CSDS New Delhi, Seminar Room
Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)
ICLS; Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape (South Africa); Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (Delhi); Tsinghua Institute of Advanced Study, Tsinghua University (Beijing)
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Lydia H. Liu is the Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She has published extensively on political thought, critical translation theory, Chinese and comparative literature, digital media, and the philosophy of language. Her representative books include The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious (2010), The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making (2004), The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory (co-edited, 2013), Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations (edited, 1999), and Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture and Translated Modernity—China 1900-1937 (1995). Her newest book is called Global Language Justice co-edited with Anupama Rao and Charlotte Silverman and published by Columbia University Press in November 2023.
Wang Hui is the founding Director of the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (TIAS). He teaches at Tsinghua University as Distinguished Professor of Literature and History. Wang Hui graduated with a PhD degree in Chinese literature from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1988. He worked at CASS from 1988-2002. In 1996-2007, he served as the chief editor of Dushu Magazine, the most influential intellectual journal in China. In 2002, he moved from CASS to Tsinghua University. His books have been translated into English, Italian, Spanish, German. Japanese, Korean, Slovenian, Portuguese, Turkish, etc. The English language translations include The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2023), China’s Twentieth Century (2015), China From Empire to Nation-State (2014), The Politics of Imagining Asia (2010), The End of Revolution (2009) and China’s New Order (2003). Wang Hui is the recipient of many awards such as “2013 Luca Pacioli Prize” which he shared with Jürgen Habermas in Italy and “Anneliese Maier Research Award” (2018) in Germany.
