italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Forse i colleghi stanno esagerando... passo una fettina di ogni giornata a
leggermi di tutti questi convegni, a girare a te ed altri... insomma, ma
CHI VA A TUTTE QUESTE BELLE COSE???
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At 15:06 04/03/2005 -0000, you wrote:
>italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
>
>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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