While Europe and the EU remain attractive ideals seen from the peripheries of the continent, there is considerable critique and skepticism in other world regions regarding the European conceit with respect to its glorious achievements in the past and its present day self-understanding as an alternative to the US. The talk will reflect on why it is necessary to address the problem of Eurocentrism in order to ensure a more inclusive Europe today, one which is aware of itself as a historical product of imperialism. Using her idea of “entangled histories”, the lecturer will argue for such a relational post-colonial perspective that sees Europe as constituted by its past and present asymmetrical exchanges, interactions and ties to Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Shalini Randeria is the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna and Research Director and Professor of Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva.

Currently, she is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Ethnologist (since 2015) and serves on the Board of Trustees of the CEU as well as the Advisory Board of the Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Foundations.

She has published widely on the anthropology of globalization, law, the state and social movements. Her empirical research on India addresses issues of post-coloniality and multiple modernities. Her recent books include Anthropology, Now and Next: Diversity, Connections, Confrontations, Reflexivity (co-edited with Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Christina Garsten), New York / Oxford 2015; Jenseits des Eurozentrismus: Postkoloniale Perspektiven in den Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften (co-edited with mit Sebastian Conrad und Regina Römhild), Frankfurt a.M. 2014; Vom Imperialismus zum Empire: Nicht-westliche Perspektiven auf Globalisierung co-edited with Andreas Eckert), Frankfurt a.M. 2009.

Details

Date:

October 6

Time:

18:30 - 20:00

Venue

House of Clothes
8 Lvivska Sq.
Kyiv, 04053