Lydia Liu

Lydia Liu

Columbia University

Global History and Modern History

lydialiu@ias.edu

Statement: Lydia H. Liu is completing a book on the post-WWII transformation of moral concepts across languages, focusing on “human rights.” The book interrogates the boundary between word and concept to tell a new story about how modern ideas emerged in multilingual registers and participated in the struggle for global justice after 1948.

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