The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society

This project will examine in detail the functioning of Saint-Domingue’s plantation economy in an era of ostensibly free labor between 1794 and 1803, including the role of the French revolutionary state in managing sequestered properties.

This 2014-2016 project will augment a large social experiment in India that seeks to understand the value of health insurance, specifically India’s large public insurance expansion, Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY).

Bringing together historians, geographers, anthropologists, environmental artists, and science studies experts, the Neubauer Collegium's Engineered Worlds project offers a re-theorization of life infused with petrochemical, radioactive, synthetic chemical and plastic legacies.

This project will collaborate with the Field Museum and a growing pool of indigenous leaders, museum specialists, advocates, and artists in a variety of ways to discuss contributions contemporary Native American artists might make to the articulation of a long-standing historical tradition.

Xie Shaobo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary. Focusing particularly on twentieth-century literary theory, he has research and teaching interests in postcolonial theory and literature, neo-Marxism, cultural studies, globalization, Chinese Canadian literature, and Chinese modernity. He is one of four collaborators involved in Judith Farquhar and Haun Saussy’s Neubauer Collegium project, History, Philology, and the Nation in the Chinese Humanities.

Founding editor of Zhongguo xueshu (China Scholarship), the first blind-peer-reviewed academic journal in China for humanities and social sciences; Professor of Chinese and Philosophy, and Vice Dean of the Guoxue yuan (Academy of Traditional Chinese Learning) at Tsinghua University, Beijing

Ge Zhaoguang is the director of the National Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Fudan University, Shanghai. His work includes many studies of Daoism and Buddhism in the mid-imperial period, and a two-volume synthesis entitled History of Chinese Thought: Knowledge, Thought and Belief (volume one, origins to seventh century; volume 2, seventh to nineteenth centuries). He has been a Global Scholar at Princeton, among other appointments and honors. His scholarship raises questions of the nation and the meaning of “China.” Ge Zhaoguang is one of four collaborators involved in Judith Farquhar and Haun Saussy’s Neubauer Collegium project, History, Philology, and the Nation in the Chinese Humanities.

A conference of the The French Republic and the Plantation Economy: Saint-Domingue, 1794-1803

Capitalism and Inequality

A Neubauer Collegium Director's Lecture

A conference of the Transmission of Magical Knowledge project, November 12, 2016