Paradigms of Change in Modernising Asia and America
Ghent University, Jozef Plateauzaal, J. Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Ghent.
October 13-14, 2017
October 13
16:00 – 16:30 Welcome of the participants by the organising committee
16:30 – 17:30 “The Limits of Westernization: American and East Asian Intellectuals
Create Hybrid Modernity in the 20th century”, Jon Davidann (Hawaii Pacific University,
Fulbright Visiting Scholar)
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee break
18:00 – 18:30 “‘We Have Outstripped Our Tutors’: the Rhetoric of Japanese Initiatives
to Modernize Global Race Relations in the Early Twentieth Century”, Robert Kane
(Niagara University)
18:30 – 19:00 “The Political Thought of Phan Van Truong: Decolonization and
Modernization through Romanized Script”, Kevin Pham (University of California,
Riverside)
20:00 – 22:00 Symposium banquet
October 14
09:00 – 10:00 “Categorizing wisdom and the wisdom of categorizing”, Bart Dessein
(Ghent University)
10:00 – 10:30 “Zhun Gu on the modernization of China”, Chen Bohang (Ghent
University)
10:30 – 11:00 “The Asiatic Mode of Production as Method: Theory in Asia or Theory by Asia, from Marxism to Postcolonialism”, Hwang Hoduk (Sungkyunkwan University)
11:00 – 11:30 “The Order-Freedom paradox in Iranian conception of modernity (1850-
1911): the Roots of security-development dilemma”, Abdolrasool Divsallar (Teheran
University)
11:30 – 12:00 “Building a Sarvodaya Order in India: Democracy Over Development”,
Prakash Kumar (Pennsylvania State University)
12:00 – 12:30 “Property Rights: A critical, global and comparative perspective on land
reforms and land rights transformation” Dieter Bruneel, Pieter De Reu, Hanne Cottyn
(Ghent University)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 “The beginning of the century: Imperialism, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Early 20th Century China”, Wang Hui (Tsinghua University)
15:00 – 15:30 “Revolution, Resurrection, Rebirth: Ideology and Utopia in the Right Wing
Discourse on the Nation and the World in Inter-War and Wartime Japan”, Christian Uhl
(Ghent University)
15:30 – 16:00 “Nakai Masakazu and the Aesthetics of the Machine: A Paradigm of
Modernity in Japan 1930-1950”, Okamoto Genta (Okayama University)
16:00 – 16:30 “The Enlightenment in Japan: looking beyond traditional historical
narratives”, Mick Deneckere (Ghent University)
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00 “Reception of the ‘Renaissance’ in Modern Japan：1890-1960”, Okada
Atsushi (Kyoto University)
18:00 – 18:30 Final comments and greetings