Topics

 

Contributions are invited for the following streams:

• Relationships between Intercultural Thinking and Literary Genres 

• Intercultural Thinking and Mystical Literature
• Intercultural Thinking and Epic Literature 
• Intercultural Thinking and Lyrical Literature and Poetry 
• Intercultural Thinking and Folk/Folklore Literature and Fable
• Intercultural Thinking and Educational Literature 
• Intercultural Thinking and Fiction and Narrative

 

• Relationships between Intercultural Thinking and Literary Theory and Criticism

• Intercultural Philosophy and Phenomenology 
• Intercultural Philosophy and Philosophical Hermeneutics 
• Intercultural Philosophy and Comparative studies 
• Intercultural Philosophy and Post-structuralism
• Intercultural Philosophy and Feminism 
• Intercultural Philosophy and Postcolonial studies 
• Intercultural Philosophy and Ethnic/Racial studies 
• Intercultural Philosophy and Intertextuality

 

• Role of Persian Language and Literature in Intercultural Understanding 

• Intercultural Thinking in Regional Persian language and literature 
• Intercultural Thinking and intellectual and literary heritage of Iran; Khosravani Hikmah, and Ishraqi Hikmah (The School of Illumination)
• The common aspects of oriental literature and intercultural thinking
• Intercultural philosophy and the linguistic structures of Persian language and literature 
• Intercultural philosophy and linguistics 
• Intercultural philosophy and translation 
• Intercultural philosophy and Manuscriptology 

  

• Concepts of Intercultural Thinking in Persian Literature ‌

• Monophonic and polyphonic
• The ‘in-between’ world
• Absolutism and Anti-absolutism
• Identity and self-understanding (collective self and individual self) 
• Encountering the Other and the stranger (Convergence, Divergence)
• Egoism and identity thinking
• Monism and pluralism
• Centralism, fundamentalism, essentialism
• Cultural thinking
• Authenticity and distinction
• Tolerance, coexistence

 

• The historical experience of dialogue and intercultural exchange in the field of Persian language and literature

• Challenges of Comparative Studies in Philosophy and Literature 

• Critical Evaluation of Comparative Studies of Philosophy and Literature