- Nationality
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- Affiliation
- Department of World Cultures / Centre of Nordic Studies (CENS),, University of Helsinki
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2014 1st Semester / 2017 1st Semester / 2020 1st Semester
Projects
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Conceptafrica
The target and at the same time the tool of the project is the conceptualisations and imaginations of the social and the economic in various African languages. -
Ubuntu: a Meta-norm for the West?
Ubuntu is an Nguni word that covers a broad semantic field to signify a sharing that connects humans and typifies all right thinking. -
Global Humanities
This application is the first part of a larger long-term project on the establishment of an Academy of Global Humanities.
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Event
STIAS Lecture Series 2016: Zoë Wicomb – Reading Brian Chikwava’s novel, Harare North
Professor Zoë Wicomb, South African writer, Emeritus Professor at the University of Strathclyde and current STIAS fellowwill present a talk with the title: Reading Brian Chikwava’s novel, Harare North Abstract Michel Foucault characterises the contemporary as the epoch of space, ‘the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed’; in other words, a time of unsettling spatial relations.
Article
Is Ubuntu part of the solution to the values crisis? Fellows' seminar by Bo Stråth
What relevance can Ubuntu have as a global value resource?
Article
Exploring alternative channels for global humanities knowledge - Fellows' seminar by John Noyes and Bo Stråth
Our project is built on the widespread perception that the way knowledge is produced, managed, applied and disseminated on a global scale today is damaging to the environment and to social relations, said John Noyes of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto.
Publication
Ujamaa and Ubuntu. Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective
Stråth, Bo. 2024. Ujamaa and Ubuntu. Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective (1st ed.). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Ujamaa-and-Ubuntu-Con...