[Reader-list] Shadows of Universalism: The Untold Story of Human Rights Around 1948 (Golden Jubilee Lecture by Lydia H. Liu)

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a Golden Jubilee Lecture



*Shadows of Universalism: *

*The Untold Story of Human Rights Around 1948*

by* Lydia H. Liu*



*Aditya Nigam* will Chair

Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 6.30 pm

CSDS Seminar Hall,

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054



This is the story of how the postwar norms of human rights confronted the
classical standard of civilization for the first time. The lecture
reexamines the making of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to
explore the translingual and transcultural forging of universalism in the
multiple temporalities of global history.



*Lydia H. Liu* is Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia
University. She directs the Center for Translingual and Transcultural
Studies at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Liu was a Guggenheim Fellow in
1997 and a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2004-05.



Her books include *The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the
Unconscious* (2010), *The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in
Modern World Making* (2004), and *Translingual Practice: Literature,
National Culture, and Translated Modernity* (1995). Recently, she published
a coedited volume called *The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in
Transnational Theory* (2013).



*Aditya Nigam *is Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.






Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
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