Global Inequality — Calendar - Research project - An Intellectual History of Global Inequality

CalendarSeminars are generally open but seats are limited. If you wish to participate in an event, please send us an email at global-inequality@cas.au.dk17/09Whose world, which inequality?"In this lecture, rather than ask how political thought can illuminate inequality, I shall therefore take the opposite approach, and explore some of the ways in which inequality illuminates the history of political thought. To do this I will examine how global inequality has been understood in different times and different places, and end with the question: whose inequality gets to count?"⬤ September 17th, 15.15 – 16.0024/10The all-important preservation of indeterminacy"In this seminar Nicolaisen talks about his ethnographic research on the Ghanaian commodity chain of cocoa and how intentional preservation of indeterminacy constitutes an important factor for those who wish to pursue personal accumulation of wealth, whilst also meeting expectations for reciprocity from their social peers."⬤ October 24th, 14.30 – 16.0028/11A global history of poverty"Global history has often focused upon the tangible traces of global connections, the flows of capital and commodities, and the transcultural dialogues inscribed in material culture. Poverty, often defined as an absence of money, resources, and luxury goods, has long been in global history’s blind spot."⬤ November 28th30/01Human Rights and Economic Inequality: The Scandinavian Approach"The project provides the first examination of socio-economic human rights in the multilateral diplomacy of the Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Norway, and Denmark) at the United Nations from 1970 to 2000."⬤ January 30th, 14.00 – 15.3026/02Arabic Intellectual History"The seminar offers three presentations with a following discussion. Presenters include Christian Høgel, Saer El-Jaichi and Hasib Nasiri, and range from the history of Arabic thought in medieval times to late 20th century reformist Islamic though in Iran."⬤ February 26th, 12.15 – 15.0002/04A history of poverty reduction in northern Kenya"Join us at this research seminar where historian Mads Yding will talk about colonialism, development, and poverty reduction in the Turkana district in northern Kenya during the 20. century"⬤ April 2nd, 14.30 – 16.00made with Lay Theme