Visiting Scholars Program Lecture Series: Biocultural Diversity & Agency in the Anthropocene - Dams & Precarity

Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. He was born and educated in India and received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. In 1988, he published Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (Stanford Univ Press) which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS, USA, and most recently, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge 2014).