CERC Public Seminar: 'Europe and the Rise of Asia: A Cosmopolitan View'

Tuesday 3rd October 1:00-2:00pm
at Room 212, Level 2, 234 Queensberry Street, The University of Melbourne

presented by

Prof Gerard Delanty

(Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool, UK)

Abstract

This seminar explores the changing nature of the relation of Europe to Asia, especially in light of developments in Asia, the fragmentation of the West, and the growing importance of the external dimension to Europeanization as well as the wider context of globalization. These topics will be related to a cosmopolitan perspective. The argument is that the relation to Asia is coming increasingly to the fore today and the future of Europeanization will depend to a large degree on cosmopolitan opportunities.

Biography

Professor Delanty is currently a Visiting Research Fellow, Deakin University, Melbourne. He mainly works in the field of social and political theory, in particular with respect to the European cultural and political heritage. He is the Editor of the European Journal of Social Theory. His recent research grants have been from the European Commission for a project on xenophobia and one on Democracy in European in Central and Eastern Europe. He is the author of over 90 papers, eleven books and seven edited volumes, including Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality (Macmillan, 1995), Social Theory in a Changing World: Conceptions of Modernity (Polity Press, 1999), Citizenship in the Global Age: Culture, Society and Politics (Open University Press, 2000), (with C. Rumford), Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization (Routledge, 2005), editor of the Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory (Routledge, 2006), (with K. Kumar), Handbook of Nations and Nationalism (Sage, 2006) and Europe and Asia Beyond East and West (Routledge, 2006).

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