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.dkUpcoming Events10/06/21 - 11/06/21Towards a Global Intellectual History of an Unequal World, 1945-TodaySymposium"This two-day symposium is designed to investigate the global intellectual history of inequality. It will do so through a double global lens: How have intellectuals from around the world thought about inequality in the world?" For more information on the symposium or the Call for Abstracts please follow the link: http://global-inequality.com/towards-a-global-intellectual-history-of-an-unequal-world/⬤ June 10th-11th 2021, Aarhus University, DenmarkPast Events26/05/20A history of poverty reduction in northern KenyaWebinar"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"⬤ May 26th 2020, 14.30 – 16.0026/02/20Arabic Intellectual HistorySeminar"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 2020, 12.15 – 15.0030/01/20Human Rights and Economic Inequality: The Scandinavian ApproachSeminar"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 2020, 14.00 – 15.3028/11/19A global history of povertySeminar"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 28th 201924/10/19The all-important preservation of indeterminacySeminar"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 2019, 14.30 – 16.0017/09/19Whose world, which inequality?Public Lecture"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 2019, 15.15 – 16.00made with Lay Theme