Intercultural encounters are momentary experiences, but why not revisit and share them?
RVP Iasi Center now has a YouTube channel to disseminate and follow up on our activities.
See, for instance, our Round Table on Cultural Encounters:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWFcRJltZm3uHDHh450FCw
Our series of invited lectures continues with speakers from Australia, India and China:
John Ozolins on Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: Their Beliefs and Values
Seema Bose on Tolerance with Special Reference to Mahatma Gandhi
Ouyang Kang on World Complexity, Value Conflicts and Human Wisdom
Wang Tianen on Big Data as the Foundation of Information Civilization
We are pleased to welcome you in Iasi to the CRVP International Conference Cultural Borders and Border Cultures on November 2-3, 2018.
As part of RVP Iași Center’s project Re-Learning to be Human for Global Times: The Role of Intercultural Encounters, this conference will investigate the specificities of border cultures and the various experiences of cultural borders and beyond.
For a preview of the culturally diverse approaches to this topic, see the conference program below:
As part of our 2018 Invited Lecture Series, Ven. Jampa Lungtok from the Centre for Higher Tibetan Studies in Switzerland will speak of his intercultural experience of Tibet and Buddhism.
On October 23, a public lecture on Thinking and Meditation: A Buddhist Perspective will be held at the Central University Library. The event will be moderated by Prof. Dan Chitoiu, with Romanian translation available.
On October 24, a lecture on Translating Tibet will be given at the Faculty of Letters, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi.
Iasi RVP Center participated in the 24th World Congress of Philosophy: Learning to Be Human held in Beijing on 13-20 August 2018 with a panel titled Re-learning to Be Human for Global Times: The Role of Intercultural Encounters.
The panel, which was moderated by Prof. Dan Chitoiu, featured a presentation of the Center’s activity and included discussions of concepts such as strangification and cultural translation in an attempt to better grasp the role of intercultural encounters in (re)learning to be human.
Re-Learning to be Human for Global Times: Cultural Borders and Border Cultures
November 2-3, 2018, RVP Iași Center at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
As part of RVP Iași Center’s project Re-Learning to be Human for Global Times: The Role of Intercultural Encounters, this conference proposes an investigation into the meaningful experiences of cultural borders and the complex realities of border cultures.
We invite academics from around the world to share their experience and understanding of intercultural encounters within, across and beyond cultural borders. Contributions could refer to the following issues:
– Re-examining cultural borders
– Bridging cultural differences
– Cross-identities and hybridization
– Border cultures: narratives from within
– Cultural and intercultural values in re-learning to be human for global times
Please send 300 words and a brief C.V. to Professors Dan Chițoiu [dan811@yahoo.com] and Oana Cogeanu [oa_na_co@yahoo.com] and cua-rvp@cua.edu by September 30, 2018. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Our 2018 Invited Lecture Series begins with a lecture by Professor Abdul Rashid of the University of Karachi, Pakistan, who will speak on May 3 in Iasi about Intercultural Encounter and Peaceful Coexistence: The Pakistan Experience
Illustrating the diverse yet converging perspectives presented on the Power of Words in Intercultural Encounters, Iasi, 27-28 April 2018
The Power of Words International Workshop will take place in Iasi, on April 27 and 28, 2018, as part of our ongoing project on the Role of Intercultural Encounters in Re-learning to Be Human for Global Times.
Following last year’s workshop on the intercultural role of artefacts, this year’s meeting will approach words and how they function in encounters between and among cultures.
This event is organized by RVP Iasi Center of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi and Gheorghe Zane Institute of the Romanian Academy.
The Power of Words in Intercultural Encounters
International Workshop, Iași, April 27-28
Last year’s workshop approached the role of intercultural encounters in the contemporary world and in rediscovering what it means to be human by discussing the complex role played by artefacts in producing or facilitating such encounters. The workshop this year aims to explore the role of words in the dynamics of intercultural encounters.
Intercultural encounters are complex events involving what it means to be human in its entirety, including our perceptions, interpretations and representations, as shaped by and expressed in our languages. It is within and through language that we formulate the encounter with the cultural other, and on such occasions language can function as a bridge or a barrier. Words, as projections of a culture within its own horizon, are powerful instruments with multiple facets and the extent to which the meaning(s) of certain words can reach beyond that horizon determines the dimensions of intercultural encounters. Words can commnicate more or less, increase or eliminate distance, enhance or reduce difference. Cultures usually seek to translate themselves for the other to understand and tend to identify with certain words that remain untranslatable. Hence the power of words in intercultural encounters derives from their their potential to express and create shared meaning.
This workshop proposes an investigation from different, intercultural and interdisciplinary, perspectives of scenarios where words reveal their power in facilitating or hindering intercultural encounters. It aims to evaluate how encounters in and through words can contribute to our re-learning to be human for global times and possibly for a global language.
The workshop will consist of a series of discussions and case studies, to be announced. Please send in your expression of interest by April 20.
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