals and by Ourselves. Read More
Humanities Conference Keynote Report: Oron Catts on Neolife and the HumAnimal
By Anisha Joshi, Class of 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic upturned many plans, one of them being Duke Kunshan University’s second Humanities Research Conference, initially scheduled for the Spring of 2020. Rescheduled for the fall of 2020, the Hum/Animal themed Humanities Research Conference was finally held over the weekend of September 18th, 2020. Thanks to the affordances of modern technology and the power of the internet, the conference saw undergraduate students, faculty and scholars from China and around the world. Read More
Humanities Conference Keynote Report: Gabriel Rosenberg on a More-Than-Human History of Sexuality
By Anisha Joshi, Class of 2022
Why is there an implicit (and unquestioned) assumption that studying animals does not require you to study sexuality? In his keynote lecture chaired by Professor Vivienne Xu, Professor Gabriel Rosenberg unpacked this question by analyzing and adding to William Cronon’s seminal text in environmental history, ‘Nature’s Metropolis’.
Professor Rosenberg described the two disciplines of environmental history and the history of sexuality as the proverbial ‘two ships passing in the night’, and strangely enough, although these two ships are traveling along the same paths, few attempts have been made to link these two approaches. Read More
2020秋季学期人文学研究大会小结
此次人文学研究大会9月18日下午拉开序幕。人文艺术与自然动物的连结或许在自然之初早已谱写完毕，生命之树从远古的有机体中发芽、生枝、蔓延，人类是其中微小的分叉，但与一切存在过的生命互通，就像Carlos Rojas教授在开幕式上所提到的“成为人类究竟意味着什么，人在某种程度上有变成动物的能力”。世界的概念、人类的起源，科学技术的发展一直在指引我们探寻着人类存在的根本。阅读全文
Freedom Lab | Special Forum on Freedom Voices and Struggles Across the Globe
With 50 participants, on February October the 13th, a talk on the Creole Slave-Ship Revolt was carried out via Zoom by Professor Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, a prestigious historian whose research interests include slavery, abolition, and post-emancipation societies, especially in North America and the Caribbean during the nineteenth century. Read More
Partnership Announcement: The Shanghai Literary Review & Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center
The Shanghai Literary Review and Duke Kunshan Humanities Research Center are pleased to announce our recent partnership.
Starting with TSLR Issue Seven, our organizations will work together in the planning and production of the magazine and to provide unique educational opportunities for students at DKU. Read More
Black Lives Matter — Course Offerings at DKU 2020-21
Students who are interested in pursuing research into Black Lives Matter may be interested to take some of the following courses that will provide a foundation for understanding the historical contexts and contemporary significance of relevant issues.
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