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In the early periods of modernity the concept of communal living was determined, and thus, enclosed, by the imagined community of the nation. The nation itself was defined here as a territory, a conception that circumscribed the collective identity within spatial borders. Such a paradigm naturalized separation from the outside and limited the possibility of exchange and dialogue. The contemporary period, however, is associated with the paradigm of the transnational and the transcultural. Social processes of globalization further the deconstruction of spatial borders and territories. Within these transformations paradox notions of living together may develop. You do not have to live in the same place to live together. One the other hand, existence in the same place does not necessarily signify living together.
Exploring the Americas through critical lenses that focus the intersections between transnational, intercultural and intracultural processes, the conference pursues a scholarly investigation into dynamics and tensions characterizing processes of cultural encounter, difference, and exchange in the Americas in a relational and inter-American way. Inter-American here refers to a transcultural imaginary that suggests multiple interdependencies and hence requires dialogic models of investigation.Papers should address:
Please send a brief curriculum vitae and one-page abstracts to Wilfried Raussert latest by March 31st 2010.
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