When: |
20 May through 21 May 2023 | |
CFP Deadline: |
31 |
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Where: |
London/Online, United Kingdom | |
Website URL: |
https://cosmopolitanism.lcir.co.uk | |
Sponsoring organization: |
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research | |
Categories: |
Social Sciences - Sociology |
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Event description:
Cosmopolitanism is, at the same time, a complex and continuously changing academic concept and real-life practice: historically long-standing and highly contemporary, progressive and future-oriented yet still considered in large parts utopian, deeply individual and yet highly socially and politically influential. Adding to this complexity, it is in recent times ever more debated across a multitude of academic disciplines, ranging from anthropology and sociology, across cultural and literary studies, and over world history to philosophy, up to political science, economics, international relations and even arts.
From its origins with the Greek Stoics in the 2nd century BCE, it continues to fascinate academics, politicians, travelers, artists and dreamers alike. From its original context and meaning of “kosmou politês” (that was however limited to Ancient Greece’s male and free citizens), it has become a universal testament of the world’s peoples desires and hopes for planetary conv...
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