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[Jun 11] Seminar: Theorizing Temporalities of Emergence

The Global Resilience Research Division at the Centre for the Study of Global Cultures and Societies invites you to a special seminar.

Title:
Time to Emerge: Theorising Temporalities of Emergence
Speaker:
Dr Peter Marcus Kristensen (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen)
Date and Time:
June 11, 2025, 13:00-14:30 (3rd period)
Venue:
A4 Lecture Room, General Education Lecture Hall, Kanazawa University
 * No reservation required
Language:
English

Abstract: The re-emergence of great powers like China and India challenges the timescapes of world politics. China’s President Xi Jinping has replaced China’s longtime strategy of “biding our time” with a “new era” that overcomes the “century of humiliation” and fulfils the “historical inevitability” of national rejuvenation. India’s Prime Minister Modi has stated that “our time is coming” and after “waiting for centuries” now it is “India’s time” and indeed an “India century”. Emergence as great power is not only about measurable, spatial quantities—growth rates or military budgets—but a temporal state. Bridging time studies and rising power studies, this paper explores temporal narratives as the key analytical frame. It contends that we can gain a better understanding of future great powers by interrogating how past experiences and anticipations of future power are narratively fused in the autobiographical stories foreign policy elites tell about their rise.

Moderator:
Atsuko Watanabe (Associate Professor, Institute of Liberal Arts and Science / Center for the Study of Global Cultures and Societies 国際基幹教育院准教授／グローバル文化・社会研究センター)
Organizer:
The Global Resilience Research Division at the Centre for the Study of Global Cultures and Societies (人間社会研究域附属 グローバル文化・社会研究センター グローバル・レジリエンス研究部門)