Topic: “Europe’s Formative Indology: AW Schlegel (Latin), GWH Hegel (Flower-Religion), K Marx (Jagannath)”
About the keynote speaker
Professor John Hutnyk is a writer, researcher and editor (5 single author books, many edited books and journal issues, and over 150 articles). He studied and taught in Australia at Deakin and Melbourne Universities (with a PhD Political Science from the University of Melbourne) until 1994; and then in the UK in Manchester University’s Institute for Creative and Cultural Research and the Department of Social Anthropology; before moving to the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College in 1998, and in 2004 becoming Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies and Professor of Cultural Studies of Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2008. Since 2014 he has held visiting professor posts in Germany, Japan, Australia, Turkey, Taiwan, and India. His most recent books are Pantomime. Terror: Music and Politics (2014 Zero Books, translated into Vietnamese in 2025, Bookhunter) and Global South Asia on Screen (2018 Bloomsbury, and AAKAR Books in India 2019). His first book The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation (Zed Books 1996) was reissued in 2023 (by Bloomsbury India). Since 2017 he has been a researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
