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A topological approach to cultural dynamics

Image The only thing certain about culture is that it changes. Drawing inspiration from mathematical theories of topology, networks and complexity, the ATACD project will create a new way of looking at social change that emphasises links, driving forces and modes of change – common factors in all cultures – rather than cataloguing different types of culture, as previous work has tended to do. With participants ranging from physicists to artists, ATACD will explore not so much what a culture is as what it can become.

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Conference: Metropolis in Flux: Contemporary Cultural Migrations in London

Friday 19 June 2009
University of Westminster, London, UK

Organised by: The Migrations and Identities Interdisciplinary Research Group, Department of Modern and Applied Languages, University of Westminster

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ATACD Conference: Call for Papers
Changing Culture: Cultures of Change
10-12 December 2009

Barcelona, Spain

Abstract Deadline: 28 May 2009


Further information about the conference including call for papers and instructions on abstract submission can be found on the Conference home page.

 
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space is an international and interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for the discussion of the mutually constitutive relation between the social and the spatial. It seeks to be philosophically sophisticated, practically relevant, and to concretely theorise a range of contemporary, historical, political and cultural contexts.

The current issue of Society and Space is devoted to the work of the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk.

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Press Release
ATACD: Press release 1
Information sharing events get underway as academics look into the connections and patterns relating to cultural dynamics across disciplines.

Press release 1
 
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Calendar

2010

March

Project Roadmap

2009

September

ATACD Annual report and ATACD newsletter 2

10-12 December

Changing Cultures: Cultures of Change: Barcelona
Organised by: Goldsmiths, University of London & University of Barcelona

2008

September

ATACD Progress report and ATACD Newsletter 1



PAST EVENTS

2009

23-24 April
Mobility and Borders: Bologna
Organiser: University of Bologna

2008

9-10 October
Models and markets: relating to the future
SOAS, University of London
Organisers: Goldsmiths College, University of Barcelona and LSE 

17-18 April
Evolution, Interaction, Communication : Rotterdam
Organiser: V2_

2007

29-30 November
Topology for culture: metaphors and tools : Amsterdam
Organiser: University of Amsterdam

 
Partner Interviews

"Questioning the boundaries of disciplines"
Sandro Mezzadra
Universita' Degli Studi Di Bologna'

 
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