Wintersemester 2015/16
Sofern nichts anderes angegeben ist, finden die Veranstaltungen jeweils in der Reichardtstraße 6 im Seminarraum statt.
Datum/Zeit/Typ | Titel | Weitere Informationen |
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Tuesday, October 6 6-8pm | Preliminary Session | |
Wednesday, October 14 6-8pm | Semester Opening Lecture | |
Wednesday, October 21 6-8pm | Study Group | Nowicka/Vertovec (2014), presented by N.N. |
Wednesday, October 28 6-8pm | WiP Group | N.N. |
Wednesday, November 4 6-8pm | Study Group | Latour (2012), presented by N.N. |
Wednesday, November 11 6-8pm | Book Presentation Paola Ferruta | |
Wednesday, November 18 6-8pm | Study Group | Convivialist Manifesto, presented by Stefan Knauß |
Wednesday, November 25 6-8pm | WiP Group | N.N. |
Wednesday, December 2 6-8pm | Study Group | N.N. |
Wednesday, December 9 6-8pm | WiP Group | N.N. |
Wednesday, December 16 6-8pm | Study Group | N.N. |
Wednesday, January 13 6-8pm | Study Group/ WiP Group | Introduction/ N.N. |
Wednesday, January 20 6-8pm | WiP Group | N.N. |
Wednesday, January 27 6-8pm | WiP Group | N.N. |
WiP Group
WiP Group I (4 meetings)
Convenors: Daniele Cantini, Ralph Buchenhorst, Stefan Knauß and James Thompson
Participating PhDs: Anja Lochner, Özgür Uçar, Daniel Pateisky, and Stefanie Adamitz. (Apart from Anja, none of them is required to present in the coming semester.) In case of free slots, presentations could be offered by members of the Research Cluster, including research fellows.
Timetable
28.10.2015, 18:00-19:30 N.N.
11.11.2015, 18:00-19:30 N.N.
25.11.2015, 18:00-19:30 N.N.
09.12.2015, 18:00-19:30 N.N.
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WiP Group II (3 meetings)
Convenors: Ralph Buchenhorst, Daniele Cantini, Stefan Knauß, James Thompson
New PhD students present their proposals (1 or 2 per session)
Timetable
13.01.2016, 18:30-19:30 N.N.
20.01.2016, 18:00-19:30 N.N.
27.01.2016, 18:30-19:30 N.N.
Study Group “Re-defining society and culture in motion”
Convenors: Ralph Buchenhorst, Daniele Cantini, Stefan Knauß, James Thompson
Goal of the readings listed below is to discuss critical new directions of social sciences and humanities in the light of the demand for the sharpening of our research focus.
Timetable
21.10.2015, 18:00-19:30 Nowicka/Vertovec (2014), presented by N.N.
04.11.2015, 18:00-19:30 Latour (2012), presented by N.N.
18.11.2015, 18:00-19:30 Hall/Sanders (2015), presented by N.N.
02.12.2015, 18:00-19:30 Dabashi (2015), presented by N.N.
16.12.2015, 18:00-19:30 Fassin (2012); Benhabib (2014), presented by N.N.
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27.01.2016, 18:00-18:30 Introduction for new PhD students
Readings
Benhabib, Sheila (2014), Critique of Humanitarian Reason, accessed in Eurozine: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2014-07-18-benhabib-en.html
Dabashi, Hamid (2015), Introduction: Can Europeans Read?, in: ibid., Can Non-Europeans Think?. ZED BOOKS Limited, 1-29.
Fassin, Didier (2012), Humanitarian Reason – a Moral History of the Present, Cambridge UP, Introduction: Humanitarian Government, 1-20
Hall, Elizabeth F./ Sanders, Todd (2015), Accountability and the Academy. Producing Knowledge About the Human Dimensions of Climate Change, in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 21, 438-461.
Latour, Bruno (2012), Reflexive Modernity Brings Us Back to Earth. A Tribute to Ulrich Beck, in: Michael Heinlein et al. (eds.), Futures of Modernity. Challenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice, Bielefeld: transcript, 60-76.
Nowicka, Magdalena/ Vertovec, Steven (2014), Comparing Convivialities. Dreams and Realities of Living-With-Difference, in: European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 17(4), 341–356.
Additional readings
Asad, Talal (2003), Redeeming the ´Human´ Through Human Rights, in: Formations of the Secular: Islam, Christianity, Modernity, Stanford University Press 2003.
Beck, Ulrich (2012), Global Inequality and Human Rights: A Cosmopolitan Perspective, in: Michael Heinlein et al. (eds.), Futures of Modernity. Challenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice, Bielefeld: transcript, 109-128.
Boisvert, Raymond D. (2010), Convivialism: A Philosophical Manifesto, in: Pluralist, summer 2010, vol. 5, issue 2, 57-68.
Piketty, Thomas (2014), Capital in the 21st Century, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.