Thinking the intercultural encounter as art: aesthetic emancipation and the fiction of autonomy

Description

What if we considered intercultural encounters as art? Can knowledge about communicative encounters perhaps only ever be speculation about pedagogical, formative processes, which are aesthetic in nature? In other words, can intercultural education research not ever only make a good guess as to the possible relationships that are formed in an intercultural encounter - between the various ‘I’’s and their self and other-conceptions - and the ways these map onto our pedagogical aims and expectations? What if intercultural education research is never more than a mode of (more or less ‘artful’) storytelling – perhaps even a fiction - about processes of intercultural formation; aesthetic processes that we can only indirectly access and evaluate (as ethics, epistemology, ontology) afterwards? Should we think of intercultural encounters as art?

Period	23 Mar 2022
Event title	Intercultural Communication Pedagogy and the Question of the Other (Research Seminar)
Event type	Seminar
Location	Edinburgh, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International