In this lunch lecture, IIAS fellow Prof. Sinkwan Cheng will use a comparative philosophy method to draw out the deep ethical, social, and political meanings of the Confucian idea of ren. Her goal is to introduce to a non-Chinese audience a non-Western ethics and politics for preventing crimes against humanity.

This international workshop aims to combine the insights and findings from the two previous workshops on institutional voids and state re-scaling respectively. The goal is to look at the crisscrossing between these two frontiers of research so as to generate new research questions and scholarly agenda.

This conference aims to shed a critical light at the processes of academic knowledge production on the history of late socialism and perestroika in Central and Inner Asia.