Dear members,
During 2020 the GIP launched a new lecture series. Given the serious situation of Covid-19 pandemic we would like to take advantage of the general necessity to communicate digitally. A digital lecture format allows members from all over the world to participate; also this gives us the chance to invite speakers from around the globe more easily. We very much invite all of you to join the monthly lectures and make this a forum for lively discussion!
-21 January 2021, 7 pm
Prof. Dr. Barbara Schellhammer: Zum Anspruch des Fremden im Denken
-11 February 2021, 7 pm
Dr. Hora Zabarjadi Sar: Islamic Feminism and Iranian feminist movement: An overview
-23 March 2021, 7 pm
Dr. Jonathan Chimakonam Okeke: "Overcoming the three Challenges of Intercultural Philosophy: A Conversational Approach"
-27 April, 2021, 7pm
Prof. Dr. Jean-Christophe Goddard, "La pensée politique d’Eboussi Boulaga entre Amérique Latine et Afrique" (in French)
To participate please send a short notice to niels.weidtmann@ciis.uni-tuebingen.de before the day of the lecture. The lecture will be given via zoom. A zoom-link will be sent to all those who registered.
Time: 7PM (Germany)
Following GIP-lectures will be announced shortly. For updated and more information about the past lectures HERE. GIP-lectures are organised by Dr. Niels Weidtmann, Dr. Anke Graness and Fernando Wirtz.
Stay healthy!
Niels Weidtmann, President
June 4-6, 2021
University of Tübingen
Languages: English and German
See the full abstract of the event HERE.
Applications
We invite all those interested - especially young scholars - to submit their talk proposals on the topics described above until 31.12.2020 at the following e-mail addressevents@int-gip.de.
Submissions should include:
An abstract between 300 and 500 words
A short academic profile including contact information and institutional affiliation
All talks and discussions will be in English
We regret to announce that our summer school “Philosophies of Technology in Intercultural Perspective” will be postponed.
We will announce the further details once the conference is rescheduled.
We greatly appreciate your kind understanding and cooperation.
The Society for Intercultural Philosophy (GIP) was founded in 1992 as a non-profit organization and now has members from all over the world who work together on the topic of intercultural philosophy. While philosophizing we think that it is important to expand the lenses of one's own cultural conditions in order to work systematically and historically in mutual exchange with the philosophical reflections of other cultures (and our own).
To this purpose, the GIP and its partners regularly hold conferences and congresses. The discussion is also conducted in numerous publications. The GIP members also share their research on interculturality in lectures, research and in discussion groups.
Intercultural philosophy is not a philosophy within an existing philosophy. Rather, this kind of philosophizing sees itself as a methodological point of view that can be useful in order to create a common space for all world philosophies. The emphasis is on the different ways in which people have always tried to understand themselves and the world and to shape it in a practical way. Therefore, intercultural philosophy aims to disrupt the monolithic conception of philosophy that we sometimes find within academia. It is important to systematically analyze different philosophical points of view and to connect them with one another without essentializing them or reducing their multiplicity. Intercultural philosophy does not suggest a particular form of cultural relativism or indifference. Rather, the focus is on the ethical attitude that aspires to create the conditions for a peaceful and righteous future.
Philological competence, the study of original sources, deconstruction, speculation, and dialectical thinking: all of them belong to the tasks of intercultural hermeneutics. In this sense, intercultural philosophers should not only examine the different models and systems of logic, anthropology, politics, law, aesthetics, and religious thought. They should also constantly test their own assumptions and methodology.