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[Society for Social Research]

Department of Sociology, Delhi school of Economics, University of Delhi

and

Society for Social Research, Delhi

invite

you to a workshop

on
 European and Non-European Paradigms
Date-18th and 19th January 2007
Time- 9.30 a.m. onwards
Venue- Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, DU

*EUROPEAN AND NON-EUROPEAN PARADIGMS*

* *

Since the turn of the last century, European thinkers have been filled with
a sense of foreboding when they address the issues of the fate of Europe.   And
they have been also aware that the fate of Europe implicates the fate of the
globe as we know it.  The struggles of the non-European nations to escape
European imperialism of the not too distant past have been more or less
aware of the crisis of Europe and the importance of this for their own
future.   In their struggles non-European nations have related ambivalently
and equivocally to the European intellectual heritage, that they have
simultaneously addressed as the cause of their bondage and the possibility
of their liberation.   They have drawn selectively from both the European
tradition and their own native traditions to forge an identity capable of
withstanding the European intellectual and moral onslaught somehow
implicated in their dependence and bondage to Europe.



As the European crisis becomes deeper and wider in its influence with the
dismantling of political colonialism and as the moral weight of missionary
European modernism loses its imperative force and coercive possibilities, an
intellectual vacuum begins to manifest itself and confusion looms large and
impending.   To explore this crisis and to enter into the terms of its
self-understanding, holds possibilities for philosophies and orientations of
the future.

It is therefore proposed to arrange a discussion on the theme of 'European
and non-European Paradigms' to enter into and explore the intellectual
dimensions of this crisis and the question of alternative orienting visions.
  It will be held on 18th and 19th January 2007.  It is hoped the
deliberations will provoke debate and consideration in wider circles if we
are able to rise to the challenge of the occasion, and contribute, if not to
orienting visions, at least a greater clarity about the issues involved than
that which currently prevails.

*18th January, 2007***

Time : 9.30a.m.

Shankaran- Gandhi, Dipesh Chakraborty and the Eurocentrism of the once
colonized.



Navjyoti-Future of Knowledge: Towards Exact Humanities.



11.00 a.m.  Tea –Break



11.30 a.m.

His Excellency, Hans-Joachim Kiderlen-Faith Paradigms in Public Discourse in
Europe.



Avinash Jha - Science as Pramana Sastra: Reflections on the science and the
order of knowledge.

1.00p.m. to 2.00 p.m. (Lunch Break)



2.00 p.m.

Amit Sharma- Gandhi and the west.

Anuradha Shah- Pluralism and the vernacular face of identity.

Rabindra Ray- High modernism and the deceptive plebeianizastion of culture.

5.30 p.m. - Film to be screened and title to be decided.

*19th January, 2007***

9.30 a.m.-

Anwar Alam- Muslims, Multiculturalism and Liberal State: A  Comparision of
India and Western Europe.

Katharina Fleckenstein - Beyond Dichotomy - The Flexibility of Paradigms.



11.00 a.m. Tea Break



11.30 a.m.

JPS Uberoi- Mind and the world in modern European Sociology

Shridhar Tilve- Questioning European Paradigms.

5.30 p.m. - Film to be screened and title to be decided.
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