Beyond "Recognition": Self, Other, and the Making of Collective Identities in Colonial Contexts

Speaker Series

Beyond “Recognition”: Self, Other, and the Making of Collective Identities in Colonial Contexts

Part 6 of Identity and Belonging in a Global Age

May 26, 2022

Co-sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition.

Speaker

Arturo Escobar

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Arturo Escobar is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1995) and Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (2018).

Moderators

Shahrzad Sabet

Co-Director, COMIT

Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) and a Fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Her current book project, which spans a variety of disciplines, makes the case for a reimagined universalism that reconciles the oneness and the diversity of humankind.

Benjamin Schewel

Co-Director, COMIT

Benjamin Schewel is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He is the author of Seven Ways of Looking at Religion (2017) and is currently working on a second book, Encountering the Axial Age, both from Yale University Press.