3rd Intercultural Interdisciplinary Colloquium

From 12 to 14 December 2012, polylog 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.

Past Events

• 2nd Intercultural Interdisciplinary Colloquium
  Actors of Intercultural Dialogue
  Tübingen, 28–30 July 2011
  Programme
• 1st Intercultural Interdisciplinary Colloquium
  Cultures of Knowledge in Dialogue
  Berlin, 10–11 June 2010
  Programme
• International Conference
  Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies
  Community in Difference
  Collective Agents in Intercultural Contexts (Section)
  Vienna, 6–9 December 2007
  Programme