By Professor Ute Frevert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Third Max Weber Lecture
The talk will be about the power of public shaming and humiliation in the modern world. Such strategies were either meant to punish and reintegrate a person who had violated social norms, or to debase and stigmatize those whom others wanted to exclude from groups or society at large. The talk follows the development of such practices since the late eighteenth century in legal, education and foreign policies, mainly with regard to Europe, China, and India. It focuses on the concept of human dignity and why this has become paramount.
Ute Frevert is Professor of Modern History (FU Berlin) and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. Among her English-language publications are "Men of Honour: A Social and Cultural History of the Duel" (1995); "A Nation in Barracks: Modern Germany, Military Conscription and Civil Society" (2004); "Emotions in History - Lost and Found" (2011); "Emotional lexicons" (2014), "Learning how to Feel" (2014); ed., "Moral Economies" (2019). The book "The Politics of Humiliation: A Modern History" will be published by OUP in 2020.
This programme is in collaboration with the Max Weber Stiftung India Branch Office.
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