On July 1, 2017, Canada celebrated the 150th anniversary of Confederation. The nation-wide festivities prompted ambiguous reactions and contradictory responses since they officially proclaimed to celebrate “what it means to be Canadian.” Drawing on the analytical perspectives of Diversity Studies, this fifth volume of the “Diversity / Diversité / Diversität” series explores the repercussions of “Canada ...

 

Translating Diversity, the fourth volume in the IRTG Diversity's publication series, invites the reader to participate in a discussion about how to conceptualize the mediation of difference in localities of diversity and transcultural spaces via the analytical lenses of ‘translation’ as a social practice. The contributions to the volume explore, discuss, and theorize ‘translation’ as a pre-institutionalized ...

 

Wor(l)ds of Trauma, the third volume in the IRTG Diversity's publication series, collects essays which address a wide spectrum of issues connected to traumatic events and experiences, be they of personal, collective, national or global scale. These essays are complemented by poetic contemplations on trauma, which set the tone for the following scholarly investigations. The thematic scope of the collection ...

 

Interkulturelle Kompetenz in deutsch-französischen Studiengängen / Les compétences interculturelles dans les cursus franco-allemands (Springer, 2016) Das Buch geht zurück auf eine Arbeitsgruppe, die auf Basis einer Bestandsaufnahme von Beispielen guter Praxis Perspektiven für die Entwicklung interkultureller Kompetenz in deutsch-französischen Studiengängen entwickelte. In der AG unter dem Dach ...

 

Spaces of Difference, the second volume in the IRTG Diversity's publication series, discusses the construction of transcultural spaces and the representation and negotiation of diversity through the analytical lenses of narratives, practices and politics of diversity. The multi-disciplinary contributions to this volume address four broader research fields: (1) the entangled and contested (hi)stories ...

 

The IRTG Diversity was established in April 2013 and its members have since cooperated in research on cultural and social diversity in Canada, Québec, and Europe. To document this research and to continue our exchanges with the broader academic public, we have now started a new publication series called “Diversity – Diversité – Diversität”. The first volume of the IRTG Diversity’s publication series, ...

 

Edited by Vincent Goulet and IRTG Diversity member Christoph Vatter, the book Grenzüberschreitende Informationsflüsse und Medien in der Großregion SaarLorLux | La circulation transfrontalière des informations médiatiques dans la Grande Région SaarLorLux (Nomos, 2015) explores the conditions of cross-border dissemination of information in the media. Taking the Greater Region SarLorLux (the region with ...

 

Prof. Christoph Vatter de l'IRTG Diversité a dirigé avec Prof. Vincent Goulet une collection d'essais sur:

Champs médiatiques et frontières dans la « Grande Région » SaarLorLux et en Europe Description: A quelles conditions les informations médiatiques peuvent-elles passer les frontières ? Outre la barrière des langues, quels sont les obstacles à leur circulation ? Pourquoi est-il finalement ...

 

The IRTG Diversity’s Prof. Dr. Ursula Lehmkuhl and Dr. Eva Bischoff have, together with Prof. Dr. Norbert Finzsch, edited an essay collection on:

Provincializing the United States: Colonialism, Decolonization, and (Post)Colonial Governance in Transnational Perspective. (Heidelberg: Winter, 2014) Description: This volume submits a theoretically reflected and empirically saturated contribution ...