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The Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University will host an international conference titled “National Megalomania and Imagined Ancient” from Nov 01 to Nov 3, 2023, at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea.

The conference consists of South Korean and Central European historians’ collective effort to shed light on striking affinities in pathological (“megalomaniac”) symptoms of the political unconscious and methodologies that are found in some (pseudo-)historiographies in East Asia and Central Europe. These affinities indicate the shared transnationality in the national on the side of the right-wingers’ politics in both regions, which reminds a reader of the commonalities of East Asia and Eastern Europe in their experiences of modernity, transition from dictatorship to democracy, and (re)shaping of collective memories in South Korean historian Lim Jie-Hyun’s Global Easts.

Presentations at the conference would be later published in a book, National Megalomania and Imagined Ancient: Post-Cold War History in Central Europe and East Asia, from Central European University Press.