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Renowned Theorist of Nationalism to Speak at NUI Galway

Benedict Anderson on Nationalism and Time

Venue: MY001, Aras Moyola, NUI Galway
Time: 4pm-5.30pm, Friday, 21 September 2012

Sponsored by the School of Political Science and Sociology and the Moore Institute

Benedict Anderson is Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government & Asian Studies at Cornell University, and is best known for his celebrated book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983). Prof. Anderson is a world-leading theorist of nationalism and an expert on South East Asian politics and culture. He is the author of numerous books, including Java in a Time of Revolution: Occupation and Resistance, 1944-1946 (1972), In the Mirror: Literature and Politics in Siam in the American Era (1985), Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia (1990), The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World (1998), Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia (2001), Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination (2005), and most recently, The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand (2012).

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