CFP: The Cause of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond (Ireland) (5/27/05; 11/11/05-11/12/05)

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: podonovan_at_french.ucc.ie

or

Laura Rascaroli
Toyota Lecturer in Film and Media Studies
Department of Italian / School of Languages and Literature
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland
Email: l.rascaroli_at_ucc.ie

(please include 'Cosmopolitanism conference' in the subject lines of all
emails)

www.ria.ie/committees/modlang/

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