[ecrea] Cosmopolitanism and the Margins. An international symposium on Voice, Space and Citizenship

"Cosmopolitanism and the Margins. An international symposium on Voice, 
Space and Citizenship"

30-31 October 2014 (Registration is free and open to all, see link below)

Venue: E2 Auditorium, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Campus, 
Stockholm, Sweden

Keynote Speeches:

Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of Economics)
Post-humanitarianism:The Contemporary Politics of Solidarity

Nikos Papastergiadis (The University of Melbourne)
Cosmopolitanism: A Perspective from the South

Myria Georgiou TBC (London School of Economics,)
Loving difference? The Contradictory Cosmopolitan Visions of the 
Mediated City

Erik Gandini (FASAD)
Cosmopolitan Visions

Closing Plenary
Karin Becker (Stockholm University)

As indicated by the volume of research and writing produced in recent 
years, questions related with cosmopolitanism, citizenship and social 
space retain their significance both in cultural studies and political 
science. At odds with the cosmopolitan vision, however, we are 
witnessing the rise of the remodeled European far-right that capitalizes 
on populist rhetoric over the loss of jobs, sovereignty, cultural and 
ethnic ideals and on immigration and immigrants such as the so-called 
“benefits tourists” from Eastern and Central Europe. The resurgent 
conservatism in Europe condemns cosmopolitanism while at the same time 
lauding its results. Parallel to this, both our mediated (e.g. 
electronic media) and actual (e.g. urban space) spaces of communication 
become increasingly more exclusive, more commodified and less tolerant 
of dissent, otherness and marginality, be it gentrification in London or 
the ban on graffiti in Stockholm and elsewhere.

Against this background, the symposium concerns itself with both 
theoretical and practical aspects of communication, urban space and 
social practice at large. We seek to offer contextual understandings of 
a broad range of questions and debates that materialize around 
multiculturalism, marginal/ized communities, race-racism-racialization, 
global social movements, environmental crises, and art and ‘expressive 
cultures’. While recent social incidents that invoke such debates (such 
as the various global uprisings and urban riots) constitute concrete 
contexts within which to reconsider the purchase of cosmopolitanism as 
idea and ideal, the symposium aims to generate theoretical thinking and 
deliberation on the transhistoric and transcultural viability of 
cosmopolitan thought.

Cosmopolitanism and the Margins is part of the ongoing research project 
Cosmopolitanism from the Margins: Mediations of Expressivity, Social 
Space and Cultural Citizenship funded by the Swedish Research Council 
(Proj. Dir.: Miyase Christensen, Stockholm University and KTH Royal 
Institute of Technology; Co-investigator: André Jansson, Karlstad 
University; Doctoral Researcher: Tindra Thor, Stockholm University). The 
symposium is administered by Dr. Susanna Lidström and Sofia Jonsson KTH 
Royal Institute of Technology.

Abstract submission and registration:

There are limited spots for paper presentations during the symposium.

15 October: Deadline for abstract submissions – send your brief abstract 
to Prof. Miyase Christensen: (miyase /at/ kth.se)

(Notification of acceptance from symposium organizers will be quick and 
on a rolling basis.)

20 October: Final day of registration for all participants. Please 
register for the symposium (indicating which day/s you plan to attend) 
using the following link:

http://www.kth.se/en/abe/inst/philhist/historia/kalender/cosmopolitanism-and-the-margins-1.502107?date=2014-10-30&orgdate=2014-10-01&length=1&orglength=31

For further questions please contact Prof. Miyase Christensen (miyase /at/ kth.se)



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