Prof. Dr. Jie-Hyun Lim

Sogang University
History/Global History, Poland, Eastern Europe, East Asia

Senior Fellow
Freiburg Research Collaboration Programme (FRESCO)

May – July 2025

Last Update: 31.08.2025

Curriculum Vitae

Jie-Hyun Lim is CIPSH chair holder of ‘Global Easts,’ Distinguished Professor, and founder of the Critical Global Studies Institute (CGSI) at Sogang University, Seoul. He has served as Principal Investigator of the research project Mnemonic Solidarity: Colonialism, War and Genocide in the Global Memory Space (2017-2024) and Series Editor of “Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century” and “Entangled Memories in the Global South” at Palgrave/Macmillan, and “Global Easts” at the Central European University Press. His recent books include Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age (Columbia Univ. Press, 2025), Opfernationalismus. Erinnerung und Herrschaft in der postkolonialen Welt (Klaus Wagenbach, 2024), Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Practicing (Columbia Univ. Press, 2022), Mnemonic Solidarity-Global Interventions, co-edited with Eve Rosenhaft (Palgrave, 2021), The Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), co-edited with Paul Corner. Also, he has kept the positions of visiting professors and residential scholars at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Warsaw University, Columbia University, Harvard Yenching Institute, Paris II, EHESS, Paris X, University of Bielefeld, Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect at LMU, GWZO in Leipzig, Hitotsubashi University, Cracow Pedagogical University, etc.

Selected Publications

Global Easts: Remembering-Imagining-Mobilizing (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/global-easts/9780231206778
Opfernationalismus. Erinnerung und Herrschaft in der postkolonialen Welt (Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach, 2024)
Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age (New York: Columbia University Press, 2025)
“Die Causa Mbembe im mnemonischen Kontext des globalen Ostens: Gegen den Erinnerungsprovinzialismus der Mbembe-Debatte,” in Matthias Böckmann, Matthias Gockel, Reinhart Kößler, Henning Melber eds., Jenseits von Mbembe: Erinnerung, Politik, Solidarität (Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2022)
“Transnational Memory Activism and Performative Nationalism,” in Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wuestenberg eds., Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (London: Routledge, 2022)

FRIAS Project

Global Easts as a Problem Space

Global Easts represent historical experiences challenging the ‘West and East,’ ‘North and South,’ or ‘center and periphery’ binaries. Despite its historical focus on East Asia and Eastern Europe, Global Easts signifies the problem space more than a positivistic geography. Global Easts as a problem space share historical commonalities of the historical formation caught in a dilemma between the desire to overcome and reality overcome by global modernity. The radical juxtaposition and critical relativization of the hitherto disentangled regions in the Global Easts series bring an exciting epistemological breakthrough to the Eurocentric historical imagination and, thus, problematize methodological Eurocentrism.