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08.11.2017 | 17h00

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Sala 1, CES | Alta - Coimbra, Portugal

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Esta comunicação argumenta que a escrita da história não é a recreação de um passado que sempre esteve lá, ficando mudo e esperando que o historiador lhe desse voz, mas antes um código, género ou tecnologia, que constrói o passado de maneiras que facilitam a representação através do código da história. Interrogando-se sobre os elementos que constituem o código da história e envolvendo-se com a história da música, da arte e da ciência, ao longo do caminho, a comunicação termina considerando se este código é adequado para representar passados ​​não-ocidentais.

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After completing his education in Sydney and Canberra, Sanjay Seth held positions at Sydney University and La Trobe University (Melbourne), as well as a Fellowship at Tokyo University. He moved to Goldsmiths in 2007, to take up the Chair in Politics.
Sanjay has published in the fields of modern Indian history, political and social theory, postcolonial theory and international relations. He is particularly interested in how modern European ideologies, and modern Western knowledge more generally, ‘travelled’ to the non-Western world- and what effects this had both on the non-Western world, and on modern, Western knowledge. His current work is focused on whether the presumptions that inform our modern knowledge are ‘universal’, meaning adequate to all times and places- as is usually supposed- or whether they are in fact parochial, presumptions that are specifically modern and Western but that illegitimately pass themselves off as universal. He often uses his Indian archive to raise and pursue these broad social, cultural and epistemological questions.

^{This is an event co-organized by the IHC, the projects CROME and ECHOES and the PhD Programmes in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies (CES | IIIUC,) and Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (CES | FEUC)}