Tag: cosmopolitanism

Lenehan and Lietz Guest Post: The Need for a Cosmopolitan Perspective

Guest Posts
The need for a cosmopolitan perspective. Guest post by Fergal Lenehan and Roman Lietz.

The very malleability of the cosmopolitan concept – which can sometimes make it seem incoherent – is actually the great advantage of the notion. The concept has the potential to greatly help scholars, as we argue in our book Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from a Postmigrant and Postdigital World, to conceive of the relationship between human beings, their cultural contexts, and the wider communicative world in relation to digital technologies, in new and interesting ways which can potentially advance scholarship. This may be seen in relation to the theoretical re-thinking of the internet as a global and connecting technology, in terms of analyzing of those who use the internet, while the cosmopolitanism discourse also helps scholars when theorizing about the online spaces of encounters and the myriad of digital connections contained by, and possible with, digital technologies.

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ReDICo: Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postimigrant Europe, and Beyond (Germany but Online)

ConferencesCosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postimigrant Europe, and Beyond, ReDICo, Germany but online, 27 June-7 July 2023.

The second Researching Digital Interculturality
Co-operatively (ReDICo) conference will be on “Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond,” combining different themes from the field of digital interculturality. It may indeed be observed that ‘the digital world’ has been gradually intertwining with the material ‘analog world’, to an extent that the differences between these two spheres are no longer really visible (‘postdigitality’). At the same time, differences between ‘migrant’ and ‘indigenous or ‘native’ have also dissolved in modern migrant societies, a phenomenon that gives space to the challenges of an even more ambiguous and complex postmigrant society. Finally, this interplay influences how we, as people, meet each other on an equal footing as citizens of the world and offers new reflections on Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond.

You can look forward to ten sessions (90 minutes each) spread over six days, during which 27 scholars from a variety of countries and fields will give short and precise presentations of 15 minutes. There will be extended discussions, reflections, and new contacts. Organizers wish to involve voices from civic society in the academic discourse, and so have invited six representatives and activists from non-governmental institutions to share their perspectives.

Keynote speakers: Professor Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex, on Tuesday, the 27th of June) and Professor Naika Foroutan (DEZIM Berlin, on Wednesday, the 5th of July).

Participation in the online conference, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, is free. Registration via e-mail.

Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond (Germany but Online)

ConferencesInvitation to participate in Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond, Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively (ReDICo), 27 June – 7 July 2023, Germany but online.

In this upcoming conference, participants are invited to engage with the undeniable fact that migration and digitalization are deeply intertwined with our daily reality and have greatly left their mark on society and influenced perspectives on cosmopolitanism. Organizers are looking forward to a lively discussion. Among others, Prof. emer. Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex) and Prof. Naika Foroutan (DeZIM Berlin) have confirmed their participation. The planned program can be found here; that document will be regularly updated, and additional information added to the folder. The conference will take place on Zoom and is free of charge. The conference language is English. Registration is possible from now on until the day of the event via email. Please use “Registration” as the subject line.

CFP Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond (Germany but Online)

ConferencesCall for papers: Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond, Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively, Germany but Online, 26 June-7 July 2023. Abstract Deadline: 31 January 2023.

The idea of cosmopolitanism remains multifaceted and fit for purpose. It may be seen, for example, as a philosophical concept, or viewed as a theoretical and empirical tool used to describe and understand contemporary society, culture and interculturality. But cultural theory and empirical research have not remained stagnant, and a number of recent ideas have been proered as further theoretical and empirical tools. These include the concepts of postdigitality and postmigrancy. The “post” in these terms does not denote an end (of digitality or migration), but the transformation of a society indissolubly interwoven with digitality and migration. Similarly, the term postmigration implies that the structures of society have been fundamentally altered by migratory processes; supposedly clear dichotomies of “migrant” /“native” or “assimilated” /“segregated” become dissolved, while established distributions of resources and power structures have increasingly been called into question and become renegotiated. Indeed, the mere fact of continuously shaping a (post)migrant society and of being immersed in super-diversity with cultural and linguistic implications needs to be accepted. Thus, the new theoretical and empirical postmigrant and postdigital realities call for new perspectives on the concept of cosmopolitanism and adjoining concepts, such as Europeanism. These ideas, though very applicable to European societies and lifeworlds, are not limited to Europe but are found and may be investigated in a variety of contexts.

KC2 Cosmopolitanism Translated into Turkish

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#2: Cosmopolitanism, which Miriam Sobre-Denton wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which Candost Aydın has now translated into Turkish.

As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists of Key Concepts organized alphabetically by concept, chronologically by publication date and number, and by languages into which they have been translated, are available, as is a page of acknowledgments with the names of all authors, translators, and reviewers.

KC2 Cosmopolitanism_TurkishSobre-Denton, M. (2022). Cosmopolitanism [Turkish]. (C. Aydın, Trans.). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 2. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/kc2-cosmopolitanism_turkish.pdf

If you are interested in translating one of the Key Concepts, please contact me for approval first because dozens are currently in process. As always, if there is a concept you think should be written up as one of the Key Concepts, whether in English or any other language, propose it. If you are new to CID, please provide a brief resume. This opportunity is open to masters students and above, on the assumption that some familiarity with academic conventions generally, and discussion of intercultural dialogue specifically, are useful.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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KC2: Cosmopolitanism Translated into Arabic

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#2: Cosmopolitanism, which Miriam Sobre wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which Mohammed Guamguami has now translated into French.

As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists of Key Concepts organized alphabetically by concept, chronologically by publication date and number, and by languages into which they have been translated, are available, as is a page of acknowledgments with the names of all authors, translators, and reviewers.

KC2 Cosmopolitanism_ArabicSobre, M. (2022). Cosmopolitanism [Arabic]. (M. Guamguami, Trans.). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 2. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kc2-cosmopolitanism_arabic.pdf

If you are interested in translating one of the Key Concepts, please contact me for approval first because dozens are currently in process. As always, if there is a concept you think should be written up as one of the Key Concepts, whether in English or any other language, propose it. If you are new to CID, please provide a brief resume. This opportunity is open to masters students and above, on the assumption that some familiarity with academic conventions generally, and discussion of intercultural dialogue specifically, are useful.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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KC2: Cosmopolitanism Translated into French

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#2: Cosmopolitanism, which Miriam Sobre wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which Mohammed Guamguami has now translated into French.

As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists of Key Concepts organized alphabetically by concept, chronologically by publication date and number, and by languages into which they have been translated, are available, as is a page of acknowledgments with the names of all authors, translators, and reviewers.

KC2 Cosmopolitanism_French

Sobre, M. (2021). Le cosmopolitisme. (M. Guamguami, Trans.). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 2. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/kc2-cosmopolitanism_french.pdf

If you are interested in translating one of the Key Concepts, please contact me for approval first because dozens are currently in process. As always, if there is a concept you think should be written up as one of the Key Concepts, whether in English or any other language, propose it. If you are new to CID, please provide a brief resume. This opportunity is open to masters students and above, on the assumption that some familiarity with academic conventions generally, and discussion of intercultural dialogue specifically, are useful.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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KC2 Cosmopolitanism Translated into Spanish

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#2: Cosmopolitanism, which Miriam Sobre-Denton wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which  Jhon Eduardo Mosquera Pérez has now translated into Spanish.

As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists of Key Concepts organized alphabetically by concept, chronologically by publication date and number, and by languages into which they have been translated, are available, as is a page of acknowledgments with the names of all authors, translators, and reviewers.

KC2 Cosmopolitanism_SpanishSobre-Denton, M. (2021). Cosmopolitismo. (J. E. Mosquera Pérez, Trans.). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 2. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/kc2-cosmopolitanism_spanish.pdf

If you are interested in translating one of the Key Concepts, please contact me for approval first because dozens are currently in process. As always, if there is a concept you think should be written up as one of the Key Concepts, whether in English or any other language, propose it. If you are new to CID, please provide a brief resume. This opportunity is open to masters students and above, on the assumption that some familiarity with academic conventions generally, and discussion of intercultural dialogue specifically, are useful.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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A Call to Cosmopolitan Communication

“Book NotesJensen, A. (2020). A call to cosmopolitanism: A narrative of richness and mystery. Oracle, AZ: CMM Institute Press.

We are witnessing the emergence of a new form of communication.

Call to Cosmopolitanism cover

One with the potential to overcome the political polarization dominating our social landscape in recent decades. Cosmopolitan communication is one way of naming this emerging form and the promise it holds. In A Call to Cosmopolitan Communication, Arthur Jensen explores the dimensions, skillsets, and transforming potential of this new form, contrasting it with the all-too-familiar patterns of communication we experience as ethnocentric and modernistic tendencies.

Drawing on Pearce and Cronen’s enduring practical theory, the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM), Jensen focuses on the concept of mystery and our ability to co-produce narratives of richness that embrace our differences instead of simply assimilating, tolerating, or dismissing them.

A Call to Cosmopolitan Communication is not a call to arms but a call to human thriving. The call to human thriving is answered when we recognize that our lives are shaped in social interaction with others and that the quality of our communication with each other matters enormously. This book, along with Penman and Jensen’s previous work in Making Better Social Worlds, supports Cosmopolis2045.com, a companion project depicting one vision of a better social world that can emerge from a cosmopolitan mindset.

KC2 Cosmopolitanism Translated into Macedonian

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#2: Cosmopolitanism, which Miriam Sobre-Denton wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which Emilija Jovanovska has now translated into Macedonian.

As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists of Key Concepts organized chronologically by publication date and number, alphabetically by concept, and by languages into which they have been translated, are available, as is a page of acknowledgments with the names of all authors, translators, and reviewers.

KC2 Cosmopolitanism_MacedonianSobre-Denton, M. (2020). Cosmopolitanism [Macedonian]. (E. Jovanovska, trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 2. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/kc2-cosmopolitanism_macedonian.pdf

If you are interested in translating one of the Key Concepts, please contact me for approval first because dozens are currently in process. As always, if there is a concept you think should be written up as one of the Key Concepts, whether in English or any other language, propose it. If you are new to CID, please provide a brief resume. This opportunity is open to masters students and above, on the assumption that some familiarity with academic conventions generally, and discussion of intercultural dialogue specifically, are useful.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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