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Announcement Type: GIP Online Lectures on Intercultural Philosophy Institution: Location: Online Date: 5.11.2020 __________________________________________________ GIP-Lectures Online The Society for Intercultural Philosophy (Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie – GIP) is launching a new lecture series. Given the serious situation of Covid-19 pandemic we would like to take advantage of the general necessity to communicate digitally. A digital lecture format allows members from all over the world to participate; also this gives us the chance to invite speakers from around the globe more easily. We very much invite all of you to join the monthly lectures and make this a forum for lively discussion! Our next session: Thursday, November 5th, 19:00 (CET) Prof. Dr. Tariq Modood School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, UK: "Can Interculturalism complement Multiculturalism?" Abstract European/UNESCO interculturalism (IC) emerged as a critique of multiculturalism (MC) (complicated by the fact that there is an alternative Quebecer interculturalism, not discussed in this lecture). I suggest that this relationship has gone through three phases. Phase one begins in the 1990s with a general dissatisfaction with MC from many political and intellectual sources. Phase two, roughly from about the middle of the last decade, is when IC scholars, mainly sociologists, though also in cultural studies, policy studies, migration studies, geography as well as education emerge in significant numbers. The engagement with multiculturalism is superficial and serves the purpose of clearing the ground in order to get on with a new research or policy. Phase three is the political theory justification of IC. I argue that these three phases have not established a pro-diversity ‘ism’ which can replace MC. While I hope we may move on to a phase four, where MC and IC are seen to be complementary, I here re-state what I think are the key concepts of MC. I hope it will be evident that firstly, that these concepts are not out of date or redundant; and secondly, therefore, that IC is wrong to abandon them. http://www.tariqmodood.com Our last lecture of the year will be given Tuesday, December 15th: Dr. John Lamola, University of Pretoria Malesela John Lamola is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Pretoria where he researches and teaches on African Social Philosophy and the Philosophy of Technology. In addition, he holds Senior Research Associate appointment at the Institute of Intelligent Systems of the University of Johannesburg. He obtained his PhD degree from Edinburgh University and an MBA degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His research interests are in Political Philosophy in the context of the emergence of African Modernity, and on the intersection between technology and an Africanist social theory and practice. He publishes on Marxian epistemology, applications of Sartrean existential anti-colonial philosophy to contemporary African socio-ontological inquiries, and on the representation of Africans in the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution. Dr Lamola is a professional member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ (IEEE) Society on Social Implications of Technology, an active member of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, the South African Center of Phenomenology, and is the founder the Research Group on Africa, Philosophy and Digital Technologies (APDiT). http://ufh.ac.za/faculties/social-sciences/departments/philosophy/staff/john-lamola To participate please send a short notice, before the day of the lecture, to: niels.weidtm...@ciis.uni-tuebingen.de The lecture will be given via zoom. A zoom-link will be sent to all those who registered. GIP-Lectures: http://www.int-gip.de/gip-lectures/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
