Asian and Asian American Studies Institute

India Studies Program Presents
The Annual Radha Devi Joshi Foundation Lecture

The Insurgent Realisms and Ideas of Justice in India: Imagining the 'Corruption Complex' Through Law and Literature

Given by Professor Kalpana Kannabiran

Kalpana Kannabiran is a feminist sociologist, legal researcher and human rights campaigner and an author of Tools of Justice: Non-discrimination and the Indian Constitution (2012). Based in Hyderabad, India, she co-founded Asmita Resource Centre for Women in 1991, was on the founding faculty of NALSAR University of Law (1991-2009), and is Professor and Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderbad.

Spring 2021 Research Slam

Come join us for the AAASI faculty's lightening presentations on their research, and learn more about the AAASI and our minors!

Featuring the research of:
Kathryn Myers
Manisha Desai
Victor Zatsepine
Nishith Prakash

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Asian Americans are not silent. So many of us in the community are actively fighting injustices and anti-racism. However, historically, we have always been silenced, which gives the incredibly false interpretation that all Asian Americans are passive & do not care. Let's talk.

Join UConn Faculty, Staff, Graduate, Undergraduate, and Alumni Asian Americans to unlearn and relearn about each other.

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Rethinking Resistance: Takeuchi Yoshimi, China, and Global Modernity

The Japanese public intellectual Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) is particularly interesting to us today because through reading China, he constructs a critique of Eurocentrism that anticipates postcolonial discourse. However, he does so at a time when socialism continued to be a powerful ideal. For this reason, if we examine Takeuchi from our present historical conjuncture, we can grasp some of the tensions between postcolonialism and Marxism and, in particular, the tension between universalism and particularism. In this context, Takeuchi uses Lu Xun as a lens to understand political actors such as Sun Zhongshan and Mao Zedong. During transition from wartime to postwar Japan, Takeuchi constantly returns to Lu Xun and Mao Zedong to develop a vision of Asia as an alternative to a modern world dominated by abstraction and alienation. Themes of Takeuchi’s work live on in the work of the Japanese sinologist Mizoguchi Yūzō and the Chinese critical intellectual Wang Hui.

Viren Murthy teaches transnational Asian History and researches Chinese and Japanese intellectual history in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness (Brill, 2011) and co-editor with Joyce Liu of Marxisms in East Asia (Routledge, 2017), co-editor with Fabian Schäfer and Max Ward, of Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy (Brill, 2017) co-editor with Axel Schneider of The Challenge of Linear Time:Vi Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia (Brill, 2013), and co-editor with Prasenjit Duara and Andrew Sartori of A Companion to Global Historical Thought, (Blackwell, 2014). He has published articles in Jewish Social Studies, Critical Historical Studies, Modern Intellectual History, Modern China, Frontiers of History in China and Positions: Asia Critique and is currently working on a project tentatively entitled: Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution.

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