CTIS Seminar: Dr Ashley Simpson, "Beyond façades of epistemological diversity? On the need of a dialectical approach for Intercultural Communication"
| Dates: | 14 March 2024 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Dr Ashley Simpson |
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Amidst calls for epistemological diversity and plurality within intercultural communication in this talk I contest the notion that the field has reached an epoch of criticality or that the field has turned critically. In engaging in the debates and controversies surrounding the notion of epistemological break in the ways Karl Marx’s notions of alienation, fetishism and reification have been interpreted I problematise whether a dialectical approach for intercultural communication can move the field conceptually beyond the primacy of the intercultural subject as the knowing subject. In the talk I build on recent developments within the field of applied linguistics in calling for a (re)engagement with dialectical thought in order to provide an analytic of how languages and cultures function within contemporary political economy.
Speaker
Dr Ashley Simpson
Role: Lecturer in Language Education
Organisation: University of Edinburgh
Biography: Dr Ashley Simpson is Lecturer in Language Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK. Dr Simpson is also Co-Head of the Institute for Language Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
