The talk will take place in the School of Education, Durham, Friday 27th February at 1pm<\/b><\/p>\n
Abstract: <\/strong>The notion of interculturality is both empty and polysemic, full of ready-made assumptions which force us to be more critical than ever towards it and to use interdisciplinarity to propose a de-\/re-\/construction of the notion more adapted to today\u2019s realities. This first requires questioning many and varied misnomers which are ambiguous and from a different era: culture, diversity, ethnicity, integration, <\/em>etc. It also means that we need to be careful not to create new \u201cabyssal lines\u201d (de Souza Santos) such as opposing large entities like East-West, Europe-the rest of the world, Muslims-Christians, etc. Adopting the position of an \u2018amateur interculturalist\u2019 (versus a \u2018professional\u2019 one), I present what I believe is central in repositioning the \u2018intercultural\u2019 by insisting on the importance to move away from \u2018hostipitalizing\u2019 the other (Derrida), to put an end to the solidification of identity markers and their intersection and to reflect and act upon the ideologies and scientific naivety that tend to \u2018pollute\u2019 both research and practice. The notions of simplexity (the binding intertwinement between simplicity and complexity), critical identification, similarity and power differentials are central and can help to meet the objective of \u201cgiving the power to become aware of, recognize, push through and present\/defend one\u2019s multiple identities, and to negotiate them in a \u2018satisfactory\u2019 manner with and for our interlocutors\u201d (Dervin).<\/p>\n Fred Dervin<\/strong> is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dervin also holds several professorships in Canada, Luxembourg and Malaysia. Prof. Dervin specializes in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and student and academic mobility. Dervin has widely published in international journals on identity, the \u2018intercultural\u2019 and mobility\/migration. He has published over 30 books and is the series editor of Education beyond borders (Peter Lang)<\/a>,\u00a0Nordic Studies on Diversity in Education<\/a> (with\u00a0Kulbrandstad and Ragnarsd\u00f3ttir; CSP) and\u00a0Post-intercultural communication and education (CSP)<\/a>.<\/p>\n His website:\u00a0http:\/\/blogs.helsinki.fi\/dervin\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The talk will take place in the School of Education, Durham, Friday 27th February at 1pm Abstract: The notion of interculturality is both empty and polysemic, full of ready-made assumptions which force us to be more critical than ever towards it and to use interdisciplinarity to propose a de-\/re-\/construction of the notion more adapted to today\u2019s realities. This first requires […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[139,308],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p865eh-1RA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7200,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions\/7200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}