BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3153@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221107T102331 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221121T123000 SUMMARY:Rose Marie Beck: "Towards non-representational concept-making" DESCRIPTION:In her contribution Rose Marie Beck experiments with a non-repr esentational stance towards concept-making. Following Gandorfer & Ayub (20 21) she asks “Who or what has ever encountered—that is\, sensed and ma de sense of—a concept\, or even a word\, that was not an entanglement of matter\, history\, forces\, political and legal structures\, chemical rea ctions\, and physical intra-actions?” Most likely the short answer would be “nobody”\, since in our everyday academic practice we do indeed ta ke into account such entanglements. However\, they are not well conceptual ized as a mode of concept-making that – we think – necessarily compris es of acts of onto-epistemological exclusions. Does a non-representational mode help us in grappling with this gap between representational concepti ng and our academic practice? \\r\\nThe colloquium “Reversing the Gaze ” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptua l and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies a nd comparative social sciences. In this semester\, the colloquium will dis cuss the changes socio-scientific analytical concepts undergo to be able t o render phenomena intelligible in different settings. The standard assump tion according to which concepts\, when properly used\, are independent of context has come under massive critique\, especially within the context o f postcolonial and decolonial critiques. But does this mean that concepts are hopelessly tied to context and are bearers of normative assumptions? W hat happens with analytical concepts when they travel from one historical or regional context to another? What is gained – and what is lost? And ( why) should we make concepts crossing borders at all?\\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, plea se register via the registration form [https://reversingthegaze.net/colloq uium/registration/]. X-ALT-DESC:

In her contribution Rose Marie Beck experiments with a non-re presentational stance towards concept-making. Following Gandorfer &\; A yub (2021) she asks “Who or what has ever encountered—that is\, sensed and made sense of—a concept\, or even a word\, that was not an entangle ment of matter\, history\, forces\, political and legal structures\, chemi cal reactions\, and physical intra-actions?” Most likely the short answe r would be “nobody”\, since in our everyday academic practice we do in deed take into account such entanglements. However\, they are not well con ceptualized as a mode of concept-making that – we think – necessarily comprises of acts of onto-epistemological exclusions. Does a non-represent ational mode help us in grappling with this gap between representational c oncepting and our academic practice?

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The colloquium “Revers ing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological \, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Ar ea Studies and comparative social sciences. In this semester\, the colloqu ium will discuss the changes socio-scientific analytical concepts undergo to be able to render phenomena intelligible in different settings. The sta ndard assumption according to which concepts\, when properly used\, are in dependent of context has come under massive critique\, especially within t he context of postcolonial and decolonial critiques. But does this mean th at concepts are hopelessly tied to context and are bearers of normative as sumptions? What happens with analytical concepts when they travel from one historical or regional context to another? What is gained – and what is lost? And (why) should we make concepts crossing borders at all?

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The colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the registration form.

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