In a special «Enlightenment issue» (Vol. 31, 3/2021) of the journal Dialogue and Universalism (published by the Polish Academy of Sciences), the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud has contributed two papers, «The Quest for a Global Age of Reason. Part I: Asia, Africa, the Greeks, and the Enlightenment Roots» & «The Quest for a Global Age of Reason. Part II: Cultural Appropriation and Racism in the Name of Enlightenment» […]
Decolonizing
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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 sketch is enough) to dag@sgoki.org by February 1st, 2020. Final deadline for finished texts: October 15th, 2020. (PHOTO CAPTION: The […]
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 […]
Interview at HistoryRadio.org: Michael Wynn and Dag Herbjørnsrud «A controversial row is dividing Norwegian and European historians and researchers these days: decolonization of academia. What does it actually mean? …. We talked with an outspoken proponent of decolonization, the historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud, and asked him to specify what the movement is trying to do.» EXCERPTS: «Historyradio.org: When did this movement of decolonization start, and why has it become […]
The debates regarding decolonizing knowledge, curriculum and the academy have reached the shores of Norway. On April 30th, 2018 (5-8 pm), the event «Decolonizing Knowledge» was held at the Norwegian University of the Life Sciences (NMBU), as Ås, outside of Oslo. The event was hosted by SAIH-Ås (Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund, SAIH) and the new organization UBUNTU. Excerpt from the invitation: «Knowledge is power and that which […]