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We cordially invite you to our 7th GAS Lecture Series on May 20 (Mon), 2024. This event will be held in-person only. To join this event, please fill in the form below. Also, please feel free to share this information widely.  　

GAS Lecture Series #7 "Translation and the Right to Speak: The Global Turn in Contemporary Chinese Humanities"

Date and time: May 20 (Mon), 2024, 13:00-15:00 PM (JST)

Venue: Main Conference Room (3F), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo

Title: Translation and the Right to Speak: The Global Turn in Contemporary Chinese Humanities

Speaker: Prof. Marc Matten, Institute for Languages and Cultures of the Middle East and East Asia, Friedrich Alexander University

    https://www.sinologie.phil.fau.de/mitarbeiter/professuren/prof-dr-marc-matten/

Moderator: Shigeto Sonoda, Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo

 

Registration: https://forms.gle/bRpBbL4jMpricaCs7

Language: English

Outline: Following the economic growth and geopolitical rise of China in the past decades we observe ambitions of the Chinese party-state to influence norms and world views across the globe. In recent years, the humanities have become an important playing field where increasing translations of Chinese authors, spanning from historians to philosophers and political scientists intend to shape the discourse outside of China. However, the opaque nature of translations activities--partly financed by the party-state and published by renowned publishers (Brill, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, Springer et al.)--makes it difficult to discern the boundary between propaganda and genuine contribution to academic discourse. This talk discusses what role translations play in questioning Eurocentrism in Western academia and what is necessary to properly understand Chinese contributions to global humanities.

 

Organizer: GAS Initiative at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo 

Contact: gas[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Best Regards,
GAS Initiative 
Global Asian Studies (GAS) 
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