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This chapter discusses the diverse terminology used to describe contact situations between two or more cultures by focusing on Welsch's discussions of multi-, inter- and transculturality. The anthropological and psychological dimensions of cultural concepts are shown to arise from the need of human beings as pattern-building and storytelling animals to position themselves by defining identities and alterities in a diverse environment which makes essentialist ontological self-definitions impossible. Using topical and historical examples, the chapter argues that conceptualization of the world as increasingly hybrid and transcultural has very concrete material, social and political consequences. The chapter then explores the connections between notions of cosmopolitanism and different conceptualizations of difference, particularism and universalism. Finally, the ethical dimensions of different ways of categorizing cultures and their implications for developing inter- and transcultural competence as the basis for constructing a peaceful and dialogic future of togetherness in difference are discussed.

This volume is based on the section "Transnationalities – Transidentities – Hybridities – Diasporization", organized by the Ibero-American and Francophone Research Centres of the University of Leipzig as part of the First Annual Conference of the Centre for Area Studies at the University of Leipzig. By now, already a decade has passed since our conference section took place and it is due to various circumstances that this volume has not been published earlier. It carries along, in some sense, its own migration trace. Nevertheless, the questions examined in the contributions have reached even more relevance since then in both, the Old World and the New, due to the various political, social, economic and ecological crisis around the globe that have led to the increased arrival of refugees to Europe and the harsh discussion about a concrete or "intelligent" wall to shield the USA from Latin American migrants, among others. Today, there is an urgent political and social need for concepts of living together in much more heterogeneous and much less familiar societies. The questions, notions and cases explored in the nine contributions that comprise this publication focus on this emergency.

This volume is based on the section Transnationalities - Transidentities - Hybridities - Diasporization , organized by the Ibero-American and Francophone Research Centres of the University of Leipzig as part of the First Annual Conference of the Centre for Area Studies at the University of Leipzig. By now, already a decade has passed since our conference section took place and it is due to various circumstances that this volume has not been published earlier. It carries along, in some sense, its own migration trace. Nevertheless, the questions examined in the contributions have reached even more relevance since then in both, the Old World and the New, due to the various political, social, economic and ecological crisis around the globe that have led to the increased arrival of refugees to Europe and the harsh discussion about a concrete or intelligent wall to shield the USA from Latin American migrants, among others. Today, there is an urgent political and social need for concepts of living together in much more heterogeneous and much less familiar societies. The questions, notions and cases explored in the nine contributions that comprise this publication focus on this emergency.

This volume is based on the section "Transnationalities - Transidentities - Hybridities - Diasporization", organized by the Ibero-American and Francophone Research Centres of the University of Leipzig as part of the First Annual Conference of the Centre for Area Studies at the University of Leipzig. By now, already a decade has passed since our conference section took place and it is due to various circumstances that this volume has not been published earlier. It carries along, in some sense, its own migration trace. Nevertheless, the questions examined in the contributions have reached even more relevance since then in both, the Old World and the New, due to the various political, social, economic and ecological crisis around the globe that have led to the increased arrival of refugees to Europe and the harsh discussion about a concrete or "intelligent" wall to shield the USA from Latin American migrants, among others. Today, there is an urgent political and social need for concepts of living together in much more heterogeneous and much less familiar societies. The questions, notions and cases explored in the nine contributions that comprise this publication focus on this emergency. Participants on the volume: A. Chanady; A. de Toro; W. Ch. Dimock; D. Ingenschay; J. Mecke; M. Rössner; G. Pisarz-Ramirez; C. Sieber. ALFONSO DE TORO is Professor emeritus for Spanish, Portuguese, Ibero-American and Francophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Leipzig. He is the founder and director of the Ibero-American and Francophone Research Centers (IAFS and FFSL). His research and publications are focused on theatre, narrative, and poetry in France, the Maghreb, Spain, Latin America, and Italy; as well as on culture, post-modern, post-colonial theories and hybridity and diaspora theories. CORNELIA SIEBER is Professor for Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Culture at the Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz - Germersheim. She is director of the Centre for Latin American and Transatlantic Studies (CELTRA) and Co-Director of the IAFS. Her research and publications are focused on transcultural and migratory dynamics, gender structures and post-coloniality.****************This volume is based on the section "Transnationalities - Transidentities - Hybridities - Diasporization", organized by the Ibero-American and Francophone Research Centres of the University of Leipzig as part of the First Annual Conference of the Centre for Area Studies at the University of Leipzig. By now, already a decade has passed since our conference section took place and it is due to various circumstances that this volume has not been published earlier. It carries along, in some sense, its own migration trace. Nevertheless, the questions examined in the contributions have reached even more relevance since then in both, the Old World and the New, due to the various political, social, economic and ecological crisis around the globe that have led to the increased arrival of refugees to Europe and the harsh discussion about a concrete or "intelligent" wall to shield the USA from Latin American migrants, among others. Today, there is an urgent political and social need for concepts of living together in much more heterogeneous and much less familiar societies. The questions, notions and cases explored in the nine contributions that comprise this publication focus on this emergency. Participants on the volume: A. Chanady; A. de Toro; W. Ch. Dimock; D. Ingenschay; J. Mecke; M. Rössner; G. Pisarz-Ramirez; C. Sieber. ALFONSO DE TORO is Professor emeritus for Spanish, Portuguese, Ibero-American and Francophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Leipzig. He is the founder and director of the Ibero-American and Francophone Research Centers (IAFS and FFSL). His research and publications are focused on theatre, narrative, and poetry in France, the Maghreb, Spain, Latin America, and Italy; as well as on culture, post-modern, post-colonial theories and hybridity and diaspora theories. CORNELIA SIEBER is Professor for Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Culture at the Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz - Germersheim. She is director of the Centre for Latin American and Transatlantic Studies (CELTRA) and Co-Director of the IAFS. Her research and publications are focused on transcultural and migratory dynamics, gender structures and post-coloniality.

Der von Lucyna Darowska, Thomas Lüttenberg und Claudia Machold herausgegebene Sammelband Hochschule als transkultureller Raum? geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung die "Begriffe Kultur, Transkultur und Bildung in der Hochschule" (S. 7) haben. Die fünf versammelten Aufsätze sollen in ihrer Summe Aufschluss darüber geben, "inwiefern der Transkulturalitätsbegriff auf der deskriptiven Ebene die Praxisrealität der Hochschulen adäquat erfasst" (S. 8). Dahinter steht auch die normative Frage nach den Maßnahmen, die getroffen werden müssten, damit die Hochschule zu einem transkulturellen Raum werden kann. Die aus Politikwissenschaft, Geschichte und Pädagogik stammenden Herausgeber/innen stellen mit diesem Band den Begriff der Transkulturalität als geeignete Zielperspektive für die Hochschule im 21. Jahrhundert vor, welche den Phänomenen der Migration und der Internationalisierung an den Hochschulen gerecht werden kann. ; The contributors to the edited volume Hochschule als transkultureller Raum? Kultur, Bildung und Differenz in der Universität (Academia As a Transcultural Space? Culture, Education, and Difference in the University), published by Lucyna Darowska, Thomas Lüttenberg, and Claudia Machold, discuss the meaning and significance of the terms culture, transculture, and education within the sphere of higher education. The compiled articles, taken together, are supposed to shed light on the extent to which the concept of transculturality adequately accounts for the actual circumstances in institutions of higher education, in practice, on a descriptive level (p. 8). Also underlying this is the normative question of measures necessary to enable higher education to become a transcultural space. With this essay collection, the editors, coming from political sciences, history, and pedagogics, introduce the concept of transculturality as a suitable objective for higher education in the 21st century that can meet the requirements of the phenomena of migration and internationalization.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Engaging transculturality -- Part A Delineating transculturality -- 1 Cultural hybridity and transculturality -- 2 Asymmetry in transcultural interaction -- 3 Global connections in transcultural research: Thoughts from a historian's perspective -- 4 Not 'cultures', but culture! The need for a transcultural perspective in archaeology -- 5 Civilization(s): Use and abuse of a macro-historical category -- 6 Medieval concepts of migration and transculturality -- 7 Transculturality, or, how to find Europe beyond Eurocentrism -- Part B Transcultural spaces and agents -- 8 Exploring the contact zone: A critical assessment from the perspective of early modern Euro-Ottoman history -- 9 Microcosm bazaar: Markets as places of cultural encounters and areas of conflict -- 10 Mobility, mediation and transculturation in the medieval Mediterranean: Migrating mercenaries and the challenges of mixing -- Part C Transcultural temporalities -- 11 Transversal histories and transcultural afterlives: Indianized renditions of Jean Bodin in global intellectual history -- 12 Modern Arabic rhetorical manuals: A transcultural phenomenon -- 13 Migrant literary genres: Transcultural moments and scales of transculturality -- Part D Transcultural semantics -- 14 Translating Jesuits: Translation as a useful tool to explore transculturality? -- 15 Islamic law with Chinese characteristics: Approaching cultural transfers through a functional theory -- 16 Economies of the sacred in premodern Japan -- 17 Cultural heritage and global architectural history between appropriation, substitution and translation: Plaster casts of Angkor Wat in a transcultural perspective.

For over 2500 years, Buddhism was implicated in processes of cultural interaction that in turn shaped Buddhist doctrines, practices and institutions. The contributions to this volume present detailed case studies on Buddhism's transcultural dynamics, ranging across different time periods, regions and disciplines, and addressing methodological challenges and theoretical problems.

Purpose
This study aims to assess how transculturality can potentiate projects developed between UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories' institutions by emphasizing on the advantages for teams with people from different nationalities. Besides, it addresses a well-discussed topic among the signatory schools of PRME as the initiative strongly encouraged integrated research, attributing it value and applicability.


Design/methodology/approach
The analysis focuses on three projects developed in partnership between institutions from Brazil and other countries, considering significant cultural differences, number of countries involved and the interaction between the academia and the companies. The discussion seeks to understand the value of projects and what they mean in terms of partnerships and mobilizations between PRME's signatories schools.


Findings
The paper provides empirical insights about the necessity of understanding transculturality as a key factor to the development of multicultural projects, especially with regard to projects aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, launched by the UN in 2015.


Originality/value
The discussion reinforces that a multifaceted vision has the potential to overlap cultural differences to develop projects with a high degree of replicability.

The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

For over 2500 years, Buddhism was implicated in processes of cultural interaction that in turn shaped Buddhist doctrines, practices and institutions. The contributions to this volume present detailed case studies on Buddhism's transcultural dynamics, ranging across different time periods, regions and disciplines, and addressing methodological challenges and theoretical problems.