Culture

The first intuitions, assembled in Thinking at Crossroads: In Search of New Languages (coordinated by Eduardo Portella, 2002), were followed by over fifteen international seminars and a dozen publications in five languages, developed with the cooperation of over 200 intellectuals from diverse cultural and scholarly backgrounds.

Publications

• Rethinking Democracy, Cultural Diversity and Social Cohesion, 2008
• On Human Dignity, Diogenes, issue n° 215, Sage Publications, 2007
• Approaches to Utopia, Diogenes, issue n° 209, Sage Publications, 2006
• Horizons of Memory, Diogenes, issue n° 201, Sage Publications, 2004
• Emerging  Humanisms, Diogenes, issue n° 206, Sage Publications, 2005
• The Encounter Between Rationalities, Diogenes, issue n° 202, Sage Publications, 2004
• What Knowledge for What Societies?, Issue n° 197, Sage Publications, 2003
• Thinking at Crossroads: in search of new languages, UNESCO Publishing, 2002
• The Book: A World Transformed, UNESCO Publishing, 2001

Seminars

• Reinventing Democracy: Cultural Diversity and Social Cohesion
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 13 and 14 Novembre 2007
• Pathways Of Human Dignity: From Cultural Traditions to a New Paradigm
  Vadstena, Sweden, 31 October-4 November 2007
• Pathways of Thought on the Science-Humanities Border
  Rio de Janeiro, Brésil, 1-2 juin 2006
• What do Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir Have to Say Today?
  Julia Kristeva, René Depestre, François Noudelman
  Paris, 24 November 2005
• Readings of Utopia
  Morelia, Mexico, 22-24 November 2004
• The History and Philosophy of Science from a Cosmopolitical Viewpoint
  Paris, 24 May 2004
• Paths to Dignity
  Paris, 14 and 15 November 2005
• Emerging Humanisms
  Alexandria, Egypt, 9 and 10 December 2003
• Horizons of Memory
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3 to 5 September 2002
• The Encounter of Rationalities
  Porto-Novo, Benin, 18-21 September 2002

Start Date: 08-12-2009
End Date: 08-12-2009

Frances Albernaz
f.albernaz(at)unesco.org