Conferences and Events in October 2008
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3rd Conference on Cultural Economics
The past few years have seen significant changes in the scope, issues and objects of the cultural and communication economy; these latter give rise to an evolution of the modes of public intervention. more >
3rd International Workshop for Foundations and Cultural Networks
The International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM) and Fondazione Fitzcarraldo will co-organise the3rd International Workshop for Foundations and Cultural Networks at the Gulbekian Foundation. 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 >
Mongolia to host Kazakhstan Cultural Days
Within an official visit to Mongolia in August Head of the State Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed his Mongolian counterpart N.Enkhbayar to hold Days of Mongolia in Kazakhstan and Days of Kazakhstan in Mongolia in order to strengthen cultural ties between the two nations. more >
National Arts Development and National Arts Marketing Conferences
Two Overlapping Conferences, One Theme: “Relationships Built to Last: Creating Communities of Audiences and Donor-Investors.” 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 >
Culture and the Challenges of our Time: Promoting Nigeria Dress Culture
The 22nd edition of the National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFEST) 2008 will be held in Enugu. The 36 States of the Federation, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Foreign countries are expected to be at this cultural exposition - a festival set to unite the nationmore >
International Educational Conference “Moving beyond Mobility”
The conference targets researchers, practitioners and experts in the field of international youth exchange and intercultural learning, and focuses on the educational impact, success stories and obstacles of exchange programs. 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 >
Researching the arts - why bother?
A debate on the value of arts and humanities research. Organised by the Institute of Ideas, Kings College London and the AHRC. more >
Second Young Researchers Forum 2008
The second Young Researchers Forum has been organised to stimulate the creation of a network of young cultural policy researchers with European competencies. more >
2008 Creative City Summit
Dialogue sessions will be held on the topics of Community Engagement, Special Events, the Arts and Economic Development, Intercultural Communications, Cultural Infrastructure and Public Art. more >
VII Encuentro Red de Centros Culturales de América y Europa
Se acerca la actividad anual más relevante de la Red de Centros Culturales de América y Europa. more >
VII Encounter of the Cultural Centres of America and Europe Network
The annual, most important, activity of the Cultural Centres of America and Europe Network is rapidly approaching. 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 >
Vienna Café Festival and Conference
“The Viennese Café as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange” conference will examine the café from a variety of perspectives, with the aim of deepening our understanding of the nature of this urban space, and the cultural exchanges and performances that went on there. more >
Intercultural Dialogue and Digital Culture
The round table entitled Intercultural Dialogue and Digital Culture, will be held in Zagreb, Croatia, on 20-21 November 2008, aiming to discuss and share knowledge about the possibilities that digital culture provides for intercultural dialogue, and to identify examples of existing good practices that allow for participation of users in virtual cultural projects, thus enabling democratic participation of citizens in the building of virtual/digital culture. 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 >
The Big Question: The Changing Role of Research in Bidding for, and Measuring the Impact of, Large-Scale Cultural Events
Impacts 08 will jointly host the latest in the Arts Research Digest's series of interactive events, 'The Big Question: 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 >
3rd Euroregional Cultural Conference
The event, entitled 'Innovation, research and culture', will particularly focus on the challenges brought about by the evolution from a Society of Information to a Society of Knowledge and its implications for cultural managers. more >
European Cultural Parliament session in Liverpool
This year's session will discuss the theme "Culture, Media and Democracy", prepared and researched in cooperation with the European Journalism Centre. The session will also continue the topic of the previous meeting in Sibiu "Open Space for Intercultural Dialogue". more >
Resonancia Colombia: música y management en el entorno digital
Durante el 28 y 29 de Octubre, en el marco de los Festivales al Parque de Bogotá, se llevará cabo la primera versión de Resonancia Colombia. more >
Resonancia Colombia: Music and Management within the Digital Realm
The first ‘Resonancia Colombia’ will take place the 28th and 29th of October, as part of the Festivales al Parque (Park Festivals) of Bogotá. 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 >
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 >
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