Public Lecture: Time to fire the sociological canon?

The Department of Sociology Professor Christian Borch and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Torsten Geelan hereby invite students and researchers at the Faculty of Social Sciences to a public lecture on Friday May 12th (CSS 35.01.06, 15.00-16.30) by Associate Professor Ali Meghji (University of Cambridge) titled 'Time to Fire the Sociological Canon? Sociology and the Coloniality of Knowledge'.

In this lecture, Ali will begin by examining how sociology became entangled with colonial ways of thinking and knowing. He will then trace how sociology has maintained its commitment to this coloniality of knowledge into the present day, and conclude by arguing for a sociology which stresses temporal, conceptual, and spatial links, advocating for a pluriversal sociology.

Ali Meghji is an Associate Professor in Social Inequalities at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. He is the chair of ‘Decolonizing Sociology @ Cambridge’ and the editor-in-chief of Sociology Compass. To date he is the author of Decolonizing Sociology and The Racialized Social System: Critical Race Theory as Social Theory published by Polity Press. His next book Race, Decoloniality and World Crises will be published by Temple University Press.

Free snacks and drinks will be provided for all attendees after the lecture.

To register for the event, sign-up using NemTilmeld.