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Conference Announcement Theme: Crossing Boundaries through Intercultural Encounters Type: International Conference Institution: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP) RVP Iași Center, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Location: Online Date: 22.10.2021 __________________________________________________ Theme In the past years the RVP-Iasi Center organized a set of conferences on the role of intercultural encounters to examine cultural borders and border cultures. As the continuation of the same effort, the Center proposes another in-depth and multi-focused investigation on “Crossing Boundaries through Intercultural Encounters.” The interest will particularly focus on how encounters with the other(s) can contribute to highlighting, crossing or reasserting individual, social and cultural boundaries. One of aspects for discussion will be on the multifaceted nature of a boundary. Indeed, a boundary can be seen either separation or neighborhood. It can indicate the vicinity of aspects in a dynamic relationship. A boundary can mark certain limits, either concrete or abstract. It can be a dividing line or a description of crossing the limits in a field. In mathematics, a boundary means the collection of all points of a given set with the property that every neighborhood of each point contains in the set and in the complementarity of the set. If boundaries are present and active in many ways in our lives, what role can intercultural encounters play in discovering, understanding and possibly surpassing them? Encounters with the other/ness are special and privileged occasions, which can either create differences, separations or build bridges. Meeting the cultural other means to discover hidden boundaries and to experience wishes to overcome them. Intercultural encounters may be able to initiate an effective and dynamic experience of boundaries, a dialectic of boundaries or bounding. In this sense, we need more elaborated understanding of boundaries, as our personal, social and political life brings forth issues of nature, meaningfulness and transgression of these boundaries. Program 10.00-10.15: Opening Session Dan Chițoiu (RVP Iași): Crossing Boundaries 10.15-13.00: Session I (Moderator: Dan Chițoiu) Maxim Michalev (Russian Academy of Sciences): Paradigm Lost. New Approaches to Border Studies in Social Anthropology Morteza Maddahi (Almustafa International University, Iran): Religious Global Values as Bridges of Intercultural Interactions John Ozolins (University of Divinity, Australia): New Borders, Old Borders, Soft Borders, Hard Borders: The Many Faces of Borders During the Covid Pandemic Anthony Savary Raj (Manipal University Jaipur, India): Crossing Borders in the Sky: Reflections on the Vertical Frontiers of Culture 14.30-17.15: Session II (Moderator: John Farina) Osman Bilen (Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey): Invisible Cultural Border over Physical Borderlines Shcherbak Svitlana (The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine): Boundaries of Nation and Populist Uprising: the case of Ukraine Roman Meinhold (Mahidol University, Thailand): Boundary Crossing and Merging Horizons in Transcultural Interactions William Sweet (Francis Xavier University, Canada): Boundaries, Bridging Divides, and the Task of Theology Ives Solis (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico): For in the way you judge, you will be judged": Mexico and the paradox of boundaries 17.15-17.30: Closing Remarks Oana Cogeanu (RVP Iasi) Raising Borders: Travel and Mobility in the Time of Coronavirus Participation is free. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86481287457?pwd=Qzk3blVTMDUxOXVxc0dLL1B5SXpLZz09 Meeting ID: 864 8128 7457 Passcode: 742908 Conference website: http://www.crvp.org/conferences/2021/Iasi.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
