Benedict Anderson A Life Beyond Boundaries 13 Dec 2016 HD

BENEDICT ANDERSON Born on August 26, 1936, in Kunming, China Citizen of the Republic of Ireland BA in Classics with first class honors from Cambridge University in 1957 PhD in Government from Cornell University in 1967 Taught in the same Government Department from 1967-2001. Director of Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program 1983-88 Co-founder (1966) and long-term editor of the journal Indonesia Title: Aaron L. Binnenkorb Professor of International Studies, Emeritus, Cornell University Member of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences Member of the Philosophical Society In 1999 given the Association for Asian Studies’s Award for Life-time scholarly contributions to the study of Asia In 2000 given the Fukuoka Prize for influential studies on history and government in Asia In 2011 awarded the Albert O. Hirschman Prize for cross-disciplinary work in the Social Science, given annually by the SSRC. In 2011 awarded an honorary doctorate by the Pontifical University of Peru, in Lima. In 2012 awarded the first Asian Cosmopolitan prize (scholarly) provided by the ERIA Institute in Tokyo, together with the Governor of the Nara Prefecture. In 2014 will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Cork, in Ireland (June 6th). 1972 Java in a Time of Revolution (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) 1983 Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso) 1985 In the Mirror: Llterature and Politics in Siam in the American Era (Bangkok: Duang Kamol). 1990 Language and Power: Exploring Indonesian Political Cultures (Ithaca: Cornell University Press). 1991 Imagined Communities expanded version of the original book 1998 The Spectre of Comparisons, Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World (London: Verso) 2005 Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anticolonial Imagination (London and New York: Verso). 2008 Why Counting Counts: A Study of Forms of Consciousness and Problems of Language in Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo (Manila: Ateneo University Press). 2009 (Escaping from under the Coconut Halfshell), a Japanese language intellectual autobiography (Tokyo: NTT) 2012 The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand (Calcutta: Seagull). 2014 Exploration and Irony in Studies of Siam over Forty Years (Studies on Southeast Asia) (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications) 2016 A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir (London: Verso) *around 5 months after he passed away. **Imagined Communities has been translated into 33 languages in 38 countries.