Thursday 29 April 2010

A Transcultural and Transnational Invitation

Anyone in the Black Country next Wednesday is warmly invited to the launch of the Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research, of which I am a lowly member.

The launch will be from 4.30-7.30 in MC001, with an inaugural lecture on Arctic Studies by the renowned scholar Jan Borm. Warm white wine will no doubt be served.


The Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research (CTTR) provides a research environment for interdisciplinary investigation into the history and continuing pertinence of internationalism, cosmopolitanism, and other inter-cultural configurations of consciousness and identity, including the ways in which these are manifested in micro-cosmopolitan contexts (e.g. the national, regional, or local).




The Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research:
  • brings together the terms ‘transnational’ and ‘transcultural’ in recognition of the mutuality of spatial/geographical and aesthetic/cultural modes of identity;
  • emphasises the importance of longitudinal study from the eighteenth-century to the present;
  • is consciously multi- and inter-disciplinary, drawing its researchers from Literary Studies, Modern Languages, American Studies, European Studies, Linguistics, History, Politics, and other disciplines;
  • has an established international collaborative dimension, with active international Honorary Research Fellows and International Advisors representing a world-wide community of scholars;
  • provides opportunities for early career and post-doctoral research, post-graduate study, and public outreach.

The Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research hosts three sub-groups representing its principal focus areas:

Europe: Trend and Transformation (ETAT)

Global Culture and Identity (GCI)

Transnational Pedagogies (TP)


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello. That sounds very good although your name did, immediately, make me think of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enr4W6FsSpk

Dr. Strabismus of Utrecht said...

With regard to

"transnational and transcultural in recognition of the mutuality of spatial/geographical and aesthetic/cultural modes of identity ",

Permit me to ask - What time does the wine appear ?