[Urbanstudy] Mumbai: Invitation to a lecture by Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos, 13 Feb 2014

[lalitha kamath]

Dear All,

Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) will be giving a public lecture at TISS. He will be speaking on 'Epistemologies of the South: South-South Dialogues and Intercultural Translations'.

Below are the details of his lecture at TISS:

Date: 13th Feb 2014
Time: 4:00-6:00 pm
Venue: J. M. Kumarappa Hall, 2nd floor, Academic building 2, Naoroji Campus


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EPISTEMOLOGIES OF THE SOUTH: SOUTH-SOUTH DIALOGUES AND INTERCULTURAL TRANSLATIONS

Neoliberal globalization is including difference kinds of south-south dialogues both among states and among social movements. Prof. Boaventura will focus on the latter and indicate the need for new strategies of knowledge production and validation and for new global learning based on the ideas of ecology of knowledges and intercultural translation.

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About the Speaker

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal), Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and Global Legal Scholar at the University of Warwick. He is Director of the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra [1] and Scientific Coordinator of the Permanent Observatory for Portuguese Justice [2]. He is the coordinator of the research project 'ALICE – STRANGE MIRRORS, UNSUSPECTED LESSONS: LEADING EUROPE TO A NEW WAY OF SHARING THE WORLD
EXPERIENCES_ [3], financed by the European Research Council (ERC), one of the most prestigious and highly competitive international financial institutes for scientific excellence in Europe. Boaventura de Sousa
Santos has published widely on globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, democracy, and human rights in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French and German. To know more about Boaventura's work, please see the attached file.


Links:
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[1] http://www.ces.uc.pt/
[2] http://opj.ces.uc.pt/
[3] http://alice.ces.uc.pt/en/

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