An International Conference of the New Civilizationism Network

Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences 

Dean’s Office

Stanford Global Studies

Stanford Archeology Center

University of Göttingen

Schedule

Thursday, October 24, 2024

• 4:30pm - 6:00pm PDT

  Day 1

  4:30 – 6pm. Roundtable: “Civilization Talk, Sovereignty and Democracy: Global Perspectives" (open to the public)

  • Thomas Blom Hansen (moderator): Opening remarks and introduction of the network (5 mins).
  • Prasenjit Duara (on China, 10 mins)
  • Mark Bassin (on Russia, 10 mins)
  • Bilge Yesil (on Turkey, 10 mins)
  • Lawrence Rosenthal (on US, 10 mins)

  • Grant Parker (respondent, 7-8 mins)

     

  6 - 7 pm. Light reception

  7:30 pm. Dinner at Sun of Wolf (Mexican restaurant)

Friday, October 25, 2024

• 9:30am - 5:30pm PDT

  Day 2

  9.30 – 11.00am. Session 1: Comparative Civilizationisms - East vs. West

  • Cemil Aydin: “Political and Intellectual History of Civilizational Narratives of the World Order During the Long Twentieth Century”
  • Hans Kundnani and Srirupa Roy: “Between Particularism and Universalism: European and Indian civilizational discourses from 1945 to the present”

  • Selçuk Esenbel: “The Janus-Face of the West: Global Perspectives of Japan and Turkey’s Quest for Modernity”

     

  11.00 - 11.15am. Coffee

  11.15 – 12.00pm. Discussion

  12.00 – 1.00pm. LUNCH

  1:00pm – 2.30pm. Session 2: Proliferation of Civilizationism

  • Haiyan Lee: “Sinofuturism: The Three-Body Trilogy and Crisis Civilizationism”
  • Kai Friese: “The Many Careers of M.F. Husain as a Civilizationist Modern”

  • Thomas Blom Hansen: “The Rivers Beneath: Antiquity and the ‘Indic present’ in Indian nationalism”

     

  2.30 – 3.00pm. Discussion

  3.00 – 3.30pm. Coffee

  3.30 – 5.00pm. Session 3:  Nation and Empire 

  • Mark Bassin: “Eurasianism vs the ‘Russian World:’ The Ambivalent Geopolitics of Civilizationism in Putin's Russia”
  • Alexei Yurchak: “The Biology of Putin’s Civilizationism”

  • Gizem Zencirci: “Economic Civilizationism and the Spiritual Reconfiguration of the State-Business Relationship in Turkey”

     

  5.00 – 5.30pm. Discussion

  6.30pm. Dinner at Meyhouse (Turkish cuisine) in downtown Palo Alto

Saturday, October 26, 2024

• 9:30am - 6:00pm PDT

  Day 3

  9.30 – 11.00am. Session 1: Civilizationism and Anti-liberalism

  • Adam Knowles: “The ‘Cosmopolitan’ Racism of the German New Right”
  • Viren Murthy: “Anti-liberal World-making: Koyama Iwao, Mizoguchi and East Asian critiques of modernity” 

  • Rosario Forlenza: “Christian Democracy and the Abendland: Re-civilizing Europe after World War II”

     

  11.00 – 11.15am. Coffee

  11.15 – 12.00pm. Discussion

  12.00 – 1.00pm. LUNCH

  1.00 – 2.30pm. Session 2: Infrastructures of Knowledge

  • Dominic Sachsenmaier: “Civilization as Project? Contextualizing Recent Academic Approaches in the PRC”
  • Aslı Iğsız: “From Pan-Europeanism to Pan-Islamic Mobilization: A brief history of the civilizationist present” 

  • Bilge Yesil: “Civilizationism in Global Media and Communication Projects: Turkey’s use of religion, history and identity”

     

  2.30 – 3.15pm. Discussion

  3.15 – 3.45pm. Coffee

  3.45 – 4.45pm. Session 3:  Geopolitical Ambitions

  • Prasenjit Duara: “Civilizationism and China’s Global Power”

  • Matthew Blackburn: “Defending the ‘Civilization state’ and breaking the ‘liberal’ global order. The impact of war on Russia’s evolving civilizational imaginary at home and abroad”

     

  4.45 - 5.15pm. Discussion

  5.15 – 6.00pm. General wrap-up discussion and future plans

  6.30pm. Dinner at Tamarine (Vietnamese-Asian fusion cuisine) in downtown Palo Alto

  Note: For the Thursday roundtable, each speaker has 7-10mins. For the panel sessions, each speaker has 25mins plus 5mins of clarification.