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How Does Culture Move

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Hosted by the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics and the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
Date
Oct 29, 2021 - Oct 30, 2021   8:30 am  
E-Mail
info-hri@illinois.edu
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CSAMES events

Symposium: “How Does Culture Move? —

Movement and Stasis in Global Cultural History”

Event Type

Seminar/Symposium

Sponsor

Organized by the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, with co-sponsorship from HRI.

Location

Levis Faculty Center and Zoom

Date; Time

Oct 29, 2021 - Oct 30, 2021;  All Day

Registration

Registration

Contact

Humanities Research Institute

E-Mail

info-hri@illinois.edu

Originating Calendar

HRI

***This symposium will be held simultaneously in person and online. For full details and registration, visit https://howdoesculturemove.slcl.illinois.edu/ ***

This symposium will examine how culture moves and circulates: across space, time, material conditions, technologies and affects. We will consider how movement shapes and reshapes the cultural domain, creating new relationships between people, objects and practices. How does movement shape a community’s perception of local space and cultural identity? Conversely, what happens with the meaning of objects, paradigms, practices, when they are anchored or moored; when they become static? We’ve brought together cultural scholars, working in different contexts to engage in critical reflection on mobility and stasis, as well as the global-local. We will focus particularly on approaches and modes of scholarship that de-center dominant paradigms in relation to how “the world” has been conceived, as well as investigating the conditions that determine the inertial and accelerative aspects of cultural movement. Participants will include outside speakers, as well as faculty and graduate students from our campus.

Topics will include the circulation of material goods, concepts and bodies; object itineraries; travel, mobilization; migration, multilingualism, and language use; place and placelessness; technologies of mobility; affects in motion; heritage; knowledge production; layered identities.

Hosted by the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics and the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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