ASCA is a research institute and doctoral school devoted to interdisciplinary and comparative studies across cultural and linguistic boundaries. Cultural analysis enables us to formulate the necessary articulations between transnational theories, disciplines and objects of study.
Our research projects on cultural transformations and globalisation investigate discourses on and representations of contested objects such as the local and the global, the human, the migrant, the European, the minoritizing of ethnicities, religions or sexualities. The rapid and uneven alteration of such systems creates new media, new discourses and new subjects. We are therefore interested in the articulations between:
- The transformation of discourses (study of the ethical, moral, and political discourses and principles structuring contemporary societies, argumentation, and analysis of the problems involved in the normative conceptualisations of those transformations);
- The development of new media (with emphasis on the new conceptual apparatuses made possible by the resources of our digital age, sound technology and digital games) and;
- Multilingual and multicultural encounters including the transnational circulation of images or constructions of identity markers (ethnic and sexual minorities, gender and Islam, transgenre, queer theory and transdisciplinarity).
Wanda Strauven
Academic Director
