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Conference Announcement Theme: Comparing Postcolonial Experiences and Critiques Across Regions Type: 3rd Intercultural Interdisciplinary Colloquium Institution: Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) Forum Scientiarum, University of Tübingen polylog: Forum for Intercultural Philosophy Location: Berlin (Germany) Date: 12.–14.12.2012 __________________________________________________ From 12 to 14 December 2012, 'polylog: Forum for Intercultural Philosophy' is organising its 3rd Intercultural Interdisciplinary Colloquium, in cooperation with the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin and the Forum Scientiarum at the University of Tübingen. The topic of the colloquium is: Comparing Postcolonial Experiences and Critiques Across Regions Over the last two decades or so, theoretical discussions of postcolonial experiences in diverse parts of the world have developed and grown into veritable discursive subfields according to different regional clusters and patterns of connections that in part can be mapped out in terms of transregional networks, links or affiliations that have grown out of shared histories, or periods of shared experiences, or the like. Some regions of what is called the ›Global South‹ have been far more influential or featured more prominently in terms of visible (or internationally acknowledged) theory-building while corresponding debates in other regions have either not been taken on board or developed differently. Some thinkers have followed a tendency to generalise about ›postcolonialim(s)‹ while others have taken care in tracking and tracing specific social and historical experiences empirically before building regionally specific or transregional analytic models on such grounds. The idea of our Colloquium is to get specialists of, and participants in, these different regional and/or transregionally linked debates into a fruitful exchange, in interdisciplinary and intercultural discussions that look closely at social experiences in different contexts, and that draw creatively from philosophy, anthropology, history, and postcolonial theory, among others, in order to discuss them. An important common interest will be the link between experience and theory (and theorising), and the ways in which localities, places, languages and social settings underpin or influence thinking and debates, within wider frameworks and parameters that are shaped, and partly recast and reflected, by power relationships, both within the different regions as well as between them. Programme: The programme of the colloquium can be downloaded here: http://ev.polylog.org/event/Colloquium2012.pdf Languages: English and German (there will be no translations) Venue: Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin (Germany) Website: http://www.zmo.de Organisers: Kai Kresse (Berlin) and Niels Weidtmann (Tübingen) Website of the Colloquium: http://ev.polylog.org/colloquium-en.htm Contact: Dr. Kai Kresse Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) Kirchweg 33 14129 Berlin Germany Tel.: +49 (0)30 80307-0 Fax: +49 (0)30 80307-210 Email: [email protected] Web: http://ev.polylog.org/colloquium-en.htm __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
