Event Details
WHAT: Profs. Hans van de Ven and Dominic Lieven discuss, "Empire and Global Order: Past, Present, and Future."
WHEN: 7-8 PM, Wednesday 28 October, Doors open at 6.30PM
WHERE: The event is in-person and jointly organised by RASBJ and Yale Center Beijing (YCB); it will take place at YCB.
Yale Center Beijing, 36th Floor, Tower B, IFC Building, 8 Jianguomenwai Avenue.
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ABOUT THE EVENT: Empire is one of history's most durable and disputed political forms. From Rome and the Han to the Mongols, Mughals, Qing, Russian and British, empires have organised trade, labour, law, and belief across vast distances, while also depending on conquest, hierarchy, and violence. To speak of empire 'past, present, and future' is therefore not simply to recall vanished realms but to ask how imperial legacies โ borders, racial categories, extractive economies, cultural hybridities, and memories of resistance โ continue to shape the modern world and the international order.
In this discussion, two of the world's most distinguished historians examine those continuities and ruptures. They will consider whether contemporary great-power rivalry, globalization, humanitarian intervention, and digital networks represent new forms of empire or departures from it; how colonised and colonising societies remember and contest imperial pasts; and whether empire has a future, or whether its logic is being reinvented in less formal guises. Drawing on different periods and historiographical traditions, they debate the uses and limits of 'empire' as a category for understanding power today.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Hans van de Ven is Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. A leading historian of modern China, he specialises in Chinese military history, the Communist Party and China's relations with the wider world. His books include "China at War" and "The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives".
Dominic Lieven is a British historian, Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. A leading authority on imperial Russia, European empires and international history, he is the author of "Russia Against Napoleon" and "Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia".
HOW MUCH: RMB 200 for members of RASBJ, RMB 300 for non-members. RMB 100 for student members. You may find payment via Alipay easier than via WeChat; payments can also be made with international credit cards. Ticket purchase is for one ticket per person. To become an RASBJ member, please sign up at: rasbj.glueup.cn/org/rasbeijing/memberships/
HOW TO JOIN THE EVENT: To register for in-person attendance with RASBJ, please click "Register" or "I will Attend" and follow the instructions. After successful registration and payment, you will receive a confirmation email. If you seem not to have received it, please check your spam folder.
NOTE: This notice covers registration with RASBJ by members and non-members for in-person participation. Members of the Yale community, please register with the Yale Center Beijing via their webpage.
REFUND POLICY: If the event is cancelled by the organisers, registrants will be refunded in full. In any other case, tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.
