Duke Kunshan Colloquium

2015 Spring

Mayan Culture in Mexico and Central America: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Speaker: Allan Burns, Visiting Professor of Duke Kunshan University, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
18 March, 2015

A ONE Health Story: A One Health Solution
Speaker: Prof. Alba Amaya-Burns, M.D., MSc. Associate Professor of Global Health, Duke Kunshan University; Associate Professor of the Practice, Duke University.
1 April, 2015

Good Neighbours, Bad Border
Speaker: Professor Stephen R. Kelly, Professor of Energy and National Security; Visiting Professor of the Practice at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.
8 April 2015

Academic Uses of Drama and Theater Games
Speakers: Nan Mullenneaux, Professor of Writing across Cultures. Philip Lance, Fiction Writer, Actor, Playwright.
15 April 2015

The Rockefellers and China
Speaker: Mary Brown Bullock, Founding Executive Vice Chancellor of Duke Kunshan University 2012-2015; President Emerita of Agnes Scott College; Vice-chair of the Asia Foundation.
22 April 2015

Written Cantonese: What is it, Where did it come from, and Why?
Speaker: Donald Snow, Director of Language and Writing Programs at Duke Kunshan University.
6 May 2015

Making Healthy Dietary Choices: Fads, Myths, and Scientific Evidence
Speaker: Lijing L. Yan, PhD, MPH, Associate Research Professor at the Duke Global Health Institute; Head of Non-communicable Chronic Diseases (NCDs) Research at the Global Health Research Center of Duke Kunshan University.
13 May 2015

The Science of Sherlock Holmes
Speaker: Mark Andrew Ulett, Thompson Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University, Professor of Writing across Cultures in Duke Kunshan University.
20 May 2015

Intimate Empire
Speaker: Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University & Duke Kunshan University.
27 May 2015

Writing Matters
Speaker: Marianna Torgovnick, Professor; Director, Duke in New York Arts and Media Program.
3 June 2015

Exploring Intercultural Competence: Key Competence for the 21st Century
Speaker: Darla Deardorff, Executive Director, AIEA.
16 June 2015

Introduction to Mental Disorders and Current Mental Health Issues in China
Speaker: Dr. Natasha K. Bowen, Professor, College of Social Work, Ohio State University.
27 July 2015

2015 Fall

The Key Question for Social Justice and China’s Precarious Balance
Speaker: Gerard A. Postiglione, Associate Dean (research), Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.
1 September 2015

Shanghai Nightscapes
Speaker: Dr. James Farrer, Sociologist at Sophia University, Tokyo; Dr. Andrew Field, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs at Duke Kunshan University.
9 September 2015

Economics of Adaptation to Global Climate Change: Past Lessons and Future Strategies
Speaker: Dr. Zhao Jinhua, Director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program, Michigan State University.
15 September 2015

Critical Thinking: What is it? Who should do it?
Speaker: Dr. Deedra McClearn, Director of Academic Program Development for Duke Kunshan University.
16 September 2015

The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge, 2015)
Speaker: Dr. Prasenjit Duara, historian of China, Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director of Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore.
21 September 2015

Air Pollution and Defensive Expenditures: Evidence from Particulate-Filtering Facemasks
Speaker: Dr. Zhang Junjie, Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego.
28 September 2015

Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Global Groundwater
Speaker: Zhengtian Lu, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China.
14 October 2015

Key Drivers in US-China Relations
Speaker: Kenneth Jarrett, President, the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai
11 November 2015

The Business of Political Risk Consulting and Its Relation to Area Studies/International Relations
Speaker: Dr. Frank Tsai, Regional Research Manager, Control Risks
18 November 2015

Arthur Miller in China
Speaker: Claire Conceison, Professor of Theatre Studies and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University; Director and Translator.
2 December 2015

Neutrino Oscillations: Past, Present and Future
Speaker: Wang Yifang, Director, the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
3 December 2015

Kunqu Performance of Chinese Memories, Realities, and Dreams
Speaker: Joseph Lam, Professor of Musicology, University of Michigan; Director of the Confucius Institute, University of Michigan.
14 December 2015

2016 Spring

Higher Education in China: Past, Present, and Future
Speaker: Joanna Waley-Cohen, Provost, New York University Shanghai
2 March 2016

Middle Class China: Dreams and Aspirations
Speaker: David S G Goodman, Department of China Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
9 March 2016

Urbanization in China: The Heat is On!
Speaker: James Reynolds, Professor of Environmental Sciences and Biology, Duke University
16 March 2016

The Future of China’s international education: the American connection
Speaker: Mary Brown Bullock, Founding Executive Vice Chancellor of Duke Kunshan University 2012-2015; President Emerita of Agnes Scott College; Vice-chair of the Asia Foundation.
30 March 2016

His, Her and Their Marriages: (re)Verticalization of Kinship Loyalties in Urban China
Speaker: Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology, Yale University; Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fudan University
6 April 2016

The Future of Art in China: The View from a Museum in Beijing
Speaker: Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
13 April 2016

The future of television in China
Speaker: David J. Brady, Fitzpatrick Professor of Photonics, Duke University.
27 April 2016

Gut microbiome: a new target for managing human health
Speaker: Liping Zhao, Professor of Microbiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Fellowship of American Academy of Microbiology.
4 May 2016

The surprising role of noise in complex systems: from nanoscale electronics to global climate dynamics
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Teitsworth, Associate Professor of Physics, Duke University.
11 May 2016

Macro Economy Development in China
Speaker: Liu Zhaobin, Senior Researcher in the Law and Development Academy, Peking University; served as Chief Engineer of Law and Regulations at the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ).
18 May 2016

Faster, Cheaper, and More Global - Get Ready for Chinese Innovation
Speaker: Jonathan Woetzel, Director, Shanghai, McKinsey & Company.
26 May 2016

Does Environmental Regulation Affect Labor Demand in China? – Evidence from the Textile Printing and Dyeing Industry
Speaker: ZHANG Bing, Professor of Environmental Policy, Nanjing University.
1 June 2016

The Climate Impact on Extreme Weather Events, Air Quality and Public Health
Speaker: Yang Gao, Research Associate, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
29 July 2016

2016 Fall

Political Regime and Environmental Governance: Comparative Evidence from Central Asia
Speaker:  Fengshi Wu,  Associate Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
13 December 2016

Distinguished Speaker Series | “Remembering Shannon” by Professor Robert Calderbank
Speaker: Robert Calderbank, Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Computer Science, Duke University; Academician of the United States National Academy of Engineering
13 December 2016

Distinguished Speaker Series | “Surfing with Wavelets” by Professor Ingrid Daubechies
Speaker: Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
12 December 2016

Science, Technology, and Innovation in China: Progress, Problems, and Prospect
Speaker: Cong Cao, professor of Chinese studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China
9 December 2016

Using Novel Physics to Understand Cultural Heritage
Speaker: Warren S. Warren, Chair of the Physics Department at Duke University, James B. Duke Professor of Physics, Chemistry, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering.
30 November 2016

Evolving Relationships between Ecosystem Science, Resource Management, and Environmental Education
Speaker: John Tenhunen, Bayreuth Center for Ecological and Environmental Research, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
23 November 2016

The US in the Trump Era: Reading America in China
Speaker: Dan Guttman, special counsel to U.S. Senate investigations of US government management, UNDP advisor on China environmental law implementation, Fellow at Johns Hopkins.
16 November 2016

String Theory: What it is and why you should care
Speaker: Ronen Plesser, Professor, Department of Physics, Duke University.
9 November 2016

Distinguished Speaker Series | Science, Technology and Universities
Speaker: Fujia Yang, an eminent physicist and educator, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 
26 October 2016

How “Social” are Social Media? Lives On- and Off- Line in China and the US
Speaker: Kenneth Rogerson, Associate Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University.
12 October 2016

Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq: A Case Study of Transboundary Water Issues and Internal Water Allocation Problems
Speaker: Curtis J. Richardson, Professor of Resource Ecology, Director, Duke University Wetland Center, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
28 September 2016

Crime Policy: What Societies Can and Cannot do to Reduce Crime make Citizens Safe
Speaker: Joel Rosch, Senior Research Scholar, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
27 September 2016

Causal Thinking in Environmental Epidemiology: Lead Exposure and Brain Health
Speaker: John Ji, Senior Researcher, Harvard Business School
20 September 2016

The Future of Socialism in China
Speaker: Christopher Connery, Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, University of California Santa Cruz
14 September 2016

Fixing the gender balance in STEM, especially physics
Speaker: Ling-An Wu, Professor Emerita, Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
7 September 2016

Copycat Electronics in 21st Century China
Speaker: Anna Greenspan, assistant professor of Global Contemporary Media at NYU Shanghai
24 August 2016

Chemical Risk Assessment in the 21st Century: Grand challenges and the role of government, industry and academia
Speaker: Barry C. Kelly, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
22 August 2016

2017 Spring

Data Driven Computer Vision for Computational Health
Speaker: Mei Chen, Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the State University of New York.
7 June 2017

Tropical Oil Crops and Rural Poverty
5 June 2017

Paralinguistic speech attribute recognition and multimodal behavior signal analysis
Speaker: Prof. Ming Li, SYSU-CMU Joint Institute of Engineering, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University
5 June 2017

Building Fairer and Sustainable Societies in the Age of Global Transformation
Speaker: Professor Sabu Padmadas, co-Director of the Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty and Policy, University of Southampton
25 May 2017

Health Advocacy - An Australian experience in implementation
Speaker: Dr Indira Samarawickrema, MBBS MSc (Community Medicine), MD (Community Medicine) FHEA
22 May 2017

China’s Avant-Garde Movement of the 1980s
Speaker: Dr. ZHOU Yan, Ph.D. in Art History, Ohio State University
17 May 2017

The Souls of China
Speaker: Ian Johnson, Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history
16 May 2017

Advanced Environmental Exposure Modeling for Epidemiological Studies
Speaker: Dr. Meng Wang, postdoctoral research fellow in University of Washington
10 May 2017

Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability: A discussion on housing redevelopment in Suzhou
Speaker: Donia Zhang, Associate at the City Institute, York University, Canada
10 May 2017

GLOBAL BURDEN OF ASTHMA: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Monitoring in the 21st Century
Speaker: Dr. Zak Callaway, Assistant Professor at the University of Ulsan in Korea
9 May 2017

Civilization, Race and the Hollywood Western Hero: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Clementine Carter and Love Chihuahua in My Darling Clementine (1946)
Speaker: Peter Yacavone, Associate Professor of English, Soochow University
19 April 2017

The Anthropology of Reconstruction: Translating Post-Disaster Periods in Research and Teaching
Speaker: Dr. Vincent Joos, Lecturing Fellow in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University
13 April 2017

Fracking, Coal and Air Quality
Speaker: Hendrik Wolff, Associate Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University
5 April 2017

Comparing L1 English and ESL Written Feedback Preferences in the American Classroom: Pedagogical Recommendations
Speaker: Tyler Carter, Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University
30 March 2017

Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Speaker: Long Qian, Ph.D.
29 March 2017

Air pollution and food prices: Evidence from China
Speaker: Prof. Xiaohua Yu, Chair of Agricultural Economics in Developing and Transition Countries, University of Göttingen
21 March 2017

China’s Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
Speaker: James Miller, Professor of Chinese studies, Queen's University, Canada
14 March 2017

Sagebrush and Snakeclouds: Building Worlds in Translation
Speaker: Austin Woerner, Lecturer, Sun Yat-sen University
10 March 2017

Civil Society and Risk Regulation: Insights from NGOs Efforts to Reduce Industrial Pollution in China
Speaker: Kathinka Fürst, Research Fellow, the Netherlands China Law Centre (NCLC), University of Amsterdam (UvA) Law School
9 March 2017

Idea Talk with Marine Biologist David Baker
Speaker: David M. Baker, Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong
8 March 2017

Tropical Oil Crops and Rural Poverty
Speaker: Ryan Barclay Edwards, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Earth System Science & Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University.
6 March 2017

One-Belt-One-Road:  Global Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker:  Feng Da-Hsuan,  Director of Global Affairs & Special Advisor to Rector, University of Macau (UMacau)
1 March 2017

A Billion Voices: China’s Search for a Common Language 
Speaker: David Moser, Academic Director at CET Chinese Studies at Beijing Capital Normal University
22 February 2017

Life Cycle Thinking and Environmental Policy
Speaker: Ming Xu, Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
16 January 2017

2017 Fall

New Views of Tibet's Linguistic Diversity
Speaker: Gerald Roche, DECRA Research Fellow, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne
14 December 2017

Mass Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A Cultural Perspective on China’s Challenges
Speaker: Steven White, Professor at Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
13 December 2017

Developing Economy Opportunities for China in the U.S. and Japan
Speaker: John Fargis, Adjunct professor at the Hult International Business School, Co-founder and Principal for BYG_Advantage
6 December 2017

Law and Disorder
Speaker: Philip Lance, attorney, educator and actor
5 December 2017

Ghostly Thrills at the Expense of Mental Illness at the Chinese Box Office
Speaker: Dr. Nicole Talmacs, Lecturer in Media and Communications Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
29 November 2017

From Wealth to Power: China’s New Economic Statecraft
Speaker: Professor Zhang Xiaotong, Department of International Relations, Wuhan University, Vice Dean, Wuhan University Institute for International Studies, Executive Director, Wuhan University Research Centre for Economic Diplomacy
22 November 2017

China's dairy century - making, drinking and dreaming of milk
Speaker: Thomas DuBois, Historian of modern China and transitional Asia
20 November 2017<

Development of Environmental Law in China: Progress, Problem and Prospect
Speaker: Prof. Qin Tianbao, Luojia Professor of Law, Wuhan University
8 November 2017<

Purifying Indoor Air for Better Health in Chinese Cities: Does It Work?
Speaker: Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, Professor of Global and Environmental Health at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke Global Health Institute, and Duke Kunshan University
1 November 2017

Taking Care of American Workers: Industrial Representation in the American West, 1914-1950
Speaker: Maria E. Montoya, Associate Professor of History, New York University; Dean of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai
18 October 2017

The Time has Come for a Reset in U.S.- China Relations. What Will That Look Like?
Speaker: James McGregor, Greater China Chairman for APCO Worldwide
11 October 2017

Bean Voting: The History and Politics of Secret Ballot
Speaker: Emerson Niou, Professor of Political Science, Duke University
21 September 2017

Networks and Bridges: Nuns in the Making of Modern Chinese Buddhism
Speaker: Elise A. DeVido, Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University
20 September 2017

Frailty: An Emerging Global Health Priority
Speaker: Dr. Chenkai Wu, Assistant Professor of Department of Epidemiology and Community Health at New York Medical College
19 September 2017

Medical Physicists in Era of Precision Radiation Therapy
Speaker: Fang-Fang Yin, PhD
13 September 2017

Lifestyle change to improve NCD outcomes in China - What works?
Speaker: Dr. Zhong Xuefeng, Director & Chief Physician, Health Education Institute, Anhui CDC, China.
12 September 2017

Stealing a Pedagogy: The Interdisciplinary Future of Creative Writing
Speaker: Ryan Thorpe, assistant teaching professor, the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute
7 September 2017

How Big Data Analytics Changes Dell’s Business Decision Making – Examples from Marketing and Sales Operations
Speaker: Jack Chen, Chief Data Scientist at Dell
6 September 2017

Language, Cultures of Learning, and Translingualism in the Global University
Speaker: Kristin Hiller, academic director of NYUSPS, NYU Shanghai
4 September 2017

Experiential Learning for Community Service and Foreign Language Practice
Speaker: Warren Decker, MomoyamaGakuin University
31 August 2017

HIV Prevention among Chinese Men Who Have Sex with Men: An example of conducting interdisciplinary studies to address public health issues
Speaker: Dr. Haochu Li, researcher of UNC Project-China, Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
30 August 2017

Youth Popular Culture and Literacy Practices: Negotiating Meaning
Speaker:  Lisa Lim, joint faculty of Development Policy program and the Center for Professional Communication, KDI Graduate School of Public Policy and Management
29 August 2017

Derivation of Effective Description for Interacting Many-Body Systems
Speaker: Prof Peter Pickl, MathematischesInstitut, Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitätMünchen
24 August 2017

Influences on smoking among Greek-Australians aged 50 and over: A mixed-methods study
Speaker: Dr Masoud Mohammadnezhad, Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Promotion), School of Public Health and Primary Care, Fiji National University
27 July 2017