Civilization and the Poetics of Slavery
Speaker: Robbie Shilliam
Lessons from the field -- and why they are rarely learned
Iain King is Governance Advisor to the UK Stabilisation Unit.
This podcast was taken from the Post-Conflict State Building: Practitioners Perspective Seminar Series in Hilary Term 2012, convened by Professor Richard Caplan.
Modern Asian Studies Special Issues
China's long war against Japan from 1937 to 1945 has remained in the shadows of historiography until recently, both in China and abroad. In recent years, the opening of archives and a widening of the opportunity to discuss the more controversial aspects of the wartime period in China itself have restored World War II in China (‘the War of Resistance to Japan’) to a much more central place in historical interpretation.
Variation in the Durability of Semi-Presidential Democracies
Classifying Citizens in Nationalist China during World War II, 1937-1945
This paper argues that the first phase of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945 saw a significant change in the relationship between state and society in China, leading to a greater use of techniques of classification of the citizenry for purposes of welfare provision and mobilization through propaganda, methods until recently more associated with the Communists than with their Nationalist rivals.
1911: The Unanchored Revolution
One hundred years after the 1911 Revolution (Xinhai Revolution) in China, its meaning continues to be highly contested. Paradoxically, the more time that passes, the less certain either political actors or scholars seem to be about the significance of 1911 for the path of Chinese revolutionary history.
Strauss and Esoteric Reading
(Chair: Dr Michael L. Frazer, Harvard)
Professor David Weinstein (Wake Forest/Leipzig): Using and Abusing the Canon
Professor James Connelly (Hull): The Biter Bit, The Writer Writ: Some Straussian Ironies
Finally, Professor Stanley Rosen (Boston) delivered his talk on Strausss Hermeneutics via video:
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Philosophy, Law & Interpretation
(Chair: Professor James Connelly, Hull)
Professor Al P. Martinich (Texas): Ideal Interpretation of Political Texts
Professor Terence Ball (Arizona): Lincolns Hermeneutics
This series of podcasts is taken from an interdisciplinary conference convened by Jens Olesen, held on 23 and 24 September 2011 in Seminar room A, Manor Road Building.
Postgraduate Student and Early Career Panel
(Chair: Dr James Martel, San Francisco)
Jens Olesen (Oxford) On Derridas Double Reading and the Politics of Deconstruction
Dr Charles Devellennes (Kent) Political Non-Methodology
JanaLee Cherneski (Oxford) Method and (Mis-)Application: Two Readings of Joseph Schumpeter
Dr Philipp von Wussow (Leipzig) Leo Strauss on Cultural and Political Writing
Deconstruction
(Chair: Professor Mark Bevir, Berkeley)
Professor Joshua Foa Dienstag (UCLA): Interpretation, Language and Authority
Dr Lasse Thomassen (London): Aporia: The End of Politics?
Dr James Martel (San Francisco): Hobbes and Spinoza on the Hebrew Republic and the Deconstruction of Sovereignty
This series of podcasts is taken from an interdisciplinary conference convened by Jens Olesen, held on 23 and 24 September 2011 in Seminar room A, Manor Road Building.