Das Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum ist das Center for Advanced Studies im Bereich der Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften an der Universit?t Augsburg. Es st??t innovative Forschung in den beteiligten Disziplinen an und f?rdert sie, vernetzt zentrale Forschungslinien international und f?cherübergreifend und macht die Ergebnisse einer breiten ?ffentlichkeit zug?nglich.

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Das Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum will die Position der Augsburger Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften nachhaltig festigen und st?rken. Das Zentrum wurde im Herbst 2012 eingerichtet. In seiner Gründung spiegelt sich das Konzept der ?Netzwerk-Universit?t“ wider, das unter Federführung der Pr?sidentin, Frau Prof. Dr. Sabine Doering-Manteuffel, in Augsburg eingeführt wurde. Es tr?gt dazu bei, die fachlichen St?rken und Schwerpunkte der Universit?t gezielt zu bündeln und zur strategischen Positionierung zu nutzen.

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Die transnational und interdisziplin?r ausgerichtete Forschung am Zentrum liefert Antworten auf zentrale Fragen zur Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft einer global vernetzten Gesellschaft. Es tr?gt so wesentlich zur Bearbeitung globaler Herausforderungen bei und kommuniziert seine Ergebnisse auf nationaler wie internationaler Ebene.

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27. Mai 2025, 18.30 Uhr, Vortrag

Counting the Cost: How the Age of Discovery Delivered Human Society to the Now.

Universit?t Augsburg, Geb?ude H (Jura), H?rsaal 1009

This lecture considers the questions "What is colonialism? Has it ended? Where if anywhere might it still be practised? How?" by situating the ideological impulse for southward expansion of Europe in the Doctrine of Discover which emerged in western Europe at the end of its middle ages.? It characterises this Doctrine of Discovery as a shared rationalisation by the Western European Christian Church and the region's political leadership of the economic policy of the time, a project continued by the philosophy of the Enlightenment.? It proposes the notion of "meta-colonisation" in answer to the questions posed.??

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5. Juni 2025, 18.30 Uhr, Vortrag

Decolonise the Rest of Us: An Example from Mainstream Cinema

Rokokosaal der Regierung von Schwaben, Fronhof 10, 86152 Augsburg

This lecture considers cinema and other moving images narrative as a potent force for constructing subjectivities and thereby identities.? It explores how this powerful medium was deployed in support of western European expansionism in modernity, and how, given the global slide to the right of recent years, Europe is left vulnerable by an ongoing expansionist logic of the moving images industry. The lecture reflects on the question: "What can be done to fulfil cinema's, and other moving images narrative's potential as a medium of democratic construction and consolidation?

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6. Juni 2025, 10.00 Uhr

Workshop für Master- und Promotionsstudierende:?Ubuntu 2.0 and the Text: An Extra-Late-Capitalist Methodology for Textual Analysis

Universit?t Augsburg, Geb?ude D, Raum 4056

Textual analysis seeks to understand deeper meanings, themes and patterns, language structure as well as historical, cultural and social contexts of texts, and to rate or rank texts according to the understandings obtained. Textual analysis and its resultant understandings are discursive cognitive practices, which are contingent on the ways in which meanings are produced and normalised within a given context. Texts accessed by large numbers of the global public, including those analysed by those whose work it is to do so, are increasingly formed and made available within the discursive and concomitant industrial systems of late capitalism. Another objective of textual analysis is to understand the function of texts with respect to the prevailing concerns of human societies at a given historical moment. Discourse typically generates meanings that serve its own growth and perpetuity. This seminar examines the possibilities and limitations of textual analysis methodologies and tools originated within late capitalism’s infinite growth models of human development to discern and respond to the human condition.

Possibilities are investigated in the context of methodologies used in participants’ current academic work. To interrogate limitations, this seminar introduces the concept of Ubuntu 2.0 as an extra-late-capitalist methodology for textual analysis. Ubuntu 2.0 is a worldview derived from the ancient ubuntu ontology of Bantu language-speaking cultures of Africa, which has also been referred to as a normative communitarian philosophy. Ubuntu has been studied by African scholars since the last century. With Ubuntu 2.0, I build on past scholarship to reformulate ubuntu for the contemporary era.

This is a practical seminar. We will discuss your textual analysis methodologies. I will give a brief overview of Ubuntu, its derivative, Ubuntu 2.0. and the use of the framework in textual analysis. I will provide you with two texts for textual analysis in breakaway groups. Results will be discussed and compared in the plenary. Seminar texts will be provided on the day of the seminar as no preparation for this task is required.

Suggested Reading
Mda, Zakes. 2017. Justify the Enemy: Becoming Human in South Africa.? 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Kwazulu-Natal Press. Pietermaritzburg.
Mugo, Micere. 2021. The Imperative of Utu/Ubuntu in Africana Scholarship. Daraja Press. Quebec.
Udah, H., Tusasiirwe, S., Mugumbate, R., & Gatwiri, K. (2025). Ubuntu philosophy, values, and principles: An opportunity to do social work differently. Journal of Social Work, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173241312749
Zulu, Louis. 1991. Ubuntu – Ein afrikanisches Konzept des guten Lebens. http://learn2change-network.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Essay-DE-Louis.pdf

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24. Juni 2025, 18.30 Uhr, Vortrag

Ubuntu 2.0: Five Ways of Being for a More Sustainable Future

Rokokosaal der Regierung von Schwaben, Fronhof 10, 86152 Augsburg
This lecture presents the Bantu language speaking culture's philosophy of being human, "Ubuntu", which arose over several millennia as a result of the social cohesion needs of societies in flux on the African continent. It identifies five foundational elements of the ubuntu philosophy and considers how these elements may possess utility in contributing to building a foundation for meeting some of human society's named contemporary existential challenges.??
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