Emerging normative regimes

University of Bergen, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT)

Course leader:

• Associate professor Thorvald Sirnes, University of Bergen, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT)

Deputy course leader:

• Associate professor Rasmus Tore Slaattelid, University of Bergen, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) (home page)

In collaboration with:

• Professor Roger Strand, University of Bergen, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT)

Invited guest lecturers:

• Professor Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Political Science, USA (home page)
• Professor Sudipta Kaviraj, Columbia University, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, USA (home page)
• Professor Shijun Tong, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China (home page)

Short Course description

As a consequence of new economic, political and cultural relations of domination on a world scale, we may ask whether the global context of normativity is changing.  To a considerable degree the specific European and North-American historical experiences and lessons have functioned as the context within which the most important global normative questions have been defined. The Westphalen peace, the French revolution, the Jewish question, the German question and second world war, etc., produce a frame of reference for normative critiques, debates and struggles. However, the new global position of China and India may be indicators of a rupture. Therefore, we want to explore the historical experiences and events that define the normative questions within these emerging regimes.

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