Event Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Beyond Eurocentrism and Ethnocentrism and The Challenges of Cultivating Global Social Thought and Planetary Conversations
Dr. Ananta Kumar Giri, Madras Institute of Development Studies in India
Wed. Nov. 14
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
SSC 5230
There is much talk about globalization of sociology but there is very little concrete effort to bring sociology and social theory into mutually transforming dialogues involving cultural presuppositions about self, culture and societies from various locations and traditions of our world. In this talk, an attempt will been made to bring certain strands in Euro-American social theory in dialogue with some Asian traditions of thinking and being. The talk discusses self, Confucianism, dynamic harmony and post-colonialism as part of this broader field of social theory and Asian dialogues.
Dr. Ananta Kumar Giri, is a Sociology professor and social theorist from the Madras Institute of Development Studies in India. His research interests include social transformations and social movements, religion and spiritual mobilizations, and dialogue, dignity and responsibility.
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