New Civilizationisms in Asia
The New Civilizationisms in Asia roundtable is part of a larger international collaboration organized by Stanford University and the University of Gottingen. At Duke, the speakers will present four lectures addressing the various themes of the forthcoming multi-volume publication. Dr. Malachi Hacohen, Professor of History at Duke, will moderate the event.
About the project:
In the past two decades, there has been a world-wide resurgence of discourses that define the people in terms of their unique civilizational identity and call for states to refurbish their timeless civilizational glory. These discourses, or "new civilizationisms" as we call them, both draw on and react against an older, Enlightenment-inspired, and Eurocentric notion of civilization.
Our international research network is mapping the overlapping ecosystems of new civilizationism. We ask: How has talking about civilization instead of nation made authoritarian populism respectable again? Who are the originators of new civilizationisms and what political and intellectual resources do they draw on? How have civilizationist ideas ricocheted across the globe through new media technologies and platforms?
--This event is organized by APSI with support from the Duke University Department of History.--
About the speakers:
Dominic Sachsenmaier holds a chair professorship in "Modern China with a Special Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives." Sachsenmaier's current research interests include China's transnational and global connections in the past and present.
Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University and director of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute.
Cemil Aydin is a professor of international and global history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Jie-Hyun Lim is a South Korean historian, writer, and "memory activist." He is the CIPSH chair holder of "Global Easts," Distinguished Professor, and founder of the Critical Global Studies Institute (CGSI) at Sogang University, Seoul.
