Intercultural Dialogues

Este estudio aporta cómo la personalidad de un pintor como Fernando Zóbel, nacido en Filipinas y formado entre el archipiélago y Europa, absorbió de un modo muy profundo y particular parte del pensamiento y el arte de Asia Oriental, de China y Japón.
This study contributes to know how the personality of a painter like Fernando Zóbel, born in the Philippines and formed between the archipelago and Europe, absorbed in a very deep and particular way part of the thought and art of East Asia, China and Japan.

This draft paper on the European Union’s ‘Year of Intercultural Dialogue’ (2008) and other related programmes by the EU and the Council of Europe (CoE) is intended eventually as a chapter in a longer study (perhaps a book) on  intercultural knowledge, intercultural dialogue, and interculturalism, others bits of which also exist in draft form. Here I review what ‘intercultural dialogue’ meant to the EU and the CoE, why they thought it necessary to engage with intercultural dialogue, what they hoped to achieve through such engagement, and how they set about implementing dialogue through various initiatives (‘actions’) mainly in the period since the turn of the 21st century. It also asks whether the end result was any more than ‘Words, Words, Words’.

There is a large academic and other literature on the EU and the CoE which directly or indirectly relates to the subject matter of this paper. While noting its relevance where necessary and helpful (for example as part of the background and context), the paper is not intended primarily as a contribution to the study of European institutions. My main concern is with intercultural dialogue and with what those institutions said and did about it, and where and how that fits into more general theoretical and empirical concerns about interculturalism. I welcome thoughts, comments, corrections of fact, and, although the paper is already far too long,  suggestions for further reading and additional references which ought to be cited.
 

A fter his return to Great Britain, Russell wrote a pamphlet entitled The Problem of China. In this short book, he described his private encounters with the ancient Middle Kingdom and offered readers numerous novel perceptions and images about this great, interesting, and then still unknown, almost mysterious country, which he believed had the potential to become one of the world's greatest powers. He wrote about the socio-political context of the country in great detail and offered a laborious analysis of China's political situation in the early 1920s, with the aim of proposing some practical replies to the most topical problems of the time. In this framework, he exposed the importance of the constitution and the rule of law, but also the necessity of a powerful and balanced leadership. Only on such a foundation could China, in his view, embark on a steady path towards industrial development and technological progress.

Щорічний науковий журнал «Мистецтво. Музей. Діалоги» — видання НХМУ, створене з метою знайомити фахівців та всіх, хто цікавиться українським мистецтвом із результатами дослідження збірки музею, з окремими сторінками історії музейної справи, а також ініціювати дискусії довкола актуальних проблем сучасного мистецтвознавства та експозиційної побудови.
До першого числа увійшли розвідки з історії українського мистецтва XIX–XX століть, інформація про низку атрибуцій творів XVI–XX століть, здійснених співробітниками музею, а також нові дослідження й цінні матеріали до історії формування й трансформації музейної збірки.

Мистецтво. Музей. Діалоги : наук. щорічник / Національний художній музей України ; редкол.: Ю. О. Литвинець (голова редкол.), Л. В. Толстова (голов. ред.), О. М. Маричевська (випуск. ред.) та ін. Київ : Фенікс 2021. Вип. 1. 296 с. : іл.

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Dialogues at the Intercultural Frontier: Preamble and Abstract

This is a DRAFT, stand-alone essay, intended to be included in a series of such essays. It forms part of a project called ‘Interculturalism and the Politics of Dialogue’ which explores various aspects of ‘interculturalism’, ‘intercultural dialogue’, and ‘intercultural knowledge’, and follows on from three earlier papers, available on Academia.edu and Researchgate.net.

(a) A Year of Living Interculturally: The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, 2008
(b) But What IS Interculturalism?
(c) On Intercultural Dialogues

Other bits and pieces previously existed in unpublished draft form, and this essay draws on some of these. Now renamed Dialogues at the Intercultural Frontier, it constitutes the essay earlier advertised as Case Studies in Intercultural Dialogue.

The three, now four, essays arose out of a long-term engagement, dating originally to the early 1980s, which slowly became more focused in the late 1990s and early 2000s. As the project’s  title suggests, my interest is primarily in dialogue as a social, and specifically a political phenomenon, rather than a cognitive or communicative or linguistic one, and I should add that I am specifically interested in intercultural dialogues which are concerned with culture and social and cultural difference, including religious difference, and what to do about it.

The present essay analyses a series of situations involving such dialogues in various contexts and situations. It will be recalled that ‘interculturalism’ has been advocated by academics, policy-makers and practitioners in Europe and Canada as an alternative strategy for coping with ethnic, cultural and religious diversity in the light of what are often believed to be the failures of multiculturalism. Dialogue, ‘intercultural dialogue’, is generally considered to be an integral component of that alternative strategy. The previous essays addressed various themes connected to that debate, including, in the third essay (Grillo 2017), assessing what was intended by the terms ‘intercultural’ and ‘dialogue’, what intercultural dialogue was expected to achieve, and whether such dialogue, or better perhaps ‘dialoguing’, is possible (in multiple senses), and if so under what conditions. The present essay continues that theme, moving from the general to the particular.

Including the introduction, the essay is in seven parts. Part 1 summarises the numerous starting points for my personal interest in intercultural dialogue, and sets out the contemporary social and political background. Parts 2-6 each focus on a certain site or situation, analysing what actually happened and with what result when the parties concerned engaged, or attempted to engage, in an intercultural dialogue. Part 7 offers some concluding observations.

As this is a stand-alone essay it repeats some of the introductory and explanatory material that appeared in the earlier essays. Such overlap will be eliminated if or when the four essays are ever pulled together in a single publication. Meantime, I welcome thoughts, comments, corrections of fact, and, although the paper is already far too long (and long-winded), suggestions for further reading, additional references which ought to be consulted, and additional sites which might be explored.

Finally, I must crave the indulgence of readers who are anthropologists. While the essay has been written from within an anthropological perspective, it does not consciously address an anthropological audience, and therefore glosses over certain issues that that audience might think critical.

Unless otherwise indicated, all URLs were active in mid-May 2017.

A fter his return to Great Britain, Russell wrote a pamphlet entitled The Problem of China. In this short book, he described his private encounters with the ancient Middle Kingdom and offered readers numerous novel perceptions and images about this great, interesting, and then still unknown, almost mysterious country, which he believed had the potential to become one of the world's greatest powers. He wrote about the socio-political context of the country in great detail and offered a laborious analysis of China's political situation in the early 1920s, with the aim of proposing some practical replies to the most topical problems of the time. In this framework, he exposed the importance of the constitution and the rule of law, but also the necessity of a powerful and balanced leadership. Only on such a foundation could China, in his view, embark on a steady path towards industrial development and technological progress.

Künstlerische Kooperationen zwischen dem ‚Globalen Norden‘ und dem ‚Globalen Süden‘ sprich zwischen reichen Industrienationen, die vornehmlich auf der nördlichen Halbkugel angesiedelt sind und armen Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern, aber auch Transformationsländern, die in der Regel in der südlichen Hemisphäre verortet sind werden derzeit vielfach gefördert. Über die Realisierung dieser Partnerschaften wie beispielsweise zwischen Deutschland und Indien ist außer der Präsentation des Resultats – wie z. B. die Aufführung eines gemeinsam produzierten Theaterstücks – selten etwas bekannt. Es gibt nur wenige Dokumentationen, die die Chancen und Herausforderungen solcher internationaler Kooperationsarbeit aufzeigen. Ein rares Beispiel ist der Film „Seven Voyages“ über die Kooperation zwischen dem Ranga Shankara Theater in Bangalore und dem Schnawwl Kindertheater in Mannheim. Um voneinander und miteinander für eine zukünftige Kooperationskultur in den Künsten zu lernen, wird es Zeit, das Wissen und die wertvollen Erfahrungen aus den interkulturellen Partnerschaften darzustellen und zu teilen. Dafür sind Plattformen wie Symposien und Konferenzen oder Residenzen und Workshops notwendig, die diesen Austausch fördern: zwischen Kulturpolitikern und Kulturförderern, aber vor allem zwischen den Kulturmittlern und Künstlern, die die Kooperationsarbeit täglich umsetzen.

La obra Confusión de confusiones, escrita por el sefardí Joseph Penso
de Vega (Ámsterdam, 1688), está considerada como el primer tratado de la Bolsa de Acciones de Europa. Desde el punto de vista de la Historia de la Economía, sin duda, sigue planteando enigmas y cautivando el interés de sus estudiosos. El problema es que desde la perspectiva literaria e historiográfica no ha recibido aún un estudio en profundidad, hecho que desluce y terminar por restar su verdadero mérito a este texto, el cual —dicho sea de paso— ha permanecido siglos condenado en las estanterías de “volúmenes raros”. En este artículo ofrezco un estudio en el que trato la verdadera génesis de Confusión de confusiones desde el interés histórico y literario.

Das Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), verortet auf dem Legon Campus der University of Ghana in Accra, ist das jüngste Mitglied der Familie der Maria Sibylla Merian Zentren (2015: Neu-Delhi/Indien, 2017: Guadalajara/Mexiko und Sao Paulo/Brasilien, 2018: Accra/Ghana). Merian-Zentren sind internationale Forschungskollegs des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), deren Ziel es ist, die Förderung und Sichtbarkeit von Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften durch bilaterale und multilaterale Kooperationsprojekte außerhalb Deutschlands zu stärken.

Abstract The public service as coaching service. A comparison between Finland and Italy
In "Desiderio e Consapevolezza. Fondamenti e fenomenologia del coaching.
Edited by Federica Bergamino, settembre 2014, EDUSC, MCENotes, Roma
Address correspondence to Marco Braghero, Ph.D. Researcher Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä P.O.Box 35, FIN – 40351 Jyvaeskylae, Finland; e-mail: marco.m.braghero@student.jyu.fi - marco.braghero@ssfrebaudengo.it  - marco.braghero@gmail.com – University of Jyväskylä – University of SSF Rebaudengo Torino

The research investigates how the dialogical approach and coaching can help to transform the public service into a coaching service for users, and how this approach to public service can be a social innovation.
The contribution briefly describes the Finnish experience of the past decade in some municipalities (particularly in the municipalities of pilot Nurmijarvi and Rovaniemi ) in the public service who practice a “ coaching service dialogic “ through the experience of the Dialogues Open – Open Dialogue , the cooperation Open Early – Early Open cooperation , and in particular on the on – Dialogues Dialogues from the future or anticipatory. (TE Seikkula 1993 2002; Arnkil , Seikkula , 2003, 2013) .
It also discusses the widespread dialogical experience of coaching in organizations. From these experiences comes this search .
The public service as coaching service dialogic , in an ‘ analysis and comparison of Finnish and Italian reality ( Rovaniemi and Nurmijarvi , Garbagnate Milanese – Agency Towns The public service as a coaching service. The dialogical approach of coaching to support the governance of local networks. A comparison between Finland and Italy Together, VI District Municipality of Turin). The research explores how public services especially the “public services to the person“ educational, social and health services, can be transformed into “coaching services“ ( Bachirova 2007, Stelter 2009, Cox, Bachkirova, Clutterbuck 2010, ).
A proposed innovation for social change, in which the dialogical approach (Buber 1993; Bakthin  1981, 1984, 1993) and Coaching may prove to be strategic, in order to improve the governance of social networks (Braghero 2012, 2012 Folgheraiter) the quality of services to individuals and citizen participation.
The research is conducted by the Department of Psychology, University of Jyvaskyla ( Fin) in collaboration with the Department of Psychology of SSF Rebaudengo the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS ) Turin, of the ‘ International Coaching Federation – ICF Italy & Finland . The methods used are, open interviews like “Dialogical Methods for Investigations of Happening of Change“ (Seikkula 2011), “Narrative Process Coding System” (Laitila, Aaltonen, Wahlström, Angus, 2001) Focus Groups ( Markova 2007), coaching sessions, Team and group coaching, Peer coaching.

Keywords: Public service, dialogue, coaching, social innovation, governance, social networks, change, exotopia

Summary:
1. Context
2. Integrated Dialogical Approach to IDAC Coaching
2. The Finnish experience
3. The research project
4. Conclusions: Social innovation in the public sector
Supervisors:
Prof . Jaakko Seikkula from Jyvaskyla - University of Finland; Prof . Tom Erik Arnkil from the Finnish Research Institute for Health and Welfare.
Advisors and supervisors:
Prof. Alessio Rocchi from Rebaudengo Univeristy in Turin, Italy; international advisor:
Prof. Alicia Cabezudo Rosario Argentina University– Bureau International Peace – IPB V.  Pres.
Researcher: Marco Braghero Jyvaskyla University of Finland
Research Staff: Marta Bosi, Lorenzo Cabodi Gatti, Anna Carretta, Nicoletta Foresti, Cinzia Lombardi, Nina Saarineen;
ICF Italy President: Enrico Illuminati
Past President: Massimiliano Cardani
Coach: Daniela Avignolo - Tania Cariani – Giorgia Franceschini – Annarita Galanto Marco Malvezzi - Eleonora Materazzini