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Conference Announcement Theme: Cultural Identities in a Global World Subtitle: Reframing Cultural Hybridity Type: Online Interdisciplinary Laboratory-Conference Institution: International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University Giessen Location: Giessen (Germany) Date: 23.–25.6.2021 __________________________________________________ The international, interdisciplinary laboratory conference “Cultural Identities in a Global World: Reframing Cultural Hybridity” will take place online on June 23-24-25, 2021 at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture in Giessen, Germany. The 21st Century is a time of cultural and social acceleration (Rosa, 2013), which continuously shapes physical limits by updating socio-cultural dynamics in the hybrid form of overlapping, blending and mixing of cultural identities. The novel COVID-19 pandemic highlights this global dimension by provoking an even faster digitalization of all spheres of life and forming new cultural hierarchies through disparities in technological development and economic resources. Is this crisis one of the examples that show how cultural hybridity can be reconceptualised in theoretical discourses and social practice? In this laboratory-conference, we look for a more concrete, differentiated and nuanced understanding of cultural hybridity, stressing the need for a critique of the concept and its harmonious connotations. We aim to explore new ways to overcome the essentialization and commodification of cultural hybridity that has been taking place in the last decades in the global world. In this way, we encourage new meanings, action-oriented concepts in a broader discussion about localization, translation and digitalization of cultural identities in our interconnected global world. From the local to the global, cultural hybridity nowadays travels across the individual, political, religious, biological, cultural and virtual spaces in the historical contexts of nation-state, transnationalism and globalisation. Hence, hybridity can entangle new meanings and action-oriented concepts. This conference aims to reframe the discourse on hybridity by exploring this cultural artefact in theory and social practice and as a still useful analytical tool in the study of culture. Conference Overview Wednesday, 23.6.2021 13.00 - 13.15 Welcome and Introduction by Laura Popa and Clara Verri Panel: Negotiation of Gender in the Digital Era Panel: Digitalisation of Culture 16.00 - 17.30 Workshop: To What Extent Can Post-Digitality Be Understood as “Life-World Hybridity”? 18.00 - 20.00 Keynote Lecture: Hybridity and Economy Prof. Dr. Andreas Langenohl (International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany) Thursday, 24.6.2021 10.30 - 12.00 Panel: 'Otherness' in the Interconnected Global World Panel: The Self in 21st-Century Individual and Collective Identities 14.00 - 16.00 Panel: Nation-State Preservation and Reformulations Panel: Cultural Transformations between the Local and the Global 16.15 - 18.15 Workshop: Creating New Cultural Space: Hybridity and Authenticity Identity Friday, 25.6.2021 9.30 - 11.00 Panel: Home and Far-Away: Identity in Migration Panel: Heritage-Making in Multiple Temporalities 11.15 - 12.45 Laboratory - Debate: Working with Concepts of Hybridity/Identity – Summary Reflections and Critical Impulses (Part I) 14.00 - 15.30 Laboratory - Debate: Working with Concepts of Hybridity/Identity – Summary Reflections and Critical Impulses (Part II) The deadline for registration is June 16, 2021. Conference website: https://www.uni-giessen.de/faculties/gcsc/gcsc/events/conferences-symposia-summer-schools/conference-sites/cultural-identities-global-world __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
