Lecture
Friday, May 23, 2025, 11:10 AM
Jolita Zabarskaitė, Benjamin Zachariah
Introductory Remarks: Bandung’s Reproductivity and the Road from the Third World to the Global South
In April 1955, representatives of twenty-nine Asian and African countries met in Bandung, Indonesia, for a conference that was, among other things, the first major diplomatic gathering to which the People’s Republic of China was invited. When it is remembered at all, memories of the Bandung Conference have overpowered its history: Its afterlife is recalled mostly in terms of nostalgia for Afro-Asian solidarity, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the Cold War. This conference seeks, seventy years on, to revisit Bandung’s hauntings or hangovers in history, memory, and other narrative forms and retellings.
The event will be held in English