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4 October 2019

Historicko-sociologické konfrontace / Historical-sociological Confrontation Winter 2019/2020

Pracoviště historické sociologie při FHS UK srdečně zve na přednášky v rámci pravidelného cyklu historicko-sociologických konfrontací.


Historicko-sociologické konfrontace jsou prostředím, v nichž se schází přední odborníci v oblasti historie, sociologie, a dalších humanitních věd. Více o samotném cyklu se dozvíte na stránkách HISO.

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The department of Historical Sociology invites you to winter semester 2019 lecture series of Historical-sociological confrontations.


About the Historical-sociological Confrontations series


Program ZS 2019/2020 / Programme for winter semester 2019/2020

8. října / Oct. 8

prof. J. I. (Hans) Bakker, University of Guelph, Canada.

Why Was Indonesia Not a White Settler Colony?

Comparing Different Colonial and Imperial Policies in Southeast Asia


Annotation:

The Republic of Indonesia as it exists today is a secular nation-state. It is not a "white" country in the same sense as many of the so-called former "white settler colonies" (WSCs). Australia or Canada are WSCs even though of course there are many "aboriginal" or indigenous people in these countries. But the Republic of Indonesia has no specifically "white" European population. Instead, there are hundreds (N = 400+ ) of ethnic groups and even more languages ( N = 900+). So why did the archipelago of 7,400 islands not become a WST when it is claimed the "Dutch" were there since at least 1815? The basic answer is that the Netherlands East Indies actively discouraged settlement by people from Europe. Many Europeans came, but almost all of them were forced to leave. However, even if they had to leave (often at age 55) many ALSO left children. Those offspring eventually blended into the so-called Indo-European population and are now fully Indonesian citizens. The situation in Indonesia is very different from the United States of America where the "one drop rule" applies even today. Indonesia is an interesting case and there are few examples elsewhere. In Vietnam, for example, the French colonial policy encouraged the notion that all people in their colonies were to become really French.


Prof. J.I. (Hans) Bakker taught Sociology and Anthropology at four different universities early in his career but became a Full Professor at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His work has focused on Comparative Historical Sociology with an empirical emphasis on Indic Civilization. He has written about Gandhi and about colonialism in the Indonesian archipelago before independence. He has also done consulting work for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in Sulawesi, Indonesia, some of which involved studying the Bajo (Bajau, Sea Nomad) people. His recent edited books are entitled: The Methodology of Political Economy: Studying the Global Rural-Urban Matrix (Lexington, 2015) and Rural Sociologists at Work: Candid Accounts of Theory, Method, and Practice (Routledge, 2016). He guest edited a special issue of the journal Sociological Focus on Grounded Theory (2019). In addition to his academic activities he is also very interested in religious institutions and spiritual paths, having studied Tibetan Buddhism and the history of Judaism and Christianity in depth. His philosophical orientation is based on the work of Wilhelm Dilthey and his sociological theory is Neo-Weberian but also includes aspects of Neo-Marxian World Systems Theory (WST) (e.g. Wallerstein).

Website: http://jihansbakker.com/


Čas a datum konání přednášky: 8. října, 17.00-19.00, 2080 (Budova A, areál FHS UK v Jinonicích).


Time and date: Oct. 8, 5pm-7pm, 2080 (FHS UK)


Visit and guest lectures of prof. Hans Bakker were supported by the PROGRES Q20 „Kultura a společnost."



15. října / Oct. 15

Dr Bartosz M. Rydlinski, Univerzita kardinála Stefana Wyszyńského ve Varšavě, Polsko.

Illiberal shift of crises

Annotation: Some 30 years ago Central and Eastern Europe passed from state socialism to capitalism and democracy during severe economic perturbations. Democratic "Autumn of Nations" was associated with enormous social optimism. Few were aware, that the reality of the market economy is associated with business cycles, which are inherent in the nature of this type of economy. The aim of the course is to show how economic crises have affected the political instability of new democracies and to what extent the popularity of populist groups is a form of response and rejection of the neoliberal status quo.


Bartosz M. Rydlinski holds a doctorate in political science from Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw (2013). Rydlinski teaches at the Institute of Political Science at CSWU and works as a project manager and expert with the "Amicus Europae" Foundation of former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski.

Bartosz M. Rydlinski is a member of the Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro-Atlantic Security (YGLN) and former EASI-Hurford Next Generation Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Rydlinski was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) during 2014.


Čas a datum konání přednášky: 15. října, 17.00-19.00, 2080, Jinonice.


Time and date: Oct. 15, 5pm-7pm, 2080 (FHS UK)


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