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Research Programs
interrogating concepts of the cross-cultural
postcolonialism and cultural history
the cultural impact of transnational migrations
and mobilities
visual and new media research across cultures
cross-cultural perspectives of contemporary art and
society
Interrogating Concepts of the Cross-Cultural
Through this program, the CCR provides intellectual leadership in the
area of cross-cultural research, an area of increasing significance
across various disciplines. The term ‘cross-cultural’ has
been widely used across the humanities and social sciences for a number
of years without ever undergoing rigorous interrogation that would make
it an evolved analytical and theoretical concept for interdisciplinary
research. By ‘cross-cultural research’ we mean scholarship
that is oriented towards tracing patterns of transaction and translation
between cultures. Methodologically, such scholarship transcends conventional
national and area studies frames of reference by recognising the increasing
porousness of cultural boundaries. This program examines both the disciplinary
and interdisciplinary ramifications of the term ‘cross-cultural’
in Humanities research. It does so by exploring the theoretical links
between the notion of the ‘cross cultural’ as it has emerged
in the disciplinary fields of anthropology, history, literary studies
and linguistics, and contemporary conceptualisations of ‘cultural
difference’ in the transdisciplinary fields of postcolonial, migration
and globalisation studies.
Projects
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Exploring processes
of linguistic and cultural translation
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Examining transnational
flows within global intellectual movements
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Cross-cultural
perspectives in musicology
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Cross-cultural
comparative literary studies
Other research initiatives and outreach
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Visiting Scholars
Program, Challenges to Perform Cross-Culturally – focus
on performative aspects of cross-cultural research (annual)
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Six-Pack seminar
series on Historicising Cross-Cultural Research (2004)
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10-day Visiting
Scholars Program, Pigments of the Imagination – focus
on conceptualizing and writing mixed-race global cultural histories;
examination of vocabularies connoting cross-cultural contact and exchange
such as ‘hybridity’ and ‘metissage’ (2004)
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Fusion
– a year of activities exploring the merging of artistic practices,
cultural productions, and intellectual currents across disciplines;
included symposia, exhibitions and musical performances. In association
with ANU National Institute for the Arts and the National Portrait
Gallery (2003)
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Six-Pack seminar
series on Translation: Crossing Over, Double Crossing, Witnessing
– a series of six public seminars by experts in the field (2003)
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