Vienna, 22 November 2024, 18:15 h

Sky Lounge, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, top floor.

Birgit Kellner | Co-Director of Research of the Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations

Concluding remarks and presentation of the keynote speaker

Monica Juneja

When Words Make Worlds. Building Theory across Languages and Cultures

When does a word help us to navigate the world? How does scholarship dealing with different regions and cultures negotiate the gap between the languages of its sources and the prevailing language of scholarly discourse that enables communication in a global context? Drawing an example from art historical research, my talk analyzes the formation of concepts through the lens of transculturation. It argues that words and the theoretical apparatus they underpin acquire their conceptual force in the course of transactions across languages and cultures. The authority they gain in the process can secure theory-building from the twin traps of universalism and nativism.  

Monica Juneja is Senior Professor of Art History at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg. She has written extensively on transculturation and visual representation, the disciplinary practices of art history in South Asia, the history of visuality in early modern South Asia, heritage and architectural histories in transcultural perspective.

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