Programa Intensivo - Información General

Project description

The aim of the seminar is to describe the European city as a centre of crystallisation in the problematic relationship between individuals and society in its evolving historical differences and in its political, societical and cultural implications. This is to be achieved by means of imaginary and especially literary and empirical models. At the heart of the project is first of all the force of current globalisation processes with their multi-cultural hybridisations, which has the effect of dissolving identity, and secondly the productive dynamics which emanate from the confrontation between historically rooted notions of a city-based collective identity with the profound changes taking place in the course of globalisation.

The seminar is directed at students at the second and third levels, who address the framework topic in individual projects. The participants are provided with an international and interdisciplinary forum to process theoretical concepts and to discuss their own work within the framework of teachers’ lectures and project presentations. Cultural-topographical courses forming an empirical basis for the description and relationship between urban living forms, culture and space supplement the programme.

The teaching material, lectures and project presentations conceived within the framework of the intensive programme are published after the seminar in book form or in the Internet.

Planned dissemination of the project results

An informational website on the conception and programme design of international seminars staged to date – including the intensive programme already carried out in Kiel and the intensive programme planned for Paris in May 2008 – was already set up following the Kiel intensive Programme and is of course also being used as an information forum for all additional activities within the framework of ‘European Cities’ programme. The intensive course has its own forum for the publication of articles by students as well as teaching material designed for the programme from the participating lecturers in the guise of the Internet journal SymCity. The publication of selected articles of the lecturers is in addition being planned in book format for the intensive programme in Santiago.

In addition to these three forums for the dissemination of project results, the project results have also been and are being disseminated within the framework of individual publications and events held at the regional, national and transnational levels. The journal Interlitteraria in Estonia, for example, has published the intensive programme articles of Estonian students. The process developed for the Kiel intensive programme will be available to future IP applicants within the framework of an information event organised by the National Agency in Bordeaux. Individual presentations describe the contents of the intensive course to a wide range of target groups at the regional level. A welcoming address at the IV Encontro de Escritores Galegos held in November 2006, which has already been published, for instance, addresses the basic aspects of literary representation of cities; a corresponding lecture on post-dictatorship city literature is being planned at the Ibero-American Institute for June 2008.

At some of the participating universities, it has not least been teachers’ training which has profited from the results of the intensive programme (more these have been completed or are in the process of being written in Kiel in the meantime). The topics addressed by the intensive programme – in particular the question of the opportunities and constraints of inter-cultural learning discussed there on the basics of specific paradigms – and their viability in the area of school education have already been the subject of attention.

Bienvenidos!

La presente bitácora tiene por objetivo el de poner en contacto y reunir información sobre los participantes en la sexta edición del Seminario Internacional Urbes Europaeae que tendrá lugar en Santiago de Compostela entre los días 4 y 13 de Mayo del 2009 bajo el título: “Europäische Städte. Ciudades europeas ante la globalización. Identidades, hibridación y posibilidades de la cultura”.

Para más información sobre éste y los anteriores Programas Intensivos, incluyendo programas, fotografías, Universidades convocantes y acceso a la revista on-line SymCity, podeis acceder picando aquí.