Strings of Harmony: Ciompi Quartet Inspires Through Music and Collaboration
The final note lingered in the air, a perfect blend of harmony and history, as the Ciompi Quartet, Duke University’s resident string quartet, brought their performance to a close at Duke Kunshan University, where the audience—students, faculty, staff, and members of the Kunshan community—sat in a moment of stunned silence before erupting into applause. During […]
Prof. Travis Wilkerson Named Guggenheim Fellow in Foundation’s 100th Year
Travis Wilkerson, filmmaker and associate professor of documentary practice at Duke Kunshan University, has been named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, joining one of the most prestigious fellowships in the arts and humanities in the foundation’s milestone 100th year. “I had a mixture of feelings,” Wilkerson said of learning the news. “Excitement, relief and a sense […]
“How Women Keep Reinventing Independent Publishing”, an Article about Prof. Stephanie Anderson’s Interview Book
Publishers Weekly, the trade magazine for the book industry in the US, published an article, “How Women Keep Reinventing Independent Publishing,” about Prof. Stephanie Anderson’s interview book Women in Independent Publishing: A History of Unsung Innovators, 1953-1989. When scholar Stephanie Anderson interviewed poet Alice Notley in 2010, she was surprised to learn that no one had […]
Tech Meets Imagination: DKU Students Explore Creative Tech with Sony
On March 28, the Computation and Design Major hosted a session in collaboration with Sony as part of their Student Creativity Competition. The event centered around the theme of technology and innovation. At the start of the session, a representative from Sony introduced the competition’s theme, structure, award categories, and judging criteria—giving students a clear understanding of what the […]
Prof. Kolleen Guy’s Joint Project Receives UNESCO Grant Award
We are pleased to announce the exciting news that Prof. Kolleen Guy’s joint project, Museums as Transnational Heritage Hubs: Civilian War Victims, Memory Networks, and Global Recognition, has been awarded funding through the UNESCO Transnational Heritage Joint Research Grant program. This research builds directly on the foundational work made possible by the generous funding for the Parapolitics of Empathy project from the […]
Computation & Design Student Tops Stanford Hackathon with Anti-Food Waste App
Rebecca Combs, a student majoring in computation and design from the Duke Kunshan University Class of 2025, clinched the top award at the esteemed TreeHacks hackathon held by Stanford University. TreeHacks 2025 prize announcement: EcoBite wins first place in the Best Use of FlutterFlow category The competition convened over a thousand students from around the […]
Student Reporter Recruitment | Prof. Zairong Xiang
Open Call for Two Student Reporters “A Matter of Trust” – an art project Are you interested in contemporary art and want to gain relevant experience? Do you want your writing to be exposed to international audiences? The Department of Culture and Education of the German Consulate General in Shanghai and Professor Xiang Zairong, Assistant […]
Article Publication | Prof. Stephanie Anderson
Congratulations to Prof. Stephanie Anderson on the publication of her new article “Shiny Collisions: Editing as Serious Humor in dodgems” in the journal Women’s Studies! Click to read the original article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00497878.2022.2130314
100 Years of Yiddish Literature in China | Prof. Yitzhak Lewis
On February 7, 2023, Professor Yitzhak Lewis (Duke Kunshan) and two of his undergraduate research assistants, Yongkang Chen and Eldar Wang, gave an overview of their research project “100 Years of Yiddish Literature in China” to our spring 2023 class, Mapping Jewish Modernism. The recording of the event is available here. Yitzhak Lewis is Assistant Professor of […]
World Premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival | Prof. Travis Wilkerson
Professor Travis Wilkerson’s new feature film, “Through the Graves the Wind is Blowing,” was selected to have its world premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. The film is screening in the Encounters section. “A frustrated detective tries to solve a series of murders in Split, Croatia. Homage to the Yugoslavian Black Wave.” By Travis Wilkerson […]
