The project
Intercultural Dialogue European Radio Campaign IDERC
The idea is to create 7 information and communication European radio campaign
Contents of the campaign (70 broadcasts 20' longer each one)
10 broadcasts about European history will be produced and broadcasted by each radio, these will not include any date, king or battle’s name but a quite unusual imprint: the linguistic and philological one. The goal is to explore current languages spoken in different European countries throughout the philological analysis of the linguistic stratification which composed and created them.
The final intent is to make the European citizens awareness of the long and complicated process of intercultural dialogue that European people have always experienced, and give scientific prove of it.
Down the centuries, European people have always migrated across our continent from one place to another, the occupation of big regions where other people lived, created, over the years, a sort of new human settlement with cultural, religious and linguistic features absolutely original because the new culture was the result of both people, the natives and the new ones.
This is the story of our continent, the story of an ancient but still actual phenomenon which we would like to describe and spread over with this project. In particular, this is what we would like to underline:
the contribution the several cultures of European people have brought to the common European heritage
the ordinariness of this social, cultural and religious phenomenon strictly connected to the current globalisation phase: our continent experienced many other periods like this one
the impossibility of defining someone who lives in Europe as “pure” from an anthropological point of view: everyone is the result of ethnical contaminations occurred during the years.
the importance of taking part of the present dialogue with people with different cultures throughout the awareness of who we are today: there’s no reason to be afraid because our ancestors have lived the same before us
A new Web Site will be created for the project and all the broadcasts will be uploaded on it, Podcast format.
Everything will be transcribed, corrected by an editorial point of view and uploaded on the web site, the final purpose is to gather educational documents at everyone free disposal (privates, scholars, teachers and so on).
The description of the ten broadcasts
WHAT IS THE IDENTITY
We deal with the themes on which the project is based and which will be developed and thoroughly analised in the following broadcasts: the meaning of concentric identities, what we mean by negotiation process, how human languages have evolved
We deal with the themes on which the project is based and which will be developed and thoroughly analised in the following broadcasts: the meaning of concentric identities, what we mean by negotiation process, how human languages have evolved
MIGRATIONS
Migration is a fundamental element in the evolution of the human species. It is the encounters between populations that, through the centuries, have blended together to the point of creating cultures and languages more vital and different from the starting ones, that have enriched themselves until determining present languages and cultures.
CITIES
The city is the place in which the many interests that make people move are concentrated: economy, culture, art, commerce, finance, education. It is the ideal place to investigate how many identities add up to a single person, and street names and architecture can tell us about the peoples that have met and mixed themselves there.
CULTURE
How many cultures are there in Europe? Can the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights signed in Nice and inserted in the European Constitution be an element in measuring the EU ratio of cultural unity? Or is that unity maybe the one of music, and of the sport of unified formats for unsustainable consumerism's television?
FOOD
It is the most tasteful way to appreciate the advantages that variations in culture have to offer. Is it better to enter in a shop that only has one kind of fruit or in a huge market with a hundred different kinds of fruits? Are we happy that we can now enrich our food with a hundred different spices or was it better when we only had salt? How do foods circulate and where do the names we identify them with come from?
COMMERCE AND FINANCE
Those who trade must be able to talk with anybody in any language, must know where and how to meet the other people. Commerce is the oldest way to meet and dialogue. Finance is the instrument that makes possible buying in a port and selling in another. From letters of credit to wire transfers and cash machines, banks are an example of dialogue between cultures.
ART
Music, dance, cinema and literature are an important vehicle of exchange, of mutual learning, of advantages that develop the forms of expression first in one country and then in another. When it happened to the artists of a country to stop talking with the ones of another, the ability to make art was interrupted in that country.
WHY NOT?
Why sometimes dialogue between people is not possible? Which are the reasons that make it such? Who is interested in putting peoples armed one against the other? And why do we accept to fight against something? Nationalist identity, hard-line religion, fear of differences, stereotypes are the poison that flows in the blood that fuels war.
TRACES
We look for the evident proofs of the meeting of peoples. Street names, the names of inhabitants and the toponymy of a territory, the rites for having a wedding, birth, death, the way in which we create gardens, and most importantly the deposit of all the different languages that made up our own.
IDENTITY IN EUROPE TODAY
We will leave to people coming from non European countries the job of telling us if it exists, and if it does to define it through their stories, their experiences, their eyes.
Migration is a fundamental element in the evolution of the human species. It is the encounters between populations that, through the centuries, have blended together to the point of creating cultures and languages more vital and different from the starting ones, that have enriched themselves until determining present languages and cultures.
CITIES
The city is the place in which the many interests that make people move are concentrated: economy, culture, art, commerce, finance, education. It is the ideal place to investigate how many identities add up to a single person, and street names and architecture can tell us about the peoples that have met and mixed themselves there.
CULTURE
How many cultures are there in Europe? Can the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights signed in Nice and inserted in the European Constitution be an element in measuring the EU ratio of cultural unity? Or is that unity maybe the one of music, and of the sport of unified formats for unsustainable consumerism's television?
FOOD
It is the most tasteful way to appreciate the advantages that variations in culture have to offer. Is it better to enter in a shop that only has one kind of fruit or in a huge market with a hundred different kinds of fruits? Are we happy that we can now enrich our food with a hundred different spices or was it better when we only had salt? How do foods circulate and where do the names we identify them with come from?
COMMERCE AND FINANCE
Those who trade must be able to talk with anybody in any language, must know where and how to meet the other people. Commerce is the oldest way to meet and dialogue. Finance is the instrument that makes possible buying in a port and selling in another. From letters of credit to wire transfers and cash machines, banks are an example of dialogue between cultures.
ART
Music, dance, cinema and literature are an important vehicle of exchange, of mutual learning, of advantages that develop the forms of expression first in one country and then in another. When it happened to the artists of a country to stop talking with the ones of another, the ability to make art was interrupted in that country.
WHY NOT?
Why sometimes dialogue between people is not possible? Which are the reasons that make it such? Who is interested in putting peoples armed one against the other? And why do we accept to fight against something? Nationalist identity, hard-line religion, fear of differences, stereotypes are the poison that flows in the blood that fuels war.
TRACES
We look for the evident proofs of the meeting of peoples. Street names, the names of inhabitants and the toponymy of a territory, the rites for having a wedding, birth, death, the way in which we create gardens, and most importantly the deposit of all the different languages that made up our own.
IDENTITY IN EUROPE TODAY
We will leave to people coming from non European countries the job of telling us if it exists, and if it does to define it through their stories, their experiences, their eyes.