Marieke,
I'm looking forward to Limerick tomorrow. Vanessa sent a reminder about
dinner, so I'm just writing to check that your conference secretary got my
e-mailed registration form, which included dinner.
Regards,
Pól.
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Subject: RIA Conference IN/DIFFERENCE, Limerick 9 - 10 November 2007
IN / DIFFERENCE: Current and Historical Perspectives on Cultures in
Contact
A conference of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Modern Language,
Literary and Cultural Studies
University of Limerick 9-10 November 2007
Living with and in diversity is perceived as both the challenge and the
condition of the contemporary world. In the academic literature (e.g. on
postmodernism, postcolonialism and globalization), notions of hybridity,
multiple identities etc. are taken for granted as part of our current
condition. Migration and technological developments bring difference
into societies that once thought of themselves as homogeneous. This is
the case with respect to many categories of difference - cultural,
ethnic, linguistic, racial, gendered, religious, ideological, political,
vocational etc. But, what have been the cultural and linguistic
consequences of this contact? Linguistic and cultural products and
practices articulate a full spectrum of engagement with difference,
ranging from celebration to condemnation. However, they can also hint at
indifference as a significant response to the rise of difference beyond
this spectrum of active engagement. This conference seeks to interrogate
all dimensions of this reality - the condition of the subject in
difference, and the nature of indifference as a response to this
condition by bringing together past and present perspectives on cultures
in contact.
Keynote addresses:
Prof John Joseph (Professor of Applied Linguistics, Univ. of Edinburgh):
"Communicating Hatred: Language, Identity and the Crime of Incitement".
Prof Patrick O'Donovan (Professor of French at UCC): "The logic of
alterity: it is a logical alternative? - or, some thoughts on being
open-minded"
For conference programme and all further details, see
http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/ria/index.php
<http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/ria/index.php>
We gratefully acknowledge the support for the conference from Mr Patrick
O'Sullivan, the Austrian Embassy, Dublin, the German Embassy, Dublin,
the Consejeria de Educación of the Spanish Embassy, Dublin, the Bank of
Ireland, the University of Limerick: the President of the University of
Limerick, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society, the
Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, the College of Humanities
Dr Marieke Krajenbrink,
Dept of Languages and Cultural Studies,
University of Limerick,
Limerick,
Ireland.
Tel: +353 61 202453 Fax: + 35361 202556
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Barbara Geraghty,
Dept of Languages and Cultural Studies,
University of Limerick,
Limerick,
Ireland
Tel.:+353 61 202992
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