Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Birgit Kellner, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Birgit Kellner, a Buddhologist and Tibetologist who since 2015 has served as the director of the Institute for Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia in Vienna, part of the Austrian Academy of Science. Previously, she was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Hamburg, as well as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010 she joined the University of Heidelberg as a professor of Buddhist Studies within the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context.”

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The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group explores the benefits of drawing on diverse traditions of thought in approaching philosophical questions. These include novel insights into familiar problems, new questions and research directions, and fresh methodologies. We work to deprovincialize and decolonize all aspects of philosophy in the academy. The group currently has strengths in Sanskrit philosophy, and Chinese philosophy, Indian philosophy in English, and classical Islamic philosophy.