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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
Speaker: Shihe Fu, Professor, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
1 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
2018 Spring
“I’ve Become More Aware of How Ignorant I am”: Language Learning Motivation and Intercultural Competence Development
Speaker: Chiocca, Emmanuelle, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oklahoma.
12 January 2018
Meaning-Based Translation: Identifying and Translating Figurative Language
Speaker: Anna Scholl, M.A. candidate at the Payap University.
22 January 2018
Cognition and Culture: Comparing and Contrasting English Heart and Mandarin 心 xīn ‘heart’
Speaker: Mark Scholl, B.A. in Spanish, M.A. in TESOL.
22 January 2018
The “Feminist Disney”, Power, and Gendered Language Use: A Discourse Analysis of Cross-Gender Interactions in Studio Ghibli Films
Speaker: Kelly Donovan, M.A. in TESOL, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
26 January 2018
Popularizing the Study of Southern Bai: Challenges and Prospects
Speaker: Michael Opper, visiting faculty member at Southwest University (Chongqing), Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Michigan
31 January 2018
Preparing for When It Matters: Building Nonnative Writers’ Capacity to Produce Standard English Phrasing and Grammar
Speaker: Monica G. Richards, Ph.D. at the Iowa State University
5 February 2018
Pervasive Threat and Regulatory Compliance: Evidence from Energy-Saving Regulations in China
Speaker: Xiaofan Zhao, Ph.D candidate at Tsinghua University
6 February 2018
Teaching Creative Writing in the Mixed L1/L2 Classroom: A China Case Study
Speaker: Chidelia Edochie, New York University-Shanghai
22 February 2018
Modern Terrorism: Is the United States Stuck Inside a “Forever War” (and some thoughts about China too)?
Speaker: David Schanzer, Associate Professor of the Practice at the Sanford School of Public Policy and Director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke University.
28 February 2018
Integrating Debate into Curriculum to Enhance Critical Thinking
Speaker: Kevin Sprague, Lecturer at Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
1 March 2018
Dapeng Dialect: An Undocumented Cantonese-Hakka Mixed Language in Southern China
Speaker: Litong Chen, Assistant Professor of Chinese at University of Mount Union (Ohio, USA).
6 March 2018
Corpus Linguistics for Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
Speaker: Xinjia Peng, Lead Flagship Instructor at Brigham Young University.
12 March 2018
The Invisible Valley: An Epic Experiment in Creative Co-Translation
Speaker: Su Wei, Senior Lector at Yale University & Austin Woerner, Lecturer at Duke Kunshan University
14 March 2018
Emotional Objects: Beijing Folk Art Collecting in the Age of Marketization
Speaker: I-Yi Hsieh, Ph. D, New York University
15 March 2018
Review of China’s Air Pollution Control Policies and Actions in 2017
Speaker: Ping He, Founding President of the International Fund for China’s Environment.
16 March 2018
Developing Chinese Superior Level Proficiency Through Global Debate
Speaker: Yili Zhang, Lecturer at Brigham Young University
19 March 2018
The Pedagogy of Performing another Culture: “FACT” and “ACT”
Speaker: Kaidi Chen, Chinese Instructor at Allegheny College
22 March 2018
Garden of Forking Paths or Garden of Grand View? A New Reading of Dream of the Red Chamber
Speaker: Liu Mingming, Assistant Professor of Chinese at Oakland University
26 March 2018
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 (Suzhou, China)
28 March 2018
Why Mice? History and Representation in Art Spiegelman's Maus
Speaker: Philip Smith, Assistant Professor at The University of the Bahamas
29 March 2018
Media Literacy: Identifying Mechanics of Manipulation in Commercial and Political Speech
Speaker: Nathan Meyer, MA from California State University East Bay
2 April 2018
Using a “Lens Activity” to Help Students Practice Analyzing and Critiquing Skills
Speaker: Jiaxin Xu, Instructor at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University
9 April 2018
Undergraduate Studies Abroad & Foreign Language
Speaker: Wang Jingyu, Director of the Chengdu American Center for Study Abroad (G-MEO)
12 April 2018
Models of China’s Innovation
Speaker: Yu Zhou, Professor of Geography at Vassar College
18 April 2018
Can China Build Green? Green Building Program in China
Speaker: Yu Zhou, Professor of Geography at Vassar College
19 April 2018
"Challenges of Delivering A Liberal Arts Education in The 21st Century: Implications for DKU"
Speaker: Marcia B. France, John T. Herwick, M.D. Professor of Chemistry, Associate Provost, Washington and Lee University
23 April 2018
From the A Priori to the Empirical to China
Speaker: Daniel Lim, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Renmin University of China and Co-director of the Center for Analytic Philosophy
26 April 2018
China's Major Power Engagement with the Developing World
Speaker: Joshua Eisenman, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas’ LBJ School for Public Affairs and Senior Fellow for China Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, D.C
28 April 2018
Addiction as Desensitizing Vulnerability: A Framework for Excuse
Speaker: Quinn Hiroshi Gibson, Teaching Fellow in the Global Perspectives on Society program at New York University Shanghai
10 May 2018
History of Modern Art in China (1912-1949) in intercultural context: Upon the ruins, the dawn of the New Wave Cinema in China
Speaker: Yumei Chi, Maître de Conférences, Scientific Advisor for the Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA, France)
16 May 2018
Fake News, Fact Checking, and Information Verification
Speaker: Kenneth Rogerson, associate professor of the practice in Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy
22 May 2018
New Archaeological Discoveries in Yungang Rock-cut Cave Chapels and Related Issues
Speaker: Lidu Yi, Historian of Chinese Art and Architecture
23 May 2018
Exploring Resilience as Corollary to Syndemic Theory: Strength-Based Approach to Public Health Interventions
Speaker: Adeniyi Adeboye, senior lecturer in Public Health/Health and Social Care at UK College London
30 May 2018
The World Viewed from Rome: Making Sense of the Peutinger Map
Speaker: Richard Talbert, Kenan Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
30 May 2018
American Politics: Erosion and Renewal
Speaker: Carl Minzner, Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
5 Jun 2018
2018 Fall
Bioinformatics and the Genomic Revolution with Examples from Cancer Biology
Speaker: Dr. Steven G. Rozen, Director, Duke-NUS Centre for Computational Biology
3 Sep 2018
Maternal Health Status in Indonesia: Stories from the Field
Speaker: Prof. Adik Wibowo, MD, MPH, DrPH, School of Public Health, University of Indonesia
19 Sep 2018
Rubble and Rebuilding: World War Two and Chinese Cities
Speaker: Dr. Toby Lincoln, Postgraduate Research Director, School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
15 OCT 2018
Who am I? Navigating the Hopes and Challenges of Immigration
Speaker: Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Research Professor, Emerita, English, winner of Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Multiethnic Literatures of the United States Lifetime Achievement Award.
1 Nov 2018
Flights to safety: Evidence of Chinese Residents Fleeing Air Pollution via Air Travels
Speaker: Dr. Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo, Assistant Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
7 Nov 2018
Creating a Culture of Ethical Integrity: Lessons from Corporate China
Speaker: Michael Hickman, Principal, Integrity Risk and Crisis Management Consulting, Control Risk
12 Nov 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Personality and Liability
Speaker: Daniel Seng, Associate Professor of Law, National University of Singapore
3 Dec 2018
“I Can Hear You Breathing”: Blues, Jazz, and Inspiration
Speaker: Steven Tracy, Distinguished University Professor of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst
12 Dec 2018
