Clicking on a name or photo will take you to the individual profile of each speaker along with an abstract of their presentation during their panel. Information about moderators and discussants and a profile of our keynote speaker follow the panelists.
Panelists
Yin Cao
History
Tsinghua University
John A. Crespi
East Asian Languages and Literatures and Asian Studies
Colgate University
Suk-Jung Han
Professor Emeritus
Dong-A University
Yanjie Huang
Chinese Studies
National University of Singapore
Janice Hyeju Jeong
History
Simon Fraser University
Tong Lam
History
University of Toronto
Haiyan Lee
East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature
Stanford University
Hsiang-Lin (Sean) Lei
Institute of Modern History
Academia Sinica
Diana Xiaoqing Lin
History
Indiana University Northwest
Jeffrey T. Martin
Anthropology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Viren Murthy
History
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Scott Relyea
History
Appalachian State University
William Schaefer
Chinese Studies and Visual Culture
Durham University
Guo Quan Seng
History
National University of Singapore
Shuang Shen
Comparative Literature and Chinese
Penn State University
Nianshen Song
Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities & Social Sciences
Tsinghua University
Limin Teh
Modern Chinese History
Universiteit Leiden
Krista Van Fleit
History
University of South Carolina
Fei-Hsien Wang
History
Indiana University
Yi Wang
History
Binghamton University, SUNY
Wasana Wongsurawat
History
Chulalongkorn University
Yiching Wu
East Asian Studies
University of Toronto
Tie Xiao
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Indiana University
Yaming You
History
Duke University
Moderators and Discussants
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
History
Duke University
Eileen Chow
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Duke University
Arunabh Ghosh
History
Harvard University
Ralph Litzinger
Cultural Anthropology
Duke University
Jasnea Sarma
Political Geography
Universität Zürich
Tansen Sen
History
NYU Shanghai
Saul Thomas
Liberal Arts
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Keynote speaker
Prasenjit Duara
Oscar L. Tang Family Distinguished Professor of East Asian Studies
Duke University
Prasenjit Duara was born and educated in India and received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. He was previously professor and chair of the history department at the University of Chicago (1991–2008) and chaired the committee on Chinese Studies. He then became the Raffles Professor of Humanities and directed the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore (2008–2015). In 1988, he published his first book: Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900–1942 (Stanford University Press).
Culture, Power and the State won the American Historical Association’s Fairbank Prize and the Association for Asian Studies’ Levenson Prize.
Other influential books include: Rescuing History from the Nation (University of Chicago, 1995); Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (Rowman, 2003); and, most recently, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge, 2014).
He has edited Decolonization: Now and Then (Routledge, 2004) and co-edited A Companion to Global Historical Thought with Viren Murthy and Andrew Sartori (John Wiley, 2014). His work has been widely translated into multiple European and Asian languages.
