Круглый стол «Культурный трансфер»

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16 ноября в 17. 30

В Школе филологии Факультета гуманитарных наук

(Старая Басманная, 21/4)

в ауд. 502

состоится круглый стол: «Культурный трансфер»

в рамках круглого стола будут представлены два доклада:

Ханс-Юрген Люзебринк

(Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)

Cultural Transfers and Globalization – theoretical concepts, methodological challenges, research paradigms

Юбер Ролан

(University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

Belgo-German cultural and literary transfer from one occupation to the other: a dialogue under constraint or a time of new opportunities?

язык выступлений – английский

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Краткая аннотация докладов:

Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)

Cultural Transfers and Globalization – theoretical concepts, methodological challenges, research paradigms

1.Cultural transfers – theoretical issues and major concepts Cultural transfers – an interdisciplinary field of research and investigation. 2.Cultural transfers – an interdisciplinary field of research and investigation. 3.Time -Intercultural challenges and cultural transfers of a universal category.

(1) In the first part will be introduced the major concepts of the cultural transfer approach – like ‘selection processes’, ‘mediators’, ‘adaptation’ and ‘productive reception’ - and the theoretical and methodological issues they are related to. (2) In the second part will be focused the variety of the field of research and investigation - and also teaching – covered by the cultural transfer approach. It reaches from the symbolic dimensions of material cultures (embracing for example public relations, marketing and advertising) to the different forms of symbolic representations, including literature, media and the arts which are analyzed – through the cultural transfer approach - in intercultural and transcultural perspectives. (3) Time is a universal category, but its concrete human perception and its agency are undergoing very significant historical and anthropological changes and transformations, through the establishment of calendars, the determination of historical periods and the structure of collective memory. The third part of the conference intends to analyze the cultural and intercultural implications of the representation and perception of time in various modern European and non-European societies with regard first to the culturally determined structures of calendars and time-periods; secondly with regard to the management of time in the everyday life of culturally different societies; and thirdly with regard to the process of cultural transfer of time frames, concepts and practices, as a result of the phenomenon of globalization where western societies played a predominant role since the end of the 15^th century. The new calendar introduced during the French Revolution in 1792 and the perception of time in modern African societies, as reflected in movies and literary texts, will be among the examples analyzed during this part of the conference.  It will be based on research done in different disciplines, from history to intercultural communication, ethnology, historical anthropology and cultural studies. The third part will lead to conclusions concerning the relations between universality and cultural differences and the contribution of the cultural transfer approach to this field of investigation which seems of major importance in (inter)cultural studies and research.

Hubert Roland (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

Belgo-German cultural and literary transfer from one occupation to the other: a dialogue under constraint or a time of new opportunities?  

Following Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink’s hypothesis that War and Occupation situations may “intensify intercultural exchange and […] simultaneously produce contacts and effects which are at the same time unexpected and paradoxical” (H.-J. Lüsebrink, 2003) this lecture questions the cultural and literary transfer which took place between German and Belgian scholars, intellectuals and artists during the two World Wars and both periods of German occupation in Belgium. The two case studies which will be presented are characteristic of the long-term impact such cultural exchange can possibly have: 1.Anton Kippenberg’s ambitious project of editing Flemish-speaking authors in German translation for publisher Insel-Verlag in 1914-1918 fitted to the strategic goal of the German occupier to promote the culture and literature of the “small Germanic brother”. It fundamentally reshaped the German and international vision of Belgian art, as is shown by the fact that Flanders (together with the Netherlands) built the thematic highlight of the Frankfurt book fair in 1993 and 2016. 2. Belgian literary critic and future scholar of Deconstruction Paul de Man published in 1941-1942 literary reviews of German and other foreign literatures in the daily newspaper Le Soir, which had been “stolen” by National-Socialist occupier. Considering de Man’s academic influence in the field of comparative literature since the 1960ies we want to question the way he conceived intercultural mediation in this dark period of European history. In both situations the fundamental role of French culture as a major actor of the Belgo-German and European intellectual mediation is being indirectly but significantly tackled.