ECS Faber Lecture – Provincializing Europe, 25 Years On

Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty from the University of Chicago will deliver the 2025-2026 Annual ECS Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund Lecture.

In this lecture, Dipesh Chakrabarty takes a retrospective look at the origins and reception of his book Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000) to discuss why and how an intellectual project such as “provincializing Europe” emerged at the turn of the century from the insurgent historiography of Subaltern Studies, a series of publications on colonial South Asia (1982-2005) inspired and led by Ranajit Guha (1923-2023). What was the “Europe” the book sought to provincialize? What did it mean to “provincialize” this Europe? What was the significance of this exercise and what might be the relevance of such a project today?

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