Trust Contexted

Lecture Series

In the winter semester 2022/23, the Excellence Cluster Initiative ConTrust – Trust in Conflict. Political Life under Conditions of Uncertainty organizes the Lecture Series Trust Contexted. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, international trust scholars will examine the dynamics of trust in conflict in diverse contexts. The program aims at providing a setting for unconventional and critical perspectives on current trust conceptions, theories and approaches.

The Lecture Series takes place in the room EG.01 in the Normative Orders building, Max Horkheimer Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt.

The events are open to the public. Please register in advance: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Program

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 6-8 pm 
Dr. Anindya Sekhar Purkayastha, Professor of Literary Studies, Kazi Nazrul University, India, and (currently) Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), Kolkata, India:
“Postcolonial perspectives on conflict and trust building. Tolerance, Fratricidal Violence and Samata: Critical Anarchives of Nazrul, Ambedkar and W.E.B. DuBois”

Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 6-8 pm
Dr. Tiago Mata, Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London, UK:
“The political epistemology of American social movements, 1980s and 1990s”

Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 6-8 pm
Dr. Moira Weigel, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, USA:
“Behind the Brown Box: Amazon Sellers, Global Supply Chains, and the Making of Monopoly.”

Presented by:
„ConTrust. Vertrauen im Konflikt. Politisches Zusammenleben unter Bedingungen der Ungewissheit“ – ein Clusterprojekt des Landes Hessen am Forschungsverbund „Normative Ordnungen“ der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main