Lecture series

ZMO Colloquium winter semester 2019/2020

Thinking and Re-Thinking the World in the Decolonial Era: Thinkers and Theorizing from the Global South

Intellectual cultures, intellectual histories, and theoretical contributions of thinkers from marginalized regions of the world in the so-called ‘Global South’ are largely still underexplored and undervalued. Building on the conviction that the dominance of Eurocentrism needs to be reined in and overcome, both conceptually and instutionally, this lecture series seeks to work towards redressing such imbalance in scholarship and public consciousness.

Conceptualization and Coordination: Kai Kresse, ZMO & FU Berlin, and Berlin-based working group ‘Thinkers and Theorizing from the Global South’.

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Events for the lecture series

Lecture, Lecture series

Thursday, 26 September 2019
5:00 pm

ZMO, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin

Re-thinking towards We-thinking. Reflections on Epistemic Decolonization

Lecture by Claudia Derichs, Institute for Asian and African Studies, HU Berlin
Lecture, Lecture series

Thursday, 31 October 2019
5:00 pm

ZMO, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin

South and North, East and West: Knowledge Circulations and Connections in a Disordered World

Lecture by Seteney Shami, Arab Council for the Social Sciences and Social Science Research Council
Lecture, Lecture series

Thursday, 28 November 2019
5:00 pm

ZMO, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin

The "Purva-Paksha" of the Indian Modern: History, Critique, and Constructive Philosophy

Lecture by Rakesh Pandey, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi
Lecture, Lecture series

Wednesday, 11 December 2019
6:00 pm

Former Ethnologisches Museum, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin

Rethinking the Humanities from Africa: Ecologies of Knowledge

Lecture by Felwine Sarr, Gaston Berger University, Senegal
Lecture, Lecture series

Thursday, 30 January 2020
5:00 pm

ZMO, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin

Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Knowledge Making: Thoughts on Research on, for, with, in, and of Africa

Lecture by Saleem Badat, Mellon Research Fellow, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal
Lecture, Lecture series

Thursday, 27 February 2020
5:00 pm

ZMO, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin