Скачать или смотреть In Between The Occident And The Orient by Lord Charles Bruce

This presentation traces the encounters of Europeans and Asians in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during the colonial period. Concentrating mainly on the movement of people and ideas between Scotland and Japan - from the earliest moment of diplomatic activity in 1858 - the presentation considers the part played by individuals cast in the role of transnationals. Operating at the edge of their known worlds they nevertheless acted critically as agents of change and their actions augmented the cross-cultural flow of ideas that shaped the modern world.

The role of artists in the translocation of ideas during this period is particularly evident, as the presentation demonstrates. By appropriating and re-contextualizing traditional art forms gathered from other places, they were able to reinterpret their own cultural identity and thereby make a profound impact on their national consciousness. David Hume reminds us that “The minds of men are mirrors to one another...only in so far as they are accompanied by a reflection, of which custom renders us insensible”.

Lord Charles Bruce is a member of the International Advisory Council of IAFOR. He has studied at the University of St Andrews, where he received an MA in Economic History; and at the University of Dundee, where he received an MSc in Spatial Planning and Sustainable Urban Design. He manages a family estate in Scotland which includes an internationally significant collection of private papers relating to British diplomatic history in South East Asia. He is descended from James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, a British proconsul who served in China and Japan and negotiated the Treaties of Tientsin and Edo in 1858, and the Treaty of Peking in 1860; and ended his career as Viceroy of India.

Lord Charles Bruce was a Keynote Speaker at The European Conference on Arts & Humanities 2014 (ECAH2014) in Brighton, England.

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