Welcoming Speech
EDITORIAL “The Melting Pot: The World is reshaping under pressure”
We have entitled this conference `The Melting Pot` - a concept borrowed from the area of cooking, more precisely the fondue technique, to help us understand how contemporary society is in fact a huge crucible of a mixture of all previously separate and somehow independent civilizations, creating a rich mixture with hints of novelty despite the components old that it incorporates. This metaphor is best for understanding how a heterogeneous society as we previously were in many situations becoming more homogeneous, the different elements “melting together” with a common culture and behavior. We will focus in this conference on what `human society` means today, how the current generation makes its insignia, significant gestures, and values, with which the` traditional world` strives to survive the speed of kneading a new dough, but especially at what costs all these initiatives are supported and the fermentation of the production of a superior taste. Starting from the keyword `reshaping`, We have invited researchers, teachers, and students to join on this global forum, where research, knowledge, and ideas can be efficiently presented and shared. The conference provides a smart virtual platform to share your research ideas with personal attendance but without traveling or expensive accommodation. Any paper that brings forward a new approach, a research report, or a case study, a decent-provocative supposition, or a challenging hypothesis is more than welcome into DIALOGO Conference. We have the pleasure to discuss findings and ideas with fellow scholars worldwide and the opportunity to publish it into an international, indexed publication! I. Topic and Significance: We are witnesses of a major reshaping of our world nowadays: the World and our lives as we used to know are ending and they are reshaping constantly and drastically under pressure. These are some issues we considered important when raised this theme to a public discussion. 1. Art and Literature (topics under consideration: These are the days of creation, of inspiration as it was always the case with times of sorrow, despair, and challenges - a strong motive for humans to immortalize their struggle of surviving. So many artworks emerge amid pandemic, from daily impressions and blogging to hard-core literature and other arts - all proving that humans are more than individuals and survival more than a sacrificed generation... On the other hand, this is a time for huge changes in Arts as well for artists cannot perform in public but online, cannot be free in the creative act, and, most of all, there are tremendous changes demanded in all kind of arts from the ‘black lives matter” movement up to adjustments of literature, sculpture or cinema...). 2. Earth Sciences, Ecology, Environment & Theology (topics under consideration: The worldwide disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in numerous impacts on the environment and the climate in a positive sense. The considerable decline in planned travel has caused many regions to experience a large drop in air pollution. Other positive impacts on the environment include governance-
doi: 10.18638/dialogo.2020.7.1
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