Culture Meets Economy: Culture and Crisis – Opportunity or Threat?
Bolzano, Italy, 30 June – 1 July 2009
For the second time, the European Academy Bozen/Bolzano and the University of Innsbruck are organizing a Scientific Track within the framework of the conference Culture Meets Economy, to take place from 30 June to 1 July 2009 in Bolzano, Italy.
As the first Culture Meets Economy Conference in 2007 addressed the potential of cultural events for tourism and the last year's conference looked on culture and creativity as location factors for non-metropolitan areas, the upcoming conference will focus on the topic "Culture and Crisis". By now, the financial crisis is affecting all countries and sectors and inspires debate about the future of our systems and economy, ethics and responsibility and – more basically – the survival of companies and organizations. The relationship between culture and crisis can be manifold and includes various aspects and facets on the continuum between opportunity and threat. This year's conference theme covers different dimensions as the crisis of culture, the culture of facing crisis or the change of culture through crises.
The Scientific Track of the conference will address various topics on the intersection between culture, economy and crisis, offering a platform for academics and researchers to present and debate state-of-the-art research in the field of culture and crisis and intends to address a wide variety of aspects. It is open to researchers from different disciplines, giving the opportunity to create interdisciplinary networks and co-operations. Academics and practitioners are invited to submit research papers relating to one of the following areas / topics:
- contribution of culture in times of crisis
- crises as a facilitator for creativity and innovation
- change of culture (e.g. cultural consumption, cultural supply, cultural production, cultural tourism, cultural networks) in times of crisis
- cultural sponsorship and promotion against the background of crisis
- culture and identity
- culture of facing crises
- culture and management
- cultural entrepreneurs
The Scientific Track of the Culture Meets Economy Conference provides a two stage double blind peer-reviewing process. In the first stage, abstracts will be evaluated and assessed for acceptance (access review). In the Scientific Track the research work will be presented and discussed, offering the opportunity for discussion of results. On this basis, in the second stage, full papers will undergo a double blind review process.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15 April 2009. All those wishing to present a paper at the conference must submit an abstract of 1,500 up to 2,000 words in MS Word format. Abstracts must be submitted in English and must include:
research objective and/or questions
research methodology and theoretical perspectives
main or expected conclusions, and
main references
The authors will be notified of the acceptance of their abstract by 15 May 2009. Deadline for the submission of full papers is 31 August 2009. Full papers must be written in English and should not exceed 15 pages (max. 6,000 words) including figures, tables, appendices and references. After the review process, the revised full paper has to be submitted by 31 October 2009.