[Anthropgrad] FW: Key Thinkers Seminar Series - G Barne & G Davis - 15th April

[Ida Nursoo]

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From: Ned Curthoys [mailto:ned.curthoys at anu.edu.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2008 2:15 PM
To: Zora Simic; Monique Rooney; Ida Nursoo; Ann Curthoys
Subject: Key Thinkers Seminar Series - G Barne & G Davis - 15th April

 

 

 

Dear All, would you please circulate the following on your email lists.
Apologies for cross posting. Many Thanks, Sharon.

 

The Research School of Humanities presents,

 

Inaugural Key Thinkers lecture, 

Tuesday 15th of April, 5-6.30pm, Theatrette, Old Canberra House, ANU.

 

Of a Mind: Mao Zedong and Lu Xun

Geremie R. Barme and Gloria Davies

The Australian National University and Monash University.

 

Expressing reverence for exemplary minds was a vital aspect of elite
culture in traditional China. This practice generally took the form of
invoking, commemorating and emulating the textual legacies of
intellectual masters through acts of writing and speaking.

 

>From the early twentieth century, those regarded as having made a
significant contribution to China's modernization/revolution have become
exemplars. Of the pantheon of modern masters, Mao Zedong and Lu Xun
were, and in complex ways remain, particularly revered.

 

In life, the two men responded to the reverence they were shown in
starkly different ways. This difference is also reflected in their
substantial posthumous legacies. In death, Mao has attracted conflicting
assessments and continues to this day to generate controversy. Lu Xun,
however, has remained consistently revered as a role model for critical
dissent. By discussing Mao Zedong and Lu Xun together-Mao, after all,
once observed that he and Lu Xun 'were of a mind'-we seek to highlight
the complex ramifications for Chinese intellectual and political life of
revering exemplars.

 

Geremie Barme is Professor of Chinese history in the Division of Pacific
and Asian History, Australian National University. He was awarded the
Joseph Levenson Prize for Chinese Studies in 2004. 

 

Gloria Davies is Associate Professor of Chinese at Monash University.
She and Geremie are currently writing a book, Spectacles of
Disagreement: Media and Contestation in Modern Chinese Thought,
appearing in 2008.

 

Geremie Barme would like to acknowledge his ARC Federation Fellowship in
contributing to the event.

 

Convenor: Ned Curthoys - ned.curthoys at anu.edu.au

For general enquiries please contact:
Phone: 6125 2434
Email: administration.rsh at anu.edu.au 
Web: http://rsh.anu.edu.au/

All Welcome
Please circulate widely

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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