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"Rethinking the Nature/Culture Divide"- Conference on November 10, 2017

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"Rethinking the Nature/Culture Divide"
A public lecture at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

Notions such as "nature" or "culture" are the product of a particular historical process and express the specific distribution of ontological properties to beings in the world that the Moderns have devised. Other civilizations have adopted other systems of distribution, resulting in ontologies and principles of association between humans and non humans that differ widely from the one which emerged in Europe a few centuries ago. The challenge for the social sciences is to acknowledge this diversity, while retaining the ambition to explain it in non Eurocentric terms.

Discussants: Thanes Wongyannawa, Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University and Dr.Yukti Mukdawijitra, Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University.

November 10th 2017, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm

  • Saranitet Conference Room
    2nd floor
    Main Auditorium
    Chulalongkorn University

Organized by the Institute of Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) and the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University present.

In partnership with the Collège de France, the Faculty of political Science of Chulalongkorn University, the Siamese Association of Sociologists and Anthropologists, (SASA), the French Embassy of Thailand.