SOAS China Institute
Lecture: Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future
Speaker: Professor Prasenjit Duara (Duke University)
Date: Friday, 12 May 2017, 3.00pm - 5.00pm
Location: Khalili Lecture Theatre, Russell Square College Buildings, SOAS University of London, Thornhaugh Street, London, WC1H 0XG
Abstract
The crisis of global modernity has been produced by human overreach that was founded upon a paradigm of national modernization. Today, three global changes: the rise of non-western powers, the crisis of environmental sustainability and the loss of authoritative sources of transcendence – the ideals, principles and ethics once found in religions - define our condition. The physical salvation of the world is becoming the transcendent goal of our times, transcending national sovereignty. The foundations of sovereignty can no longer be sought in tunnelled histories of nations; we are recognizing that histories have always been circulatory and the planet is a collective responsibility.
Biography
Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. Born and educated in India, he received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. He was Professor of History and East Asian Studies at University of Chicago (1991-2008) and Raffles Professor and Director of Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore (2008-2015). His latest book is The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge 2014). He is being awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oslo in September 2017.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Further details / registration:
https://www.soas.ac.uk/china-institute/events/12may2017-crisis-of-global-modernity-asian-traditions-and-a-sustainable-future.html
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