SEEING THE SELF THROUGH THE LENS OF THE OTHER
// International Summer School July 3-12, 2017
// University of Leipzig
//Organised by the Institutes of Anthropology, African Studies & Cultural Studies with students from Leipzig, Halle and Jena, and professesors and scientists from all over the world
// Funded by StiL - Studieren in Leipzig, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
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Today we experience a rapid process of globalization as well as massive technological, social and cultural changes. In view of these developments we recognize the ability to understand and engage with multiple perspectives as an important future skill. Critical voices from the Global South argue that current global challenges require the recognition of alternative epistemic traditions beyond European hegemonic knowledge. The decolonization of knowledge and a radical change of perspective materialize in post/colonial debates, discussions on alterity and difference, the desire to provincialize Europe (Chakrabarty) and the need to develop theory from the South (Comaroff & Comaroff). During the summer school students will reflect the cultural coding of their own knowledge and train to take alternative points of view in order to understand well-known problems in novel ways. They will work with international guests,
teachers and peers to make their points of view explicit and thus make their own position discursively and reflexively available to interrogation. Thereby participants will expand knowledge base of the social sciences, develop their projects and train professional skills. The summer school seeks to engage MA-students of the social sciences and humanities at the Universities of Leipzig, Halle and Jena in an international dialogue with peers, academic teachers and international guests. Students will read post-colonial theory, train their analytical ability to reflect their own taken for granted assumptions, and use their insights to further develop their MA projects.
