Cultural Studies and Europe
Or the Reality of Virtuality

Encyclopedia of Multilingual Cultural Studies

 
 

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The Encyclopedia of Multilingal Cultural Studies is part of a complex research programme that the INST has started. This research programme is based on transdisciplinary and transnational cooperation. Its objectives are to collect cultural experiences in their concrete linguistic forms and to develop new research terminologies whenever necessary. In this context it should be taken into account that so far only three working languages (German, English, French) have been used, while members of the INST network speak more than 40 different languages. In everyday cooperative work this difference does not seem to be a problem, but it does matter for starting a research process in order not to loose any relevant and important information expressed in a particular language.

For these reasons, this project of an Encyclopedia of Multilingual Cultural Studies is one of the crucial research activities of the INST, in addition to the development of methodologies and research structures (by using modern technologies), the presentations of research results and to the support of information fluxes in the research network.

Below please find a proposal for a preliminary structure of the encyclopedia. In the next few months a discussion process should lead to a review of this structure. During the conference in Kusadasi, this structure will be evaluated and modified if necessary, based on all comments that will have been received until December of this year.

We hope that this Encyclopedia project will contribute to what various cultures have in common. This type of research work and the resulting cooperative activities are of particular importance in the framework of current initiatives by the European Union and the Council of Europe, as well as in the context of increasing international cooperation in these areas. This project is intended, well beyond the research activity itself, as a call for concentrating more on what we have in common and what we share, rather than what separates and divides us (both in historical and in future perspectives). This it is a project that needs a broad basis of cooperation and participation. In the open spirit of all INST projects, we hereby invite you to participate in this research process!

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Culture

Culture of Peace

Knowledge

Research

Information

Cultural Studies

Art

Polylog

Reality

Time

Transnationality

Virtuality

Civil Society

Civilization

 
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Algerian | Arab | Azerbaijanian |
Bantu |
English |
French |
German | Ghom'ala |
Hungarian |
Italian |
Japanese |
Korean |
Ossetian |
Romanian | Russian |
Slovakian | Slovenian |
Turkish |
Ukrainian |
Wolof |

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© INST: Institut zur Erforschung und Förderung österreichischer und internationaler Literaturprozesse, 2000

Letztes Update: 26.4.2005