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题目：Borders and Time in Northeast China and Beyond

时间：2024年12月16日（周一）10:00 —— 11:30

地点：浙江大学紫金港西区成均苑8幢1017

概要：In many global locations, crossing state borders involves a sense of temporal shift. As anthropologists working on borders and migration have shown, modern citizen-subjects often perceive a world divided into areas of greater or lesser ‘development’ or ‘backwardness’. States are seen by many people as spaces which are at different ’stages’ of history, and which contain different versions of the kind of official Histories (with a capital ‘H’) which nations have written since the era of European Enlightenment and imperial expansion. Yet inhabitants of (post)socialist states have experienced particularly intense projects to construct both linear borders around the state and linear senses of time progressing towards a more advanced future. As this talk explores drawing on a new book, at the three-way convergence of China, North Korea and Russia, populations with similarly stark but also very different experiences of socialism and its varied aftermaths interact regularly, and in doing so shed unique light on ideas of borders and time studied by anthropologists. Everyday cross-border encounters bring the temporal ideas generated by Maoist, Soviet and Kimist socialisms, the Soviet collapse and ‘rise’ of China into direct contact. As ethnographic fieldwork in this region shows, borderlanders here continue to navigate divergent visions of progress and struggle to see their neighbours as coming from the same time (what Johannes Fabian called ‘coevals’) in an era of postsocialist trade and utilitarian friendships.

主讲人：Ed Pulford，曼彻斯特大学高级讲师

Dr. Ed Pulford is an anthropologist trained at the University of Cambridge and currently a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on friendships and histories between the Chinese, Korean and Russian worlds, and indigeneity in northeast Asia.

主持人：吴迪，浙江大学社会学系新百人计划研究员

伦敦政治经济学院博士，研究领域包括道德人类学，情动人类学，符号人类学，中非日常交往与交流，跨国移民与劳工。