Opening: 26.02.2014 @6:30pm
Location: University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Room C.103, USSH
12 Dinh Tien Hoang, D1

Historically this region known as Asia had no strict boundaries, it was densely interconnected by trade and religion, evidenced in cultural practice (their rituals, arts and crafts). These informal networks had profound implications on the relationship between culture and society across this region. Today, there is an emerging consensus that continuing our pursuit of existing modes of production, consumption and the political economic arrangements that underpin them will endanger planetary sustainability sooner than we realize. Professor Duara will demonstrate how the intersection of differing cultural ideas can provide an alternate framework to rethinking the future of this regions’ cultural cosmopolitanism.

You can download the audio record of Prasenjit’s lecture here, and view the accompanying presentation here

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Prasenjit Duara participates in ‘Encounter’, a lecture series which is part of a large artistic endeavour called ‘Conscious Realities’, initiated and organized by San Art in partnership with Prince Claus Fund.