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 Thursday, 2 October, 2008
Gandhi, Camus and the Struggle for
Social Emancipation Today
Lecture
18.30
Peace Museum (Fredsmuséum),
Uppsala Castle, Entrance H
October 2 is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi and since last year declared by UN General Assembly resolution as International Day of Non-Violence. Therefore, we are, together with the Peace Museum, arranging a public lecture with Lou Marin.
 The lecture will draw attention to political-philosophical views of a libertarian form of humanism, which have not lost their relevance in our world of today. The impact both Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) and Albert Camus (1913-1960) had on the struggles for social emancipation was not confined to their lifetimes nor to their societies. They inspired new social movements and challenged pseudo-radical notions advocating emancipation based on violence and coercion. Gandhi and Camus shared a strictly non-violent and anti-authoritarian approach. Their uncompromising notion of integrity, and of adherence to fundamental ethical values and norms in pursuance of true humanism, resonates with the convictions of Hammarskjöld.
Lou Marin, a scholar in residence at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation during the summer of 2007, is a regular contributor to the nonviolent-anarchist monthly Graswurzelrevolution, and since 1984 a member of its editorial board collective, where he has been an editor, translator and author of several of its books. |
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