Workshop Announcement: Asian Regionalisms in an Age of De-Globalization. Observing, Discoursing, Identifying

Date: July 5, 2024

Time: 09:00 – 17:00

Venue: Emmy-Noether-Saal, Wilhelmsplatz, Göttingen

Organizer: Lee, Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University)

We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming workshop, “Asian Regionalisms in an Age of De-Globalization. Observing, Discoursing, Identifying,” hosted by the Department of East Asian Studies at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. This event is open to all.

Program Schedule:

09:15-09:30

• Welcome and Introduction
  • Lee, Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University)

09:30-11:00

• Panel One: Worldmaking: Discourses and Structural Transformations
  • Chair: Eva Orthmann (Göttingen)
  • Presenters:
    • Rebecca Karl (New York University): Civilizational Confusions: Neo-traditionalism and Economism
    • Cao Yin (Peking University): The Yunnan-Burma Railway Project, 1860s-1940s
    • Nikolay Kamenov (Göttingen/ETH Zürich): India’s Trade Connections to the Rest of Asia: Territorialization in the Interwar Period.

11:00-11:30

• Coffee Break

11:30-12:30

• Keynote Presentation
  • Zhang Hanwen (Independent Artist, Berlin): Defection, Exile, and Utopia: Pan-Asianist Bodies and Legacies

12:30-13:30

• Lunch Break

13:30-15:00

• Panel Two: Between the Local and the Universal: Identity and Claims
  • Chair: Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen)
  • Presenters:
    • Lee Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University): Taiwanese Self-Situating in Asian Regionalisms
    • Julian Strube (Göttingen): Religious Universalism and Nationalism in Bengal
    • Henrike Rudolph (Göttingen): Reclaiming the Local. Conceptions of the Bentu in Chinese International Politics

15:00-15:30

• Coffee Break

15:30-17:00

• Concluding Discussion

Join us for an insightful day of discussions and presentations on the evolving dynamics of Asian regionalisms in our current era of de-globalization.

Institute: Department of East Asian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

This workshop is open to all. We look forward to your participation!