China and Africa at a Crossroads: Revisiting the Legacy of Bandung Humanisms

​CSSD’s Bandung Humanisms working group presents a panel discussion on “China and Africa at a Crossroads: Revisiting the Legacy of Bandung Humanisms” on October 24, 2016, from 1-5:30 p.m. at the Heyman Center Common Room, Columbia University.

Distinguished scholars Rebecca Karl, Associate Professor of History, NYU ; Jamie Monson, Director, African Studies, Michigan State University; Stephanie Rupp, Asssitant Professor of Anthropology, CUNY-Lehman; Barry Sautman, Professor, Division of Social Sciences, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hairong Yan, Anthropologist, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; and Duncan Yoon, Assistant Professor of English, University of Alabama will be in conversation with Howard French, Associate Professor of Journalism at Columbia; Stathis Gourgouris, Professor of Comparative Literature, ICLS; Lydia H. Liu, Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities and Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, MESAAS

This workshop will examine the unfolding historical relationship between China and Africa, as part of an ongoing working group devoted to the study of the Legacy of Bandung Humanisms. The Bandung Humanisms working group is interested in the vast, disaggregated landscape of creative elaboration and political, social, and cultural thinking, including current constellations that would be unthinkable without the Bandung legacy.

The Bandung Humanisms working group is interested in the vast, disaggregated landscape of creative elaboration and political, social, and cultural thinking, including current constellations that would be unthinkable without the Bandung legacy. The project endeavors to show that since its inception, the Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization and the Non-Aligned Movement have cited the humanism and self-determination of Bandung.