Colleagues might be interested in the following call
for papers for an
interdisciplinary conference on cosmopolitanism.
Please circulate 
widely.


The Cause of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond

A conference of the Royal Irish Academy - National
Committee for Modern
Language, Literary and Cultural Studies

University College Cork (Ireland)
Friday and Saturday, 11 & 12 November, 2005

Cosmopolitanism is an ancient idea that has often been
contested but 
which
continues to be a central reference point in how we
reach an 
understanding
of and shape values in a globalized world. The
conference will focus on 
a
number of core problems. What are the grounds, the
causes, of the
cosmopolitan and how are they transmitted through
culture? How does
cosmopolitanism come to be a cultural and political
cause? How does
cosmopolitanism come to be linked with wisdom? Is this
an enduring 
link? How
does cosmopolitanism operate as a global factor in the
creation of 
culture?
Is cosmopolitanism simply the expression of an
international cultural 
elite?
Does cosmopolitanism sustain the search for
universals? What is the 
scope
and significance of world literature, of world cinema,
today?

Possible topics for the call for papers include:
- cosmopolitanism and universals
- cosmopolitanism in Europe
- globalization and the cosmopolitan
- is cosmopolitanism a grand récit?
- the global and the local
- the historicity of cosmopolitanism
- cosmopolitanism and difference
- cosmopolitanism contested
- transnational identities and communities
- the cosmopolitan metropolis
- cosmopolitanism, travel, and frontier
- the contrasting experiences of the home and the
world
- world literature and world cinema
- case studies: fiction and documentaries
- cosmopolitan and multicultural citizenship
- cosmopolitanism and the Constitution for Europe
- cosmopolitanism, migration and human rights
- cosmopolitanism and languages in multicultural
Europe

Papers should be twenty minutes in length to allow for
ten minutes of
discussion. Abstracts (of 300 words maximum) should be
sent no later 
than 27
May 2005 to: 

Prof. Patrick O'Donovan
Department of French
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.ucc.ie/french/usrs/odonovan/

or

Laura Rascaroli
Toyota Lecturer in Film and Media Studies
Department of Italian / School of Languages and
Literature
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.ucc.ie/italian/lr.html

(please include 'Cosmopolitanism conference' in the
subject lines of 
all
emails)

Royal Irish Academy website
www.ria.ie/committees/modlang/
University Website http://www.ucc.ie/en/


	

	
        	
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