ERASMUS Intensive Programmes Selected Contributions

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International Seminar/ Santiago de Compostela, Spain: European cities in the age of globalisation. Identity, hybridity, opportunities offered by culture (DE-2008-ERA/MOBIP-Ant-28321-1-3) Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel / Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Project coordinator Christian-Albrecht-Universität zu Kiel, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Contact information Prof. Dr. Javier Gómez-Montero Prof. Dr. Angel Eugenio Albuín Gonzalez Romanisches Seminar Departamento de Literatura Española, Teoría da Literatura e Lingäística Xeral Leibnizstr. 10 Fac. de Filoloxía-Campus Universitario Norte. 24098 Kiel 15782 Santiago de Compostela Tel. +49/(0)431/880-2261 Tel. +34 981563100 Ext. 11770 Fax +49/(0)431/880-2477 Fax. +34 981574646 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] kiel.de http://www.usc.es/ http://www.uni-kiel.de/gomez-montero Organisation Dr. Christina Bischoff Dr. José Antonio Aldrey [email protected] [email protected] Participating Humanities Partner universities Université Paris 8, subject areas International Relations, European Studies, and contacts Institut d’Études Européenes Regional Studies, Geography Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie Autissier Level of study Second and third level (Master / PhD) Universität Paderborn, Dr. Christina Bischoff, Funded Students 43 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,Tartu Ülikool Funded lecturers 13 Prof. Dr. Angel Eugenio AbuínProf. Gonzalez Dr. Jüri Talvet Universitá degli Studi di Napoli – Working language French, Spanish L’orientale, Prof. Dr. Encarnación Sánchez García Location Santiago de Compostela, Spain Length of course 12 days Website IP: http://www.uni-kiel.de/urbes.europaeae/ Online review SymCity: http://www.uni-kiel.de/symcity/ ERASMUS nd Blog: http://ipsantiago.blogspot.com/ application year Initial application (2 extension) Project description Planned dissemination of the project results The aim of the seminar is to describe the European city as a centre of A informational website on the conception and programme design of crystallisation in the problematic relationship between individuals and international seminars staged to date – including the intensive programme society in its evolving historical differences and in its political, societical and already carried out in Kiel and the intensive programme planned for Paris in cultural implications. This is to be achieved by means of imaginary and May 2008 – was already set up following the Kiel intensive Programme and is especially literary and empirical models. At the heart of the project is first of of course also being used as an information forum for all additional activities all the force of current globalisation processes with their multi-cultural within the framework of ‘European Cities’ programme. The intensive course hybridisations, which has the effect of dissolving identity, and secondly the has its own forum for the publication of articles by students as well as teaching productive dynamics which emanate from the confrontation between material designed for the programme from the participating lecturers in the historically rooted notions of a city-based collective identity with the guise of the internet journal SymCity. The publication of selected articles of the profound changes taking place in the course of globalisation. lecturers is in addition being planned in book format for the intensive programme in Santiago. The seminar is directed at students at the second and third levels, who In addition to these three forums for the dissemination of project results, the address the framework topic in individual projects. The participants are project results have also been and are being disseminated within the provided with an international and interdisciplinary forum to process framework of individual publications and events held at the regional, national theoretical concepts and to discuss their own work within the framework of and transnational levels. The journal Interlitteraria in Estonia, for example, has teachers’ lectures and project presentations. Cultural-topographical courses published the intensive programme articles of Estonian students. The process forming an empirical basis for the description and relationship between developed for the Kiel intensive programme in December 2006 will be urban living forms, culture and space supplement the programme. available to future IP applicants within the framework of an information event The teaching material, lectures and project presentations conceived within organised by the National Agency in Bordeaux. Individual presentations the framework of the intensive programme are published after the seminar describe the contents of the intensive course to a wide range of target groups in book form or on the internet. at the regional level. A welcoming address at the IV Encontro de Escritores Galegos held in November 2006, which has already been published, for instance, addresses the basic aspects of literary representation of cities; a corresponding lecture on post-dictatorship city literature is being planned at the Ibero-American Institute at Berlin for June 2008. The review Culture Europe (Institut d’Études Européennes, Paris) will be published as a monograph in 2009. At some of the participating universities, it has not least been teachers’ training which has profited from the results of the intensive programme (more these have been completed or are in the process of being written in Kiel in the meantime). The topics addressed by the intensive programme – in particular the question of the opportunities and constraints of inter-cultural learning discussed there on the basics of specific paradigms – and their viability in the area of school education have already been the subject of attention.