Columbia University professor to explore ‘Can Non-Europeans Think?’

Hamid Dabashi from Columbia University will address “Can Non-Europeans Think?” at 3:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 1, in Fretwell Building, Room 114.

Dabashi, the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, will bring together historical and theoretical reflections on current affairs and the role of philosophy to argue that, in order to grapple with the problems of humanity today, individuals must eliminate the ethnographic gaze that infects philosophy and casts Arab and other non-Western thinkers as subordinates.

A reception will follow the presentation; this free, public event is for the Anthropology and GIAS Colloquium Series and is co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department.