Le projet ANR NATINASIA “Building Nationalism in Inner Asia: The Empowerment of the Tibetan Revolution in the Early Twentieth Century” annonce la tenue du colloque international suivant :
International Law and Political Concepts in Early Twentieth Century Tibet and Mongolia
organisé par Fabienne Jagou et Uradyn E. Bulag
qui se tiendra les 4 et 5 décembre à la Maison de l’Asie, 22 avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris
Considerable attention has been devoted to the interplay of international law and the transition from the Qing empire to the Republic of China. However, less widely acknowledged are the roles of Tibetans and Mongolians in imagining their own national communities. The prevailing academic narrative, largely influenced by Chinese perspectives, often portrays their independence movements as mere secessionism, products of external instigation by the British and Russians. This conference aims to shift the focus to recognize and explore closely the agency of the Tibetan and Mongolian peoples in shaping their own destinies during the first decades of the twentieth century.
Central to our inquiries in the conference is the extent to which international law informed not only their respective declarations of independence but also the ways in which Tibetans and Mongolians employed these new concepts to understand their respective places in the new global order. How, for instance, did political actors in Inner Asia communicate new conceptions of state to their peoples, their regional rivals, and the international community? And through what channels did Tibetans and Mongolians exchange and influence each other’s conceptions of nationalism, the state, and independence? By delving into these questions, this conference seeks to introduce a more nuanced understanding of the historical and legal contexts surrounding the early twentieth century Tibetan and Mongolian aspirations for nationhood.
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