The International Workshop "Entangled By Multiple Tongues: The Role of Diaspora in the Transfer of Culture" will take place in Türich from the 25. May 2010 - 4. June 2010. It focuses on how multilingualism (in its widest sense) shapes culture.

Almost all long-distance transfer of conceptions, institutions and practices was, and still is, shaped by one very peculiar setting: it is done by individuals and groups living in diaspora networks. But this implies mediating between parallel reference frames, switching forth and back between a home and one or more host cultures, in short: "speaking multiple tongues".

This continuous merger of home and host conceptions, institutions and practices into hitherto unknown new ones made, and still makes, diaspora the one major place of intercultural mediation and transcultural negotiation. The question how this multilingualism (in its widest sense) peculiar of all diaspora shapes the transfer of culture will be the focus of our workshop on "Entangled By Multiple Tongues: The Role of Diaspora in the Transfer of Culture".

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