RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

From the spring semester 2021 to the spring semester 2023, the online research colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” provided an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sciences.

• Research Colloquium, Spring Semester 2023: “Beyond Area Studies”
  In this semester, the colloquium will focus on current debates in and critics of Area Studies and the various attempts to save them (e.g. new area studies, global area studies). We will discuss theoretical and methodological implications of using socio-scientific concepts across regional or … Continue reading Research Colloquium, Spring Semester 2023: “Beyond Area Studies”
• Research Colloquium, Fall Semester 2022: “Concepts without borders”
  In this semester, the colloquium will discuss the changes socio-scientific analytical concepts undergo to be able to render phenomena intelligible in different settings. The standard assumption according to which concepts, when properly used, are independent of context has come under massive critique, especially within … Continue reading Research Colloquium, Fall Semester 2022: “Concepts without borders”
• Research Colloquium, Spring Semester 2022: “Working with the state”
  In this semester, the colloquium will focus on the ways in which academic and non-academic interpretations of the concept of ‘the state’ vary in different contexts. Drawing from case studies of the research project “Reversing the Gaze” as well as guest talks, the sessions … Continue reading Research Colloquium, Spring Semester 2022: “Working with the state”
• Research Colloquium, Fall Semester 2021: “Making concepts work”
  The focus of this semester is on the translation and operationalization of social scientific concepts in specific historical contexts and socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with methodological and theoretical issues bearing on the translation of concepts across regions, across disciplines, and across academic … Continue reading Research Colloquium, Fall Semester 2021: “Making concepts work”
• Research Colloquium, Spring Semester 2021: “Comparison and Beyond”
  The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issues concerning comparison. In particular, the colloquium will discuss recent critical reflections on, and engage with new perspectives for, social scientific comparison. After an introduction to the general topic in the first two sessions, … Continue reading Research Colloquium, Spring Semester 2021: “Comparison and Beyond”