Inter-Cultural Dialogues, 3rd International
Symposium
26th to 28th August 2013
Angers, France
This project explores the diverse ways in which notions of culture and cultural
interactions have impacted, at global and local levels, ongoing constructions
of identity, society and politics, as well as frameworks of knowledge, ideology
and truth.
Enquiries: acc@alternative-academia.net
Web address:
http://www.alternative-academia.net/ocs-2.3.5/index.php/angers2013/ICD-3/schedConf/cfp
Sponsored by: International Network for Alternative Academia
[The symposium website has much more, noting that
This
trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the diverse ways
in which notions of culture and cultural interactions have impacted, at global
and local levels, ongoing constructions of identity, society and politics, as
well as frameworks of knowledge, ideology and truth.
It has become a
common place to speak about globalization as a process that has made the world
smaller and more interconnected. But beneath such claims multiple processes
remain analytically undefined and critically unexplored. We are interested in
assessing how ideas of culture and cultural interactions shape identity,
membership, place, rootedness and belonging while simultaneously encouraging
misunderstanding, tension and conflict, estrangement, isolation and alienation.
In particular, the project will investigate world transformations that have
structured cultural flows, given rise to new forms of hybridity, increased
nomadic lives and encouraged the proliferation of transitory and transversal
interconnections.
We invite
colleagues from all disciplines and professions interested in exploring and
explaining these issues in a collective, deliberative and dialogical
environment to send presentation proposals that address these general questions
or the following themes:
1.
Contemporary Reconfigurations of Culture: Who Cares?
2.
Cultural Boundaries, Peoples and Places: Why Bother?
3.
Identities and Inter-Subjectivities: What Difference?
4.
Cultural Formations: Who Knows?
5.
Politicizing Culture: What Matters?
6.
Art and Cultural Representations: Why Pretend?
7.
Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Who’s Watching?]
