- Nationality
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- Affiliation
- Department of World Cultures / Centre of Nordic Studies (CENS),, University of Helsinki
- Field of study
- Social Sciences
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2020 1st Semester 2017 1st Semester 2014 1st Semester
Projects
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Global Humanities
This application is the first part of a larger long-term project on the establishment of an Academy of Global Humanities. -
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. -
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.
Related to this person
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...
public lecture / seminar
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.
public lecture / seminar
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?