November 16, 2017: CGG Keynote Lecture "The Ethics of Interpretation in Contemporary Global Practices"

7 November 2017

In the daily round of international interactions in which we are all involved (as citizens, rights holders, students, professors, workers, bureaucrats, soldiers, politicians) we generally have a fair understanding of who is doing what to whom and why. However, in the face of diverse pressures for change, we have to cope with the ethical tensions, contradictions, and puzzles that emerge within these practices and while participating, we can not but be actively engaged in elaborating and struggling with the ethical tensions arising within them. Such engagement is not the distant study of how norms emerge, are gradually adopted and finally sedimented into our ways of doing things, but involve us in ongoing and direct struggles with real ethical questions.

The Key Note Lecture is part of the Symposium on “Norms, Practice, Normativity: Towards a New International Relations Theory”.

Further information is available here.

When: November 16th, 2017, 6:15 pm

Where: Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, lecture hall M