«Pause for Thought»: On May 15, 2024 «Visdomsspirer» («Buds of Wisdom») hosted a Zoom seminar on the Academy’s responsibility during genocide. Moderator: Rannveig Haga. Panelists: Adnan Mahmutović, Ingela Visuri, and Dag Herbjørnsrud. A recording is available at this YouTube link. Info from Visdomsspirer: «In our second Pause for Thought- Seminar we have invited Adnan Mahmutović, Ingela Visuri and Dag Herbjørnsrud to discuss the response-ability of academia during the ongoing genocide […]
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For the second teaching year in a row, the paper «Beyond decolonizing: global intellectual history and reconstruction of a comparative method» (2021, online from May 2019) by Dag Herbjørnsrud is listed as «required reading» in Professor Lorenzo Kamel’s corso (course) «Colonial Spaces and Post-Colonial Studies: History and Methodologies» at the University of Turin (Torino), Italy. The paper is the only «required reading» text in Lesson 3, which is named «Beyond […]
The author, Distinguished Professor (University of California, Irvine), and long-time candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (b. 1938), has contributed a new text to the biannual journal Cosmopolis (Brussels, Belgium) in January 2020. The text is named «Decolonization must be global» (French: «La décolonisation doit être mondiale»), and it is published in a special issue on «Decolonizing the Academy» (link to Content), edited by the global […]
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 to Global Intellectual History» (2013) and the paper «Beyond decolonizing» (in the journal Global Intellectual History, 2019) by Dag Herbjørnsrud. […]
In Mid-January 2021, a special issue (2020-3-4), «Decolonizing the Academy», of the biannual journal Cosmopolis (Brussels) is released. Among the contributors are Ngugi wa Thiong’o (b. 1938): the author of Decolonising the Mind (1986), Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of California and a frequent candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ngugi’s text, «Decolonization must be global», is written exclusively for Cosmopolis, and it is published below. […]