Speakers:
Prasenjit Duara (Duke University)
Mark Bassin (Södertörn University, Sweden) Bilge Yesil (City University of New York) Lawrence Rosenthal (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Grant Parker
(African &African American Studies, Classics, Stanford)
Moderator: Thomas Blom Hansen (Anthropology, Stanford)

In the past two decades, there has been a world-wide resurgence of discourses that define the people in terms of their unique civilizational identity and call for states to refurbish their timeless civilizational glory. These discourses, or "new civilizationisms" as we call them, both draw on and react against an older, Enlightenment-inspired, and Eurocentric notion of civilization. We are part of an international research network setting out to map the overlapping ecosystems of new civilizationism. We ask: How has talking about civilization instead of nation made authoritarian populism respectable again? Who are the originators of new civilizationisms and what political and intellectual resources do they draw on? How have civilizationist ideas ricocheted across the globe through new media technologies and platforms?

Special thanks to our sponsors:
- Stanford School of Humanitiesand Sciences Dean's Office
- Stanford Global Studies
- Stanford Archaeology Center
- University of Göttingen