The challenge of this research is to critically investigate the evolution of representations of common values and the construction of transcultural identity in a Europe in constantly changing, grappling with increasing conflicts, mobility and migration.
This will be done in the light of the European cultural heritage with its various artistic and contemporary creative practices and its potential to promote diversity, intercultural dialogue and social cohesion. The project will contribute to a better understanding of cross-cultural Europeanisation through different means.
To prevent socio-cultural conflicts on a sustainable basis it is essential to understand European cultural diversity and identify possible cultural misunderstandings. To support the scientific community in this endeavour, the project will provide an online database of transcultural and artistic contemporary practices. The database, supplied by the members of the research and by possible input from other scholars, is however conceived as an exemplificative support with no exhaustive purpose.
In addition to reflection on the main theoretical approaches and key notions relevant to the project, such as transculturality, the ‘foreign gaze’, and gender, and to develop a common terminology for all the research lines
involved, the project aims to contribute to the creation of an innovative theoretical framework for the analysis of transcultural Europeanisation. From a quantitative point of view, the project will create a representative but inevitably not exhaustive database that will include a selection of literature, art, theatre, performance, film and new media from the last thirty years. This new artistic and inter-artistic ‘canon’ will tend to be gender-balanced.
The database will be made available to a broad scientific community, even after the conclusion of the project, if the conditions for its permanence and implementation will be ensured by additional funding. The scientific tools for dissemination of research results will range from academic articles, books, webinars and conferences all possibly in open access.
The general public will be addressed in the following ways: an online exhibition, public events public events and an educational format to be used in schools, in their integration programmes, or through public discussions public discussions of the research results. The project aspires to contribute to the promotion of gender equality and of young researchers, whose involvement and support will ensure the contribution of this important part of society to the results of research and will ensure the sustainability of the approach.
The interdisciplinary and multi-perspective nature of this project will be expressed through a number of fundamental lines of research proposed by the core group of participants, led by the proposer Franca Sinopoli (PI), to which will be added the equally decisive contributions of external participants, research fellows and doctoral students. the equally decisive contributions of external participants, research fellows and PhD students.
