Mieke to Chair 'The invention of Europe through languages ​​and cultures'

Anchored in the semiotic perspective, that is to say the relationship between perception and meaning based in any aspect, element, object that constitutes daily life, the content of the chair will be the creation of what can be called a cultural dream : think about how to live together on this very diverse continent. This year, the teaching of the chair will be devoted to the " semiospherewhere everyday life is lived, where communication takes place on the basis of an understanding of difference, not as a separation, but on the contrary as the shared area within which one can identify , or rather, identify with otherness as a bond. Curiosity as the aspiration to know what one does not yet know, rather than the hostility or indifference that rejects it or turns its back on it.

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