The 8th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research will take place in Hildesheim, Germany, from September 9th to 12th, and in Berlin, from September 12th to 13th, 2014. ICCPR2014 aims to provide a space for exploring cultural policies, their meanings, roles and impact in an interdisciplinary and international environment. This exploration is not restricted to… Continue reading The 8th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR)
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Congress in China: ‘Culture: Key to Sustainable Development’
An international congress entitled ‘Culture: Key to Sustainable Development’, organised by UNESCO with the support of the Government of the People’s Republic of China, will be held in Hangzhou, China, on 15-17 May 2013. The focus will be to discuss the role of culture in sustainable development in view of the post-2015 development framework. Read… Continue reading Congress in China: ‘Culture: Key to Sustainable Development’
Conference: Radius of art
Berlin 8th – 9th of February 2012 The international conference „Radius of art: Creative politicization of the public sphere /Cultural potential forces for social transformation“ takes place in Berlin on the 8th and 9th of February. It puts artistic and cultural projects into the focus of of the political discourse. The purposeful choice of speakers… Continue reading Conference: Radius of art
Conference: Probing the Skin
Jena 24th to 26th of April 2013 From April the 24th to April the 26th 2013 the conference “Probing the Skin: Cultural representations of Our Contact Zone” takes place at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. The organizers Prof. Caroline Rosenthal and Prof. Dirk Vanderbeke aks for submission of papers including artistic reflections of skin related themes… Continue reading Conference: Probing the Skin
Call for Papers: Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America
Calgary, Alberta, Canada October 10-13, 2012 Building on the success of Under Western Skies: Climate, Culture, and Change in Western North America in October 2010, Under Western Skies 2 welcomes academics from across the disciplines as well as members of artistic and activist communities, non- and for-profit organizations, government, labour, and NGOs to address the… Continue reading Call for Papers: Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America
Rio+20: Ideas for culture
From the 4th until the 6th of June 2012 the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development or Rio+20 will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has been 20 years since the first Earth Summit took place and the international community’s attention towards the Rio+20 Summit is growing steadily. In order to influence the… Continue reading Rio+20: Ideas for culture
Confluence 2011 – Festival of Indigenous Storytellers
30th of September – 2nd of October, 2011 Fire Flies Ashram, Bangalore/India The “Confluence” invites you to a 3-day event on storytelling, where storytellers from various tribal communities of India will be sharing some of their disappearing myths, legends and stories with a view to build a collective that supports the need for their preservation.… Continue reading Confluence 2011 – Festival of Indigenous Storytellers
Amplify Action
“The exhibition “Amplify Action: Sustainability through the Arts”, is a collaborative project of the Pratt Center for Community Development, Pratt Institute’s Initiative for Arts, Community and Social Change (IACSC), and the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. The project is a part of the Arts Implementation Fund of the Pratt Center, recently established through a generous grant from… Continue reading Amplify Action
SurVivArt – Arts for the Right to a Good Life
The Heinrich Böll Stiftung has started yet another interesting project referring to arts and sustainability. Artists from six mainly southern countries are invited to discuss the meaning of the right to a good life. Based on the fact that our daily lives and our ways of achieving a “good life” always influence the environment in… Continue reading SurVivArt – Arts for the Right to a Good Life
Eighth international conference on environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 10-12 January 2012 “This conference aims to develop a holistic view of sustainability, in which environmental, cultural and economic issues are inseparably interlinked. It will work in a multidisciplinary way, across diverse fields and taking varied perspectives in order to address the fundamentals of sustainability.” Call for papers open… Continue reading Eighth international conference on environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability
