An International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research and the Future of Higher Education
LCC International University
Klaipeda, Lithuania
April 11-12, 2008
Organized to coincide with the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008, this conference brings together scholars from Lithuania, the United States and Europe to present research, debate issues, share ideas, generate new questions, and rigorously reflect on the interrelations of culture and dialogue as reflected across academic disciplines.
To both produce and critically reflect upon interdisciplinary research is a task that demands an eye to the future of education and the possibility of reorganizing traditional disciplinary boundaries. Still further, such work must not merely concoct new combinations from tired standards, but it must imagine entirely new possibilities. For example, if the EU is a unique geopolitical innovation established upon the basis of respect for cultural diversity, then the EU must become more than a mere business market. By exploring its own culture(s), cultural dialogues, and dialogues about very nature of culture, the EU must reflect on its own status and identification as a community of values. In microcosm, every academic community around the world faces this same task of hosting intercultural dialogue. In the spirit of this intellectual self-reflection, we invite papers from across the disciplines and across all national borders, within and beyond the EU.
Important Dates:
Abstracts Due: February 11th, 2008
Review of Abstracts Completed: February 22nd, 2008
Early Registration Ends: March 21st, 2008
Conference: April 11-12th, 2008
