In this interview Craig Calhoun talks about universities, the Humanities and his own research. Universities reinvent themselves in the face of societal and technological change. In the midst of this change, however, universities are charged with maintaining old ideals, with informing the public and creating opportunities for human development. The Humanities often bemoan these changes but they are ideally positioned to contribute to the changing university – especially through teaching – and so protect the traditional place of the university in society. The Humanities must help to defend the canon but, at the same time, be open to new rethinking the canon by embracing alternative epistemologies. One means to do this is to opening knowledge up by embracing languages other than English. Calhoun’s own research is focussed on those ‘parts of globalisation’ that are not commonly investigated: Belonging and Identity, Social Emergencies as an exception; the fragility of Global capitalism.

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人文与大学：克雷格·卡尔洪（Craig Calhoun）接受采访

在这次采访中，克雷格·卡尔霍恩（Craig Calhoun）谈到了大学，人文科学和他自己的研究。面对社会和技术变革，大学在重塑自己。然而，在这种变化之中，大学负责维护古老的理想，向公众通报信息并为人类发展创造机会。人文学科常常为这些变化而叹息，但它们处于理想的位置，可以为变化中的大学做出贡献（尤其是通过教学），从而保护大学在社会中的传统地位。人文学科必须帮助捍卫经典，但同时，通过接受替代性认识论，对新的经典思维开放。一种方法是通过拥抱英语以外的其他语言来开放知识。卡尔霍恩（Calhoun）自己的研究集中于那些未被普遍调查的“全球化部分”：财产和身份，社会紧急情况除外；全球资本主义的脆弱性。