The Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication of the University of Valencia holds from 3 to 5 December, the conference ‘Diverciudades. Visiones urbanas de lo cotidiano. (Culturas en itinerancia)’. The guest of honor is Michel Maffesoli, a French sociologist internationally recognized, who will give the inaugural conference: ‘Les tribus urbaines’ today at 10:00. On the basis of a theoretical corpus that is supported by anthropology, within this conference, the notion of ‘cotidianidad’ in urban environments will be reviewed, a concept that in the last half century has been affected by great changes, accentuated in the recent years due to the economic crisis.
The conference counts on the collaboration of the Department of English and German and the Office of the Vice-Principal for Research and Science Policy of the University of Valencia, as well as the French Embassy in Spain and the French Institute. The specialist in literature and contemporary theatre Domingo Pujante is one of the participants. His research is based on the problematic on the identity, exile and migrations. The website of the conference is http://www.uv.es/divercites.
Beyond studies on globalization and migrations, the purpose of this scientific conference is to examine in depth the problems generated by the globalization process and the transformations experienced on the westerns urban areas, especially in the area of Mediterranean, as well as the reflection on literary and artistic productions. Michel Maffesoli, professor at the Sorbonne, Director of Centre d'Études sur l'Actuel et le Quotidien and the magazine Sociétés, will inaugurate the first session with an approach of the phenomenon of the urban tribes, a matter to which he has devoted much of his career. Maffesoli, author of major works of contemporary sociology such as El nomadismo, La transformación de lo político or En el crisol de las apariencias, spotlights the emotional and sensitive dimension of quotidian, aspects considered as defining of a postmodern age that, according to his point of view, has to leave the rational thinking behind.
Apart from Maffesoli, about thirty participants will take part in the seminar, whose conferences will be divided into different areas of the social and human sciences. With the intent to approach the social frameworks where cultural diversity transform into reality, the challenges faced by some disciplines such as literature, theatre, cinema, art, music, journalism, linguistics, urbanism, sociology and genre studies will be reviewed. The objective is to analyse the representation of quotidian in every type of literary and artistic productions, with a particular emphasis on those traditionally invisible groups such as women, ethnical and sexual minorities, or children. With this purpose, the most transversal approaches in respect of thematic, aesthetics and territorial extent will be prioritised.
Last update: 30 de november de 2012 15:21.
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