BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2244@europa.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230313T123452 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230505T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop with Elena Ziliotti DESCRIPTION:About the Workshop: How to develop normative political models f or contemporary ‘non-Western’ societies while avoiding coloniality and Eurocentrism? This critical question will be addressed by Elena Ziliotti\ , Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at TU Delft. Euro pean-derived norms and practices have influenced ‘non-Western’ societi es so profoundly that they have irreversibly altered their ways of life. T his has created unique forms of cultural hybridity\, new intellectual and cultural practices incommensurable to both Western and pre-modern indigeno us traditions.\\r\\nElena Ziliotti argues that the incommensurability of c ontemporary ‘non-Western’ life-worlds poses a methodological challenge for theory building. On the one hand\, political theorists must avoid rep roducing Eurocentrism. Still\, they cannot refuse to engage with the Weste rn-originated concepts and ways of thinking that have become fundamental i n local public culture. On the other hand\, pre-modern indigenous intellec tual resources are a distinctive aspect of ‘non-Western’ contemporary societies\, but their conceptual and epistemic retrieval alone is inadequa te to ground contemporary theory.  Zoliotti will discuss how we can overc ome this two-fold methodological problem by adopting ‘normative hybridit y’ as methodological footing.\\r\\nAbout the Speaker: Elena Ziliotti [ht tps://www.elenaziliotti.com/] is an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Poli tical Philosophy at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). In her rese arch\, she focuses on contemporary Western and Confucian democratic theori es\, with a strong interest in the concepts of political meritocracy\, lea dership\, equality\, and good governance.\\r\\nNo registration necessary. X-ALT-DESC:

About the Workshop:
How to develop nor mative political models for contemporary ‘non-Western’ societies while avoiding coloniality and Eurocentrism? This critical question will be add ressed by Elena Ziliotti\, Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Phi losophy at TU Delft. European-derived norms and practices have influenced ‘non-Western’ societies so profoundly that they have irreversibly alte red their ways of life. This has created unique forms of cultural hybridit y\, new intellectual and cultural practices incommensurable to both Wester n and pre-modern indigenous traditions.

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Elena Ziliotti argues that the incommensurability of contemporary ‘non-Western’ life-worlds pose s a methodological challenge for theory building. On the one hand\, politi cal theorists must avoid reproducing Eurocentrism. Still\, they cannot ref use to engage with the Western-originated concepts and ways of thinking th at have become fundamental in local public culture. On the other hand\, pr e-modern indigenous intellectual resources are a distinctive aspect of ‘ non-Western’ contemporary societies\, but their conceptual and epistemic retrieval alone is inadequate to ground contemporary theory. \; Zolio tti will discuss how we can overcome this two-fold methodological problem by adopting ‘normative hybridity’ as methodological footing.

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< strong>About the Speaker:
Elena Ziliotti is an Assistant Professo r of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). In her research\, she focuses on contemporary Western and Confuci an democratic theories\, with a strong interest in the concepts of politic al meritocracy\, leadership\, equality\, and good governance.

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No registration necessary.

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