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SUMMARY:From Epistemicide to Global Knowledge: Reconstructing a Decolonise
 d Academy – gloknos Annual Lecture - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20200207T173000Z
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CONTACT:Samantha Peel
DESCRIPTION:*gloknos Annual Lecture Series – Dag Herbjørnsrud (Centre f
 or Global and Comparative History of Ideas (SGOKI)\, Oslo)*\n\nIn April 20
 15\, the Cecil Rhodes statue was removed from the campus of Cape Town Univ
 ersity as a result of the #RhodesMustFall campaign. As we enter the 2020s\
 , the question of whether – or how – to decolonise the Academy is as r
 elevant as ever. Are the main narratives and frameworks of our disciplines
  as objectively constructed as they should be? If so\, why aren’t the fe
 male writers Enheduanna (23rd century BCE\, the world’s first named writ
 er) or Murasaki Shikibu (11th century\, the world’s first novelist) as m
 uch part of our common knowledge as Cervantes?\n\nIn this presentation\, H
 erbjørnsrud will build upon Hajime Nakamura’s A Comparative History of 
 Ideas\, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo’s Decolonising the Mind\, Arthur O Lovejoy’
 s 'ideas are the most migratory things in the world'\, and Annette Weiner
 ’s 'commitment to a global comparative perspective'. The aim is to go be
 yond ethnocentric and national narratives – as well as the ideas of 'cul
 tures' and 'civilisation' – and move towards global epistemics.\n\nThe l
 ecture will attempt to follow up on John Dunne’s 'Why We Need a Global H
 istory of Thought and its description of a 'growing intellectual deficienc
 y'\, in addition to J G A Pocock’s recent statement that the 'beginnings
  of the ‘global’ critique are well known and may as well be accepted a
 s common ground'\, since our scholarship is 'Eurocentric' and this 'calls 
 for reformation'.\n\nThe visual presentation includes examples from the na
 tural sciences\, social sciences\, and the humanities: from Maitreyi in th
 e Upanishads via Zhuangzi\, Al-Biruni\, The Battle of Vienna\, and Zera-Ya
 cob of Ethiopia to Ida B Wells\, Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose.\n\nDag 
 Herbjørnsrud is a farmer from the north. He is also a global historian of
  ideas\, an editor of the forthcoming issue on 'Decolonisng the Academy' i
 n the journal Cosmopolis (Brussels)\, and a founder of the Center for Glob
 al and Comparative History of Ideas (SGOKI). His journal article 'Beyond d
 ecolonizing: global intellectual history and reconstruction of a comparati
 ve method' (Global Intellectual History\, 2019) argues for a method based 
 on the notions of complexity (context)\, connection\, and comparison. Herb
 jørnsrud has written on women thinkers from the global south (Aeon)\, the
  ancient philosophy of Egypt (the American Philosophical Society)\, and th
 e 4\,000 years of African literature (Sciences Humaines). His books includ
 e Global Knowledge (2016\, not translated).\n\nAttendance at this lecture 
 is free but spaces are limited\, so please "email the organiser":mailto:sj
 p229@cam.ac.uk to reserve your seat. Please be aware that we will take a r
 ecording of this event\, which may include any questions and responses del
 ivered by the audience. \n\nYou can also visit the "CRASSH website":http:/
 /www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28632 or the "gloknos website":http://gloknos
 .ac.uk/research/activities/the-gloknos-annual-lecture-series/from-epistemi
 cide-to-global-knowledge-reconstructing-a-decolonised-academy\n\ngloknos i
 s initially funded for 5 years by the European Research Council through a 
 Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEF
 ACT (2017-2022) ERC grant no. 724451.
LOCATION: Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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