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Statement of Academic Qualifications and Achievements Prasenjit Duara Statement of Academic Qualifications and Achievements Prasenjit Duara Oscar L. Tang Family Professor of East Asian Studies Emeritus Professor, Department of History, Univ. of Chicago. Dept of History, Duke University, 212A Carr Building, Durham, NC 27708 [email protected] Education 1983 Ph.D, History and East Asian Lang, Harvard University. 1974 M.Phil Chinese Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Univ. N. Delhi 1970 BA History St. Stephens College, Delhi University Academic Posts 2011-2015 Raffles Prof. and Director, Asia Research Institute, NUS, Singapore 2008-2013 Raffles Professor and Director, Humanities and Soc Sc Research, NUS 1995-2008 Professor, U of Chicago, Chair Dept of History (2004-2007) 1991-95 Associate Professor, University of Chicago 1985-87 Mellon Faculty Fellow, Stanford University. 1983-90 Asst., Assoc. Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. 1981-82 Research Affiliate, Tokyo University. 1981 Visiting Lecturer, History Department, Princeton University. 1974-76 Lecturer, History Department, St. Stephens College, Delhi University. Languages Mother Tongue: Assamese (NE India) Read and Speak: English, Hindi, Chinese and Japanese Reading Only: Classical Chinese and French Fellowships & Awards from 1985 2018-19 Kothari Chair for Democracy, Centre for Study of Developing Societies, Delhi 2017 Elected Vice President of Association of Asian Studies, USA; to assume Presidency, 2019-2020 2017 Honorary doctorate (doctor philosophiae honoris causa), University of Oslo, Norway Sep 1. 2015 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Internat Centre for Muslim-non-Muslim Understanding, Adelaide, July 2014 Visiting Fellow, Conscious Realities, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, VN 2/25-3/4 2013 Senior Research Fellow, Contemp China Centre, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ 1 2013 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, RSAP, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. 2012 Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Univ of Warwick, UK, Oct 2008 Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. March 2007 Fulbright Research Fellowship, Hong Kong, (Sep-Nov) 2006 Senior Visiting Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National Univ of Singapore (Aug) 2000 Awarded NEH fellowship for 2000-1; Awarded ACLS fellowship for 2000-1 2000 Awarded Senior Scholar grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for 2000-1 1999 German American Academic Council Distinguished Lecturer, Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany. 1996 Awarded J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for 1996-7 1996 Awarded SSRC grant for research in Japan 1996-7. 1993 Awarded an 11 month grant to conduct research in the PRC by CSCPRC. 1990 Awarded the Joseph R. Levenson Prize of the Association of Asian Studies for best book on 20th century China for Culture, Power and the State 1989 Awarded the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association for the year's outstanding book in East Asian history (Culture, Power and the State) 1989 Fellow, The Woodrow Wilson International Center; also Guest Fellow '91 summer. 1985-87 Mellon Fellow, Humanities, Stanford Univ. (Mellon Fellowship, HarvardU, declined). Keynote Speeches and Distinguished Lectures. From 1996 (see below for other lectures). 2018 “Revisiting the Chinese World Order: Soft Power and the Imperialism of Nation-states” Keynote, CHINA global Kick-off Conference, University of Cologne May 4; Forum for Asian Studies, Stockholm, May 15; Keynote, East Asia's Identity and Its Expansion, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea, May 25; Keynotes at AAS Regional Conf, Elizabethtown PA, Nov3; Midwest AAS, St. Paul Minn, Oct 19; AAS Pacific, Pullman WA, June 9. 2017 “Sustainability and the Crisis of Transcendence: The Long View from Asia” Honorary Doctorate Lecture, Oslo University, Sep 1; Environment Forum public lecture Mahindra Center, Harvard University, Nov 16 2017 The Crisis of Global Modernity and the Rise of Asia. A Chulalongkorn Centennial Lecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 7/24 2017 “Soft Power or Hard Power of Nation States: Post-colonial Visions and State Strategies in China and India” Keynote Address Asia and the World: New Impetus, New Structure and New Order Shanghai Forum May 29 2017 Participant SOAS Annual Debate: Beyond Ideologies: China’s Experience in Confronting the Global Environmental Crisis SOAS London May 11 2017 Post-colonial Visions and State Strategies: Soft Power or the Imperialism of Nation-states? Keynote India, China and the Emergence of Post-War Post-Colonial Asia, New Delhi, March 17, 2017 2016 Asian Secularisms: China, Japan India in era of Confessional Nationalisms Gates Lecture, Grinnell Coll 2016 Transcendence in a Secular World: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future Keynote Lecture 2016 Sheng Yen International Buddhist Conference, Taipei July1; 2016 Convocation Lecture, 2 Grinnell College Sep 29,30. TRANSREGIONAL STUDIES AT GÖTTINGEN, Gottingen Univ, JUNE 22; 2016 Sustainability and Crisis of Transcendence, Plenary Address, "Whose Globe? / Whose Globalization?" Orfalea Centre, UC Santa Barbara Feb 26, 2016; Provost’s Langford Lecture, Duke Univ, Feb 9; U of Toronto, Keynote Asia in the Anthropocene, April 7, 2017 2016 “Rising Asia and the Crisis of Planetary Sustainability” Inaugural Plenary of Asia Society Europe, Zurich, Jan 18; Global Warming & the Rise of Asia, Dialogue with Author Amitav Ghosh, The India China Institute, 2016 Flagship Event, New School, NYC Feb 12. 2015 “How Relevant is the Concept of Secularism to Asia? Questions for a Global Ethics of Diversity” Premier’s Keynote Panel, InterculturAdelaide, Adelaide, July 9 2015 “How Relevant is the Concept of Secularism to Asia? Historical and Comparative Perspectives” Kyoto (Heidelberg U sponsored summer school), WHAT IS CAESER’S WHAT IS GOD’S? March 10.; 2015 “Sacralizing the Landscape: Trans-Pacific Engagements for a Sustainable Region” Keynote Transpacific Orientations, University of S California, LA Jan 23 2014 “Network Asia: Globalization and Regional Studies” Director’s Seminar, Stanford Global Studies, 5/19; Inaugural AMES lecture, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 10/15; Tsai Lecture Harvard University, 10/18; “Network Asia: Futures of Pasts” Inaugural “Futures” lecture Aarhus U, Denmark, 10/20. 2014-15“Secularism, Nationalism, and Religion in Asian History” Keynote, Secularisms: Ideals, Ideologies, and Institutional Practices Grad Inst Intenat & Dev Studies, Geneva 9/25; 2014 “Is the Concept of Secularism Relevant to China” Keynote, InAsiaDay Aarhus, 10/20, Keynote Redemptive Societies and New Religious Movements Hong Kong Univ, Nov 8 2014 “The Agenda of Asian Studies in the Anthropocene” Keynote, New Horizons of Asian Studies Seoul National University Asia Centre, Seoul ROK, March 20-21 2014 “Confucianism and Citizenship in Nanyang” 4th Overseas Chinese Research Lecture, Peking Univ, Beijing 4.29; Lim Boon Keng Lecture, China Society, Singapore 9.4 2013-14 “Network Asia: China and its Asian ‘Routes’” Keynote, 7th Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA) Annual Convention Middle East Technical Univ. Ankara, Turkey, Oct 25; Valedictory Address, Transitions in China Delhi University, Delhi, Jan 10-11, 2014; Dharma Drum Lecture, Peking Univ, Beijing 4.28.14; Sun Yat-sen Univ Lecture, SYS Mem Hall, Guangzhou, 5.4.14; Public Lecture Rethinking Historical Space, New York University Abu Dhabi May 1, 2015 2013 “Narratives of Community” Keynote, People, Ports and Places: The Narrative of Indian Communities in Southeast Asia Inaugural IHC seminar, Indian Heritage Centre, Singapore Sep 20 2013 “Network Asia: Futures of the Past” Keynote, Is Asia One? Towards an Asian Art History Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, Sep 14; Vietnam National Univ, Ho Chi Minh City, Feb 26 2014 2013 “Sustainability and the crisis of transcendence: the long view from Asia” Director’s Lecture, Humanities Institute, Stanford Univ. 5/20, 2014; Research School of Asia and the Pacific Distinguished Public Lecture Australian National University, Canberra, Aust, Nalanda 3 University Distinguished Lecture, Patna/N Delhi, Nov 25/28. David Deal Mem Lecture Whitman Coll, Wa; 3.31.14 4th S Gopal Mem Lecture, King’s College, London, 5/14/2015 2013 “China, India and Asian Regionalism” Distinguished Public Lecture, New Zealand Contemporary China Center and Centre for Indian Studies, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ June 2012 “Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Global Theory” Keynote, De-parochializing Political Theory University of Victoria, CA, Aug 4; Keynote, Asia-Europe Encounters, Singapore Dec 7; Keynote, Intra-Asia Connections Conf, Copenhagen U; 22/10/2014 2012 “China, India and the ASEAN nexus: A historical view” Keynote Address Scholarly Colloquium on India China Studies The India China Institute, New School of Social Research, NYC, April 26 2012 “Chinese Civilization and the Problem of Sustainability” Inaugural Lecturer for Center for Internationl Studies of Chinese Civilization, Fudan University, Shanghai March 9. 30th Annual J F Zeidman Memorial Lecture, Sidwell Friends School, Washington DC March 19; 4th Internat Sinological Conference Academia Sinica, Taipei 20 June; Asian Studies Association of Australia, Sydney. 12 July; 2012 “Historical Logics of Post-Western Modernity” Plenary Speaker, “Rethinking Global Power” 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology (IIS) Delhi 16-19 Feb; Keynote : Area Studies in Global Context: the 'Place' of Asia, Univ of Oregon, Eugene, 10-12 May 2011 “The Multinational State and the 1911 Revolution in Global History” Keynote International Conference Commemorating
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