2005 Press Releases
The Cause of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond - 11,12 November
An ancient way of looking at the world links wisdom to the attempt to
look beyond the space you usually inhabit. How we might achieve such a
change in our way of thinking and why we might today continue to seek
to do so are some of the questions that will be debated at a conference
that will take place in University College Cork (UCC) on 11 and
12 November next. Titled The Cause of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and
Beyond, the conference will bring together speakers from universities
in Ireland, Britain, Holland, Denmark and the United States.
The conference will ask how cross-cultural communication might give
rise to a cosmopolitan society and what the characteristic features of
such a society might be. Keynote speakers are Christopher
Prendergast (King's College, Cambridge) and Nick Stevenson (University
of Nottingham).
This event is the 31st research symposium of the Committee for
Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies of the Royal Irish
Academy. The conference has been organized on behalf of the Committee
by Patrick O'Donovan and Laura Rascaroli, two members of staff in UCC,
with assistance from staff in the Royal Irish Academy.
The conference has received generous sponsorship from Depfa Bank, the
Royal Irish Academy, and the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social
Sciences, University College Cork.
To find out more about the conference, and to register online, please visit the website of the Royal Irish Academy: http://www.ria.ie/committees/modlang/new.html
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