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Keynote Speakers
18th New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference 2009
Victoria University of Wellington, 6-8 July, 2009
Downtown (Pipitea) Campus
Sugata Bose
Sugata Bose is Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University. His
field of specialization is modern South Asian and Indian Ocean history.
His most recent book is A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the
Age of Global Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997.
Professor Bose will deliver the NZASIA Nicholas Tarling Lecture.
Robert Buswell
Robert Buswell is Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies , and chair
of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, at the University of
California, Los Angeles. He founded UCLA's Center for Buddhist Studies in
2000, and was the initial faculty director of the Center for Korean Studies.
His most recent books include Christianity in Korea, with Timothy
S. Lee (University of Hawai'i Press 2007) and Cultivating Original Enlightenment:
Wonhyo's Exposition of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra (Kumgang Sammaegyong
Non) (University of Hawai'i Press, 2007). He is the president of the Association
of Asian Studies for 2008-2009.
Jeff Wasserstrom
Jeff Wasserstrom is Professor of History at the University of California,
Irvine. He is a specialist in modern Chinese history. His most recent publications
are China's Brave New World-And Other Tales for Global Times (Indiana
University Press, 2007) and Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 (Routledge,
2008).
