![]() ![]() ![]() The tour will be led by Sarah Aptilon, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Johnson County Community College, and will focus on the Museum’s Hindu and Buddhist art and its Japanese collection. The route to the museum is walkable from the conference hotel and we will also be providing transportation for those who would rather ride. ![]() There will be a guided tour of highlights of the Nelson-Atkins Museum's famed Asian Collection on Thursday, March 9. Thursday, March 9, Guided Tour of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art His work has been widely translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and the European languages. He has edited Decolonization: Now and Then (Routledge, 2004) and co-edited A Companion to Global Historical Thought with Viren Murthy and Andrew Sartori (Wiley, 2014). His other books include Rescuing History from the Nation (Chicago, 1995) Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (Rowman, 2003) and The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge, 2014). His book, Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (Stanford, 1988), won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS. He was previously Professor and Chair of the Dept of History and Chair of the Committee on Chinese Studies at the University of Chicago (1991-2008), and Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director, Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore (2008-2015). He was born and educated in India and received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. Transnational civil society, NGOs, quasi-governmental and inter-governmental agencies committed to the inviolability or sacrality of the ‘commons’ are finding common cause with these communities struggling to survive. The idea of transcendence in these communities is more dialogical than radical or dualistic: separating God or the human subject from nature. Several traditions in Asia, particularly in environmentally marginalized local communities, offer different ways of understanding the relationships among the personal, ecological, and universal. This talk reconsiders the values and resources in Asian traditions-particularly of China and India- that Max Weber found wanting in their capacity to achieve modernity. The foundations of sovereignty can no longer be sought in tunneled histories of nations we are recognizing that histories have always been circulatory, and the planet is a collective responsibility. The physical salvation of the world is becoming the transcendent goal of our times, transcending national sovereignty. Three global changes now define our condition: the rise of non-western powers, the crisis of environmental sustainability, and the loss of authoritative sources of transcendence-the ideals, principles and ethics once found in religions. The crisis of global modernity has been produced by human overreach that was founded upon a paradigm of national modernization. Prasenjit Duara Presentation Title: Sacred Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in Contemporary Asia How can philosophy, history, literature and the arts, natural and social sciences, and the societal formations of East, Southeast, and South Asian Studies contribute to a “planetary realism” that both sustainably and more inclusively advances visions of an ecologically and ethically responsible humanity? The conference theme of Resilient Futures invites appreciative and critical reflection on the complexity of Asian perspectives and responses to current challenges, and how they open prospects for imagining global futures that are ecologically, economically, and culturally resilient-and also more humanely shared. The ever-evolving challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate disruption, economic inequality, identity conflicts, post-truth media, and political turmoil are opportunities for creative and collaborative thinking that draws equally on historical understanding and contemporary conceptual and technological resources to question narratives and envision more resilient communities and more humane systems of global interdependence. Resilient Futures: Using Asian Studies to Envision a More Humanely Shared World ![]()
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