The submission of abstracts for presentations at this conference, on diverse aspects of cultural measurement, are invited. In particular, proposals that address the following topics are welcome:

- Critical accounts of forms of cultural measurement, including cultural indicators.
- The emergence of new cultural measures, such as categories of cultural vitality, wellbeing, citizenship, sustainability and heritage.
- Cross-cultural measurement, the relationship between mechanisms and categories of measurement and cultural difference.
- Community-driven cultural indicators, including attempts to democratise the processes of cultural measurement.
- The use of arts-based processes in the measurement of culture.
- The implications of new technologies, digital research methods and information visualisation for the measurement of culture.

Proposals invited:  A wide range of presentations including theoretical papers, case studies and the use of creative media are invited. Proposals for panels or participatory workshops will also be considered.  Please submit a 300-word abstract plus 100-word bio.

Closing date:  Friday 9 December 2011 to kim.dunphy@culturaldevelopment.net.au.

Date of advice to presenters: Papers will be reviewed by the conference committee and authors will be notified of the outcome of their submission by December 19, 2011.

Post conference publication:  Following the event, selected presenters will be invited to submit a chapter based on their paper for a publication on the theme of the conference.

For more information: www.culturaldevelopment.net.au
Kim Dunphy, Cultural Development Network kim.dunphy@culturaldevelopment.net.au