Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism
A Manchester-Oxford Colloquium organised and hosted by The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) and The School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at The University of Manchester
20 - 21 November 2008, Arthur Lewis Board Room (2.016 and 2.017)
This is the first of a number of joint research initiatives launched by the new Faculty-wide Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) in close collaboration with the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures (SLLC) at the University of Manchester. By examining discourses ranging from literature, historiography, music and opera to anthropology and political philosophy, we aim to explore 18th-century ideas of universal peace, progress, wealth, human nature and values as the foundation of future debates on cosmopolitanism. At the same time, we wish to analyse examples of counter-reaction to these ideas, and to talk about the relevance of the Enlightenment for subsequent polemics on cosmopolitanism, including discussions that take us into the 21st century. We wish to do that from a perspective that encourages a comparative and interdisciplinary treatment of these issues.
View the colloquium programme.
At a separate but associated event, on 21st November Prof. Robert Fine (Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, and author, most recently, of Cosmopolitanism, Routledge, 2007) gave a Master Class on “The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Recent Social Theory”.
The reading for this Master Class is as follows:
Robert Fine, Cosmopolitanism, New York and London: Routledge, 2007, Ch. 1 (pp. 1-21) and Ch. 6 (pp. 96-114).
There was no registration fee for these events.
Galin Tihanov (RICC) and David Adams (SLLC)