The conference is in part to celebrate our dear friend, colleague, and mentor, Prasenjit Duara’s, 75th birthday and to take stock of the immense impact his scholarship has had in the fields of history, Asian Studies, and transnational studies. It is being supported by the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute and Department of History at Duke University.

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Some of the recurring themes in Prasenjit’s oeuvre include: nationalism, state-building, religion, environmentalism, transnationalism, imperialism, Asian traditions, and revolution.

The topics of the conference are by no means limited to these themes; organized panels will touch on global and planetary implications from China Studies, science and the logics of revolution and reform, borderlands, governing resources and people, Sinospheres, and figural representations of the past and the future.