On the 60th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, the Inter-Asia School takes the opportunity to critically reflect on the histories, the trajectories and the conditions of the world being transformed. The heated discussions at the “BANDUNG — Third World 60 Years Hangzhou Forum” is held in Shui An Shan Ju Resort at Xiangshan Campus from April 18 to 19, 2015. During this period, the guest scholars and experts condensed their rich research findings and concerns into four keynote speeches, one roundtable discussion and one closed discussion in order to sort out the changing conditions of knowledge production in diverse locations.
At the event, a series of issues are discussed: Are these rising economies, each with a revolutionary and anti-imperialist past, able to create new forms of operation to break the conquering and exploitative logics of capitalism, or simply to reproduce what they were fighting against? If the complexities of the current situations demand us to move beyond an either/or understanding, what are the legacies of the Bandung and its spirits, which can be mobilized to imagine new forms of solidarity for a better world? Having achieved certain degree of autonomy, are we now better equipped to connect and reconnect critical circles of thought (local and regional formations growing in the past 60 years) located in the (ex) third world to forge different modes of knowledge production?
Inter-Asia School has been and will continue to set its mission on how to develop different modes and systems of knowledge to account for and confront the complexity of the living world on different levels of abstraction.
