About the TransEu Project

The project Transcultural Europe in the Global World (TransEu) aims at organising a program of scientific and educational development activities on the theme of intra-European transculturation processes, involving researchers and civil society players from different European countries. By developing a multidisciplinary perspective which goes beyond the traditional approach in European studies and by keeping the European identity at the core of its questioning, the project intends to examine «transculturation» as an epistemological concept, in order to describe the current cultural complexity of Europe in the wider context of the global world. It is our purpose to map out Europe’s geostrategic reconfiguration in face of increasingly accelerated forms of contact between different cultures, which produce an anthropological paradigm issuing from complex forms of mobility in a global world typified by superdiversity and hypermobility. To this purpose, multiple forms of mobility have to be taken into account, such as internal migration, return migration, economical or labour migration, academic migration and tourism, expatriation, exile, et cetera. This project will also focus on the impact of linguistic and cultural transmission and transformation processes within the European Union as a major political force for social change. An adequate conceptual toolkit and new methodological approaches are called for in order to update the practice of intercultural pedagogy not only within the academy but in the civil society as well. A corpus composed of migration narratives, testimonies and others forms of expression will be at the heart of several seminars, workshops and a final conference devoted to renewed ways of understanding cultural encounters and their potential as producers of transcultural bonding between languages and cultures.