Memoria: Congreso Internacional de Humanidades 2007. Hacia un nuevo humanismo, la diversidad como eje de la vida
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2009
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Centro de Estudios Generales, Universidad Nacional
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Este Congreso procura reflexionar críticamente sobre qué significan, en Ios albores del silo XXI, las Humanidades y el Humanismo, y como entender esto en los procesos de aprendizaje de Una universidad pública. Provenimos de un pasado en el que las Humanidades fueron entendidas Como Castellano/Literatura. Filosofía e Historia de la Cultura y del Arte, con fuerte acento eurocéntrico (blanco) y androcéntrico, vinculado a una educación memorística ajena a las inteligencias múltiples. Y asistimos a un futuro marcado por la amenaza, tanto de los nuevos fundamentalismos especialmente nacionales y religiosos, ligados a un discurso político excluyente y apocalíptico- como por la concentración de poder corporativo alrededor del mundo, donde los estados nacionales y las sociedades civiles pasan a Segundo plano, y los intereses transnacionales que encabezan la globalización trastruecan los estudios humanísticos por la hegemonía de la publicidad y el
mercado con su pretensión de máxima producción y máximo consumo.
Tomando en consideración los estudios culturales, interculturales y contraculturales, la importancia de considerar las regiones, las marginalidades y las alteridades, vinculando la riqueza de la diversidad cultural con la diversidad natural, entendida en su doble implicación de variedad y abundancia de las especies -condición del éxito de las múltiples formas de vida-, hacia un holodesarrollo que nos permita repensar o encontrar nuevas formas de aportar y actuar como humanidad a la sustentabilidad de todas las formas de vida.
This conference seeks to critically reflect on what the humanities and humanism mean at the dawn of the 21st century, and how to understand this in the learning processes of a public university. We come from a past in which the humanities were understood as Spanish language and literature, philosophy, and the history of culture and art, with a strong Eurocentric (white) and androcentric emphasis, linked to a rote-learning education that was alien to multiple intelligences. And we are witnessing a future marked by the threat of both new fundamentalisms, especially national and religious ones, linked to an exclusionary and apocalyptic political discourse, and the concentration of corporate power around the world, where nation states and civil societies take a back seat, and the transnational interests that spearhead globalization are replacing humanistic studies with the hegemony of advertising and the market with its claim to maximum production and maximum consumption. Taking into account cultural, intercultural, and countercultural studies, the importance of considering regions, marginalities, and otherness, linking the richness of cultural diversity with natural diversity, understood in its dual implication of variety and abundance of species—a condition for the success of multiple forms of life—toward a holodevelopment that allows us to rethink or find new ways to contribute and act as humanity toward the sustainability of all forms of life.
This conference seeks to critically reflect on what the humanities and humanism mean at the dawn of the 21st century, and how to understand this in the learning processes of a public university. We come from a past in which the humanities were understood as Spanish language and literature, philosophy, and the history of culture and art, with a strong Eurocentric (white) and androcentric emphasis, linked to a rote-learning education that was alien to multiple intelligences. And we are witnessing a future marked by the threat of both new fundamentalisms, especially national and religious ones, linked to an exclusionary and apocalyptic political discourse, and the concentration of corporate power around the world, where nation states and civil societies take a back seat, and the transnational interests that spearhead globalization are replacing humanistic studies with the hegemony of advertising and the market with its claim to maximum production and maximum consumption. Taking into account cultural, intercultural, and countercultural studies, the importance of considering regions, marginalities, and otherness, linking the richness of cultural diversity with natural diversity, understood in its dual implication of variety and abundance of species—a condition for the success of multiple forms of life—toward a holodevelopment that allows us to rethink or find new ways to contribute and act as humanity toward the sustainability of all forms of life.
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ARTE, HUMANISMO, DERECHOS HUMANOS, ASPECTOS SOCIALES, ART, HUMANISM, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL ASPECTS
