On December 7, 2021 (1-3 pm EST), the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud held the first lecture in QBL’s “Decolonizing the History and Future of Knowledge” Series at Howard University (Washington DC, US). The title of the talk is «Redefining the Canon: Science from across the Global South and Philosophy from Ethiopia, Egypt, and the First Nations of the Americas.» The next lectures in the series will be held […]
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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. […]
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 one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it’s in the top 5% of all research outputs ever […]
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 the Seize the Moment podcast: «On episode 21, we welcome philosopher Dag Herbjornsrud to learn about the exclusion of marginalized […]
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, 2019. Within four weeks, it was listed as number 2 at the journal’s «most read» list; JGA Pocock’s latest article […]
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 as a vital co-founder of the Cambridge School; a historicist or contextualist method of analyzing intellectual history. Pocock’s new text […]
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 to answer the calls to decolonize the academy. The text covers examples ranging from social anthropology, Mo Zi, and Herodotus […]
Below is the transcript of the Power Point speech by the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud at the festival Maerz Musik 2019, part of the Berliner Festspiele. This was the first paper of the «Thinking Together» conference, «Circluding History I» (More info here.) Date: March 23, 2019, 15:00–16:00. Venue: Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany. (NB! On Monday, March 25 2019, Herbjørnsrud held the workshop «Beyond Eurocentrism and Tribal […]
«New research indicates that Plato and Aristotle were right: Philosophy and the term “love of wisdom” hail from Egypt.» A new text by the historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud at the Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Dec 17th 2018: «The Radical Philosophy of Egypt: Forget God and Family, Write!» Excerpts: «A remarkable example of classical Egyptian philosophy is found in a 3,200-year-old text named “The Immortality of Writers.” […]
The African Student Association, University of Oslo, hosted the event «Academia in a ‘Post-Colonial Era’» on October 11, 2018, 5-8 pm. Location: Helga Engs hus, aud. 3, University of Oslo, Norway. Video I (13 min, FB). of Dag Herbjørnsrud’s introduction «Decolonize the Academy 101«. Video II (27 min, FB) of the panel discussion. Video III (10 min., 10) of the panel discussion. Excerpt from the invitation, Facebook event: «On-going debates […]