Leela Gandhi awarded Alfons Auer Ethics Prize

Professor Leela Gandhi receives the Alfons Auer Ethics Prize of the University of Tübingen. The University of Tubingen's Alfons Auer Ethics Prize this year goes to Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies Leela Gandhi, in honor in particular of her innovative work on postcolonial ethics and political theory. A descendent of Mahatma Gandhi, she has drawn on his approach to develop a creative ethics that critically and constructively works towards new forms of non-violence and surmounting the losses and injuries left by colonialism even in postcolonial worlds. As an outstanding thinker and open-minded debater, her work is also of fundamental significance to Christian theological ethics, in the view of the Faculty of Catholic Theology. Professor Gandhi has developed a postcolonial theory which also throws up a challenge to theology: if theological ethics are to fulfill the ambition of an inclusivity that encompasses all people at all times, it is important that it hears the postcolonial criticism of its own colonialism. The award ceremony will take place on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 5 pm in the lecture theater of the Theologicum building (Liebermeisterstr. Members of the public and representatives of the media are warmly invited.