【Leading-Edge Lecture 19】Two Types of Cosmopolitanism

【Leading-Edge Lecture 19】 (an in-person lecture with live streaming)
Title: Two Types of Cosmopolitanism
 
Speaker: Galin Tihanov（George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London）
Moderator: Dean Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao (Distinguished Professor at Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Dean at IHS, NTU)

Time: April 29 (Thu.) 15:00-17:00 (GMT+8)
Venue: Lecture Hall of College of Liberal Arts, NTU + live stream on IHS YouTube channel 
 

Abstract:

In our increasingly interconnected world of global risks and opportunities cosmopolitanism has become a catchword, a slogan seen and heard from the covers of popular magazines (The Cosmopolitan) to the offices of politicians. It is to this intensely contested and riveting idea that I turn to my lecture. The lecture spans intellectual history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities and social sciences. In the first part, I idenitfy two different types of cosmopolitanism and seek to define them; in the second part, I trace their intersections and contextualisation in the work of two exilic thinkers of the first half of the twentieth century, one of them a trenchant critic of cosmopolitanism. 

Organizer: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University
Co-Organizer: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University