BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Novelty and the Emergence of the Western Global in the Early Sixte
 enth Century – gloknos Lecture - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20191028T170000Z
DTEND:20191028T190000Z
UID:TALK127636@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Samantha Peel
DESCRIPTION:*gloknos Annual Lecture Series – Prof Luis Lobo-Guerrero (Un
 iversity of Groningen)*\n\nAbstract:\nNovelty disrupts order. Because of i
 ts disrupting character\, it exposes the fallibility of pre-existing ways 
 of knowing\, thinking\, and being. It betrays the operation of particular 
 ways of experiencing the world that are always imbued with specific forms 
 of power relations\, forms of subjectivity\, and systems of rule. Observin
 g novelty and the ways in which it emerges\, always in precise historical 
 moments\, allows for an understanding of the conditions under which someth
 ing is deemed possible and real. Its usefulness transcends the anecdotic a
 nd relates to the possibility of introducing new ways of labelling the out
 come of experience\, of creating new narratives and grammars for describin
 g what had not yet been encountered or thought\, of reflecting about a rea
 l without recourse to the strictures of theory and dogma\, of creating new
  markets for ideas and products\, and\, as explored through this book\, of
  creating spaces of governance.  \n\nThis lecture engages with a very part
 icular moment in the history of a Western experience of knowing life\, spa
 ce\, and governance. It explores claims to novelty in XVI C. Spain in the 
 context of the Columbian trips of discovery and the early conquest of Amer
 ica. It does so by exploring the seminal contribution made by José Antoni
 o Maravall\, a Spanish historian of culture and mentalities\, to the under
 standing of the problem of novelty through what he considers to be its thr
 ee conditions of possibility: i) the pretension of originality\, ii) the i
 nterest for the invention\, and iii) the curiosity for the strange. \n \n\
 nProf. Luis Lobo-Guerrero is\, since 2013\, Professor and Chair of History
  and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen wher
 e he is also Director of the Centre for International Relations Research. 
 His interests converge around two broad areas: the politics of global conn
 ectivities\, and modes of reasoning about order\, power and governance. An
  edited volume that begins to bring them together is forthcoming in 2019\,
  as part of the _"Global Epistemics_":http://gloknos.ac.uk/media/book-seri
 es book series\, under the title of _Imaginaries of Connectivity: The Maki
 ng of Novel Spaces of Governance_ (Rowman and Littlefield). \n\nAttendance
  at this lecture is free but spaces are limited\, so please "email the org
 aniser":mailto:sjp229@cam.ac.uk to reserve your seat.\n\nYou can also visi
 t the CRASSH website: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28631\n\ngloknos is init
 ially funded for 5 years by the European Research Council through a Consol
 idator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (2
 017-2022) ERC grant no. 724451.
LOCATION: Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB
 3 9DT
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR