IDIS China Program is pleased to invite you to a lecture titled: Reconfiguring National Identity in Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era, by Prof. Edward Vickers, UNESCO Chair in Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship at Kyushu University, Japan.
About the speaker:
Edward Vickers holds the UNESCO Chair in Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship at Kyushu University, Japan, and is past President of the Comparative Education Society of Asia. He researches the history and politics of education in contemporary Asia, especially in Chinese societies (the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan). He also researches the politics of conflict-related heritage in Asia, and is currently working with Mark Frost of UCL and colleagues on a project investigating public history, education and reconciliation in post-civil war Sri Lanka. His books include Education and Society in Post-Mao China (2017; with Zeng Xiaodong), Constructing Modern Asian Citizenship (2015; with Krishna Kumar), and Remembering Asia’s World War Two (2019; with Mark Frost and Daniel Schumacher). Prof. Vickers helped to lead major projects for UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute in New Delhi, and co-authored the 2017 UNESCO report Rethinking Schooling for the 21st Century: the State of Education for Peace, Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in Asia.
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