challenge ICS 2024-2025
Orientalism and Occidentalism: crossed gazes

"Orientalism and Occidentalism: crossed gazes" is the challenge that will be addressed by the researcher team of the ICS during the 2024-25 courses. The proposal seeks to study how the West and the East have seen, explained and represented each other, and to analyze the discourses that have been produced, especially as a result of decolonization and the consequent changes in the identity of nations. This status has generated a plurality of narratives, in which narratives of confrontation and polarization are framed. This wound, which is still open, has led to the emergence of new historical narratives and the reappearance of essentialisms in a more atomized and anarchic form. 

Through this challenge, the roots, structure and uses of these dialectics are analyzed at the political, historical, literary, artistic, linguistic and linguistic levels. educationalfrom an interdisciplinaryapproach . 

One of the main goals of this challenge is to know how we see, explain and represent the other and how, sometimes, these actions are put at the service of an ideological diary . This provides an opportunity to better understand current identity crises. To achieve this, the different projects will study all the facets of discussion from a rigorous and proactive point of view, far from confrontation and the immediacy of polemics. The overcoming of a narrative binarism that feeds back on itself can only be overcome through a deepening of the study of images and discourses that offers a subtle appreciation of historical and identity narratives.

Objectives

The ICS Challenge identifies a research topic with elevated academic impact and social interest that ICS researchers propose and then focus on during the academic year. 

The challenge is also a collective challenge and an opportunity for the entire ICS team researcher that allows:

Research

The challenge connects with issues that are part of the ICS DNA, such as coexistence in a plural world, legacies for the future and the promotion of human ties and the development . The methodology to be followed consists of the analysis of the circulation of ideas and the transfer of meaning that move from East to West and vice versa, in the different colonial periods and their implications in religion, art, thought, literature, law and politics, always from an interdisciplinary point of view.

Team

Conferences

First semester (September-December 2024)