The «Global Inequality Project: An Intellectual History» at Aarhus University (Denmark) will host the webinar «Global Intellectual History: Reflections on Methodology and Raison d’être» with the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud on March 25 2021, 1:30 pm (GMT+1). «The Global Inequality Project» is led by Assoc. Professor Christian Olaf […]
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On 25 January 2021 the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) held a Reading Group Meeting on «Global Intellectual History», the first 2021 session of the Intellectual History Working Group (IHWG) series, «History in theory, history in use». Two papers are included as suggested readings: Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori’s «Approaches […]
The article «Beyond decolonizing: global intellectual history and reconstruction of a comparative method» by Dag Herbjørnsrud, published in the journal Global Intellectual History (May 10 2019) has, in September 2020, an attention score of 96: «Altmetric has tracked 15,773,921 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this […]
As of March 2020, five articles of the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud (founder of SGOKI) have been listed at the website of «Pieces on Non-‘Western’ Philosophy: for a General Audience: A List.» This list of texts on philosophy is made by Abiral Chitrakar Phuyal, New York University/Shanghai. LINK. The 5 […]
On the 25th of February 2020, Yale NUS professor Bryan W Van Norden held the lecture «Learning from Chinese Philosophy» at the Intercultural Museum of Oslo (IKM), Norway. Media coverage of the event: Molo (29.02.20), the student journal of history of ideas at the University of Oslo (UiO): «Er mainstream […]
On 7 February, 2020, at 5:30 pm, SGOKI founder Dag Herbjørnsrud presented the lecture «From Epistemicide to Global Knowledge: Reconstructing a Decolonised Academy« as part of the annual lecture series at the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (Gloknos) at the University of Cambridge. Feedback: «Thank you again for the very […]
CHRONOS Research Theme Launch Event: On February 10 2020, at 5.30 pm, SGOKi founder Dag Herbjørnsrud held the lecture «Intersectional Academy: Deconstructing the Colonial Narratives« at Royal Holloway, University of London. Location: 11 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London, UK. The lecture was «Launching our new research theme, Silent Voices«, The Centre […]
The journal Cosmopolis – a journal of cosmopolitics (Brussels, Belgium) – which is published twice a year, is planning a special issue on the topic “Decolonizing the Academy” in late 2020. We are looking for articles, papers, and texts that can illuminate the topic. Please send you proposal (a short […]
Podcast: The podcast Seize The Moment (FB-link), by Leon Garber and Alan Ulman, devotes its episode 21 (Sept 15, 2019) to an hour-long conversation with the global historian of ideas, Dag Herbjørnsrud – the founder of SGOKI. The title of the episode is «The Colonization of Intellectual Thought«. Info from […]
SGOKI founder Dag Herbjørnsrud has published a new article in issue 2019-1-2 of the journal Cosmopolis (located in Brussels, Belgium): «First women of philosophy«. The article covers women philosophers from the Global South, all born before 1800 CE. Examples: Gargi from India, Ban Zhao from China, and Nana Asma’u from […]
More read than 13 million articles: Altmetric is recording high attention for the article «Beyond decolonizing: global intellectual history and reconstruction of a comparative method« by the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud (founder of SGOKI). The article was published in the Routledge journal Global Intellectual History on May 10, […]
On January 23, 2019, the legendary historian J. G. A. Pocock (b. 1924) published a new article in the Routledge journal Global Intellectual History, «On the unglobality of contexts: Cambridge methods and the history of political thought«. John Greville Agard Pocock, a John Hopkins University professor since 1975, is known […]
On May 10 2019, the Routledge and Francis & Taylor journal Global Intellectual History published the latest article by the historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud: «Beyond decolonizing: global intellectual history and reconstruction of a comparative method.» In the article, Herbjørnsrud proposes a comparative method to go beyond methodological nationalism and […]