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UNESCO Chair in Cultural and Comparative Studies on the Imaginary (726), established in 2006 at Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milano (Italy)

 

Fields / Disciplines Cultural and comparative studies on the imaginary Objectives The purpose of the Chair shall be to promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation in the field of cultural and comparative studies on the imaginary. This is in order to favour the interdisciplinary comparison of knowledge and methodologies improving researches on the imaginary, thus contributing to diffuse them worldwide and to grant the dissemination of results through the creation of an International Magazine, and to promote the integration of young researchers. It will serve as a means of facilitating collaboration between high-level, internationally recognized researchers and teaching staff of the University, other institutions in Italy and Europe and North America, and in other regions of the world to encourage them to include this subject in their research scope. The ultimate goal is to consider the studies on the imaginary as a major contribution to the origins and cultural identities. Host Institution Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM Website Progress Report 2007-2008 (short version) UNESCO Sector / Office responsible for the Chair/Network Culture

04-05-2009 (Italy)-International conference on “Imagination of Pure and Impure” by a UNESCO Chair on “Cultural and Comparative studies on Imaginary” , Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM This meeting seeks to provide a forum for the analysis of processes and interactions of social representations yielded by the pure and impure, trying to give voice to the polyhedral representations they generate within different cultural contexts. >> More

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Progress Report 2007-2008 (short version)
UNESCO Chair in Cultural and Comparative Studies on the Imaginary, established in 2006 at Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milano (Italy)