Conviviality

Paulo Freire and Ivan Illich: Technology, Politics and the Reconstruction of Education

by Richard Kahn

Co-authored with Doug Kellner, Policy Futures in Education, Vol. 5 (4), 2007

Complexity, accent and conviviality

by Jan Blommaert

Review of The Beggar’s Benison: Sex Clubs of Enlightenment Scotland and their Rituals, by David Stevenson.

by Corey E. Andrews

Eighteenth-Century Scotland 16 (2002): 42-43.

Review of A Pleasing Sinne: Drink and Conviviality in 17th-Century England, edited by Adam Smyth.

by Corey E. Andrews

The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal 20.1 (2005): 154-56.

review: M. L. Catoni, Bere vino puro: immagini del simposio (Milano 2010)

by Marek Wecowski

Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2011.11.65

When did the Symposion Rise? Some archaeological considerations regarding the emergence of the Greek aristocratic banquet

by Marek Wecowski

forthcoming paper

Homer and the Origins of the Symposion

by Marek Wecowski

[in:] F. Montanari (ed.), "Omero tremila anni dopo. Atti del congresso di Genova 6-8 luglio 2000" (Roma 2002), p. 625-637

Towards a definition of the symposion

by Marek Wecowski

[in:] T. Derda, J. Urbanik & M. Węcowski (eds), "Euergesias charin. Studies Presented to Benedetto Bravo and Ewa Wipszycka by Their Disciples" (Warszawa 2002), p. 337-361

Internationalization for Conviviality

by Martin Henson

Symposion, or drinking together. The rise of the Greek aristocratic banquet (9th to 7th century B.C.)

by Marek Wecowski

English summary of my Polish book "Sympozjon, czyli wspólne picie. Początki greckiej biesiady arystokratycznej (IX-VII wiek p.n.e.)", Warszawa 2011, "Sub Lupa" Press. English version in preparation

Future of Orthodoxy in the Near East: An Educational Perspective

by Georges NAHAS

Nahas, G. N. (September 10-12, 2010). Future of Orthodoxy in the Near East: An Educational Perspective. In Orthodoxy and Protestantism. Hofgeismar. Germany.

          Near East is the geographical region covered by the Patriarchate of Antioch.... more           Near East is the geographical region covered by the Patriarchate of Antioch. Trying to foresee the future in this region is not an easy exercise considering how much the political scene has been changing in this region starting with the first decades of the 20th Century. This region has known, since the 7th Century the co-existence of the three Abrahamic religions while its political profile was and is forever changing. Churches of the region had to live under different regimes and the political links that some confessions had with the rulers influenced a lot the inter-religious dialogue and the peaceful co-existence of the believers.

            Trying to focus on the experience of Orthodoxy in the Near East is an important exercise because the Orthodox Church existed in the region since the 1st Century and has had a continuous presence since then. Focusing on the educational aspect of this presence is a means to underline how this Church tried, over centuries, to live its mission in the world, and to see how we can build on this experience to prepare for the future in a positive, open, and dynamic way.  After a quick overview of the specificity of Orthodoxy in this region, and of the specific and broad understanding of the term education, this presentation will focus on the link between these two folders in preparing for the future, by answering this main question: How will Orthodoxy continue to witness in the Near East, bringing to the region peace, hope, and a message of love?

            This presentation will answer these questions by stressing the fact that the future of Orthodoxy in the Near East, while the 21st century seems to be a turning point for the whole region, is not only a social presence of a confessional group in midst of other groups. It is the witness for specificity, a service to be rendered to all communities, a way to preserve God’s will.

The Literary Club as Imagined National Community: Allan Ramsay and the Easy Club (1712-1715).

by Corey E. Andrews

Eighteenth-Century Scotland 16 (2002): 8-12.

The dilemma of Scottish national identity in the eighteenth century can be productively explored by looking at the... more The dilemma of Scottish national identity in the eighteenth century can be productively explored by looking at the imagined national community created in the wake of Scotland’s Union with England in 1707; specifically, this article analyzes the function of the Scottish literary club as a site of national community. Focusing on the club activity of Scottish poet Allan Ramsay (1686-1758), it discusses his involvement from 1712 to 1715 with a literary and social club named the Easy Club; the poetry he produced for this club served to unify the group by representing its members as part of an imagined Scottish national community. The struggle over national representation occurring in the Easy Club and mirrored in its contemporary culture lay between Scottish imitation of present English culture or of its own national past. Ramsay resolved this conflict in his club verse by unifying club members through the construction of an imagined national community that extended from past Scottish heroes and authors into the lives of their present-day imitators in the club.

Drinking and Thinking: Club Life and Convivial Sociability in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh.

by Corey E. Andrews

The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 22.1 (Autumn 2007): 65-82.

An intriguing historical feature of the Scottish Enlightenment is the blend of philosophical and drinking clubs to... more An intriguing historical feature of the Scottish Enlightenment is the blend of philosophical and drinking clubs to which leading thinkers such as David Hume and Adam Smith belonged. Two leading clubs of the period, the Select Society and the Poker Club, are the primary focus of this essay; the clubs provided members with dramatically different types of social experience. For the Select, it was a space for formal debate of topical issues, while the Poker offered a venue for convivial sociability. This essay examines the significant intersections of polite culture and convivial enjoyment occurring in Edinburgh club life, in order to analyze the active negotiation of boundaries between polite and popular tastes. Of particular interest is how that negotiation was played out in the “drinking and thinking” lives of some of polite culture’s most eloquent arbiters.

'La Política De Lo Diverso':¿ Producción, Reconocimiento O Apropiación De Lo Cultural?

by Albert Moncusí

This text departs from the participation in a project integrated in a European program executed fpr various... more This text departs from the participation in a project integrated in a European program executed fpr various municipalities and that was carried out by diverse NGO. We undertook some epistemological and theoretical questions. Fisrt, we see the difficulties produced for the participation in a same project of agents whose discourses were explained and positions contrasted with respect to immigration. There are seen, also, different tensions arisen from the institutional side of the own project. In a theoretical matter, the text offers a reflection on the definition of the concepts will be contributed of interculturality and civic or natural mediation. In this section it is especially took into account the contrast between scientific and social use of some concepts as "mediation" and its consideration as "natural" or of "civic" mediation.