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  • History of Science and Technology, Cultural History, Future Studies, Comparative Literature
• • by Fredrik Petersson
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  • Twentieth Century Studies, Cold War, Social Movements (History), Communism
• • by Matthew S. Adams
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  • History, European History, Modern History, Intellectual History

The last decade has seen a significant increase of international student mobility and a growing popularity of secondary school exchange programs in the United States and around the world. Drawing upon culture learning theory, the purpose... more

The last decade has seen a significant increase of international student mobility and a growing popularity of secondary school exchange programs in the United States and around the world. Drawing upon culture learning theory, the purpose of this study is to understand the impacts, challenges, and rewards of intercultural exchange on secondary school exchange students and their host families. I performed a case study of in-depth interviews with six students who were placed in Hawai'i for an academic year on the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Future Leaders Exchange merit-based scholarships, as well as interviews with their volunteer host families. Findings show that intercultural exchange occurs as a two-way process. Both students and host families reap the benefits of intercultural exchange by way of active interaction and culture sharing that is enhanced by a positive student-host relationship. This study sheds light not only on the experiences of secondary school exchange students but also on the experiences of the volunteer host families.

• • by Manca Sustarsic
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  • International Education, Intercultural Exchange, Homestay, Exchange Students
• • by David Irving and +1
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  • Early Modern History, Southeast Asia, Intercultural Exchange, Catholic Church History

This article reflects on language and identity in the context of cultural hybridity.

• • by Constance DeVereaux
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  • Cultural Policy, Identity (Culture), Post-Colonialism, China

The notion of culture has loomed large in discourses and polemics regarding European integration and immigration in the European framework. While culture, as in fundamental cultural difference, is identified as the source of contemporary... more

The notion of culture has loomed large in discourses and polemics regarding European integration and immigration in the European framework. While culture, as in fundamental cultural difference, is identified as the source of contemporary political quandaries, its incarnation as intercultural dialogue is conceived as their solution. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the arts settings of Berlin and Istanbul, this article elucidates how this type of “culture talk” inter- sects with recent cultural policy formations in the European Union and the na- tional arenas of Germany and Turkey. Much of the political productivity of culture arises from a constant slippage between the different, often contradictory, meanings accorded to the culture-concept. This extension of the “rhetoric of cul- ture” engenders a shift from a governance of culture to one through culture by re- laying an array of pressing political concerns from the realm of social and economic policy to that of culture in the sense of artistic expression.

• • by Banu Karaca
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  • Cultural Policy, European integration, Turkey, Germany
• • by Renate Burri
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  • History of Science, History of Medical Instruments, Paleography, Codicology
• • by David Irving
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  • Eighteenth-Century Music, Intercultural Exchange, Acehnese history, Intercultural Contact and Exchange

The article is a genealogical narrative on the basic purpose, aim, and activities on the relief organization Internationale Arbeiterhilfe (IAH, in Swedish: Internationella arbetarhjälpen) during the interwar years in Sweden. Since no... more

The article is a genealogical narrative on the basic purpose, aim, and activities on the relief organization Internationale Arbeiterhilfe (IAH, in Swedish: Internationella arbetarhjälpen) during the interwar years in Sweden. Since no scholarly research exists on the history of the IAH, merely in peripheral sense, the article is an attempt to piece together which functions and role the organization had in the Swedish leftwing movement. Based on sources from the Swedish Security Police (SÄPO, Riksarkivet, Stockholm), as well as documents from the Russian State Archive on Social and Political History (RGASPI, Moscow), and SAPMO (Lictherfelde, Berlin), emerges an understanding that the IAH played, if not, a decisive political role, but at least was an actor which provided with material relief to the labour movement in Sweden, a line of activity perceived as suspicous and subversive in the eyes of the Swedish SÄPO. The article is in Swedish.

• • by Fredrik Petersson
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  • Twentieth Century Studies, Cold War, Social Movements (History), Communism
• • by Dewi Jaimangl-Jones
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  • Sociology, Visual Methodologies, Tourism, Intercultural Exchange

Telecollaboration involves the use of online technologies in the context of language teaching and learning (O'DOWD, 2013). This study sought to understand how the co-construction of interculturality took place in a specific... more

Telecollaboration involves the use of online technologies in the context of language teaching and learning (O'DOWD, 2013). This study sought to understand how the co-construction of interculturality took place in a specific telecollaborative context-teletandem (TELLES; VASSALLO, 2006; TELLES, 2015a, 2015b). For the analysis, data from a teletandem session, a mediation session, an experience report and an interview were included. From an ecological perspective (VAN LIER, 2004; KRAMSCH; STEFFENSEN, 2008), the outcomes showed that the co-construction of interculturality was a process, that is, it occurred over time and through different instances. Put differently, instances subsequent to the teletandem session, e.g. the mediation session and the experience report, were essential for this co-construction.

• • by Rodrigo Schaefer
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  • Sociocultural Theory, Intercultural Competence, Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory, Intercultural exchange Online
• • by Karen Davies
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  • Sociology, Visual Methodologies, Tourism, Intercultural Exchange

The concept of multiculturalism is used in many fields of human activitypolitics, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, history, as well as literature. As applied to the Russian-language literature of Kazakhstan, the concept of... more

The concept of multiculturalism is used in many fields of human activitypolitics, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, history, as well as literature. As applied to the Russian-language literature of Kazakhstan, the concept of multiculturalism helps to explain how openness to the stranger helps the establishment of the national identity of Kazakh authors writing in Russian. The subject matter of this paper is the reflection of multiculturalism in the works of Zhanatalap Nurkenov, Viktor Semeryanov, and Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov as the poets of the Pavlodar Irtysh land. The leading research methods are empirical, theoretical, and biographical. In this study, the peculiarities of the process of rapprochement of peoples and subsequent extensive interaction of the works of literature on the territory of the Pavlodar Irtysh land were investigated. Moreover, new forms of expression of the creative thought of poets, such as using foreign-language vocabulary, linguocultural concepts, and images were discovered. Also, the interconnection of nationalities in the works of Russian-speaking poets is characterized by the priority of spiritual values.

• • by Pavel Alekseev
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  • Russian Literature, Nationalism, Intercultural Exchange, Cultural Pluralism and Social Cohesion