Special Lecture by Professor Arnab Dutta (Lecturer, European Politics and Society, The University of Groningen
The Netherlands)

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About the speaker: Arnab Dutta is a lecturer of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has been, until recently, a PhD candidate of Global Intellectual History at the same university as well as a visiting doctoral scholar at Uppsala University, European University Institute Florence, and Freie Universität Berlin. His academic interests are in the histories of twentieth-century internationalisms and Europe-Asia relations.

Date and Time: October 21 (Tuesday),   [Lecture: 12:30 to 14:00]

Place: Art Research Bldg. 1F, Room Art-2  (芸2、芸術棟一階)

Title: Imagining the Pacific in Indian Anticolonialism: A Genealogy of Geopolitics from Pan-Asianism to the Indo-Pacific, 1920s–40s

Abstract of the lecture:

Extending the scholarly discussions on the relevance of the Indo-Pacific as a geopolitical spatial configuration of great power rivalry before, during, and beyond the Cold War, this lecture traces the emergence and the genealogy of the Indo-Pacific concept in Indian Anticolonial political thinking. Following the lifeworlds of some key geopolitical thinkers from the first half of the twentieth century, this lecture disentangles the transformation of how Pan-Asianist connections across Asia or the Indian Ocean (involving Japan, China, and India) gradually expanded such spatial imaginaries onto the Pacific, thereby making the Indo-Pacific a highly significant constituent concept in global politics.