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ERC Minor Universality
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Приєднався 28 чер 2020
ERC Consolidator Grant
MINOR UNIVERSALITY. Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism
Principal Investigator: Professor Markus Messling
Project team: Elsie Cohen, M.A., Azyza Deiab, Dr Franck Hofmann, Clément Ndé Fongang, M.A., Dr Hélène Thiérard, Dr Jonas Tinius
The Minor Universality project aims to contribute to the debate on universality after Western universalism. Starting from the essential role narration plays in collective imaginaries, it seeks to understand how a new consciousness of universality is under way of being produced in contemporary social practices and cultural expressions such as oral transmissions and narrations of the self, literatures and archives, films and festivals, curatorial spaces and museums.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme - Grant Agreement Number 819931.
MINOR UNIVERSALITY. Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism
Principal Investigator: Professor Markus Messling
Project team: Elsie Cohen, M.A., Azyza Deiab, Dr Franck Hofmann, Clément Ndé Fongang, M.A., Dr Hélène Thiérard, Dr Jonas Tinius
The Minor Universality project aims to contribute to the debate on universality after Western universalism. Starting from the essential role narration plays in collective imaginaries, it seeks to understand how a new consciousness of universality is under way of being produced in contemporary social practices and cultural expressions such as oral transmissions and narrations of the self, literatures and archives, films and festivals, curatorial spaces and museums.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme - Grant Agreement Number 819931.
Universalism & reparation. A Conversation with David Scott (Columbia, New York)
Universalism & reparation. A Conversation with David Scott (Columbia, New York)
For the eighth conversation in our series, we spoke with anthropologist David Scott about postcoloniality, utopia, and cultural practices as a prism for reflecting upon questions of universality. Starting from the question of what happened to the promise of freedom after 1989 and to anti-colonial utopias, David Scott argues that these promises have failed, and that understanding the reasons for this failure must provide the basis for repairing and refashioning our future. Drawing on different perspectives - philosophical, socio-cultural and literary - we first discussed how to think about universality from a situated position, or how to conduct research in post-colonial spaces. Then, using the concept of an "ethic of generosity", Scott elaborates on how such an ethic can inform contemporary cultural politics and the questioning of identity and difference. Refocusing the importance of style and form for intellectual traditions and artistic practice, the conversation ends with a reflection on the past and the future: how can we link literature, postcolonial history and tragedy, so as to avoid fatalism and open up new possibilities of our societies? Does this involve revolution or reparation?
David Scott is the Ruth and William Lubic Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the founder and editor of the journal Small Axe, and director of the Small Axe Project. Besides, he has curated a number of exhibitions, including The Visual Life of Social Affliction (Nassau, Miami, Rotterdam, 2019, 2020) and Pressure: The Kingston Biennial 2022 (Kingston 2022). His publication includes Formations of Ritual (1994), Refashioning Futures (1999), Conscripts of Modernity (2004), Omens of Adversity (2014), and Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimation of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity (2017), and (with Orlando Patterson) The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue (2023). His new book, Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History will be published in 2024. He is currently working on a biography of Stuart Hall.
Chapter subtitles
0:00:00 introduction
0:00:20 postcolonial nightmares and utopia
0:12:18 intellectual biography and sense of displacement
0:22:06 researching in a post-Bandung era
0:34:23 identity & “ethics of generosity”
0:43:39 intellectual traditions and cultural institutions
0:53:57 epistolary culture and form
1:03:34 history writing and literary theory
1:28:48 consciousness, repair, and revolution
***
“Minor Universality: Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism” is a transdisciplinary research project based at the Saarland University and funded by the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant).
Principal Investigator: Prof Markus Messling
Project team: Elsie Cohen, M.A., Azyza Deiab, Dr Franck Hofmann, Clément Ndé Fongang, M.A., Dr Hélène Thiérard, Dr Jonas Tinius
www.uni-saarland.de/forschen/minor-universality.html
For the eighth conversation in our series, we spoke with anthropologist David Scott about postcoloniality, utopia, and cultural practices as a prism for reflecting upon questions of universality. Starting from the question of what happened to the promise of freedom after 1989 and to anti-colonial utopias, David Scott argues that these promises have failed, and that understanding the reasons for this failure must provide the basis for repairing and refashioning our future. Drawing on different perspectives - philosophical, socio-cultural and literary - we first discussed how to think about universality from a situated position, or how to conduct research in post-colonial spaces. Then, using the concept of an "ethic of generosity", Scott elaborates on how such an ethic can inform contemporary cultural politics and the questioning of identity and difference. Refocusing the importance of style and form for intellectual traditions and artistic practice, the conversation ends with a reflection on the past and the future: how can we link literature, postcolonial history and tragedy, so as to avoid fatalism and open up new possibilities of our societies? Does this involve revolution or reparation?
David Scott is the Ruth and William Lubic Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the founder and editor of the journal Small Axe, and director of the Small Axe Project. Besides, he has curated a number of exhibitions, including The Visual Life of Social Affliction (Nassau, Miami, Rotterdam, 2019, 2020) and Pressure: The Kingston Biennial 2022 (Kingston 2022). His publication includes Formations of Ritual (1994), Refashioning Futures (1999), Conscripts of Modernity (2004), Omens of Adversity (2014), and Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimation of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity (2017), and (with Orlando Patterson) The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue (2023). His new book, Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History will be published in 2024. He is currently working on a biography of Stuart Hall.
Chapter subtitles
0:00:00 introduction
0:00:20 postcolonial nightmares and utopia
0:12:18 intellectual biography and sense of displacement
0:22:06 researching in a post-Bandung era
0:34:23 identity & “ethics of generosity”
0:43:39 intellectual traditions and cultural institutions
0:53:57 epistolary culture and form
1:03:34 history writing and literary theory
1:28:48 consciousness, repair, and revolution
***
“Minor Universality: Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism” is a transdisciplinary research project based at the Saarland University and funded by the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant).
Principal Investigator: Prof Markus Messling
Project team: Elsie Cohen, M.A., Azyza Deiab, Dr Franck Hofmann, Clément Ndé Fongang, M.A., Dr Hélène Thiérard, Dr Jonas Tinius
www.uni-saarland.de/forschen/minor-universality.html
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Universalisme & préhistoire. Entretien avec Maria Stavrinaki (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
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Universalisme & préhistoire. Entretien avec Maria Stavrinaki (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) Pour la septième conversation de notre série, nous avons discuté avec l'historienne de l'art Maria Stavrinaki de l'invention de la préhistoire par les modernes et du trouble que cela engendre pour penser l'histoire universelle. Stavrinaki soutient que les « deux extrémités du temps humain - la préhistoire e...
Universalism & narration. A Conversation with Adania Shibli (Palestine)
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Universalism & narration. A Conversation with Adania Shibli (Palestine) For our sixth conversation in the series “Universalism & … “, the Minor Universality research team speaks with writer and researcher Adania Shibli (Palestine). Our conversation traces writing, in Shibli’s work, as an experience of learning to live as well as of approaching the unwritten, the stammered, the stuttered. We spe...
Universalism & the partisan position. A Conversation with Arjun Appadurai (New York / Berlin)
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Universalism & the partisan position. A Conversation with Arjun Appadurai (New York / Berlin) In this fifth episode of our series, the Minor Universality research teams is in conversation with the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, professor at the Bard Graduate Centre, New York, and at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he is associated with the Department of European Ethnology. This conve...
Universalisme & multilatéralisme. Entretien avec Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia, New York)
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Universalisme & multilatéralisme. Entretien avec Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia, New York) Pour le quatrième épisode de sa série, l’équipe de recherche Minor Universality s’est entretenue avec le philosophe Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professeur à l’Institut de French Studies à Columbia University (New York), où il dirige également l’Institut d’études africaines. Cette conversation réfléchit ...
Universalisme & savoir(s). Entretien avec Gisèle Sapiro (EHESS, Paris)
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Universalisme & savoir(s). Entretien avec Gisèle Sapiro (EHESS, Paris) Pour le troisième épisode de notre série, l'équipe de recherche Minor Universality s'est entretenue avec la sociologue Gisèle Sapiro. Cette conversation réfléchit à la pertinence politique d'une quête sociologique d'objectivité et de rationalité à l'ère des faits alternatifs et des politiques identitaires. S'appuyant sur la ...
Universalisme & histoires concrètes. Entretien avec Giovanni Levi (Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)
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Universalisme & histoires concrètes Entretien avec Giovanni Levi (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia) L’historien Giovanni Levi répond aux questions de l’équipe de recherche Minor Universality sur la microhistoire, dont il est l’un des fondateurs dans les années 1970 en Italie. Cette approche historiographique, qui trouve un écho retentissant en Europe puis aux Etats-Unis, répond à l’époque à un...
Universalisme & Révolution. Entretien avec Leyla Dakhli (CNRS, Paris)
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L’historienne Leyla Dakhli répond aux questions de l’équipe de recherche Minor Universality sur l’universalisme et les récentes révolutions de la Méditerranée arabe. Peut-on rendre compte des événements révolutionnaires du monde contemporain à partir du modèle de la Révolution Française de 1789 ? Quelle universalité les révolutions - et les lectures qui en sont faites - font-elles valoir ? L’en...
Thank you for this video. As you can see from the lone comment, the novel is a difficult piece of literature that takes time and effort to uncover. It has been awarded the English PEN award and has been shortlisted for other awards.
Read the book first in English then in Arabic to make sure that it wasn’t a poor translation but it’s still not very good. I do not recommend.
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