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Researching interculturally:
Conceptual and methodological issues
24 November 2017
Researching Interculturally
Research is very often an intercultural encounter. For students and scholars of Arts and Humanities subjects, researching interculturally requires a critical and creative understanding of the contested concept of culture, the ‘inter-’ aspects of cultural encounters and researchers’ own positions. This workshop will focus on the core conceptual and methodological issues of researching interculturally and is designed to create a space for thinking through and about interculturality both critically and creatively.
The focus
The workshop focuses on the core conceptual and methodological issues of researching interculturally and is designed to create a space for thinking through and about interculturality both critically and creatively.
Keynote Speakers
A conversation with a panel of speakers from a range of fields such as sociology, art education, applied linguistics, language and intercultural studies and literature and culture.
Speakers are listed below.
Key questions
What does researching interculturally mean for various fields or disciplines?
• What new and creative possibilities does researching interculturally generate?
• What challenges does researching interculturally bring?
• How to research interculturally in practical terms?
PROGRAM
10:30
The organisers
Welcome and introduction
15mins
October gallery
The organisers
Ella McCartney and Rosalie Schweiker
Thinking interculturality through art
Ella McCartney is an artist and Fine Art lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and Manchester Metropolitan University. She has recently completed a Leverhulme funded Artist in Residence in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck, University of London (2016-17). Recent exhibitions and projects include, To Act To Know To Be, Lychee One Gallery, London (Solo exhibition), On Cold Spring Lane, Assembly Point, London, Pond Skater, Five Years Gallery, London, Gender, Identity and Material (Film Screening) Royal Academy of Art, London (All 2017) The Science of Imaginary Solutions, Breese Little, London, To Act, To Know, To Be, (performance), Bloomsbury Festival, University College London, To Act, To Know, To Be (performance) Nottingham Contemporary, Felicity Black, Caustic Coastal, Manchester , Objects on the Moon (publication), Ace Hotel, London Pavilion, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy (all 2016)
45mins
Ella McCartney and Rosalie Schweiker
Various experts
A conversation with a panel of experts
90mins
October gallery
Various experts
Please check the confirmed list of speakers on the homepage
13:00
Lunch
45mins
13:45
Various groups
Group discussion
All participants organise in groups for discussion
60mins
October gallery
Various groups
All participants
14:45
All
Discussion and summary
90mins
October gallery
All
Experts and all participants engage in discussion of the day's main themes
Workshop Venue
October Gallery

24 Old Gloucester Street
Bloomsbury
London WC1N 3AL
United Kingdom
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Universities
6
speakers
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programs
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attenders
OUTPUTS
Videos from the Workshop:
OUTPUTS
Workshop material is regularly updated here.
Contemporary research involves working across many different cultural boundaries. These boundaries are ethnic, disciplinary, professional, industrial, workplace and community-based. Each of these domains has its own cultures, discourses and practices. The successful twenty-first century researcher must develop the intercultural knowledge and skills to operate sensitively in this complex research arena (Manathunga 2009:175).
Manathunga 2009
ABOUT
The workshop is coordinated by Professor Zhu Hua (Birkbeck College, University of London), Dr Bojana Petric (Birkbeck College, University of London), Dr Alessia Cogo (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and Professor Maria Roth-Lauret (University of Sussex).
Funding for this event is provided by the Consortium for Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE).
Contact: Tian Gan (Goldsmiths, University of London) tgan002@gold.ac.uk

