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The end of the Cold War is commonly perceived as a major caesura in world history, which fundamentally altered political, economic and social formations across the globe. However, the beginnings and the consequences of this change remain highly controversial. As such, the 18th Berlin Roundtables wants to focus on the implications of this revolutionary process for the social sciences and humanities: To what extent has the end of the Cold War influenced the way contemporary scholarship conceptualizes and approaches the world? What new questions, concepts and fields have come to the fore? How do these changes connect to broader transformations in the pre and post-1989 landscape? What is the new grand narrative of our post 1989 era?
Lectures will be followed by discussion and a
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What comes after postcolonial criticism? In addressing this question, the lecture will critically assess the origins and achievements of postcolonial theory and offer some thoughts regarding its relevance to the contemporary world. Can notions of modernity, history and social science, dominated by Eurocentric thinking, still be applied to the developing world? Has the historical turn of 1989 and globalization also turned the perception of modernity rooted in European thinking around?
Dipesh Chakrabarty is Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Law School at the University of Chicago. In his works he has challenged the concept of a Eurocentric historicism from a post-colonial and subaltern studies’ perspective. In his acclaimed book “Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference" (engl. 2000; 2007; dt. 2011) he entangles limitations of Western notions of modernity, culture, class and homogenous capitalist and democratic developments. Most recently his research focuses on anthropogenic climate change and its implications for historical thinking, on the history of the idea of historical truth, and on historical genealogies of crowd-politics in India.
Vortrag in englischer Sprache
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
06/20/2014 18:00 - 06/20/2014 20:00
Registration deadline:
06/17/2014
Event venue:
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10785 Berlin-Tiergarten
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
05/09/2014
Sender/author:
Dr. Paul Stoop
Department:
Informations- und Kommunikationsreferat
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event47263
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