2007 Shanghai Conference Keynote & Plenary Session
June 15, 17:30-19:30
Opening Keynote Session
Keynote Speaker: Professor Partha Chatterjee (Center for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta, India), “Dissolution or Transformation? Studying Peasant Culture in the 21st Century”
Abstract: The lecture will talk about the peasant question as it was formulated in Asian countries in the period of nationalist and anti-colonial struggles in the 20th century. It will then consider the present conjuncture: does the future development of Asian countries require the dissolution of peasant cultures or their transformation into something new?
Moderator: Soyoung Kim (IACS Society; Korea National University of Arts)
Respondents:
- Hilmar Farid (Jaringan Kerja Budaya, Jakarta)
- Wang Hui (Tsing Hua University)
June 16, 17:30-19:30 Plenary Session I
Conditions of Knowledge: Cultural Studies and the Peasantry
Moderator: Dai Jinhua (Peking University)
Panelists:
- “Political Economy of the Unmaking of Peasantry”, Huricihan İslamoğlu (Bogazici University, Istanbul Turkey and Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)
- Wen Tie-jun (Renming University, Beijing)
- “Representing the Peasant”, Tejaswini Niranjana (Center for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India)
June 17, 17:30-19:30
Closing plenary roundtable on Conditions of knowledge: Cultural Studies Movements and Institutions
Moderator: Meaghan Morris (Lingnan University)
Panelists:
- Cho Haejoang (Yonsei University)
- Melani Budianta (University of Indonesia)
- Firdous Azim (University of Dhaka)
- Shunya Yoshimi (University of Tokyo)
- Josephine Ho (Central University, Taiwan)
- Sun Ge (Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing)