January 9 morning，Foreign Academician of the European Academy of Sciences、Part-time Chair Professor of Shandong University、Professor of East Asian Department, Duke University, USA、Liu Kang, Director of the Center for China Studies at Duke University, visited the Center for Literary and Aesthetic Research at Shandong University，brought an academic lecture titled "From Postschooling to Identity Politics: Contemporary American Cultural Thoughts" to teachers and students of the center。The lecture was hosted by Professor Yang Jiangang from the Literary and Aesthetics Research Center，Some graduate students from the center and the School of Liberal Arts attended the event。
The beginning of the lecture，Professor Yang Jiangang briefly introduced Professor Liu Kang’s multiple academic backgrounds and research fields，And expressed bet365 online casinoa warm welcome to Professor Liu Kang。
Professor Liu Kang starts with two stories from his personal experience，And then lead to the topic。First，Professor Liu Kang’s knowledge archeology and genealogy based on Foucault，From political and social history (A)、History of Thought (B)、The perspective of academic history (C)，A historical review of American humanities research。Professor Liu divides the history of American humanities research into three stages: the first stage is the first half of the 20th century，From the perspective of big history (A)，The critical moments for the United States were the two world wars，In the history of thought (B), the two opposing forces of liberalism-conservatism and socialism-totalitarianism have formed，In the field of humanities thought and academic (C)，The rise of modernist ideological and cultural trends with the mission of criticizing modernity；The second stage is the second half of the 20th century，In Politics、Economy、In the context of “liberal world order” and the Cold War in Military History (A)，The “global cultural revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s occurred in intellectual history bet365 online sports betting mobile(B)，In academic history (C), the New Left and Western Marxism are growing and growing in the United States，American humanistic thought and academia in the last two decades of the twentieth century，So-called postgraduate learning，Brilliant debut；The third stage is the transition period from the 20th to the 21st century，The manifestations of this period are globalization and nationalism in big history (A)、The collision of national-populism and liberal-radical trends in intellectual history (B)，The history of American humanities (C) shows a more complicated post-academic theoretical state with identity politics as the main theme。
Continue，Professor Liu Kang further outlined the trends of contemporary American literary/cultural studies: First, from the 1940s to the 1980s, from New Criticism to Formalism-Structuralism-Poststructuralism and the convergence of British, American and European academic paradigms，Literary research shows a trend of “deterritorialization”；The second is from discourse centralism (poststructuralism) to identity politics (postcolonialism)，Post-school forms hegemony；Third, there is a dilemma and swing between ideological Bet365 loginand professionalization in humanities research。Subsequently，Professor Liu Kang pointed out，Humanities and social sciences academics show multiple dislocations，There is a strong misalignment between the global radicalism of the 1960s and 1970s behind humanistic theory and the status quo of globalization today。simultaneously，The dislocation and opposition between the humanities and social sciences is increasing day by day。
Last，Professor Liu Kang uses two paragraphs of analysis by Jameson and Amy Chua，Discussed the current state of American thought from identity politics to political tribes，and pointed out，Whether it is Jameson or Amy Chua，Their observations and analyzes are an important part of the issue of identity politics。If we only stick to the expression of the theory itself under the banner of postcolonial discourse or various identity politics，It is difficult to see the truth。This is the profound skepticism and agnostic epistemological shortcomings contained in later studies。The path of reflection and criticism rooted in specific historical experience opened by the founders of Houxue discourse，The path of knowledge bet365 slotsarcheology genealogy，It can still provide us with powerful ideological weapons。Rethinking American Identity Politics，It helps Chinese humanities academics to find their own theoretical and practical issues。
In the interactive session，Professor Liu Kang actively responded to questions from teachers and students，Expressed his own opinions on current American political issues。Professor Yang Jiangang concluded，This kind of great history、History of Thought、A methodology for sorting out the context of American post-academic studies from the perspective of intellectual archeology and genealogy of academic history，And across disciplines on top of disciplinary background、A huge research field from multiple perspectives，Very revealing。To this point，This lecture came to a successful conclusion。
