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Vorlesungen und Vorlesungsreihen

College of Fellows Lecture Series

Die College of Fellows Lecture Series lädt internationale Fellows und Tübinger Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler ein, ihre Forschung vorzustellen und sich zu vernetzen. Jeden Monat stellen Fellows und internationale Gastwissenschafter:innen der Universität Tübingen ihre Forschungsergebnisse vor. Wir freuen uns über Ihr Interesse: infospam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de 


Trump and the Bolsonaro Radical Right Populist Projects of Race  

Großer Senat, 18:30 Uhr

This talk compares Trump’s racial project that aims to get rid of illegal immigrants that are mostly nonwhite, with Bolsonaro’s project of reinstating Brazilian racial democracy. Whereas Trump aims to recreate an imaginary white nation as it allegedly existed before the movements of the 1960s, Bolsonaro wanted to bring back a model of race relations that was allegedly free from racism and is in the process of obliteration by imported models of affirmative action and special privileges to indigenous people. Their projects of race making reflect distinct historical patterns of race making. Whereas in the US racial mixing was feared and punished because it would lead to the degeneration of the white race, in Brazil race mixing would progressively whiten the population.

Bio

Carlos de la Torre is a professor of Political Science of the UF Center for Latin American Studies. He has a Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. He was a fellow at the Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.

His most recent books are The Routledge Handbook of Global Populism, (Routlege, 2019); Populisms a Quick Immersion, (Tibidabo Editions, 2019), De Velasco a Correa: Insurreciones, populismo y elecciones en Ecuador, (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, 2015), The Promise and Perils of Populism, (The University Press of Kentucky, 2015), Latin American Populism of the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Cynthia Arnson, (The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2013), and Populist Seduction in Latin America, (Ohio University Press, second edition 2010).

Focus Group Events

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21. März 2025 – Workshop: Neighbourhood and Policing

Scientific description of the workshop

The idea of neighbourhood has been studied from various perspectives including geography (Keller, 1968; Morris & Hess, 1975; Chaskin, 1995), spatial (Suttles, 1972; Galster, 2019), urban planning/designer (Kallus & Law-Yone, 2000; Colquhoun, 1985; Lynch, 1960) and sociology (Hunter, 1974, 1979). A few scholars have also attempted to

integrate social and geographical perspectives to understand the idea of the neighbourhood (Hallman, 1984; Warren, 1981; Downs, 1981). The neighbourhood is not just understood as a territorial boundary but also considered as a series of overlapping social networks (Castells, 1997; Schoenberg, 1979) and their role is to promote a sense of community and social cohesion (Forrest & Kearns, 2001) and a sense of identity (Morrison, 2003). However, the idea of neighbourhood is understudied and less explored from a policing perspective. Find more on CfP here.

Fellow Life Events

CoF Lunch Talks

Die CoF Lunch Talk Series lädt internationale Fellows und Tübinger Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler ein, sich in entspannter Atmosphäre während der Mittagspause auszutauschen. Jeden Monat stellt ein Fellow seine Forschung vor. Die CoF Lunch Talks finden in der Villa Köstlin statt. 


Joint Belonging - Online Lecture Series (CoF - IAS Durham)

Die Online-Vortragsreihe findet in Kooperation mit dem IAS Durham statt. Die Lecture Series widmet sich dem Thema Belonging im Rahmen des Projekts “Joint Belonging” des CoF und des IAS Durham.


GIP Lecture Series

Die Online-Vortragsreihe findet in Kooperation mit der Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie statt. Die GIP bemüht sich, interkulturelle Philosophie als methodologischen Standpunkt, mit dem eine Annäherung aller Weltphilosophien untereinander ermöglicht werden kann, in Vorträgen, in Forschung und Lehre und in Diskussionsrunden bekannt zu machen.

Nächste GIP-Lecture

Ass. Prof. Marília de Nardin Budó, Rechtswissenschaften, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

Mittwoch, 26. März 2025, 18:00  Uhr (CET)

Anmeldung zur Teilnahme über Zoom per Mail an: niels.weidtmannspam prevention@cof.uni-tuebingen.de

Abstract und Bio

Abstract
This talk is about Emilio Uranga’s deconstruction of the twin notions of "humanity" and "human dignity," both inherited from the colonial humanist tradition in Mexico. These are essentialist conceptions that conceive humanity on, what Uranga calls, “substantial” grounds. On this view, to be human, and to be a candidate of dignity, worthiness, and respect, is to exhibit the qualities of either rational or divine substance, that is, to be and behave according to a determined criteria itself determined culturally, historically, or religiously—in other words, to live according to profoundly Eurocentric criteria. The problem is that when human worthiness is determined in such a way, those not meeting the criteria are designated as “subhuman” and ultimately subject to mistreatment and, even, extermination. This was the case with the colonial conception of what it meant to be human, which tied dignity to substantiality, to how one is rational or Godly in the right, European, way. Uranga argues that whenever dignity is based on substance, then it is based on an ideal that is neither “authentic” nor real, but ideal, and therefore “inhuman.” Uranga concludes that true humanity is not substantial in the way that the West has claimed; that to be is to be undetermined, transitory, or “accidental.”

Prof. Carlos Sanchez is full professor of philosophy at San José University. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University in 1998, a Master in Philosophy from the same place, and a PhD in Philosophy from The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, in 2006. In the same year he returned to San José University. His research and publications chronicle his adventures in the history of 20th century Mexican philosophy.

 

 

 

 

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