Vilhelm Auberts minneseminar 2023: The Trouble with (Racial) Capitalism

Kom og hør årets foreleser: Professor Gurminder K Bhambra.

Gurminder K Bhambra, professor ved Universitetet i Sussex, holder årets Vilhelm Aubert minneforelesning på Universitetet i Oslo 30. november og innleder til seminar på institutt for samfunnsforskning 1. desember. Begge er åpne for alle.

Program
Forelesning torsdag 30. november:
Empires and Nations: Or, A Political Economy of Colonialism
Tid: kl. 14.15–16.00, Trygve Haavelsmos auditorium 7, Eilert Sundts hus.

Seminar fredag 1. desember: The Trouble with (Racial) Capitalism
kl. 10.00–11.30, Institutt for samfunnsforskning, Munthes gate 31. Det serveres kaffe og croissantaer fra kl. 9.30 med anledning til å mingle før seminaret.

In a recent essay, Loïc Wacquant asks whether the term, racial capitalism, is ‘a conceptual solution or a conceptual problem’. His answer is that racial capitalism has no place in a properly defined and understood social science. In this seminar, I set out some of the limitations of Wacquant’s analysis and, at the same time, discuss other difficulties of the idea of racial capitalism. These difficulties are associated with an absence common to Wacquant and the major proponents of racial capitalism; namely, a failure to reckon systematically with the ways in which modern capitalism arises and develops within the global structures of European colonialism.

Påmelding
Meld meg på seminaret på ISF HER eller i skjemaet under. Påmeldingsfrist: 30. november.

Om årets foreleser
Gurminder K Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society and is currently President of the British Sociological Association. She is co-author of Colonialism and Modern Social Theory (2021) with John Holmwood, and author of Connected Sociologies (2014) and the award-winning Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination (2007). She is working on a Leverhulme Trust funded project on ‘Varieties of Empire, Varieties of Colonialism’.

Vilhelm Auberts Memorial Lecture er et felles arrangement mellom Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi (ISS), UiO og Institutt for samfunnsforskning, der fremragende internasjonale akademikere inviteres til Oslo for foredrag og debatt. I 2022 ville Vilhelm Aubert ha feiret 100 år.