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Pre-registration: European Atelier for Young Festival Managers
The European Atelier for Young Festival Managers is a unique, intense, one-week training programme initiated by the European Festivals Association. more >
Call for Papers: 11th International Joint World Tourism Conference
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 cultural tourism. more >
11th ELIA Biennial Conference
ELIA - European League of Institutes of the Arts announces a call for papers (deadline 14th December) and presentations for its 11th Biennial Conference, to be held in Nantes, France in October 2010. more >
Representations of European Identity
Paper and/or panel proposals are invited for a 3-day multi-disciplinary international conference on representations of European identity entitled Europe in its Own Eyes / Europe in the Eyes of the Other. more >
Performing the World 2010: Can Performance Change the World?
The theme of this year’s conference is: “Can Performance Change the World?”. With this theme, we ask performance activists and scholars to reflect on and address the political aspects of their performance work; at the same time, we invite social change activists to reflect on and address the performance aspects of their political activities. more >
National Arts Policy Roundtable
The goal of the Roundtable is to create actionable policy recommendations for both the public and private sectors to consider in advancing the topic. more >
Creative Communities 2
‘Creative communities’ is a phrase that appears in a wide range of government policy and strategy documents, commissioned reports and academic texts. more >
Arts for Education!
The aim of the symposium is to promote exchange between and networks of international actors in the area of arts education on an academic, practical and political level. more >
Environmental change - cultural change
The conference will seek to gain new insights into the potential role of environmental literature, film and other media in generating environmental knowledge. more >
The 6th International Conference for Cultural Policy Research iccpr 2010
The 6th International Conference for Cultural Policy Research iccpr 2010 will be held in Finland. ICCPR2010 theme "Truths, Taboos and Myths of Cultural Policy" refers to the ways in the field of cultural policy takes place and positions itself in praxis and research. more >
Call for participants: International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST)
The first International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST) is planned for August 2010 in Bulgaria, in the beautiful Balkan mountains. The theme of the first edition of the summer school will be: Walking and Places: building transformations. more >
Third Arte-Polis International Conference on Creative Collaboration and the Making of Place: Learning from Shared Creative Experiences
Call for Papers - Abstracts due 22 February 2010. Building on the successes of the first two Arte-Polis international conferences in 2006 and 2008, Institute of Technology Bandung is pleased to present Arte-Polis 3, an international conference with the theme "Creative Collaboration and the Making of Place: Learning from Shared Creative Experiences". more >
VII World Congress of IDEA 2010
Live, Living Diversity! Embracing the Arts of Transformation! more >
Global Events Congress IV: Events and Festivals Research: State of the Art
This conference will take stock and to add insight by enabling connections to be made between different aspects of the currently rather fragmented festivals and events research landscape. By bringing together the researchers from across the world, the event will encourage the creation of new research partnerships. more >
Japan Association for Cultural Economics Conference 2010
With a view to hosting the biannual conference of the Association of Cultural Economics International (ACEI) to Japan in 2012, this Research Conference will welcome papers in English from international researchers, both based overseas and those residing in Japan, contributing to discussions and exchanges of ideas on various issues in the field of cultural economics as widely defined between Japanese and international participants. more >
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