Event overview
On the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, join eminent scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen on how we think through current conditions from Inter-Asian and Bandung perspectives.
On the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, and this critical conjuncture of sped up crises across the globe, join eminent Bandungist and scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen for a roundtable discussion and lecture considering how we think through current conditions from Third World, Inter-Asian and Bandung perspectives.
The 1955 Bandung Conference changed the frame of the world, as it broke away from the Cold War monopolizing power of the US and Soviet Union, and officially initiated Third World thought based on an imagination of African, Asian, Latin American and the Caribbean alliance.
Kuan-Hsing Chen in discussion
moderated by Ashwani Sharma
On the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, and this critical conjuncture of sped up crises across the globe, join eminent Bandungist and scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen for a roundtable discussion and lecture considering how we think through current conditions from Third World, Inter-Asian and Bandung perspectives.
The 1955 Bandung Conference changed the frame of the world, as it broke away from the Cold War monopolizing power of the US and Soviet Union, and officially initiated Third World thought based on an imagination of African, Asian, Latin American and the Caribbean alliance.
The “Belt and Road Initiative” has much to do with the accumulation of this line of thought in the last sixty years. The challenge for global intellectual circles, based on this Third Worldist view for transforming the world, is: how do we connect up the Third World critical traditions and liberate the world from Western Euro-American intellectual/political/economic colonization through solidarity and mutual learning? The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements networks launched a series of events..The “Inter-Asia Project” can be considered as the “popular version” of the “Belt and Road Initiative" it hopes to establish a foundation for extending the Third Worldist line of internationalism.
A self-claimed Bandungist, Kuan-Hsing Chen is the co-executive editor of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements journal and editor of Renjian Thought; author of Media/Cultural Criticism: A Popular-Democratic Line of Flight (1995), Asia as Method: Towards De-imperialization (2010) and Chen Yingzhen’s Third World(2025), and has edited Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (1998), Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader (1998). A founding member Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society core member of globally grounded Bandung Schools project (2015-).
Hosted by Inter-Asia Cultural Studies - Movements and Goldsmiths Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Research Fellow Ashwani Sharma / Department of Visual Cultures Janna Graham, as an inaugural event of the Bandung School/Study Group (London).
Join on zoom here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89767307462?pwd=FIQRdOkG7I9hHK3gDLfW7WOSM0bvtL.1
Meeting ID: 897 6730 7462
Passcode: 184273
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Jun 2025 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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