[csaa-forum] World in Transition, Imagination in Flux: Asian Circle of Thought 2012 Shanghai Summit

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World in Transition, Imagination in Flux: Asian Circle of Thought 2012
Shanghai Summit

Featured Speakers: PAIK Nak-chung,Jomo Kwame SUNDARAM, Partha CHATTERJEE,
ARASAKI MoriteruI TAGAKI Yuzo, Ashis NANDY

Time: Friday, October 12 ~ Friday, October 19, 2012

Venue: Power Station of Art (No.200 Huayuangang Rd., Near Miaojiang Rd.)

Organizers: 9th Shanghai Biennale Organizing Committee, Inter-Asia School

Co-organizers: Hanart TZ Gallery (Hong Kong), School of Inter-media Art at
China Academy of Art (Hangzhou), Center for Asia-Pacific Cultural Studies
at Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu)

Sponsor: Moonchu Foundation

Academic Director: Xu Jiang

Project Director: Chang Tsong-Zung

Academic Curator: Kuan-Hsing Chen, Gao Shiming

Organizing Committee: Baik Youngseo, Chang Tsong-Zung, Kuan-Hsing Chen,
Gao Shiming, Ikegami Yoshihiko, Sun Ge, Wakabayashi Chiyo, Wang Xiaoming

Purpose: This week-long meeting is an attempt to initiate a platform for
dialogues among leading intellectuals and thinkers in Asia. As the world
is now in rapid transition, economically, politically and culturally,
there is a sense of urgency to come together to analyze the present and
imagine the future in regional terms.

For the past two or three decades, different projects have been carried
out to contribute to the (re)integration of Asia at the level of knowledge
production. Projects like Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements, East
Asia Critical Journals Conference, and the West Heavens have been able to
connect intellectual circles across different parts of Asia. We feel this
is the moment to work together, with the Modern Asian Thought Project
which is going to be launched by this forum, to create new forms and modes
of knowledge for the future of global peace and a more humane world.

“World in Transition, Imagination in Flux—Asian Circle of Thought 2012
Shanghai Summit” invites six eminent Asian thinkers from South Korea,
Japanese mainland, Okinawa, Malaysia and India, to deliver speeches during
Oct. 12 to Oct. 19 on the occasion of the 2012 Shanghai Biennale , and
engage in discussions with 40 plus intellectuals from across Asia. We
believe that from these conversations, there will emerge the intricate
history and reality of Asia, and the great endeavor made by the Asian
intellectual communities to comprehend and to intervene into them.

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