Professor Tim Winter

Tim is Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Tim was previously an Australian Research Council Professorial Future Fellow and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His interests largely revolve around understanding how the past comes to be constructed and reconstructed for public audiences and for diplomatic, geopolitical and nationalistic purposes. Through a series of books, articles and engagements with UNESCO, he has led the conceptual development of heritage diplomacy, and introduced geocultural power to the analysis of international affairs. He is currently investigating current trends in cultural internationalism and heritage diplomacy in Asia, and the rise of geocultural nationalisms. He is author of Geocultural Power: China’s Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty First Century (University of Chicago Press 2019) and The Silk Road: connecting histories and futures (Oxford University Press, 2022). See silkroadfutures.net