FRIAS Lunch Lectures 2018/19 - Shifting Perspectives: When the Margins Become the Center

In scholarly work, what is the “center”, and what is on the “margins”? Who decides? How are such distinctions enforced? How pronounced is this dichotomy, which is deliberately put in inverted commas, in different disciplines? What does the world of science and scholarship miss by neglecting the so-called “margins”? How can the issue of lacking resources for “outsiders” be addressed, especially in the experimental sciences? And what role do geographical imbalances in knowledge production and sharing play, be it between the global north and south, or between west and east? The task of this new lunch lecture series is to invite leading scholars to (1) reflect on the ways in which, in their respective fields, some approaches, sources, methods, questions, stakeholders and areas of the world are judged to be central / mainstream and others judged to be marginal and (2) to ask what could happen if their respective fields were to engage in a process of strategic “decentering”? How might science and scholarship become more innovative, more global, more equitable, and conceptually richer if their so-called “margins” were no longer dismissed as marginal?
More information on the FRIAS Lunch Lectures 2018/19: https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/de/mediathek/lunch-lectures/videomitschnitt-der-lunch-lecture-reihe-shifting-perspectives-2018-19