{"id":1296,"date":"2017-09-28T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/societesplurielles.fr\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2017-11-21T10:35:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T09:35:41","slug":"cosmopolitanism-revisited-comparative-perspectives-on-urban-diversity-from-the-gulf-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/societesplurielles.fr\/fr\/cosmopolitanism-revisited-comparative-perspectives-on-urban-diversity-from-the-gulf-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmopolitanism Revisited: Comparative Perspectives on Urban Diversity from the Gulf and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cosmopolitanism Revisited: <\/strong>Comparative Perspectives on Urban Diversity from the Gulf and Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n

11 octobre <\/strong>(les Salons de l’INALCO, 2 rue de Lille 75007 Paris)<\/em> et 12 octobre <\/strong>(<\/em>salle G. Lavau, CEVIPOF, 98 rue de l’Universit\u00e9 75007 Paris)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Gulf<\/p>\n

This international conference is convened by the Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne Paris Cit\u00e9<\/strong> (USPC)\u2019s interdisciplinary program Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s plurielles <\/strong>(Diverse Societies) and the Laboratory of Anthropology, Urbanity and Globalization<\/strong> (IIAC\/LAUM), in collaboration with the French Center for Archeology and Social Sciences in Sanaa . It aims to revisit the notion of cosmopolitanism in Gulf cities and other regional areas from a comparative perspective. To enrich our understanding of a debatable issue, sociologist Elijah Anderson (Yale University),\u00a0one of our keynote speakers, will bring into focus the notion of the \u201cCosmopolitan Canopy\u201d.<\/p>\n

The conference is a unique opportunity for scholars of the Gulf and other world regions to engage with cosmopolitanism or otherwise probe the intersection of global studies, urban studies and migration studies from a range of disciplines. More specifically, panels will be organized around the following research themes:<\/p>\n