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Cultural Studies and Europe
Or the Reality of Virtuality
Encyclopedia of Multilingual Cultural Studies
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Objectives
The Encyclopedia of Multilingal Cultural Studies is part of
a complex research programme that the INST has started. This research
programme is based on transdisciplinary and transnational cooperation.
Its objectives are to collect cultural experiences in their concrete
linguistic forms and to develop new research terminologies whenever
necessary. In this context it should be taken into account that
so far only three working languages (German, English, French)
have been used, while members of the INST network speak more than
40 different languages. In everyday cooperative work this difference
does not seem to be a problem, but it does matter for starting
a research process in order not to loose any relevant and important
information expressed in a particular language.
For these reasons, this project of an Encyclopedia of Multilingual
Cultural Studies is one of the crucial research activities of
the INST, in addition to the development of methodologies and
research structures (by using modern technologies), the presentations
of research results and to the support of information fluxes in
the research network.
Below please find a proposal for a preliminary structure of
the encyclopedia. In the next few months a discussion process
should lead to a review of this structure. During the conference
in Kusadasi, this structure will be evaluated and modified if
necessary, based on all comments that will have been received
until December of this year.
We hope that this Encyclopedia project will contribute to what
various cultures have in common. This type of research work and
the resulting cooperative activities are of particular importance
in the framework of current initiatives by the European Union
and the Council of Europe, as well as in the context of increasing
international cooperation in these areas. This project is intended,
well beyond the research activity itself, as a call for concentrating
more on what we have in common and what we share, rather than
what separates and divides us (both in historical and in future
perspectives). This it is a project that needs a broad basis of
cooperation and participation. In the open spirit of all INST
projects, we hereby invite you to participate in this research
process!
Concepts
Languages
© INST: Institut zur Erforschung und Förderung
österreichischer und internationaler Literaturprozesse,
2000
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Letztes Update: 26.4.2005