CULTURAL IDENTITY IN TIMES OF GLOBALISATION

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1 CULTURAL IDENTITY IN TIMES OF GLOBALISATION 3-21 August, Monday-Friday, 9:00-13:00. Building 1650 room 014 Aarhus University. Course coordinator: Diana González Martín. Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University. Guest Lectures: Catalonia: Identity and Commerce, Regional and Global. Maria Dressel, The Catalan Chamber of Commerce, Copenhague. Global Mobility, International Talent and Expatriate Challenge. Tiny Maerschalk, Head of International Community, Aarhus. Cosmopolitan memory & European identity: Antonio Muñoz Molina's 'Sepharad' (case study). Lasse-Emil Paulsen, Ph.D. student, Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University. The Cultural Moment in Tourism and The Darker Side of Travel. Palle Nørgaard, Lecturer at Hospitality and Tourism Management at Business Academy Aarhus, Ph.D. fellow Aarhus University. Danish Modern in Montreal: A case of retro as cultural memory. Kristian Handberg, Art Historian Ph.D. University of Copenhagen. Agonistic Memory and European Identity. Hans Lauge Hansen, Lektor, Ph.D. Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University. Readings: Electronic (Blackboard PDF)

2 WEEK 1: Theoretical frame Date Time Contents Readings :45 - Presentation of the course. Evaluation procedure and method. Working groups. 11: :45 - Defining culture and globalization. - Introduction. Case : La Vía Campesina. International Peasant s movement Defining cultural identity in globalising times Paul Hopper, Understanding cultural globalization. Chp. 4: Globalization and Global Culture. John Tomlinson: Globalization and Cultural Identity. 11: Visit Moesgaard Museum. Working groups on global cultural identity Day off :30 Guest Lecture. Maria Dressel, The Catalan Chamber of Commerce, Copenhague. Catalonia: Identity and Commerce, Regional and Global. Working groups. Richard Jenkins, Categorization: Identity, Social Process and Epistemology. 10: :30 Case study: Independence movement. Spanish territorial organization.

3 WEEK 2: Cultural memory Date Time Contents Readings :30 Guest Lecture. Tiny Maerschalk, Head of International Community, Aarhus. Global Mobility, International Talent and Expatriate Challenge. 10: : :45 Workshop. Memory of conflicts as global phenomenon 11: :30 10:30-11:15 11:15-12:45 Guest Lecture. Lasse-Emil Paulsen, Ph.D. student, Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University. Cosmopolitan memory & European identity: Antonio Muñoz Molina's 'Sepharad' (case study) Reading: Andreas Huyssen, Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia in Present Pasts Working groups. Case study: Reading: Assmann, Aleida (et al): Neda the career of a global icon in Assmann & Conrad: Memory in a Global Age (2010) Levy & Sznaider, Memory Unbound

4 :30 10:30-11:15 11:15-12: :45 9:45-10:30 10: :45 11:45-13 Guest Lecture Palle Nørgaard, Lecturer at Hospitality and Tourism Management at Business Academy Aarhus, Ph.D. fellow from Aarhus University. The Cultural Moment in Tourism and The Darker Side of Travel. Cultural remembrance as an active social process. Case study: Doris Salcedo, Colombia. Antonio Muñoz Molina, Sepharad (excerpt) Philip Stone, Dark tourism scholarship: a critical review Rothberg, Multidirectional Memory Students presentations of cases (groups 1-3)

5 WEEK 3: Europa s challenges Date Time Content Readings :30 Guest Lecture. Kristian Handberg, Kristian Art Historian Ph.D. University of Handberg, Copenhagen Montreal Danish Modern in Montreal: A Modern: Retro case of retro as cultural memory. Culture and the Modern Past in Montreal. 10:30-11:15 11:15-12: :45 :30 11: Guest Lecture. Hans Lauge Hansen, Lektor, Ph.D. Aesthetics and Communication, AU. Agonistic Memory and European Identity. Students s presentations of cases (groups 4-6) Working groups. Alberto Méndez, Blind Sunflowers (excerpt) Chantal Mouffe, An Agonistic Approach to the Future of Europe :45 11:30-13 The Union (history and present). Technology and strategic politics. Case study: Human Brain Project Consilience of humanities and hard sciences. Working groups. Niklas Toivakainen, Social Robots as Mirrors of (Failed) Communion.

6 :45 11:30-12:15 12: :30 10: :30 Immigration and radicalization. European values. Case study: Breivik. Norway confronting radicalism. Individual presentations by the students. Research questions. Closing the course. Stéphane Lathion, Fight Islamophobia in Europe? Less Islam and Muslims and More Citizenship! Liz Fekete, Rewiring fascists: behind the cult of Exit.

7 References Fundamental readings Assmann, A. & Assmann, C. (2010) Neda the career of a global icon in A. Assmann & S. Conrad (eds.) Memory in a Global Age. Palgrave Macmillan: England: Fekete, Liz (2015) Rewiring fascists: behind the cult of Exit Race & Class 56(3): Handberg, Kristian (2015) Montreal Modern: Retro Culture and the Modern Past in Montreal Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research 7: Hopper, Paul (2007) Globalization and Global Culture in Hopper Understanding Cultural Globalization. Polity Press: Cambridge. Chp. 4: Huyssen, Andreas (2009) Present Pasts: Media, Politcs, Amnesia in Huyssen Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory. Standford University Press: Standford: Jenkins, Richard (2000) Categorization: Identity, Social Process and Epistemology Current Sociology 48(3): Lathion, Stéphane (2015) Fight Islamophibia in Europe? Less Islam and Muslims and More Citizenship! Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 26(2): DOI: / Levy, D. & Sznaider N. (2002) Memory Unbound. The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory European Journal of Social Theory 5(1): Méndez, Alberto (2008) Blind Sunflowers. Arcadia Books: London. Mouffe, Chantal (2012) An Agonistic Approach to the Future of Europe New Literary History 43: Muñoz Molina, Antonio (2003) Sepharad. Harcourt: Florida. Rothberg, Michael (2009) Introduction: Theorizing Multidirectional Memory in a Transnational Age in Rothberg Multidirectional Memory. Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Standford University Press: Standford, California. Chp. 1: Stone, Philip (2013) Dark tourism scholarship: a critical review International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research 7(3): Toivakainen, Niklas (2014) Social Robots as Mirrors of (Failed) Communion in J. Seibt et al. (eds.) Sociable Robots and the Future of Social Relations. Proceedings of Robo- Philosophy IOS Press: Amsterdam: Tomlinson, John (2003) Globalization and Cultural Identity. The global transformations reader, 2:

8 Secondary literature Aiello, G. & Pauwels, L. (2014) Special issue: Difference and globalization Guest Editorial Visual Communication. 13(3). DOI: / Appadurai, Arjun (1990) Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy Theory, Culture & Society 7: Appiah, Anthony (1990) But Would that Still Be Me? Notes on Gender, Race, Ethnicity, As Sources of Identity The Journal of Philosophy 87(10): (2000) Stereotypes and the Shaping of Identity California Law Review 88(1): Assmann, A. & Conrad S. (eds.) (2010) Memory in a Global Age. Palgrave Macmillan: England. Butt, R. & Tuck, H. (2014) European Counter-Radicalisation and De-radicalisation: A Comparative Evaluation of Approaches in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Germany Institut for Strategic Dialogue. Cross-Country Evaluation Report. Web: Gallagher, S. & Zahavi, D. (2008) The Phenomenological Mind. Routledge: New York. Heisey, D. Ray (2011) International Perspectives on Cultural Identity Review of Communication 11(1): DOI: / Hopper, Paul (2007) Understanding Cultural Globalization. Polity Press: Cambridge. Lebow, R. N. et al. (eds.) (2006) The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe. Duke University Press: Durham & London. Seibt, J. et al. (eds.) (2014) Sociable Robots and the Future of Social Relations. Proceedings of Robo-Philosophy IOS Press: Amsterdam. Singh, Navin K. (2013) Globalization and Multilingualism: Case Studies of Indigenous Culture-based Education from the Indian Sub-continent and Their Implications International Journal of Multicultural Education 15(1). DOI: Wilson, E. O. (1999) Consilience. The Unity of Knowledge. Vintage Books: New York.