Culture & Globalization Seminar

32M7149

Prof. Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (Digital Humanities) and Prof. Ludovic Tournès (Global History, UNIGE), in collaboration with Prof. Catherine Dossin (Purdue University).

Monthly seminar, online, in English  
Fridays from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (Central European Time).

This seminar aims to explore new approaches to the historical phenomenon of cultural globalization. Culture here is understood as the entire range of practices and representations associated with knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, and customs within societies, at both individual and group levels. Moving beyond the simple observation of convergences or divergences in cultural practices on global, regional, national, or local scales, historiography is increasingly attentive to the social life of objects (A. Appadurai), the circulation of forms (images, sounds, texts, and words), as well as the technical, gendered, and ecological conditions of the global circulation of cultural objects since the late 18th century. However, in light of the overdevelopment of "cultural data analytics" for contemporary culture, we must ask whether, how, and under what conditions it is possible to include cross-sectional studies of older cultural forms, their potential convergence, and how these can be articulated with non-computational historical perspectives.