The idea of Europe: Memories and Postcoloniality
29/10/2009 - 30/10/2009
The Idea of Europe: Memories and Postcoloniality is a two-part event to discuss how Europe can be rethought from a postcolonial and postsecular perspective. The first day brings together memory thinking, heritage practice and postcolonial theory to explore challenges and potentialities in the making of a new European memory which can account for its multicultural past. The second day discusses from different intellectual traditions and perspectives the idea of Europe as an imagined and actual space. It focuses in particular on the relationship between ‘Occidentalism, Orientalism, and the idea of a postcolonial Europe’ which requires a further understanding of the contemporary postsecular climate both within and beyond Europe’s borders.
Jointly organised by the Centre for the Humanities, the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK); Focus & Massa, Culture and Identities; the Institute for History and Culture and the Graduate Gender Programme, Utrecht University, NL.
The Ethics of European Memory: what is to be done?
Thursday 29 October, 2009. Chair: Ann Rigney (Utrecht University, on behalf of Culture and Identities) Keynote Speakers: Luisa Passerini (Prof. Cultural History, Turin University, Italy) Irit Rogoff (Prof. of Visual Cultures, Goldsmith University, UK)
Occidentalism, Orientalism, and the idea of a postcolonial Europe.
Friday 30 October, 2009. Chair: Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University, on behalf of AHRC, UK) Keynote Speakers: Avishai Margalit (Kennan Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University/ Schulman Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem). Paul Gilroy (Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory, London School of Economics, UK) Luisa Passerini & Simon Glendinning (Prof. Cultural History, Turin University, Italy & Reader in European Philosophy, London School of Economics, UK)
More information: website of the Centre for Humanities Utrecht
Lieu et coût
Utrecht University
Utrecht
Nederland
