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Year 2007 Events

International Artists Residencies

Balatonfured / Csopak, Hungary, May-August 2007

The Hungarian Multicultural Center (HMC) invites interested professional visual artists and writers from around the world to submit applications for its international residency programmes to take place in Csopak, Hungary, on 21 May – 13 June, 18 June – 11 July, and 16 July – 8 August 2007 respectively.

Aiming to promoting international art and the understanding of world cultures, through high quality art exhibitions, cultural exchanges and related educational programs, HMC invites some 12 artists per session to residencies offering them a unique opportunity to interact with other artists representing a variety of cultures and backgrounds. A studio equipped with basic tools, room, breakfast and lunch, transportation between Budapest and Balatonfured, exhibition and site seeing are included in the cost of $1080. Artists are expected to give at least one informal public slide presentation about their work during their stay at the HMC and to leave one piece of work made during the residency as a donation to the HMC.

The deadline for entries is 15 March 2007.

Contact: Beata Szechy, Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc., P.O.Box 141374, Dallas, TX 75214, USA; e-mail: bszechy@yahoo.com; www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com

Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF)

Call for Entries
Zanzibar, Tanzania, 2007

The Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) is the centre-piece of the 10th Festival of the Dhow Countries which celebrates the unique cultural heritage of Africa and the Dhow Countries that share the Indian Ocean basin: the Gulf States, Iran, the Indian subcontinent and the Indian Ocean islands. ZIFF calls producers and directors to submit their features, documentaries, shorts or animation films on DVD by 1 April 2007.

The theme, Celebration: Of Waters and Dreams, proposes to reflect on the rituals of celebration recognizing the many ways in which all cultures value water and creativity symbolized in the nature of dreams. The journey, communication and the various types of celebrations and how they affect communities are also covered by the theme.

Contact: Mariaida Mwale, Ngome Kongwe, P.O. Box 3032, Zanzibar, Tanzania; e-mail: ziff@ziff.or.tz; www.ziff.or.tz

Fine Art, Design, Theory

Call for Applications
Maastricht, Netherlands, January 2007

Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit research and production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie, an institute for research and production in the fields of fine art, design and theory. Artists, designers and theoreticians can submit independently formulated proposals for research and/or production in the Fine Art, Design and Theory department. Candidates can also apply for collective research projects formulated by the institute. In order to realise these projects, the Jan van Eyck offers the necessary made-to-measure artistic, technical and auxiliary preconditions.

Every year, 48 international researchers realise their individual or collective projects in the artistic and challenging environment of the Jan van Eyck Academie. Researchers, departments and the institute organise various weekly activities, to which special speakers are invited: lectures, seminars, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, discussions, etc. External interested parties are welcome to attend these activities – the result is a dynamic and critical exchange.

Advised by a team of artists, designers and theoreticians, researchers receive their own studio and a scholarship. Candidates can apply for a department or a collective research project. The one- or two-year research period at a department starts in January 2007. Application deadline is 15 April 2006. More information about the application procedure can be found at www.janvaneyck.nl/_devices/frames_applications.html.

For practical questions concerning the application procedure, please contact Leon Westenberg at leon.westenberg@janvaneyck.nl.

For content-related questions on the Jan van Eyck Academie, its departments or the collective research projects, please contact Kim Thehu at kim.thehu@janvaneyck.nl.

Contact: Jan van Eyck Academie, Academieplein 1, 6211 KM Maastricht, Netherlands; tel.: +31 (0)43 350 37 37; fax: +31 (0)43 350 37 99; e-mail: info@janvaneyck.nl; www.janvaneyck.nl

Symposium on the Impact of Arts and Cultural Education on Children and Young People

Paris, France, 10-12 January 2007

Following an initiative by the French Ministry of Culture and Communications, and the French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research, a European and international symposium on Research Carried out into Evaluating the Impact of Arts and Cultural Education on Children and Young People is to be held at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, on 10-12 January 2007. Aiming to take stock both of completed research and of research still in progress, the organizers have launched a call for papers, to be submitted preferably by 15 January 2006. The final deadline for submissions is 31 March 2006.

The symposium will notably try to highlight the positive impact arts and cultural education could have:

• on the cognitive development and academic achievement of children,
• on the acquisition of certain personality traits,
• on the acquisition of social skills,
• on helping reduce the disparity between the academic results of privileged and underprivileged children,
• on helping each individual to build his own cultural identity, to discover and respect different cultural identities.

Through its evaluation of the impact of arts education, the symposium will seek to highlight the relationship between details of implementation of arts and cultural education and results obtained, trying in particular to assess the added value of the various schemes offering cultural activities. This evaluation will also focus on training schemes for teachers, artists and other professionals involved in the educational field.

Lastly, the symposium will focus on research conducted over wide areas (be they national or regional), in order to try and measure the global impact of educational arts policies (for example, in terms of pupil success, or the development of new cultural practices).

Attendance is free of charge, subject to registration and availability. For details, please see www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Pedagogie.nsf/0/
D9E5FC50EAF95536C12570D7004A1A24?OpenDocument&L=2

For further information, please contact: Ms. Charlotte Fesneau, Chargée de mission, Service éducatif de la Direction de l'Action Educative et des Publics, Centre Pompidou, 75191 Paris cedex 04, France; tel.: +33 (0)1.44.78.12.68; fax: +33 (0)1.44.78.16.73; e-mail: charlotte.fesneau@centrepompidou.fr or
Institut national de recherche pédagogique (INRP), 19 allée de Fontenay – BP 17424, 69347 Lyon Cedex 07, France; tel.: +33 (0)4 72 76 61 00; fax: +33 (0)4 72 76 61 06; www.inrp.fr/internet_en/symposium-europeen-en.php

Third International Architectural Paint Research Conference

Call for Papers
New York City, NY, USA, 17-19 January 2007

A call for papers has been launched for the Third International Architectural Paint Research Conference, to be held at the Columbia University in New York City, USA on 17-19 January 2008. In addition to those discussing paint, the organizers will also be including relevant papers on stains, varnishes, glazes, gilding, and wallpaper. The conference agenda will include five sessions covering the following topics:

• Cultural Significance. The examination of finishes as a social, economic and cultural component of material culture. Papers can address issues such as color taste and history.
• Paint materials and their development. This is a history of technology session.
• Health and safety as related to finishes which can include possible alternatives to historic finishes that no longer meet health and safety requirements or issues that arise in the recreating of historic finishes or handcrafted finishes.
• Analytical and instrumental techniques used in architectural research and standards for these techniques.
• Replicating, recreating and conservation of historic finishes. Papers should address the context of the finish and how the work is being physically reproduced.

All papers discussing case studies should address one of these topics and the presenters are encouraged to demonstrate how the case study contributes to the field of architectural paint research by providing in-depth analysis of what was learned in the course of the study or project. Presentations are to be 30 minutes in length, held in English.

Abstracts should be 250-300 words, in English, and must include the title, the name of the speaker or speakers, the address of the speaker and any institution they are representing, email address of the speaker and the speaker's resume.

Abstracts are due 1 March 2007 and should be sent to maj152@columbia.edu or by regular mail to Mary Jablonski, Historic Preservation Program, GSAPP, 400 Avery, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.

European Network: Culture and Development

Vienna, Austria, 25-27 January 2007

The Vienna Institute for Development and Cooperation (VIDC) is organizing a networking conference entitled European Network: Culture and Development, to be held in Vienna, Austria on 25-27 January 2007. The conference is part of a three-year EC-funded project carried out by the German NGO CulturCooperation e.V. under the title Culture and Development.

The specific objective of this conference is to connect NGOs and other important stakeholders working in culture and development on a European level, aiming to bring together different backgrounds and approaches towards cultural issues in development cooperation, to exchange experiences and to build up links between the participants as networks of interests.

The organizer's vision is to establish such a network within the conference and the EC-project to strengthen the awareness in the development community about the role of culture and the impact of cultural projects on sustainable development. Expected results from the conference include:

• inspiring dialogue and debate between the different stakeholders among the network;
• exchange of different experiences and status quo concerning culture and development in European, especially in Eastern and Central Europe, and Scandinavian countries; and
• building up links between different partners as interest networks which could be the basis for formulating project proposals and implementing common activities and programs.

Participants must submit a one page abstract with a short description of their organization and information about thematic preferences, interests and perspectives for future projects in the area of culture and development as well as a short written statement about their expectations of the conference no later than 12 January 2007. Registration deadline is 31 December 2006.

Contact: Magdalena Weiglhofer, Kulturen in Bewegung / VIDC, Möllwaldplatz 5/3, 1040 Wien, Austria; tel.: (01)7133594/23; fax: (01)7133594/73; e-mail: weiglhofer@vidc.org; www.kultureninbewegung.org

Planning for Heritage Building Maintenance

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 29 January – 3 February 2007

The Cultural Resource Management Program (CRMP) at the University of Victoria is working with Sam Harris, an architect and engineer specializing in heritage preservation projects, to offer a six-day intensive course entitled Planning for Heritage Building Maintenance, that explores approaches to planning for the sustainable maintenance of heritage structures and buildings. This course for heritage building managers and policy makers, to be held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on 29 January – 3 February 2007, explores both the technical and administrative requirements for heritage building maintenance and provides a practical opportunity to develop a viable maintenance manual for heritage buildings.

The creation and implementation of systematic, cost-effective and sustainable maintenance plans requires that the site manager be an active and knowledgeable participant in the process, with an understanding of the practical dynamics of ongoing and corrective maintenance operations along with the capacity to ensure that these requirements are integrated within the organization's policy and budgetary programs. This course strengthens the understanding of:

• the role, structure, and content of maintenance plans,
• supervisory responsibilities and accountability,
• deterioration mechanisms,
• intervention options,
• maintenance as programmed intervention,
• maintenance objectives and constraints,
• organizing and specifying maintenance tasks,
• inspection and documentation requirements,
• maintenance as a functional system,
• site and climate issues,
• maintenance strategies for site, terrain, building envelope, environmental systems, plumbing and power systems, and fixtures, furnishings and finishes, and
• housekeeping versus maintenance.

Registration deadline is 29 December 2006 using the online registration process at www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/apply.aspx. Further information is available at www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/courses/ha489e-main.aspx.

Contact: Joy Davis, Program Director, Cultural Management Programs, Continuing Studies, University of Victoria, PO Box 3030 Stn CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3N6, Canada; tel.: (250) 721 8462; fax: (250) 721-8774

ICCROM Course on Conservation of Built Heritage 2007

Rome, Italy, 1 February - 30 March 2007

To be held in Rome, Italy, from 1 February to 30 March 2007, the ICCROM Course on Conservation of Built Heritage aims to serve a wide range of conservation practitioners and decision makers by placing technical issues in the broader conservation context in order to link them to planning and management concerns. While the first part of the course will consist of an overview of the different approaches and of key concepts in built heritage conservation, the second part will focus on an integrated approach to conservation and management of heritage, providing an opportunity to view conservation concerns related also to the cultural, environmental and sustainability issues. Finally, a portion of the course will be allocated to looking at technical aspects of conservation interventions.

Applications should reach ICCROM by 31 July 2006.

Contact information: ICCROM - Sites Unit, 13 via di San Michele, I-00153 Rome RM, Italy; tel. (+39) 06 585531; fax: (+39) 06 58553349; e-mail: builtheritage07@iccrom.org; www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/
announce_en/2007_02BuiltHeritage_en.shtml

Ninth Annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2 February 2007

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Southeast European Study Group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, invite proposals for papers to be delivered at the ninth annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop, to be held on 02 February 2007 at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies. Doctoral students are invited to submit proposals the workshop. Proposals should be a maximum of 500 words and should fall into one of following the thematic units:

• Secularism, Fundamentalism and Pluralism in Southeast Europe:
  Papers should explore trends in secularism, fundamentalism and /or pluralism at the sub-state, inter-state and/r transnational level(s) in Southeast Europe, discussing topics such as the constitutional and legal relationship between religion and the state; the organization, regulation and transformation of religion in public life; the links between religion and nationalism; democratic institution-building and religious human rights; and related subjects.
• Nontraditional Security Threats in Southeast Europe:
  Countries have faced security threats stemming from military action, politics and diplomacy. Increasingly, however, conflict and instability in Southeast Europe and, indeed, globally are being generated by nontraditional security threats such as terrorism, drug trafficking, health crises, environmental security, illegal immigration, economic and financial security, failures in governance, and information security. Papers should examine these and/or other nontraditional security issues in the region. Preference will be given to papers providing recommendations to improve policymaking to combat these new threats at the local, national and regional levels.
• Innovative Governance and Entrepreneurship in Southeast Europe:
  Papers should explore experiments in new forms of governance, partnerships and entrepreneurship in the public/private sector in Southeastern Europe and analyze the circumstances under which they emerged, focusing, for example, on new entities, innovative projects, cross-sector partnerships and the circumstances (institutional, managerial, leadership, political, etc) in which they emerged as well as the challenges, dilemmas, and solutions facing the realization of such initiatives. Papers may stem from the domains of public policy, administration and/or management; entrepreneurship in the public, private or NGO sectors; or others.

Countries of focus: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, F.Y.R. of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey.

Deadline for submission is 27 November 2006. Proposals and CVs should be submitted online at www.ksg.harvard.edu/scholarship_form/GSW/index.html or be sent to Kokkalis_Program@ksg.harvard.edu.

A number of grants for travel and accommodation are available. For details, please visit: www.ksg.harvard.edu/kokkalis.

Contact: Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St. at Cabot Way, Cambridge MA 02138, USA; tel.: 617-495-4303; fax: 617-495-8509; www.ces.fas.harvard.edu

La Rencontre de Sibiu

Sibiu, Romania, 8-11 February 2007

Marking the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the European Union, Les Rencontres will hold its Committee Meeting in Sibiu, Romania on 09 February 2007 and organize a European thematic seminar under the title First Steps in The European Union on 10 February 2007, aiming to assess the role of local and regional authorities in the construction of European cultural policies since the accession to the EU of ten countries in 2004 and Romania and Bulgaria in 2007. Taking place from 8-11 February 2007, La Rencontre de Sibiu will provide an opportunity to meet representatives of the new member states and discover Sibiu, the European capital of culture in 2007.

Registration needs to be submitted by 26 January 2007. Registration forms and details can be obtained at www.lesrencontres.org/sibiu/sibiu_bulletin_inscription_gb.pdf.

Contact: Les rencontres, 8, villa d'Alésia, 75014 Paris, France; tel.: + 33 1 56 54 26 36; fax +33 1 45 38 70 13; e-mail: info@lesrencontres.org, www.lesrencontres.org

Festival Complicitats 2007 Meeting

Barcelona, Spain, 12-18 February 2007

Within the framework of Festival Complicitats 2007, a new international and intercultural contemporary dance festival taking place on 20 January - 18 February 2007, La Mekanica will organize an international meeting of professional contemporary dance makers of the Mediterranean (both Arab and European countries), to be held in Barcelona, Spain on 12-18 February 2007.

Eight professional young contemporary choreographers and dancers will be invited to work together with other guest participants in training, research and creation workshops, in an artistic and cultural exchange context. At the end of the meeting, a final debate will be held and a showing of the works developed during the meeting will take place. The organizers of the festival will assume travel and accomodation (lodging + per diems) expenses for all guest participants.

Eligible countries are Albania, Algeria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Lybia, Malta, Morocco, Syria, Portugal, Palestine, Tunisia, Turkey. Working languages are English and French.

Application deadline is 8 December 2006, a letter of motivation and C.V. should be sent to lamekanica@lamekanica.com.

Contact: La Mekanica, C/Pallars, 160 BIS, Bajos 9, 08005 Barcelona, Spain; tel./fax: +34 933 568 989.

The Art of Growing: Lifecycles of Festivals and Events

Call for Papers - 16th IFEA Europe Annual Conference
Athens, Greece, 14-17 February 2007

The Hellenic Culture Organisation (HCO) announces the 16th IFEA Europe Annual Conference, the leading festivals and events management Conference in Europe, to be held in Athens, Greece on 14-17 February 2007 with the central theme of The Art of Growing: Lifecycles of Festivals and Events. Following the successful organisation of the 1st Balkan Performing Arts Market, HCO is undertaking its next venture towards the creation of strong bonds and mutual exchanges among different cultural environments.

As IFEA Europe is coorganizing a global Festival Research Summit in Melbourne, Australia in July 2007, no special Research Stream will be presented during this year's Annual Conference. Instead, a limited number of selected papers will be presented as part of the general conference programme.

The IFEA conference will bring together professionals from around the world related to the festival and public events industry: festival managers, policymakers, consultants, marketeers, suppliers and academics. Leading experts will facilitate inspiring keynotes, panels will offer thought-provoking discussions and colleagues will present refreshing workshops on subjects related to the management of festivals and public events, their lifecycle and marketing. Conference delegates will profit from new ideas, full of new inspiration and establish cooperation with new interesting contacts, exchanging knowledge on arising trends and good practice.

Abstracts on the lifecycles and growth of festivals and public events should be sent to athens@ifeaeurope.com before 22 December 2006.

Contact: NHTV Conference Bureau; tel.: +31 (0)76 530 27 58; e-mail: athens@ifeaeurope.com; www.ifeaeurope.com/athens/

(G)Local Media in Transition – The Case of South-Eastern Europe 1990-2007

Skopje, Macedonia, 8-10 March 2007

The University of New York in Skopje announces an international 3-day conference entitled (G)Local Media in Transition – The Case of South-Eastern Europe 1990-2007, to take place in Skopje, FYRM on 8-10 March 2007. Topics will include:

• The Public's Confidence in the Media,
• Journalists as Political Actors,
• Chances, Trials and Tribulations of On-line Journalism and Blogs,
• Independent Media – Must they remain a Myth?,
• What was/is the role Transitional Countries’ Media in reinforcing Democracy?,
• Covering Conflict,
• Actual/Applied Freedom of Access to Information,
• Changing Media Ownership,
• Creative Media.

The speakers list includes journalists and media workers from France, the USA, Greece, Germany, Serbia, Albania, Turkey and Macedonia. Local and international organizations offering their support include the Journalists’ Association of Macedonia (ZNM), the Macedonian Media Institute (MIM) and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN).

The deadline for the receipt of papers is 20 January 2007.

For further information, enrolment and proposals for papers please contact: Department of Communication Studies, University of New York in Skopje, 1 000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia; tel.: ++ 389 (0)2 2034 600; e-mail: briel@unys.edu.mk

New Museums: An Efficient Tool for Social Cohesion and Local Development

Val-de-Marne, France, on 12-13 March 2007

INTA, the International Urban Development Association and Direct94, the Delegation for the Economic and Cultural Relations of the County Council of Val-de-Marne in France, have taken the initiative for a European reflection on the role of cultural institutions as tools for mediation and redevelopment of the public urban space. An international seminar will take place in Val-de-Marne, France, on 12-13 March 2007, under the title of New Museums: An Efficient Tool for Social Cohesion and Local Development.

Today, the role of cultural facilities is central in the future development and the attractivity of territories. Cultural infrastructures in the urban environment have multiple impacts: generating economic flows, stimulating creativity among the population, and shaping the built and natural environment. Today, these cultural facilities foster the revitalisation of neighbourhoods, contributing to new synergies and inducing positive transformation on their territories.

It is important to assign cultural facilities with a higher prominence in order to promote their attractiveness and to heighten the role of the local actors and decision-makers. Through the exchange of experiences we aim to specify the role of 'New Museums' in social cohesion and local development.

For more information, please contact: INTA International Secretariat, Toussaintkade 71, NL-2513CL The Hague,, The Netherlands; www.inta-aivn.org.

Mapping the Cultural Economy in the Euro-
Mediterranean Region

8th Mediterranean Research Meeting - Call for Papers
Florence and Montecatini Terme, Italy, 21–25 March 2007

Within the framework of its 8th Mediterranean Research Meeting, to be held in Florence and Montecatini Terme, Italy on 21–25 March 2007, the European University Institute will host a workshop directed by Yudhishthir Raj Isar and Luís Bonet under the title Mapping the Cultural Economy in the Euro-Mediterranean Region.

The workshop will explore aspects of the cultural economy in the region, in particular on its eastern and southern shores. It will seek to map the state of cultural enterprise across the region – the term being understood as a broad range of market-related cultural activities – thus exploring cultural industries stricto senso (many of which are rather more incipient than fully developed in this region) as well as atrisanal endeavours in fields such as handicrafts, exploitation of the intangible heritage, artistic production, etc.

The main focus will be on the political economy of these cultural enterprises large and small, including the relationship to the reconfigurations of the economy in a financialized and globalized world. Yet sociological and semiological analyses of cultural phenomena as symbolic production systems of collective representation that are central in forging visions of public identity (national or local) will also be relevant. The workshop will thus map the economic as well as social nature, dimensions and significance of the cultural economy in different countries.

Applications deadline is 10 July 2006. The online application form is available at www.rscas.org/addrecord.asp.

Contact information: Mediterranean Meeting, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Via delle Fontanelle 19, 50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI), Italy; www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2007/Index.shtml

CDRN Interactive and Sensing Technologies Workshop

Toronto, Canada, 22-25 March 2007

The Mobile Nation Summit and the Canadian Design Research Network (CDRN) will co-host a two-day workshop as art of the Mobile Nation Summit conference programme from 22-25 March 2007 in Toronto, Canada. Deadline for submissions is 15 February 2007, accepted papers will be presented during a plenary session and will be published in the conference proceedings. In addition, full-day workshops will be held to explore new mobile and sensing technologies authoring environments.

The organizers also invite you to share your investigations, installations, new technologies, and designs in case-story reports (2-4 pages in length) that explore themes related to pervasive and ubiquitous computing, locative experiences, participatory culture, social computing, interactive art, speculative design, distributed creativity, hacking, circuit bending, urban narratives, mapping, open sourcing, performance art, and experimental visualization. Accepted case-stories will be presented as a plenary track in the Mobile Nation Summit and in the proceedings.

For submission template and details, please see echo.iat.sfu.ca/mobilenation_workshop/.

Europe Metropoles Network Annual Meeting

Paris, France on 23-24 March 2007

Under the High Patronage of Christian Poncelet, President of French Senate and the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Europe Metropoles Network will hold their annual meeting in Paris, France on 23-24 March 2007, aiming to bring together ideas and experiences for the effective management of emerging problems related to ill-conceived urban development.

The two-day meeting will bring together over 200 local councillors from all 25 member States in the European Parliament as well as Bulgaria and Romania, presenting an opportunity for local players within the European Community to discuss the major challenges ahead and the new expectations of our fellow citizen. The opening and closing addresses will be in plenary session. Fifteen round table discussions will focus on the broad range of participants' issues and interests.

Simultaneous translation will be provided in French, English and German. The plenary session addresses, guest speaker contributions and round table discussions will be recorded. Written versions in French and English will be available in the course of summer 2007.

Registration deadline is 28 February 2007. Registration forms are available online at www.europemetropoles.com/IMG/doc/RegistrationformGB.doc.

Organising committee: Europe Metropoles, Marie-Carole de Kerizouet, 23 rue de Saint Petersbourg, 75008 Paris, France; tel.: +33 (0)1 58 59 00 10; fax: +33 (0) 1 58 59 00 11; e-mail: contact@europemetropoles.com; www.europemetropoles.com/article.php3?id_article=1993

Song, Stage and Screen II

Call for Papers
Leeds, UK, 23-25 March 2007

Contributions are invited to this conference organised by the School of Performance and Cultural Industries of the University of Leeds, which aims to bring together scholars from all over the world in any discipline, working on the relationship between music and the stage/screen. Papers, panels and workshops on the following themesare welcome:

• The body performing music(al) theatre
• Semiotics of escapism: watching music(al) theatre
• Music(al) theatre as voyeurism
• Contemporary British music(al) theatre
• Post-modernism and songs on stage
• Ideology, politics and the musical stage
• Globalisation and the consumption of the musical stage
• Problems of genre: opera / music(al) theatre
• Utopia and reality: escapism and the screen musical
• Gender and sexuality in Music(al) Theatre
• Analysis: the fusion of words and music
• Paralinguistics and the rhetorical expression of music in song

Abstracts of no more than 200 words for 20-minute papers should be sent to the conference co-ordinator, Sue Jones, pcusj@leeds.ac.uk by 5 January 2007. For details, please visit www.leeds.ac.uk/paci/songstagescreen.html.

Contact: Dr George Rodosthenous, g.rodosthenous@leeds.ac.uk and Mr Arthur Pritchard, a.g.pritchard@leeds.ac.uk, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, Bretton Campus, University of Leeds LS2 9JT

Agenda 21 for Culture: Towards a New Cultural Governance

ENCATC Workshop
Lyon, France, 27-28 March 2007

ENCATC announces its workshop entitled The Agenda 21 for Culture: Towards a New Cultural Governance, to be held in Lyon, France on 27-28 March 2007, organised with the University Lumière Lyon2 (Faculty of Anthropology and Sociology) in partnership with the Working Group on Culture of the world organisation United Cities and Local Governments – UCLG and with the support of the National Observatory of Cultural Policies, Grenoble / France.

This workshop is organised to follow the Bratislava meeting of ENCACT focused on Competence in Diversity – Diversity on Competence. The event is expected to attract ENCATC members, politicians and representatives of Agenda 21 from international, European and national institutions as well as members of WG Agenda 21 within the Cultural Forum (Eurocities). The Agenda 21 for culture has set the principles for running policies promoting cultural diversity at local levels. The meeting's objectives are to:

• identify working perspectives and professional opportunities on Agenda 21 for cultural managers;
• strengthen the transsectorial approach to cultural life in cities and promote policy debate with the civil society;
• share experiences of policies for cultural diversity at local levels;
• define what kind of specific skills and knowledge are required for acting in the field of cultural diversity and intercultural projects;
• introduce some good practices in training on these subjects and innovate in pedagogy; and
• improve access to researches and links between trainers and researchers on this specific theme.

Registrations are available online at www.encatc.org/register before 20 March 2007.

For members from Central and Eastern European countries, a very limited number of travel grants will be available through the Thomassen Fund. The Thomassen application form and guidelines are available at www.encatc.org/EN/thomassen_fund/index.lasso.

Re-Thinking Beirut

Milano, Italy, 27 March – 13 May 2007

After presenting a number of projects dedicated to the culture of Cyprus, aMAZElab, Milano, the cultural lab dealing largely with micro-geography and emerging cultures, proposes Re-Thinking Beirut, a project dedicated to the concept of sustainability in the cultural, artistical, architectonical, social, political and human reconstruction of Beirut. The complexity of the Lebanese society is presented through visual installations, video projections, and a series of lectures and meetings with professors, theoreticians and artists to be held on 27 March – 13 May 2007 in Milano, Italy.

Dedicated to the current cultural, social and geo-political aspects of the city, the project sets out to investigate contemporary Beirut life, a city highly representative of the complexity of the Lebanese mosaic, through the contributions of intellectuals of the highest level, as well as through an arts exhibition programme accompanied by a cycle of conferences.

On the basis of a multi-faceted point of view, and with the use of a multi-disciplinary approach - with contributions from artists, architects, sociologists, geographers, journalists, etc. - the project sets out to investigate the new urban geography, both physical and mental: the former represented by the new territorial occupation and the rapid urban and social transformations; the latter, by the city's relationship with itself, through its socio-cultural nature and its pluralism. An enormous collage of images and words, a visual installation. The programme will be enhanced by a series of meetings at the Triennale Museum Milano.

With the support of the European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam; Assessorato Cultura, Provincia di Milano; ArtBook Triennale, Milano and in collaboration with Ashkal Alwan Foundation, Beirut.

14th Triennial Symposium on African Art

Gainesville, Florida, USA, 28 March - 1 April 2007

The theme of the 2007 Triennial Symposium on African Art to be held in Gainesville, Florida, USA from 28 March to 1 April 2007, emphasizes the place of African expressive arts in global contexts, encouraging panels and papers that address Africa's international and trans-cultural reach. In selecting this theme, the organizers seek to foreground the ways in which African arts in all media draw from and contribute to global histories, cultures, and aesthetics. These global connections are particularly dramatic in the growing field of contemporary African art, in which artists study, exhibit, sell their work, and live all over the world.

The aim of the symposium is to meet, network, share best practices, and brainstorm about issues that are important to access and quality in the art curriculum, teaching-learning and assessment in some countries in Africa to develop creative and practical solutions for positive changes in the shape of the discipline of art education in the continent. It is anticipated that the gathering will lead to advocacy forums, programs development, project initiative and implementation to facilitate, or improve the art curriculum, teaching-learning, and assessment in some countries in Africa.

The deadline for the submission of paper abstracts is 15 September 2006. Abstracts should include: the title, a proposal not to exceed one page describing the theme and scope of the presentation, a short abstract (not to exceed 100 words), audiovisual needs, and contact information.

Contact: Victoria Rovine, Program Chair, School of Art and Art History and Center for African Studies, University of Florida, Box 115801, Gainesville, FL 32611-5801, USA; tel.:(352) 392-0201, ext. 226; fax: (352) 392-8453; e-mail: vrovine@africa.ufl.edu; www.doce-conferences.ufl.edu/ACASA/

International Performing Arts Laboratory

Riga, Latvia, 30 March – 04 April 2007

Organized by the International University Global Theatre Experience (IUGTE), the International Performing Arts Laboratory will be held in Riga, Latvia, on 30 March – 04 April 2007. It is open to script writers, playwrights, directors, actors of dramatic, physical, musical and dance theatres, dancers, choreographers and teachers of theatre methods looking for change, transformation and the new creative turning-points in professional work.

Participants will become acquainted with the creative method developed by Sergey Ostrenko during his long-term research together with members of the IUGTE Creative Laboratory – a team of professional directors, actors, dancers, choreographers and psychologists with specialization in performing arts. The system formed under the influence of various exercises and techniques of traditional and contemporary theatre training.

The Laboratory provides an opportunity to establish new contacts with colleagues from other parts of the world, to share experiences, challenges and successes in the atmosphere of a group creative process, and to discover new ideas and inspiration for future creative projects. The Laboratory programme includes intensive practical training, lectures and discussions.

A limited number of places is available on a competitive basis. Please send your detailed CV and a brief letter of motivation to info@iugte.com. Registration will be closed when the group is full.

Contact: International University Global Theatre Experience (IUGTE), Inga Ryazanoff, Chief Executive, and Sergey Ostrenko, President, tel. + 44 077 655 736 84, + 44 020 892 609 70; e-mail: info@iugte.com, iugte@mail.ru; www.iugte.com

Cultural Impact Assessment and Maritime Achaeology

Third Annual Field School
Galle, Sri Lanka, 1-9 April 2007

Applications are now open for the third Annual Field School entitled Cultural Impact Assessment and Maritime Achaeology, organized by the UNESCO-ICCROM Asian Academy for Heritage Management (AAHM), to be held in Galle, Sri Lanka on 1-9 April 2007. Application deadline is 31 December 2006.

The upcoming event will focus on integrated conservation management in an underwater context. It will provide the opportunity to study heritage conservation in real-life situations with the guidance of leading experts in this field. The curriculum will be divided into lectures, group work and field trips, addressing technical issues as well as legal and political frameworks, participatory models and heritage interpretation.

Online registration deadline is 31 December 2006.

Contact email: asian-academy@unescobkk.org; www.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=4944

International Dance Competitions

Barcelona, Spain, 5-9 April 2007 and Florence, Italy, 21-25 June 2007

Dance schools, departments and groups are invited to perform at two prestigious international dance events – the Barcelona Dance Awards, to be held in Barcelona, Spain on 5-9 April 2007 and the Dance Grand Prix Italy, taking place in Venice and Florence, Italy on 21-25 June 2007.

The main focus will be ballet and dance: classical, modern, contemporary, jazz, hip hop / funk, folk and tap dance. Application deadlines are 5 March and 1 May 2007 respectively. Further information is available at web.tiscali.it/rossi.valte/.

Contact email: rossi.valte@tiscali.it

2007 International Cuenca Biennial

Cuenca, Ecuador, 11 April - 8 June 2007

Under the title Identity Spaces and Time, the 9th edition of the Cuenca Biennal, to be held on 11 April – 8 June 2007, will focus on collective commemoration in the space-time structure of the city. The year 2007 marks anniversaries of both the Biennal and the city of Cuenca, Ecuador: the Biennal celebrates its 20th year of existence and Cuenca, which is part of UNESCO's World Heritage List, its 450th jubilee of Spanish foundation.

In the contemporary city, the globalized city, that is conditioned and that depends upon the new paradigms of communication, based on technological development, determined by the economic phenomenon of internationalization of the economy, where city, time and space tend to become universal: time is the time of communicative flows, the time of velocity and the instantaneous; space is increasingly the virtual space of the media, of technology, and of the market. The urban experience is that of a space trapped in time.

The Convocation of the IX Biennial of Cuenca is an invitation to become moles, to use their strategy, to make this time the time of the mole: to create-search for those spaces called chronotopes, not to represent them, but to capture their intensity, the power residing there, and to express it, to unfold it.

Contact: International Painting Bienial of Cuenca, Calle Bolívar 12-60 y Juan Montalvo, Cuenca, Ecuador; tel.: (593) 7 2831 778 - (593) 7 2834 253; fax: (593) 7 2831 879; e-mail: curaduria@bienaldecuenca.org or asistente@bienaldecuenca.org; www.bienaldecuenca.org

Mov-s

Barcelona, Spain, 12-15 April 2007

Mov-s, a new space for the international exchange on dance and movement arts, will take place at the Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona, Spain on 12-15 April 2007, with the aim to bridge the gap between artists, dance organizations and movement arts in Spain and abroad in order to establish natural forms of collaboration, uniting dance and movement professionals in a performance programme, discussion sessions, project presentations and parallel meetings.

For details, please contact: info@mov-s.org or see www.mercatflors.org

Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses

Call for Papers
Hangzhou, China, 13-15 April 2007

After its First International Conference on Multicultural Discourses held in October 2004 in Hangzhou, China, turned out to be an international academic success, the Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies of the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China is announcing a call for papers for the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, to be held in Hangzhou on 13-15 April 2007.

Representing a new and much needed direction in social science in general and discourse studies in particular, the conference has been turned into a tri-annual event. The Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses remains committed to the original aims, namely, the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue and critique in discourse / language / communication scholarship, the study of discourses of marginalized cultures, and research into new discourses promoting cultural solidarity and prosperity. To be presented through keynote speeches, parallel paper sessions, panel discussions and fora with invited speakers, the conference topics will include the following:

• concepts and theories of language / communication / discourse outside the dominant paradigms and the related research and teaching traditions;
• intercultural dialogue, critique and cross-fertilization in discourse / language / communication studies;
• globalization of non-western intellectual traditions;
• discourses that reflect the realities, issues, concerns and aspirations of marginalized or otherwise troubled groups and communities;
• new or alternative discourses of cultural cohesion and progress;
• needs and norms for conducting intercultural and international communication; and
• localization of English as international language.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts (one page per author) and panel proposals (complete with individual half-page abstracts) to discourses@zju.edu.cn and mdiscourses@yahoo.com is 1 November 2006. A selection of the papers will be published in an edited volume.

Contact: Wendy Zhao, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 310058; e-mail: discourses@zju.edu.cn and mdiscourses@yahoo.com; www.shixu.com/institute-conference

Cultural Management and the State of the Field

Helsinki, Finland, 19-20 April 2007

The Cultural Management Program at Humak University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland invites 20 academics and practitioners to participate in the first of a series of symposia on cultural management topics, to be held on 19-20 April 2007. The goal of the symposium is to provide an opportunity for reflection and discussion within the cultural management community on issues concerning the state of the field. The participants may also elect to take part in an International Week for Erasmus presentations at Humak's Kauniainen Unit on 16-18 April.

Symposium topics will include:

• the role of the cultural manager and cultural management in a global society,
• the cultural manager as a global citizen,
• cultural citizenship in the context of national identity vs. international identity,and
• culture as a theoretical tool.

The forum will result in published proceedings. To participate please submit a one page (maximum) paper with ideas and thoughts on the topic of the cultural manager as a global citizen. The deadline for application is 31 January 2007. Successful applicants will be notified by 28 February 2007. Application papers should be sent to: Pekka Vartiainen, PhD, Principal Lecturer, pekka.vartiainen@humak.edu.

Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodations. The host will provide some meals during the symposium.

Contact: Constance DeVereaux, Program Director and Associate Professor, Arts Management, Shenandoah University, 224 Ruebush Hall, 1460 University Drive, Winchester, VA 22601, USA; tel.: 540.665.5586; e-mail: cdeverea@su.edu

Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association

Portland, Oregon, USA, 19-21 April 2007

The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites participation in its Fifth Annual Meeting from all areas and topics of relevance to Cultural Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology, geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, performance and visual arts studies.

The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association will be held at the Portland State University, Oregon, USA on 19 to 21 April 2007, providing a forum for scholars, students, and other persons interested in Cultural Studies in all its diverse manifestations to exchange their work and ideas across disciplinary lines and institutional locations.

The conference will feature plenaries on Ethics and the Environment; post 9/11 America and the World; and Asia, the Pacific Rim, and Capitalism. Registration details are available at www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm.

Contact: Karen Lillis, CSA Administrator, Cultural Studies Program, 2205 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; tel.:: 412-624-7232; fax: 412-624-6492; e-mail: csaus@pitt.edu

10th US/ICOMOS International Symposium

San Francisco, California, USA 19-21 April 2007

Balancing Culture, Conservation and Economic Development: Heritage Tourism in and around the Pacific Rim is the title of the upcoming 10th US/ICOMOS International Symposium, to be held in San Francisco, California, USA, on 19-21 April 2007, hosted by the Architectural Resources Group and the Presidio Trust. A call for abstracts that discuss the basic themes of culture, conservation, and economics as related to heritage tourism within the Pacific Rim (all countries bordering the Pacific Ocean, as well as the island nations and cultures that are located within it) has been issued. Additionally, the symposium will consider how experiences in the Pacific Rim relate to other regions of the world. Papers related to illustrative experiences from specific sites are encouraged. The topics will address the full range of challenges associated with its economic, social and cultural impact, in accordance with three basic sub-themes:

• Impact - how heritage tourism has benefited and/or negatively impacted local communities and/or the cultural sites themselves.
• Authenticity - the issues of authenticity and presentation that heritage tourism brings forth, and how these issues have been managed, as well as the eventual effect of tourism on the authenticity of the place.
• Values - how the unique tangible and intangible cultural values and resources have been protected at sites impacted by heritage tourism while enhancing, as opposed to compromising, their economic value, and how tourism has been used to increase the economic value of sites without compromising the cultural values.

US/ICOMOS undertakes this symposium to present effective or innovative models for heritage tourism management and successful management plans and planning documents that address challenges of tourist visitation to historical and cultural sites and their ultimate sustainability.

250-word abstracts for presentation or poster sessions should be sent to symposium@usicomos.org with copy to arg@argsf.org by 15 November 2006.

Contact: US/ICOMOS, Attn: 10th Symposium Abstracts, 401 F Street NW, Suite 331, Washington DC, 20001-2728, USA; e-mail: symposium@usicomos.org; www.icomos.org/usicomos/Symposium/
SYMP07/2007_Symposium_Call_for_Abstracts.htm

Changes: Chances and Challenges. Music and the Future

2007 Annual EMC Meeting and Conference
Barcelona, Spain, 19-21 April 2007

The Catalan Music Council and EMC, along with Europa Cantat and its regional member Moviment Coral Català are announcing their Annual Meeting 2007 and the conference Changes: Chances and Challenges. Music and the Future, to take place in Barcelona, Spain from 19-21 April 2007.

Globalisation and the digital revolution impose enormous changes on the music world. Musical and cultural diversity need to be protected and promoted as they face substantial challenges. The 2007 Annual Conference of the European Music Council is aiming towards the future of music. What are the changes, what are the chances and what are the challenges lying ahead in the coming years? For this conference, experts from the civil society and from politics as well as from the music and culture field will discuss the future challenges for music in a globalising world. Practical capacity building workshops will offer tools for the everyday work in a musical organisation for today and for the future.

A draft programme for the conference is accessible at www.emc-imc.org/
archiv/programme_barca07.pdf. Registration deadline is 1 March 2007. The online-registration form is available at www.emc-imc.org.

Conference details: www.emc-imc.org/archiv/general_information_barca07.pdf.

SIETAR Europa Congress

Call for Papers
Sofia, Bulgaria, 25-29 April 2007

The Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR), the world's largest network of professional interculturalists, is organizing the SIETAR Europa Congress to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 25-29 April 2007. The SIETAR 2007 congress theme is East, West, North and South: Culture's Influences on Economy, Politics, Ecology and Religion.

Paper and workshop proposals are invited for the following themes:

• new approaches in intercultural theory and research;
• ethics of intercultural education and training;
• environment, ecology and culture;
• religious diversity within Europe and religious challenges to cultural work;
• intercultural aspects of EU project work;
• cultural diversity in multicultural societies;
• cultural diversity in the corporate world;
• new methods in intercultural training and education;
• intercultural trainings in business settings;
• intercultural trainings in healthcare, schooling and social work;
• special focus Eastern Europe: challenges of EU-accession; and
• special focus Eastern Europe: state of the art of intercultural work.

Paper presentations will be limited to 45 minutes, workshops to 90 minutes, both including discussion. Workshops are required to be interactive; both papers and workshops can be authored either by individuals or by teams.

Proposals must be submitted in English, in the form of abstracts of up to 1000 words, and must relate to one of the above themes. Abstracts are to be submitted electronically, either in Word or PDF, by 31 October 2006 to papers@sietar-europa.org. They must include short CV's of the author(s) and information about their affiliation to the intercultural field as well as participation in or presentations made at previous SIETAR conferences if they are not first-time presenters.

Contact: Mirka Lachka, Special Events Coordinator, Résidence L'Argentière, Bât-A, 637 Boulevard de la Tavernière, F-06210 Mandelieu la Napoule, France; tel.: +33 8 77 92 33 70; cell :+33 6 15 48 01 18; www.sietar-europa.org

Enter_Unknown Territories

International New Technology Arts Festival
Cambridge, UK, 25-29 April 2007

Enter_Unknown Territories is the first edition of an international new technology arts festival, to take place in Cambridge, UK on 25-29 April 2007. Through public events, workshops, live performances and conferences, the festival will address, explore and question the possibilities of making and experiencing new technology arts.

Audience-come-participants will be invited to interact with a host of regional, national and international artists. As art and new technology practice challenge the borders between creative disciplines, contemporary culture and commerce, the relationships shift between producer and consumer. As these boundaries are contested, dissolved and reformed, new kinds of spaces are emerging for creativity, discussion and experience.

The conference provides an opportunity to explore these new spaces and maps the potential for collaboration and exchange. Bringing together different territories of knowledge, a dialogue will take place in a relaxed environment that encourages all participants to contribute to an open debate. Representatives from the arts, media, academia, science and business will come together to create a multi-disciplinary super network.

The conference will explore three topics (Participation and Consumption, Control Technology and Sustainable Technology) as catalysts for discussion and examine existing international exemplary practices to highlight potential new spaces for future collaboration in the Eastern region and beyond. This will include the Arts Council's Artist Placements in Industry Scheme and will also feature the launch of Uncommon Ground, a body of research and essays commissioned by Virtueel Platform (NL).

Contact: The Junction, 2 Clifton Way, Cambridge CB1 7GX, UK; tel.: 01223 578 000; email: enter@junction.co.uk

Cultural Diversity - Europe's Wealth. Bringing the UNESCO Convention to Life

Essen, Germany, 26-28 April 2007

Within the context of Germany's 2007 Presidency of the European Council, the German Commission for UNESCO is organising an international conference entitled Cultural Diversity - Europe's Wealth. Bringing the UNESCO Convention to Life, to be held on 26-28 April 2007 in Essen, Germany, the European Capital of Culture 2010.

The event will hold a broad-based debate on the concept of cultural diversity – what it means, where its dangers lie and where it offers particular opportunities. How can the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions be brought to life by cooperation when it comes into effect, probably in the first half of the year 2007? What does this mean for the European Union? The debate will be lead through thematic fora on film, music, role of the civil society, north-south cooperation, and media politics. Together with representatives of the international civil society ideas and propsals will be elaborated and elements for a European action paper will be developed.

With regard to capacity building for young colleagues, in the context of the mentee programme entitled Forum U 40, a structured preparatory work with young experts will be conducted starting in January 2007. Up to ten European PhD students, postgraduates, young professionals and similarly qualified young experts will participate in the conference with a pre-workshop to be held on 26 April 2007 and their own forum. A first working session will be held in Bonn, Germany, on 13 February 2007.

Papers should take up proposals made in the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity. Chief points of reference for the fora Music / Film / State and Civil Society in Cooperation / North-South Cooperation / Urban Development are culture and development, digitalization, international cultural economy, and communication.

Online application to the mentee-programme (800-word paper required) and registration for the conference is open at www.unesco.de up to 31 January 2007. Working languages are German, English and French.

Contact: Anna Steinkamp, Programme assistant Culture, German Commission for UNESCO, Colmantstr. 15, 53115 Bonn, Germany; tel.: +49-228-604 97-25 / -0; fax: +49-228-604 97-30; e-mail steinkamp@unesco.de; www.unesco.de

Logo Cities: Signage, Branding and Lettering in Public Space

Montréal, Canada, 4-5 May 2007

A two-day symposium presented by the Logo Cities project will take place at Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, on 4-5 May 2007.

Cities are awash in 'public lettering': street signs, newspaper mastheads, road signs, high-rise corporate logos, store/shop/ restaurant signs, engravings on buildings and monuments, etc. They are at once branding and promotional devices; names (of buildings); labels; locating devices; material and technological artifacts; pieces of graphic, typographic, and industrial design; architectural heritage; industrial detritus; personal and cultural narratives. They are also intricately linked to the dominant preoccupations of the city: high-rise logos, for example, eloquently describe the commercial, financial, civic, even religious priorities of a particular urban locale - especially at night.

It is all the more surprising, given their sheer ubiquity, that signs have received relatively little coordinated attention - critical, creative, or otherwise. The Logo Cities symposium aims to draw together scholars, designers, artists, and artisans to foster an informed, critical dialogue about signage, branding, and lettering in public space. We invite expressions of interest and proposals for scholarly papers, panels and screenings that critically and/or creatively interrogate the intersections of signage, branding and lettering in public space. We are especially interested in historical case studies; design and typographic studies; activist, artistic, and new media interventions; and critical cultural analyses that offer new and adventurous insights into these phenomena.

Deadline for formal proposals is 28 February 2007.

Send enquiries and proposals to: Matt Soar, Department of Communication, Studies, Concordia University: tel.: (514) 848-2424 x2542; e-mail: logocities.symposium@gmail.com; www.logocities.org

Festival Rose d'Or

Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, 5–9 May 2007

The Festival Rose d'Or hosts the most prestigious international awards for entertainment television programmes and represents the cultural and most important business rendezvous for the onscreen entertainment community. After 43 years in Montreux, catering exclusively for an industry clientele, the Festival decided to plan additional events with a wider audience appeal. Following a detailed appraisal, the organisers of the Festival realised this strategic shift also required changes in infrastructure and venue, and took the decision to hold the Festival Rose d'Or in Lucerne.

The 47th edition of the Festival Rose d'Or will take place at the shores of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, on 5–9 May 2007. Under the new management of Freddy Burger Management, the only international television festival which takes entertainment seriously will stay in Lucerne but return to its original format, catering for the television industry exclusively.

The Festival's goal has always been to reward originality, quality and creativity in entertainment programming, and to encourage excellence in television and new media. Throughout its history, the Rose d'Or has gathered the best of the year's new entertainment and made it easy for international broadcasters, buyers, producers and press to get an overview. Around 40 countries are regularly represented at the Festival.

Contact: Rose d'Or AG, Carmenstrasse 12, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland; tel.: +41 44 265 56 01; fax: +41 44 265 56 99; e-mail: info@rosedor.ch

5th Euro American Campus on Cultural Cooperation

Almada, Portugal, 8-12 May 2007

The 5th Euro American Campus on Cultural Cooperation will be held in Almada, Portugal, on 8-12 May 2007. The general theme will be Intercultural Dialogue and the specific sub themes will cover networking, research and creators, diversity and development, with special emphasis on the role of young people and artists. For more information, please contact campus@interarts.net or see www.interarts.net.

Shortcut Europe 2007 - The European Cultural Centres in the Experience Economy

Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-11 May 2007

The European Network of Cultural Centres (ENCC) will hold a conference under the title Shortcut Europe 2007 - The European Cultural Centres in the Experience Economy, to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 9-11 May 2007.

The experience economy is a relatively new concept. The term covers all aspects of the economy that are connected - in the broadest sense - with the selling and buying of experiences. An essential part of this economy is directly linked to the development of artistic and cultural activities, and thereby directly connected with the work carried out in Europe's many cultural centres.

Theories of experience economy are continually being developed, and there is much to indicate that experience as a product can be a dominant factor in European cultural policy. This development presents several new opportunities for locally-based and participant-based cultural institutions, as culture houses are. This is because cultural centres can be seen as experts when it comes to engaging and developing experiences on the basis of the citizens' own activities and the citizens' own engagement. In this light, one can say that the cultural centres are holding their own in the competition with private interests on the market.

Shortcut Europe 07-Copenhagen seeks to investigate and to create the frameworks for debate about the significance of this development with the help of presentations from several experts in the area of cultural policy and cultural development. The conference will endeavour to provide all the participants with the economic theories of experience economy and to give the possibility to obtain and create experiences in a variety of ways and venues.

The deadline for online registration at www.hid.dk is 30 April 2007.

For further information, please see: www.encc.eu.

Citizen's Action, Power and Politics

4th CEE Citizens Network Civil Society Conference
Tallin, Estonia, 17-19 May 2007

The 4th CEE Citizens Network Civil Society Conference entitled Citizen's Action, Power and Politics, to be held in Tallin, Estonia, on 17-19 May 2007, invites representatives of civic initiatives, NGOs, other civil society organisations, local authorities, public authorities and officials from Central and Eastern Europe, Europe, USA and other regions as well as representatives of European structures to exchange information, knowledge and experiences. Through plenary sessions, thematic and cross-sector workshops, the event will present a number of keynote speeches, case studies and best practice examples.

Please contact Helmut Hallemaa at helmut.hallemaa@mail.ee for more information, and Agu Laius at agu@jti.ee for registration issues, or visit www.emy.ee/4ceecn/ and www.ceecn.net.

Annual Conference of Compendium Authors

Zagreb, Croatia, 19 May 2007

The Council of Europe / ERICarts Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe project will hold its annual conference of Compendium authors in Zagreb, Croatia, on 19 May 2007.

Culturelink's thoughts about the topics discussed at the event and the challenges faced by the project are published here.

For more information, please see www.culturalpolicies.net.

InterRegional Music Crossroads Festival

Harare, Zimbabwe, on 24-27 May 2007

Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI), the world's largest youth music network, has the pleasure of invitating to the 8th annual showcase of Southern Africa's best young musical performers. The InterRegional Music Crossroads Festival, to be held in Harare, Zimbabwe, on 24-27 May 2007, features bands from Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

JMI's Music Crossroads Southern Africa (MCSA) program is open to young bands (with musicians aged 15-24) of all styles, including ethnic/traditional, pop, rock, hip-hop and all imaginable mergers in between. To reach the InterRegional Festival, bands have first to win in local, provincial and national competitions, which are organised annually by national MCSA organizations.

MCSA, founded in 1995, is a unique youth empowerment through music initiative of JMI. Using music as the unparalleled medium to reach out to young people and to provide a platform for professional opportunities, the MCSA program aims to improve the self-awareness and social inclusion of young African individuals and to become a resource for developing the music infrastructure in the five target countries. A number of participant workshops will be run in parallel to the Festival, focusing on equipment, stage awareness, instrument training, band management, artistic development and relationship workshops.

For more information, please contact: Kate Declerck at press@jmi.net or + 32 2513 97 74.

Continuity and Discontinuity in East–West Relationships

Call for Papers
Targu Mures, Romania, 25-26 May 2007

Organized by the Gheorghe Sincai Research Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, an international symposium on the Continuity and Discontinuity in East–West Relationships will take place in Targu Mures, Romania on 25-26 May 2007.

East-West cultural, political, economic relationships are registered either as a continuous and positive interchange or in terms of West–East power relations, stressing the binary representations in the discourse about the Other together with the mental borderlines drawn on the symbolic map of the world between the West and the East, between nations and cultures, which are much more stable than the political ones. The symposium intends to analyze East–West relationships in a balanced way, with their continuities and discontinuities, which can cast light upon the ongoing cooperation or conflicts.

The organizers invite papers for submission and welcome investigations coming from a multitude of directions: history of international relations, political history, comparative literature, comparative cultural studies, post-colonial and intercultural studies, cultural anthropology and ethnology, psycho-sociology, communication sciences, philosophy of mind, literary history, history of the mentalities and the imaginary, history of ideas and of intellectual trends.

Submitted abstracts should not exceed 150-250 words. Languages of the symposium: Romanian, Eglish, French. More information is available at icsu-ms.tripod.com/id15.html.

Contact: Dr. Carmen Andras, Scientific Researcher, Gheorghe Sincai Research Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Romanian Academy, 17, Bolyai Street, 4300 Targu-Mures, Romania; tel.: +40265-124778; e-mail: carmen_andras@yahoo.com; icsu-ms.tripod.com

15th Annual ENCATC Conference

Göteborg, Sweden, 31 May - 3 June 2007

The European Network for Cultural Administration Training Centres (Encatc) will hold its 15th Annual Conference in Göteborg, Sweden, on 31 May - 3 June 2007, under the title of Entrepreneurship and Education in Cultural Life. The conference is open to both members of Encatc and any organisation in Europe interested in the issues discussed. Organizers hope to create an open space and meeting possibilities of many different cultural organisations and training centres.

The 2007 ENCATC conference will focus on entrepreneurship, culture, and education. By conducting a high-quality international conference on entrepreneurship and education in cultural life from the perspective of the active in the field in West Sweden, the organizers aim to:

• Provide an opportunity for the exchange of experience and knowledge between people who are actively involved in cultural life from all of Europe.
• Offer cultural organizations the chance to meet new partners and cooperations.
• Advance the frontier of knowledge within the field of culture and entrepreneurship.
• Share the spirit of entrepreneurial skills and knowledge that characterizes West Sweden –examples of well known "bottom up" initiatives include the Gothenburg Film Festival, the Clandestino Festival, the Book and Library Fair, Not Quite, the Water Color Museum, the Dance and Theater Festival, Film in the West, the Artists' Collective Workshop, Dem Collective and Nätverkstan.
• Demonstrate West Sweden and its progressive spirit on the cultural scene.

Registration deadline is 20 April 2007. Details can be found online at encatc.natverkstan.net/pages/registration.php.

Contact: Mrs Josiane Bolenge Kamparås, Projectcoordinator at Nätverkstan, e-mail: bolenge@natverkstan.net

State on Stage: Best Practices of Government Support for the Perfoming Arts

Utrecht, The Netherlands, 7 June 2007

Inviting government officials that deal with the performing arts, funding agencies, representatives of organisations in the performing arts, scholars and scientist working in this field, the Dutch Association of Theatres and Concert Halls (VSCD) in cooperation with the Boekman Foundation and Pearle will organize an international conference entitled State on Stage: Best Practices of Government Support for the Perfoming Arts, to take place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on 7 June 2007.

The performing arts in all European countries are supported by their governments. However, scope, depth, nature and mass of state support differ widely from one country to another. States, provinces, regions and municipalities all have different expectations, roles and schemes in their financial support of the performing arts.

The questions to be dealt with are: what tendencies in government support of culture and the performing arts are dominant, what happy examples of effective and fruitful government policies can be presented, what best practices can be identified, which other countries can benefit?

Scholars from Finland, Estonia, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, France, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Slovenia, Italy, Ireland and Greece have been asked to write short essays on the way the (performing) arts are embedded in and supported by their governments, how the state in their country is acting on stage, and what policies or programs can be proudly presented?

More information on the conference and registration forms are available online at http://www.vscd.nl/activiteiten/dienstverlening/
studiedagenvscdcongres.html#state

5th International Congress on Culture and Development

Havana, Cuba, 11-14 June 2007

The 5th International Congress on Culture and Development will be held in Havana, Cuba, on 11-14 June 2007. Starting from the recognition of the authentic value of the relation between culture and development and having as its main topic In Defence of Cultural Diversity, this congress is aimed at:

• Promoting reflection, debate and exchange of ideas on the recognition of the cultural plurality and the diversity of its expressions, the culture of resistance, the cultural processes and development in a globalized world that urgently needs to preserve its cultures,
• Favoring the analysis of the role of cultural industries, technological changes and cultural services and commercialization of products,
• Encouraging the exchange of ideas and projects to foster human creativity facing current challenges,
• Promoting the search for common tendencies and the coordination of strategies and projects to foster cultural development by means of cooperation.

The programme will include lectures, presentations, round tables and posters in two discussion forums on the topics of Acknowledgement to Cultural Plurality and to its Diverse Expressions, and Cultural Industries and Technological Changes.

Side events will include the 2nd Meeting on Cultural Development Observatories of Ibero America and the 3rd CultureMondo International Roundtable.

For details, please see: www.cultydes.cult.cu

3rd Annual Culture.mondo Network Roundtable

Havana, Cuba, 11-15 June 2007

The 3rd Annual Culture.mondo Network Roundtable and International Steering Committee Meeting, to be held in Havana, Cuba on 10 to 15 June 2007, co-hosted by the informal portal network's Secretariat and the Cubarte cultural portal, will represent a unique opportunity for cultural portal developers and managers to join Latin American and Caribbean colleagues to share best practices, consider how Cultural Information Systems (CIS) align with online interfaces, learn innovative uses for new technologies and focus on maximizing the use of web resources and Web 2.0 tools to create leading edge cultural portals.

This special regionally focused Roundtable will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Congress on Culture and Development: Defending Cultural Diversity. Culture.mondo experts will be featured in the Congressional Plenary on the topic of Internet and Diversity, Reality or Myth?

For details, please see: www.culturemondo.org/english/

Gazing, Glancing, Glimpsing: Tourists and Tourism in a Visual World

6th International Symposium on Aspects of Tourism
Brighton, UK, 13-15 June 2007

Entitled Gazing, Glancing, Glimpsing: Tourists and Tourism in a Visual World, the 6th International Symposium on aspects of tourism will be held at the University of Brighton, Eastbourne Campus, UK, on 13-15 June 2007.

The conference presents a major opportunity to discuss the challenges of using images to analyse and understand tourism and tourists. Conference themes will include:

• Visual research methodologies as the basis for enquiries into past and present,
• Representation as narrative and counter-narrative,
• Image, truth and illusion in tourism promotion,
• Gendered representation in leisure and tourism,
• Colonial, postcolonial, and subaltern studies related to tourism,
• Historic particularity and touristic imagery,
• Orientalism and the work of Edward Said as it applies to tourism and leisure,
• Photography as tourist performance,
• The dialectic between data and methods and the unpredictable reaction between them,
• Implications of ubiquitous digital image making and the emerging methodological implications.

Contact e-mail: tourismvisuality@brighton.ac.uk

Details: www.brighton.ac.uk/ssm/sympo2007

Durban International Film Festival

Durban, South Africa, 20 June - 1 July 2007

South Africa’s longest running film festival, the Durban International Film Festival, has announced that its 28th edition will take place from 20 June to 1 July 2007. The festival will present over 300 screenings of films from around the world, with special focus on films from South Africa and the rest of the African continent. The festival also offers a seminar and workshop programme featuring local and international filmmakers.

The festival calls for entries from around the world. The deadline for entries is 1 March 2007 for short films and documentaries, and 15 March 2007 for feature films.

Contact: Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa; tel.: +27 (0) 31 260 2506 / 1367; fax: +27 (0) 31 260 3074; e-mail: diff@ukzn.ac.za; www.cca.ukzn.ac.za

Culture, Tourism and Socio-Economic Development

Frankfurt, Germany, 25 June - 6 July 2007

The Datey Group is organizing series of seminars on Culture, Tourism and Socio-Economic Development in Frankfurt, Germany with additional professional visits to Paris and Brussels. The Summer Session is to take place on 25 June - 6 July 2007, while the Fall Session will be held on 17-28 September 2007.

This international seminar is recommended for chief executives and senior civil servants from on social and economic development policies and programs, leaders of cultural organizations and cultural entrepreneurs, managers of cultural tourism and heritage management initiatives, as well as academics and lawyers working on culture and socioeconomic development.

The goals of the seminar are threefold:

• to discuss strategies and share managerial tools that will enable participants to gain new insights in the socio-economic impact assessment of cultural/tourism resources, the protection and the promotion of cultural/tourism assets, and the rethinking of cultural policies;
• to strengthen managerial competencies and leadership skills of cultural/tourism entrepreneurs and managers; and
• to create networking opportunities for professional development and international networking.

Seminar topics will be addressed by an outstanding faculty team of distinguished scholars and experienced executive educators from diverse backgrounds in the fields of public policy and management, cultural economics, business and entrepreneurship development, cultural management, international development cooperation and intellectual property rights.

Seminar topics will include:

• Culture and Sustainable Development - focusing on the power of culture and the extent to which it stimulates or undermines economic vitality and sustainable livelihood, and discussing trends and perspectives in measuring the economic impact of arts and culture, and the notion cultural indicators in community development.
• The Business of Arts and Culture: Implications for Public Policy and Leadership Development - addressing opportunities and challenges in the development and the strengthening of cultural industries, including the evaluation of intangible cultural assets and the built heritage, the formulation of cultural policies, debates on various business models and support systems, and the sources of funding.
• Development, Promotion and Protection of Cultural Resources Tourism, Social Regeneration and Economic Vitality - dealing with the cultural effects of globalization, best practices in the marketing and the promotion of cultural resources, and the protection of intellectual property rights as a basis for cultural enterprise development and income generation.
• Tourism / Cultural Policies Formulation and Management & Cultural Entrepreneurship Development - concentrating on cultural policy analysis, venturing, and the development of an entrepreneurial mindset in the development and the management of cultural enterprises.

Application deadline is 30 April for the Summer Session and 15 August for the Fall Session.

Contact: Datey Eyrich GmbH, Königsberger Str. 12-16, 66877 Ramstein, Germany; tel.: 06371 - 9642 0; fax : 06371 - 9642 53; e-mail: mail@datey.com; www.datey.com/usa/index.html

European Culture(s) - The Challenge of Diversity and Unity

Seggau, Austria, 30 June - 14 July 2007

The International Summer School Seggau: European Culture(s) - The Challenge of Diversity and Unity, will be held in Austria on 30 June - 14 July 2007. Eighty places are available for students from all over Europe, especially those from the Eastern and Southeast European region. Application deadline is 31 March 2007.

For two weeks, internationally renowned experts will be at the students' disposal in order to disseminate specialised knowledge and stimulate discussions in workshops, lectures and seminars. In this international environment, students will be trained to understand and discuss dimensions of Europe beyond the European Union.

The academic background of the project will be dealt with in sex seminar modules:

• Uniform Law and the Protection of the Diversity of Legal Cultures in Europe,
• Towards a Common European History,
• Entrepreneurship and Economy - Models and Concepts in European History and Presence,
• Cultural Science: Modernization, Culture and Identity,
• Intercultural Competence, and
• Media Shaping and Reflecting European Cultures.

As the International Summer School Seggau is funded through grants given by sponsors and donators from all over Europe, the tuition fee for students is reduced to the amount of EUR 300 (reduced fee EUR 150). This tuition fee includes the Summer School programme, meals, housing and a printed report. Travel arrangements have to be made and paid for individually.

As the Summer School is based on the ECTS system, the recognition as a regular part of participants' studies at their home universities should be possible. In order to obtain a certificate, students must actively participate in one seminar module and all lectures (recommendation: 2 ECTS). It is also possible for students to write a scholarly seminar paper (recommendation: 4 ECTS). This paper will be evaluated by the academic coordinators to ensure an appropriate level.

Contact: Daniel Johnston, Office of International Relations, Universitaetsplatz 3, A-8010 Graz, Austria; tel.: +43-316-380-1242; e-mail: daniel.johnston@uni-graz.at

Cracow International Cultural Centre's Summer Programmess

Cracow, Poland, July 2007

In July 2007 the International Cultural Centre will organise the 17th edition of the summer programmes of the College for New Europe – an educational institution of the ICC opened in May 1991 during the CSCE Symposium on Cultural Heritage in Cracow.

The educational programmes aim to bring together young students and scholars to discuss political, cultural and social issues of today on an international forum. The College has organized 53 summer sessions so far and the number of participants who have attended the sessions rises to some 1900. Most of the students come from Central and Eastern Europe, but a great number of students also come from the USA, South Africa and several Asian countries.

The faculty are eminent professors and experts who represent well-recognized European and American academic institutions. Participants are welcome to apply for three self-contained courses:

• Cities in Conflict. Urban Strategies in Central Europe (July) - A two-week programme organized jointly with the Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa and designed for young sociologists, historians, urban planners, architects and art historians from Poland and other Central and East European countries;
• The River within the City (May, July) - Urban planning workshops jointly organized with the Urban and Regional Planning Department of the RWTH in Aachen for students of architecture from Poland, Germany and Austria;
• Democracy and Diversity (July) - The course addresses junior scholars from around the world, bringing an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to bear on the study of social, political and cultural challenges to today's democracy. The programme organized with the Transregional Centre for Democratic Studies of the New School University, New York. The course is the equivalent of a full semester's graduate study at an American University.

Further details are available at: www.mck.krakow.pl/view.php?idt=7&idm=36&lang=eng

Contact: Miedzynarodowe Centrum Kultury, International Cultural Centre, Rynek Glowny 25, Cracow, Poland; tel. 00 48 12 42 42 811

Olympia Summer Seminars

Olympia, Greece, 1-15 July 2007

The sixth annual Olympia Summer Seminars will be held in Ancient Olympia, Greece from 1-15 July 2007. The seminars aim to facilitate an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the study of current politics and historical events by bringing together eminent scholars and highly qualified students and professionals from around the world. Two programmes will be held:

• War, Conflict & Identity – organized in collaboration with Yale University's Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence, the course provides a concise, yet in-depth, overview of new theoretical and empirical research on a range of topics at the intersection of war, conflict, and identity, including interstate and civil war, terrorism, riots and genocide, and the dynamics of conflict. The goal is to survey cutting edge research and identify emerging research agendas. Eligible to apply are graduate students, researchers, and professionals working in any discipline associated with the field of conflict studies. Applications by outstanding senior undergraduates with relevant professional or internship experience will also be considered.
• The Challenges of International Media Technology and Policy – organized in collaboration with Duke University's DeWitt Wallace Centre for Communications and Journalism, the seminar will use methods and models from a number of relevant disciplines (political science, political economy, sociology, history and philosophy) to explore new dimensions on a number of media and media policy issues of particular concern to future European Union member states. The seminar will devote special attention to the implications of accession on the regulation of domestic media, as well as to the wider effects of European integration for the media systems of the EU and its member states, addressing the effects of technology on the business model and the dilemma of news; electoral campaigning and media coverage of elections; the challenges that arise from managing small media businesses in small markets; and the effects of media freedom and public opinion on democracy.

The deadline for submitting applications is 30 April 2007, early admissions and financial aid applications should be submitted by 31 March 2007. Applications and application guidelines are available online.

Contact: Vicky Katsanioti, The Kokkalis Foundation, 3 Premetis St., GR-151 25 Maroussi, Athens, Greece; www.kokkalisfoundation.gr

Art Omi International Artists' Residency

Hudson River Valley, USA, 1-23 July 2007

The Art Omi International Artists' Residency offers visual artists three-week residencies taking place in the historic Hudson River Valley, USA, on 1-23 July 2007. Artists are provided with room and board, the studio facilities are set among 300 acres of rolling green hills. The program includes a critic-in-residence who facilitates an ongoing dialogue in studio visits, as well as day visits from dealers, curators, artists and critics from New York City. The residency session concludes with an Open Studios event to which members of the art world from both upstate New York and New York City are invited. Artists pay for travel, materials, and donate a work of art created during the residency to the Art Omi Foundation Collection.

Application deadline is 15 January 2007. For detailed application requirements, please see www.artomi.org.

Contact: Blaire Dessent, Director, Art Omi International Artists Residency; tel.: + 1 212.206.5684; e-mail: artists@artomi.org

Sponsorship and Fundraising in Art and Culture

Finances and Culture 2007
London, UK, 4-5 July 2007

The international conference Finances and Culture 2007, with the theme of Sponsorship and Fundraising in Art and Culture focusing on Russia and CIS, will take place on 4-5 July 2007 in London, UK. The purpose of the conference is a meeting of people seeking partners for co-operation, and the conference agenda is targeted towards:

• representatives of business and financial institutions interested in sponsorship of art and cultural events as the strategy for business promotion;
• representatives of art and culture interested in collaboration with sponsors; and
• representatives of foundations and fundraising agencies.

Speakers will be allocated 20-30 minutes and key speakers up to 60 minutes for presentations and discussions. The working language of the conference is English.

As the number of speakers is limited, candidates should submit abstracts of up to 350 words by 01 February 2007. Submissions should be emailed in Word format to info@iugte.com.

Details at www.iugte.com/projects/Conference2007.

Electric Rats Dream Video Dreams

International Video Festival
Celje, Slvenia, 6-8 July 2007

The International Video Festival Electric Rats Dream Video Dreams is to take place in Celje, Slovenia, from 6 – 8 July 2007. The organizers, City Cinema Metropol Celje and KUD 567, are inviting entries for video work to be included in the festival programme. The deadline for entries is 31 May 2007.

The organizers are referring to the identifiable video as integral, independent art practice that does not define itself only through technology. The festival is divided into competitive categories: video debutante, one minute video, video shot by mobile phone (sponsor Mobitel), video by theme: family vacation (sponsor TA Palma), "anything goes" video. Every competitive category offers a money award (300 - 500 €) and an art work from KUD 567 (art for art).

Further information is available at www.videorats.org

9th International Conference on Arts And Cultural Management

AIMAC 2007 - Call for Papers
Valencia, Spain, 8-11 July 2007

The International Association of Arts and Cultural Management is organizing AIMAC 2007, a scientific conference to be held in Valencia, Spain from 8-11 July 2007, addressing 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. Papers concerning any aspect of arts and cultural management are invited, covering all management approaches including marketing, strategic planning, marketing research, human resources, organizational behaviour, accounting and finance, production, and information systems.

The Conference will discuss, among others, the following topics:

• marketing and the arts,
• consumption of cultural products,
• arts and cultural management,
• interaction between Internet and culture,
• audience research,
• cultural human resources management,
• arts financial issues,
• arts and business relations, and
• cultural production and programming.

Papers are welcome on all management approaches, including: strategic planning, marketing research, human resources, organizational behavior, accounting and finance, production, or information systems.

Abstracts in English or French may be submitted to abstractsaimac2007@polytechnique.fr by 15 October 2006 and must include research objective or questions, research methodology and theoretical perspectives and main findings and conclusions. Authors will be informed of acceptance by early 2007. Final papers must be submitted by 1 April 2007.

Contact information: Prof. Manuel Cuadrado, Universitat de València, Dpto. Comercialización e Investigación de Mercados, Avda. de los Naranjos s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain; tel.: +34 963 828 963; fax: +34 963 828 333; e-mail: aimac2007@adeit.uv.es; www.adeit.uv.es/aimac2007/

3rd International Festival of Making Theater
(In.F.o.Ma.T. 2007)

Athens, Greece, 8–15 July 2007

The Theater of Changes invites actors, directors, drama school students, dancers, choreographers, singers, acting, voice and movement teachers and finally all those with a vivid interest in performing arts to participate in the 3rd International Festival of Making Theater (In.F.o.Ma.T.), which will be held in Athens, Greece, on July 2007.

During a whole week of creative interaction, theatre makers from all over the world will have the opportunity to get acquainted with and share new working methods and ideas concerning the following three sectors: acting, movement and voice.

Acting, movement and voice teachers are invited to submit workshop proposals by 31 May, participants should apply by 30 June 2007. See details at www.theater-of-changes.com/cms/index.php?
module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=66.

Contact: Theater of Changes, 3rd Septemvriou 19a, 104 32 Athens, Greece; tel.: +30 210 52 48 251, +30 210 52 46 833; fax: +3210 52 46 833; e-mail: info@toc.gr, www.toc.gr

Theatre in Africa – Africa in Theatre

Call for Papers - Annual Conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR)
Stellenbosch, South Africa, 10–14 July 2007

Hosted by the Centre for Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Stellenbosch in association with the US Department of Drama, the South African Theatre Journal and Consultu, the Annual Conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) entitled Theatre in Africa – Africa in Theatre will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, on 10–14 July 2007. The main focus of the 2007 IFTR conference is the relationship of Africa to the rest of the world and the way this is driven by and reflected in theatre and performance across the globe.

The conference will consider the many ways in which, over the centuries, the idea of Africa has pervaded and influenced the art, literature and performing arts of the Africa itself, as well as the artistic output of artists, writers and performers in the non-African world. Conversely it will also refer to the way in which ideas from other continents and cultures have become an integral part of the arts, belief structures, history and writing of much of the continent – a presence felt in everything from artistic themes to forms, processes and evaluative systems.

It is this symbiotic relationship between the African continent and the rest of the world that is the broad theme to be addressed, a theme which offers a number of very intriguing points for debate. Among the key issues are: the notions "Africa" and "African theatre and performance"; dance and performance; orality, narrative and performance; masks and performance; ritual and theatre; venues; the ephemerality of live performance; uncovering and recovering a forgotten past; applied theatre and the impact of theatre; the artists, practitioners and practices of Africa; the African diaspora; the influence of African forms and themes; contemporary theories of theatre and performance; and the image (or idea) of Africa. The conference is interested in the full range of research addressing any of these (or related) questions pertinent to the overarching theme and arising from, relating to or useful for discussing this meeting between Africa and the rest of the world.

Abstracts of 20-minute papers should be submitted in either English or French to iftr2007@sun.ac.za or preferably be done directly online at www.iftr2007.co.za. The deadline for submissions is 31 November 2006.

New scholars are invited to submit papers to be presented at a special session, the Kay McDonnell New Scholars' Forum, or to participate in the New Scholars' Prize by 15 December 2006.

For more information, please contact: Jana Hattingh at the 2007 IFTR/FIRT Conference Office or Temple Hauptfleisch, the Conference Organiser, at satj@sun.ac.za; www.firt-iftr.org

ELIA's 3rd biennial Teachers' Academy

Call for Contributions
Brighton, UK, 11–14 July 2007

The European League of Institutes or the Arts (ELIA) will hold its 3rd biennial Teachers' Acad