Johan Fornäs
Department of Culture Studies (Tema Q), Linköping University, Sweden
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Published in: Inter: A European Cultural Studies : Conference in Sweden 11-13 June 2007
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 25:1, p. 7-9
Published: 2007-11-27
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ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
This is an introduction to the proceedings of “Inter: A European Cultural Studies Conference in Sweden”; held in Norrköping 11-13 June 2007. The conference was organised by the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS); whose director Johan Fornäs here gives a brief background to the event and its three primary dimensions of transgression and interrelation: the spatial flows of transnational globalisation between regions and countries of Europe and the world at large; the temporal processes of culturalisation that appear to have made culture and cultural research increasingly central to society and academia; and the networks of trans- and interdisciplinary cooperation that both enable and necessitate these kinds of events. The text is based on his plenary presentations at the conference; and at the same time serves as a preface to these conference proceedings.