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» […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]