Konferenz
Cultural Transfer - Culture as Transfer. IASH Winter School
In a literal sense, "cultural transfer" refers to the "cultural mobility of objects" (Stephen Greenblatt): the global flow of commodities, concepts, words, images, persons, animals, money, weapons, drugs etc. Such a pragmatic notion may be the starting point for an interdisciplinary debate on alternative theories of "culture" in the humanities and social sciences.
The Winter School addresses a twofold question: - How can we reconstruct and conceptualize concrete examples of cultural transfer? - And how can we, with such examples in mind, reconsider culture as transfer?
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