Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
Övre Slottsgatan 2
SE-753 10 Uppsala
Sweden
Tel: +46-18-410 10 00
Fax: +46-18-12 20 72
secretariat@dhf.uu.se
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Thursday, 10 September 2009
Public Lecture
Dag Hammarskjöld and Martin Buber: Can we save true dialogue in an age of mistrust?
Lecture by and debate with:Lou Marin
Thursday, 10 September 2009, 17.15 hrs
Organised in collaboration with Pax et Bellum.
Dag Hammarskjöld met Martin Buber, the philosopher of dialogue, three times between 1958 and 1961. They conferred about the possibilities of true dialogue in a political and cultural setting of a United Nations confronted with Cold War and an atmosphere of general mistrust. What significance has their exchange for the problems of today?
When Dag Hammarskjöld and Martin Buber met the Cold War was in full swing. Hammarskjöld observed "Walls of Distrust" between the superpowers' representatives and witnessed propaganda-speeches in the United Nations. At the same time Buber qualified the social atmosphere created by nuclear threat and Cold War as an "Age of Mistrust". Hammarskjöld and Buber were in search of a common understanding of the political blockades of the time, while their perspectives on re-structuring society differed. They communicated once again until the death of Hammarskjöld in 1961 on more philosophical grounds. After Hammarskjöld had read key texts of Buber's philosophy of dialogue he was keen to integrate parts of it into his concepts of negotiation and silent diplomacy. The question was whether Buber’s philosophy was made for such an implementation within the political sphere and what both of them had in stake in case true dialogue failed.
Lou Marin lives in Marseille and is currently for the second time a scholar in residence at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. He has published essays on Camus and Gandhi with the Foundation as ‘Critical Currents’ no. 3 (see www.dhf.uu.se/publications.html).
Time: 17.15 to 19 hrs
Venue: Övre Slottsgatan 2, Uppsala
Participants are invited to a social mingling afterwards. All welcome!
If possible, please register in advance with karin.andersson.schiebe@dhf.uu.se
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