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Jahr 2018
Giordana Bruno - Will, Power, and Being
11.04.2018: May 17-18, 2018 – An International Colloquium
LEUCOREA Foundation
Collegienstraße 62, 06886 Wittenberg
‘That a profound sensitivity towards spirituality penetrates all Giordano Bruno`s philosophy—as Eugenio Garin puts it in his L`umanesimo italiano—in no way can be denied […]. A religious inspiration goes through and inflames all his writings, although it later lead him even to the blasphemy against the Christian religion.’ As the statement suggests, religion actually reveals to be indispensable for an adequate understanding of Giordano Bruno`s thought and hence for a correct appreciation of attitudes like, on the one hand, his defence of an infinite universe in cosmology or, on the other hand, his anthropological positions and the importance he gave to philosophy by considering it as an ethical and historical mission.
Starting from a re-evaluation of Christianity after Luther’s Reform, the event aims to discuss Giordano Bruno`s contribution to the history of modern ideas by focusing in particular on theological, moral, and legal-political aspects of his philosophy, and by comparing his views to other significant sixteenth-century writers, who include: his fellow countrymen Alberico Gentili and Tommaso Campanella, the masters of the School of Salamanca, François Hotman, Michel de Montaigne, François Bauduin, Celio Secondo Curione, and Jean Bodin. In continuity with the first 2 editions of the event and the meetings that preceded it, special attention will be paid to Bruno’s last philosophical teaching: his Wittenberg period and the role of the city in the second half of the sixteenth century, the ‘Frankfurt trilogy’, the treatises on magic, and the trial documentation.
For further details please contact:
Daniel Lucas, University of Halle-Wittenberg
Research Cluster ‘Society and Culture in Motion’ Reichardtstraße 6, 06114 Halle (Saale)
Phone: +493455524077
E-mail: verwaltung@scm.uni-halle.de
Jahr 2017
Das Konzept der Personalität im andinen Raum
23.06.2017, 17.00 Uhr
Wie hat sich "Personalität" in den letzten 500 Jahren unter dem Einfluss der spanischen Sprache verändert? Was folgt daraus, dass man die Mutter-Natur "Pachamama" innerhalb der ecuadorianischen Verfassung (2008) als Rechtsperson bezeichnet hat?
Diesen spannenden Fragen nähern sich PD Dr. Kerstin Störl und Dr. Stefan Knauß aus linguistischer und philosophischer Perspektive, um gemeinsam zu diskutieren, welche Konsequenzen wir aus der besonderen Erfahrung der eingeborenen Völker Lateinamerikas für unser Selbstverständnis als Menschen und unserem Verhältnis zur Natur ziehen können.
Der Forschungsschwerpunkt Gesellschaft und Kultur in Bewegung untersucht auf interdisziplinäre Weise die Wanderung und Transformation von Konzepten und Institutionen, um daraus Rückschlüsse zu ziehen, auf welche Weise sich Zukunft denken und gestalten lässt.
PD Dr. Kerstin Störl (Institut für Romanistik)
Dr. Stefan Knauß (Seminar für Philosophie)
23.06.2017
17.00 - 19.00 Uhr
Seminarraum, Reichardtstraße 6
Roads towards Trans-Modernity? A Comparison of Buen Vivir and Conviviality as Attempts to Overcome the Colonial Paradigm of Modernity
21.06.2017, 18:00 Uhr
05.06.2017: The notion of modernity entailed that the evolution of rationally organized institutions like capitalism, techno-sciences and legal framings would finally allow us to control global policies and social development. At the same time evidence of climate change, mass migration and heavy extractivism show how limited modern institutions are in their attempt to control global social and economic enmeshments. In Latin America and Europe different projects of de-growth and de-coloniality attempt to present alternatives. They propose leaving modernity and its identitarian project of individual fulfillment, establishing instead relational alternatives between consumers and producers, local communities and their environment, and relational knowledge. The paper seeks to compare two current debates on de-colonial and de-growth alternatives to the ongoing neo-liberal approach to globalization. Sumak Kawsay, the Ecuadorian concept of Full Life or Buen Vivir is a community based local approach to organize harmonious social relations around the idea that the surrounding eco-systems has similar rights to those of human beings. Conviviality is a project established by European (mainly French and German) intellectuals to develop a new social, moral and political philosophy that does not rely any longer on the idea of infinite economic growth, opposing the global hegemony of finance capitalism and looking for various forms of prosperity without growth. Through this comparison, similarities and differences between both concepts should become clearly visible. In a final step, the paper attempts to situate both debates within the larger question of how to handle counter-hegemonic discourses and practices without an essentialist approach that sells these discourses and practices as a self-legitimizing universal paradigm.
PD Dr. Ralph Buchenhorst
21.06.2017
18.00 - 20.00 Uhr
Seminarraum, Reichardtstraße 6
Jahr 2016
Roundtable with Prof. Asha Varadharajan of Queen's University (Kingston ON, Canada)
Wednesday, November 23, 2016, 2.15 pm, a roundtable with Prof. Asha Varadharajan of Queen`s University (Kingston ON, Canada) on "Agency and Voice. The History and Impact of Postcolonial Studies and a Look into its Future" will take place.
Venue: Germanistisches Institut, Ludwig-Wucherer-Str. 2, Halle (Saale), Room 23.
In the present semester Prof. Varadharajan is teaching as one of MLU`s guest prof. in Comparative Literature; the roundtable is arranged and offered in cooperation with the Muhlenberg Center for American Studies and the Research Cluster "Society and Culture in Motion." Everyone interested in the topic is welcome to attend.
A poster with further information on the roundtable can be downloaded here.
International Conference: „Regelfolgen, Regelschaffen, Regeländerung. Die Herausforderung für Auto-Nomie und Universalismus durch Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger und Carl Schmitt"
November 1-3, 2016, the Department of Philosophy and the Research Cluster "Society and Culture in Motion" of Martin-Luther University Halle-Wiittenberg will organise jointly with the Max Planck Institute for Legal History (Frankfurt/Main)
Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg an International Conference on the subject of „Regelfolgen, Regelschaffen, Regeländerung. Die Herausforderung für Auto-Nomie und Universalismus durch Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger und Carl Schmitt".
The conference will take place at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wiittenberg, Halle (Saale). The exact venue will be published here soon.
This scientific event is financially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Here you will find further information on the conference and its program:
Amo Lecture by Arjun Appadurai (New York University) on "The Precarious Future of National Sovereignty", Otober 18th, 2016
October 18th, 2016, 6pm, the next Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture will take place. It is held by Arjun Appadurai of New York University who is recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies. He will present his thoughts about “The Precarious Future of National Sovereignty”.
Venue: Hörsaal XX, Melanchthonianum, Universitätsplatz 9, 06108 Halle (Saale).
The series “Anton Wilhelm Amo Lectures” is organized jointly by the Research Clusters “Society and Culture in Motion” and “Aufklärung – Religion – Wissen” of Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. The Lecture by Arjun Appadurai is co-organized by the DFG Priority Program SPP 1448: „Adaption and Creativity in Africa“.
Further information:
Reading Series "LAND LEBEN ERZÄHLEN"
The reading series "LAND LEBEN ERZÄHLEN" starts on April 13th, 2016, 6pm with a lecture by Arnd Bauerkämper on "Dorfideologien. Projektionen und Funktionalisierungen in der Geschichte".
The series is organized by the Research Project "Experimentierfeld Dorf".
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Further information on this and the following events:
Scientific theme evening: Universities in the Arab World
After an Introduction by Thomas Scheffer (Berlin) under the title of "Between Demand and Supply: On International Cooperation with Arab Universities in the Early 21st Century", Daniele Cantini will present and discuss his book Youth and Education in the Middle East.
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Venue: June 21, 2016, 6pm (s.t.), Research Cluster and Graduate School "Society and Culture in Motion", Reichardstraße 6, seminar room.
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In case you are interested in attending the event, please confirm your participation by June 19, 2016, contacting Oliver-Pierre Rudolph, "verwaltung@scm.uni-halle.de".
New Online Working Paper published
Online Working Paper No. 24:
Can legislative jargon learn from children? Inclusion through accessibility of language in CRPD & DRIP
by Daniel Pateisky
Events organized by SCM during the MLU International Week
The Research Cluster "Society and Culture in Motion" organizes three events that are part of the MLU International Week: A discussion with ERASMUS students about "Studying Social Anthropology abroad" lead by Boris Wille (held in German), a talk on "Doing field research in the Middle East" by Daniele Cantini, and an experience report on "Doctoral studies in Halle as a foreign Ph. D. student" by Hami Inan Gümüs.
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Venue: May 4th, 2016, 2-5pm, Seminar room of the Research Cluster "Society and Culture in Motion", Reichardtstr. 6, D-06114 Halle.
New grants for Ph.D. students
The Graduate School “Society and Culture in Motion”, Halle (Germany) announces the following openings:
- 4 grants for Ph.D. students (EUR 1050/month) for 24 months with the possibility of a 12 month extension (Beginning: April 1st, 2016).
Applications must be received (not postmarked) by February 19th, 2016.
Please see the attachment and the GS SCM website for further information about contents and application process:
Amo Lecture by Gwyn Campell, McGill University, Montreal/Canada
The Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture in Summer term 2016 wil be held by Prof. Dr. Gwyn Campbell (McGill University, Montreal/Canada) on "The Role of Africa in the Indian Ocean Slave Trade".
Venue: April 19th, 2016, 6pm, GSZ, Hörsaal I, Adam-Kuckhoff-Str. 35.
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Further information: