[PLing] Dominic Busch (München) / Post-humanist Interculturality / May 14, 2024, 6 p.m. / virtual talk @WU

[Thielemann, Nadine]

Dear colleagues,

it is a pleasure for us to invite you to a virtual talk within our series Lectures in Language, Culture, and Communication @WU by

Prof. Dr. Dominic Busch
(Universität der Bundeswehr, München)


Post-Humanist Interculturality


May 14, 2024, on ZOOM at 6 p.m.

Please sign up for this event:
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For more information about our guest and the talk - https://www.wu.ac.at/bizcomm/event-details/detail/public-lecture-dominic-busch

We are looking forward to meeting you on screen! Feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues & students!

Kind regards,
Nadine Thielemann & team


Abstract

How can research discover something genuinely new? Many approaches in the theory of science and many disciplines reject this question as naive, deny its possibility, or evade it. Research in intercultural communication was once concerned with predicting human behavior on the global stage. Still, in recent decades, it has increasingly focused on exploring interculturality as incorporating the other, the foreign, and the new. Epistemological concerns have been at the root of several challenges in this project, such as the crisis of representation and the reflections on 'writing culture' in cultural anthropology. However, this search for the new has been given further impetus by the growing reception of post-structural thinking in intercultural communication research. In particular, movements such as the ontological turn, new materialism, and post-humanism argue for a fundamental rethinking of the epistemological and ontological assumptions of the social sciences. Accordingly, the search for the new will require that it not be conceived in its difference from the self. Researchers must shift their perspective away from the traditional humanistic and anthropocentric worldview. Finally, they should no longer use existing research methods to structure what they find. This lecture will present and discuss different approaches from the field of intercultural communication research that put these claims into practice. It will show the emergence of a search for what might be called a post-humanist interculturality. The lecture concludes by critically examining the limitations of such an approach.

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Dominic Busch is a professor of intercultural communication and conflict research at Universität der Bundeswehr München, Faculty of Human Sciences. In his study, Dominic focuses on how societies project ethical aspirations into dealing with interculturality (full article<https://doi.org/g625>) and how notions of culture are used in conflict mediation research to create different understandings of intercultural mediation (full article<https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eujal-2015-0037/html>). Dominic is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation 2023.



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