ABOUT POWER, WAR AND GENDER: AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROACH

2025-05-22 - 2025-05-22

Rada Iveković

陽明交通大學人社三館 R103

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(Formerly titled “NEW EPISTEMOLOGIES AT THE 'END OF THE WORLD')

 

⏰Time: 2025/5/22,  2:00 - 5:00 PM

📌Venue: Room 103, HA Building 3 (人社三館), Hsinchu Guangfu Campus, NYCU 

🔗Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82368725419?pwd=NECrsmngCC6jp1LG29LOKgeTMijH6A.1

Meeting ID: 823 6872 5419

Passcode: 573304

 

🗣️Format: Hybrid (In-person & online)

 

【講座簡介】

Rada Iveković出生於前南斯拉夫，於南斯拉夫札格瑞布大學取得哲學學士學位，並於印度德里大學取得博士學位，之後亦於法國完成habilitation資格，為少數能在多語多國體制中自由書寫與教學的思想家。

她曾任教於札格瑞布大學、巴黎第八大學，並於2004至2010年間擔任法國國際哲學學院（Collège international de philosophie）計畫主持人，並曾應邀擔任歐洲、美國、印度、星加坡及台灣（國立陽明交通大學國際文化研究中心，2019年）等地大學之訪問教授，學術活動足跡遍及全球。

Iveković教授的研究領域橫跨比較哲學（尤以印度與歐洲哲學為核心）、女性主義理論、政治哲學、國族與邊界研究、以及翻譯哲學。她長期致力於反國族主義、反種族主義與反父權體制的知識實踐，於當代女性主義與解殖思想傳統中佔有重要地位。她的研究關注現代國家建構與解體過程中的性別與族群議題，對暴力、民主、遷徙與國族身分之批判深具啟發性。

Iveković教授著作等身，近作包括《Migration, New Nationalisms and Populism》（Routledge, 2022）與《Politiques de la traduction》（2019），另有《Les citoyens manquants》、《Captive Gender》、《Le sexe de la nation》等代表作，並在1990年代動盪戰爭時期發表具深度政治分析的《La balcanizzazione della ragione》與《Autopsia dei Balcani》。此外，她亦為多本論文集之主編與合編者，如《Divided Countries, Separated Cities》、《Partitions》等，對全球區域研究與比較思想貢獻卓著。

本次演講將在當前世界局勢之下，重新思考離開西方中心主義認識論的可能性。此外，講者及與談人也會針對1990年代前南斯拉夫內戰和後續一系列戰爭，包括波斯尼亞、塞爾維亞等，所造成的傷害，討論戰爭的本質，以及是否有「正義戰爭」的可能！

 

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✴︎Speaker: Rada Iveković (Professor Emerita University of Paris-8, Philosophy Independent Researcher)

✴︎Moderator: Joyce C. H. Liu (Director/Professor, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

✴︎Discussant: Yuan Horng Chu (Professor Emeritus, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

✴︎Introduction: Merima Omeragić (Postdoctoral Fellow, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) 

 

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▌Agenda

2:10–3:10｜Talk

Rada Iveković

．New Epistemologies at the 'End of the World' 

．Civil War, Just War: Yugoslav Wars and the Aftermath

3:10–3:30｜Coffee Break

3:30–4:00｜Responses (15 min each)
．Merima Omeragić: Personal Experience and Observations Through Literature

．Yuan Horng Chu: The Chinese Civil War and the Current Situation

4:00–5:00｜Open discussion

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▌Abstract 

 

The exhaustion of the so far west-dominated model of the world is undeniable, but west-bashing alone will not help. Changing the way of thinking and language usages will be necessary, which implies a new epistemological project for a new living together in solidarity, at what looks a lot like an end of the world. The feeling of the “end of the world” is not new, but here it is again. I shall investigate in this talk how our epistemologies might have to change in order to bypass the feeling and decentre us. We now need shared and intertwined, reciprocally open but admittedly incomplete and imperfect knowledges (in the pl.), with inputs from all sides, and decentred, at this late hour of humanity. The starting observation is that any knowledge owes a lot to ignored or unexpected “elsewheres” that had not yet been thought about. One of the many critics of western centrism and more in our times, the recently disappeared Bruno Latour, warned that our thinking and language, as well as the sciences we practice to study our world, are in fact all from within that world itself (which, let’s add, is west-dominated). This is usually forgotten, but it helps us understand shared dependences and the illusion of ideas of sovereignty. Upon the latter and connected ideas and their interrelations, i rely heavily but implicitly also on early Indian philosophical buddhism.

 

▌Speaker Bio

 

Rada Iveković, born in Yugoslavia, is a political, feminist, philosophy of language-and-translation researcher of the Indian pluriverse, of Indian and western philosophy, of the latter’s unthinkables. She lives in Paris. She taught at universities in Yugoslavia, in France, at Indian universities, at NUS, Singapore etc., was visiting professor at the International Institute for Cultural Studies at Chiao-Tung-University in Hsinchu (2019). Some of her books include: Migration, New Nationalisms and Populism (Routledge, London 2022), Politiques de la traduction. Exercices de partage, (preface by É. Balibar, Paris, TERRA-HN 2019, online: http://www.reseau-terra.eu/IMG/pdf/-5.pdf), L'éloquence tempérée du Bouddha. Souverainetés et dépossession de soi (Paris, Klincksieck, 2014). 

 

⚪Organizers:

陽明交通大學文化研究國際中心-子計畫6：藝術介入與社會行動

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University International Master's Degree Program in Asian Cultural Studies (IACS, NYCU)