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Civilisations Event Highlights
26 July 2017
Watch the highlights from the recent CREDOC event on the mobilisation of Western Civilisation, held in the British Library on 6 June 2017, and chaired by the Executive Director of the UCL European Institute, Dr Uta Staiger.
The workshop, organised by the UCL Centre for Research on the Dynamics of Civilisation, examined the contemporary mobilization of 'Western Civilisation' through an historical, sociological and comparative perspective, reflecting on the emergence of the concept of 'Western civilisation' in the Enlightenment and the then presumption that Western values consist in rationality, secularity, egalitarianism and liberal democracy.
Speakers:
- Professor Jonathan Bell, Director, UCL Institute of the Americas
- Dr Christopher Brooke, University Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Cambridge
- Dr Faisal Devji, University Reader in Modern South Asian History, and Director of the Asian Studies Centre, University of Oxford
- Professor Jan Kubik, Director, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
- Dr Uta Staiger (Chair), Executive Director, UCL European Institute
- Professor Maria Wyke (Chair), Professor of Latin, University College London