Carolien Stolte (Leiden): Pan-Asianism and its Regionalist Afterlives: a View from India, c.1917-1960.
Abstract
‘Many a writer on Asia […] postulates a unity that has no existence outside his own imagination’, John Steadman once lamented. Regions are discursive constructs, but this has not limited their potential as rallying point for intellectual and political projects. Rather, it has multiplied it. This seminar considers the many things that ‘Asia’ could become when viewed from India. It takes the intellectual underpinnings of the Indian (Pan-)Asianist projects of the early twentieth century as a starting point, and asks if and how such visions carried over into decolonization and the regionalist projects of the early Cold War.
Time and Place
Dienstag, 24. Mai 2018, 18.30-20.00 Uhr
Japan-Zentrum, Oettingenstr. 67, Raum 161
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