Diversity, Power, and Justice. Transcultural Perspectives

Human beings are currenting living in a highly interconnected world that is historically dynamic as well as characterized by intricate power relations between diverse individuals and social groups. The crux of the talk will focus on the inherent interconnections between ‘Diversity, Power and Justice’ in the face of global interconnectedness which demand for a critical transcultural theory of ethical obligations to protect the basic rights of every human being residing within and across defined political borders. This is done in the lecture by drawing relevant ideas from the works of experts accross different approaches to normative philosophy and political theory.

Victor C. A. Nweke is a political theorist and philosopher at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Institut für Kulturwissenschaften. His research contributes to the project of the same name funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Research Foundation). Nweke’s major interests in research topics are postcolonial African philosophy, applied logic, global political theory and normative ethics, providing a groundwork for his peer-reviewed publications. The published articles and chapters give insight on right conduct and human flourishing in an interconnected and complex world.

The guest lecture takes place within the lecture “Globalization and Social Change”, by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Jungwirth, in the study program Gender and Diversity, B.A., Faculty of Society and Economics.