SPEAKER：Prof Lydia H.Liu
WunTsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, Department Of East Asian Languages and Cultures, & Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University
CHAIRPERSON: Prof Luke Kang Kwong
Associate Dean (Research), College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences & Director of the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University
TIME & DATE ：14 August 2015 (FRI) 5.30pm-7.00pm
VENUE：NTU School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences Lecture Theatre 3
ABSTRACT:
In her lecture, Professor Lydia H.Liu will focus on how the struggle over moral ideas across cultures has been a vital part of international politics in the modern world. Does the idea of human rights mean what one takes it to mean? She will address the question by revisiting the multilingual making of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations and reflect on the future of moral ideas in the increasingly multipolar world of the 21st century.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Lydia H. Liu is the Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University and WunTsun Tam Professor in the Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She is the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship and other distinguished awards. Professor Liu is leading contemporary theorist, a scholar of modern Chinese literature and comparative literature and a specialist in global history and modern thought.