The Centre for Studies in Otherness
The Centre for studies in Otherness is a collaborative project between scholars primarily from the University of Aarhus, Denmark and Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
The Centre works to initiate vigorous and productive interventions into nominal areas of otherness as a site for critical, socio-political, cultural, and literary exploration. As an international and multidisciplinary project, it also involves discussions and readings that relate to cultural theory, continental philosophy, sociology, postcolonial studies, psychoanalysis, gender studies, Gothic studies, postmodernism and poststructuralist theory.
The Centre promotes and envisages expanding and productive international collaboration; hence, we gladly invite fellow academics, writers, artists, individuals, and institutions from all countries, to convene and discuss representations of otherness in the arts.
Recent Collaboration:
The Centre for Studies in Otherness has recently begun to work with the Nordic Network for Literary Transculturation Studies. Our combined research work brought representatives of the Centre for Otherness to two symposiums hosted by NNLTS, in Helsinki, and Bergen. We are also very pleased that our efforts in working together on issues related to transculturation has resulted in the publication of a special volume of our journal, Otherness: Essays & Studies, vol 3.1. Many thanks to Anne Holden Rønning for editing the issue, and to the authors, from both networks, for their valuable contributions.
We look forward to future projects together.