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Organized
by Tani E. Barlow
(History and Women
Studies)
Sponsored
by the China
Studies Program and the
East Asia Center
at the Henry
M. Jackson School of International Studies, the Simpson Center,
and the College
of Arts & Sciences)
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| Workshop: February 23-26, 2006 |
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This workshop inaugurates a multi-year Project on Culture and Politics
in XXth Century China. In 2006 we will consider the Cultural Revolution
as a field of scholarly research and explore the causes of the field's
current epistemic and political impoverishment. Since this event
has tended to elude historical consideration, we will pose questions
of methodological and philosophical perspectives as well as research
procedures, raise the question of how researchers, students, and
teachers can handle the tidal wave of newly released archival material,
and conclude by asking where the events of these years fit in broader
20th century history. The workshop concludes with a daylong Roundtable
Discussion entitled “Rethinking XXth Century Chinese History.”
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| Particpants: |
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Alain Badiou (Philosophy, École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Gopal Balakrishnan (University of Chicago)
Tani Barlow (History and Women Studies, University of Washington)
Lin Chun (School of Oriental and Asian Studies, London)
Christopher Connery (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
Jinhua Dai (Research Institute for Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies,
Peking University)
David Davies (Anthropology, Hamline University)
Alex Day (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Mobo Gao (School of Asian Languages and Studies, Tasmania University)
Wang Hui (School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Qinghua University)
Nancy Jervis (Vice President, China Institute)
Rebecca Karl (East Asian Studies, New York University)
Fabio Lanza (History and East Asian Studies, University of Arizona)
Donald Lowe (Independent Scholar)
Sis Matthe (Philosophy, University of Ghent)
Marc Menguy (former French Ambassador and member of Asia 21 Research Group)
Claudia Pozzano (Department of Linguistic and Oriental Studies, University
of Bologna)
Alessandro Russo (Sociology, University of Bologna)
Wang Shaoguang (Political Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Shumei Shi (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature,
and Asian American Studies, UCLA)
Yiching Wu (University of Chicago)
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| Special Lecture: |
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Alain Badiou
Professor of Philosophy
École Normale Supérieure,
Paris
Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities
“Politics, Democracy and Philosophy:
An Obscure Knot”
February 23rd at 7 pm in Kane Hall, Room 110
Alain Badiou is a poet, playwright, critic, screenwriter, aesthetician,
and political activist; he is also among the most innovative philosophers
of our time. Born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, he has taught at the University
of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis) and the École Normale Supérieure.
Known for his re-thinking of core ideas in European philosophy such as
event, aesthetics, love and truth, Badiou was trained as a mathematician
before engaging philosophy as such. Badiou’s partition of scholarship
into four fields—politics, science, art, and love—and his inventive writing
on thinkers ranging from Plato, St. Paul, and Samuel Beckett to Mao Zedong,
Jacques Lacan, and Heidegger offers a demonstration of philosophy’s powers
and its importance. Among Badiou’s recently published works in English
translation are Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (2003), Handbook
of Inaesthetics (2004), Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future
of Philosophy (2005), and Alain Badiou and Cultural Revolution,
a special issue of the journal positions: east asia cultures critique (2005).
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