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Arts Leadership - Leading In Creative Contexts
Arts educators, leaders and researchers should note that the conference includes a special stream specifically aimed at leadership in the arts sector - "Leading in Creative Contexts". more >
Media and Global Divides
The congress addresses relationships between media and contemporary global divides, be they historical or emergent phenomena. It will explore the pivotal yet under-researched roles of the media with regard to today’s global inequalities. more >
Confluences: International Conference on Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue
Confluences' programme combines a series of testimonials, discussions on cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue and presentations of relevant artistic initiatives. more >
Re-imagining Special Education through Arts Education and Arts Therapy
Special education through the Arts delivers a sensory approach to learning assisting students to move from the non-verbal to the verbal, from being an observer to a participant and to fully awaken student potential. more >
Seminar on Identity, Cultural Policy and Administration
This seminar seeks to improve government officials’ abilities in cultural policy and administration. more >
Seminario sobre Identidad, gestión y política cultural
El seminario orientado al perfeccionamiento de los agentes del Estado en temáticas inherentes a la gestión cultural. more >
Third International Conference On The Arts In Society
The special theme of this year’s Conference is art as communication. more >
The International Conference and Workshop Arte-Polis 2 Extends the Deadline for Abstracts
Its objective is to share international experiences and knowledge regarding current issues, best practices and policy implications on the relationship between creative communities and place-making. more >
La Conferencia-taller internacional Arte-Polis 2 amplía su fecha límite de recepción de propuestas
Su objetivo es compartir conocimiento y experiencias acerca de temas actuales, buenas prácticas y políticas resultantes de la relación entre comunidades creativas y la construcción del espacio. more >
Creative Communities and the Making of Place: Sharing Creative Experiences
The aim of Arte-Polis 2 is to bring together academics, community leaders, local government officials, policy-makers and professionals from different regions of the world concerned with the quality of life and livelihood of creative communities in both urban and rural settings. more >
Creative Societies/Cultural Industries/New Humanities?
The study of culture—of the significance, meaning, and value of its various expressions and products—has traditionally been the domain of the humanities. more >
Understanding Conflicts - Cross-Cultural Perspectives
An international, interdisciplinary research conference on the diversity of conceptions and cultural images of conflicts. more >
9th International Conference on Urban History
The biennial conferences of the European Association for Urban History provide a multidisciplinary forum for historians, sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, art and architectural historians, economists, ecologists, planners and all others working on different aspects of urban history. more >
Culture, Cohesion and Competitiveness: Regional Perspectives
The theme encapsulates a number of different aspects that are topical and relevant not only for Liverpool but also across the whole of Europe. more >
4th Annual Conference 2008: Cultural Citizenship
This conference seeks to explore the inter-relationships between citizenship and culture and their contemporary social, cultural and political significance in a number of different contexts. more >
'Diversity united'
Intercultural work in European cities – experience, concepts, perspectives. The culture office of the city of Dortmund is organising an international conference to present and discuss different concepts of the intercultural work in local communities. more >
Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging
Call for Papers
This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the new and prominent place that the idea of culture has for the construction of identity and the implications of this for social membership in contemporary societies.
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Community, Health and the Arts 'Vital Arts - Vibrant Communities'
Today there is increasing awareness that the arts play a crucial role in improving the health and social wellbeing of communities. more >
Fourth Art of Management and Organization Conference
The aim is the exploration and promotion of the arts (in the most inclusive sense) as a means of understanding management and organization(al) life more >
Journeys and their perambulations: inquiries in artworlds and organisations
We invite participants to bring modes of discussing approaches to inquiry about aesthetic processes. In particular we wish to focus on the nature of place in these worlds. more >
Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Critique
This conference will present and discuss the most advanced and exciting research on digital content creation, its socio-cultural contexts and educational consequences. more >
International Social Capital Conference
The conference will discuss the issues associated with social capital, social inclusion and social cohesion, bringing together social scientists, economists, policymakers, social workers and the widest spectrum of the involved players to explore the social cohesion issues arising in society. more >
Sustainable City and Creativity, Naples 2008
The aim of the Meeting is to analyze in depth principles and practices of the creative city for the formulation of policy lessons and recommendations able to contribute to the building of a creative city. more >
ELIA's 10th Biennial Conference
The focus of the conference and that of its various themes stem from issues that concern us all; the all-encompassing focus will be the future role of higher arts education institutions and the relationship of those institutions with our changing societies. more >
16th General Assembly and International Scientific Symposium of ICOMOS
The 16th General Assembly and International Scientific Symposium of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), to be held in Quebec, Canada, on 29 September - 4 October 2008 under the title The Spirit of Place Between the Intangible and the Tangible, calls for papers. more >
2008 Regional Arts Australia Conference "art at the heart"
Proposals are being sought from artists and those who work in the arts, including volunteers, with ideas for presentations, exhibitions, displays or performances. more >
Call For Papers ArtsHealth Symposium #1
Associate Professor Graeme Sullivan from Columbia University is a keynote speaker and other keynote speakers will be announced soon. In response to Reflections on Arts and Health, the Steering Committee especially welcomes proposals that address 'Revealing the Body' and 'Healing Arts' more >
Artists in Dialogue, Transforming Communities
Res Artis 11th General Meeting. Join us in Amsterdam to explore the diversity of international residency programs, meeting colleagues from throughout the world and a wide range of Dutch initiators. more >
Arts and the New American City – You draw the map!
The 2008 Grantmakers in the Arts conference will convene in Atlanta. The landscapes of the new South will provide diverse opportunities to explore familiar and unexpected themes, crossing the borders of Arts and Community Development, Arts and Social Justice, Arts and Cultural Literacy. more >
Cross-Cultural Communication in the World Heritage
A conference that aims to show the place and role of cross-cultural communication in education and global heritage. more >
2nd Young Cultural Policy Researchers Forum: Call for abstracts
The Forum 2008 will focus on “Cross-cultural, qualitative approaches to cultural policy research”. more >
ENCATC Annual Conference and General Assembly
16th ENCATC Annual Conference and General Assembly “Intercultural dialogue and project management: New training programs in a context of major challenges”. more >
Globalization of Culture
The main objective of the Forum "Globalization of Culture" is to provide understandings of theoretical and practical aspects of Globalization of Culture. By initiating a multidisciplinary discussion from different points of view conference will ensure the broad scientific insights of these phenomena. more >
Social Theory, Politics & the Arts: Call for Papers
STP&A is an international and interdisciplinary gathering of researchers, policymakers and practitioners that highlights current and conceptual issues in the development of cultural policy, theory, and arts administration practices in the United States and abroad. more >
The Big Question: Arts Research Digest Interactive Event
An interactive day for looking at the changing role of research in bidding for, and measuring the impact of large-scale cultural events. more >
Culture Action Europe/ EFAH 16th General Assembly and Annual conference
We hope to bring some central European cultural debates to the Mediterranean and broaden all of our horizons: the discussion will turn around the question of how can we deepen the European cultural conversation to involve all actors concerned, as well as our Southern neighbours? more >
Intercultural Dialogue Policies at a Local Level
Interacció 2008 seeks to reopen the debate on diversity and interculturality, convinced that the new dimension of the phenomenon demands a response from local authorities. more >
Arts, Culture and Public Sphere: Expressive and Instrumental Values in Economic and Sociological Perspective
A conference that will bring together disciplines of Sociology and Economics to investigate multiple social and economic dimensions of art and culture and to develop interdisciplinary dialogue. more >
IETM Autumn Plenary Meeting
Zurich will host the autumn meeting with the conference topic of 'misunderstanding'. more >
Priming the Pump
The 2008 National Arts Marketing Project Conference. The 2008 conference now features three session tracks: Arts Marketing, Arts Fundraising, and the Integration of Marketing and Fundraising. more >
The 9th International Joint World Cultural Tourism Conference 2008
The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for international educators, scholars, researchers, industry professionals, policy-makers and graduate students with opportunity to explore and discuss issues in the topics on culture, tourism business and management. more >
Creative Clusters 2008
We are delighted to announce that Creative Clusters 2008, which takes place for the first time in Scotland, will be looking at the creative economy from the point of view of the world's smaller nations and regions. more >
Challenges of Intercultural Dialogue in Performing Arts
From 20 to 22 November, La Scena Club situated in the old district of Bucharest, will be the place to be for cultural actors interested in exchanging experience and ideas about 'Challenges of Intercultural Dialogue in Performing Arts'. more >
Picture this...Young children and the arts
This international two-day conference, organised in collaboration with Children in Europe partners from across Europe, will consider the significance of the arts (encompassing all art forms) in learning, social and emotional development and communication. more >
Being, Becoming and Belonging: Multiculturalism, Diversity and Social Inclusion in Modern Canada
This conference will consider a breadth of subjects in relation to the construction, evolution, evaluation and representation of modern Canada and its appreciation and recognition of matters of cultural difference. more >
10th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management: Call for Papers
This scientific conference will address various sectors of the arts and cultural industries (performing arts and festivals, heritage, museums and visual arts, film production and distribution, book publishing, recording, broadcasting, audiovisual media and multimedia). more >
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