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Year 2013 Events
Active Countryside Tourism
Call for Paper Proposals
Leeds, UK, 23-25 January 2013
The Regional Studies Association (RSA) research network meeting seeks to question the contribution active countryside tourism can and does make to rural regions. How can rural areas benefit from the possibilities offered by active countryside tourism? What needs to be done to attract specific niche tourism markets to rural regions? How do active tourists consume and experience the countryside? What are the needs, interests and motivations of specific subgroups (e.g. horse riders, para-gliders, rock climbers), and how can rural communities capitalise on these potential tourism markets? What is the role of regional and national governments in promoting and facilitating the development of active countryside tourism?
Amongst the themes that may be considered are:
- innovation in active countryside tourism
- sustainable active countryside tourism
- the rural tourism labour force (e.g. skills shortages, labour shortages, outsourcing etc.)
- agricultural diversification and active countryside tourism
- understanding specific subgroups of active countryside tourists
- sports tourism in rural regions
- place and destination branding for active countryside tourism
- the role of tourism public policy in rural regional development
- barriers to the development and expansion of active countryside tourism
- active countryside tourism in developing regions
- event tourism in rural regions
- marketing of active countryside tourism
- opposition to active countryside tourism in local rural communities
- presentation and understandings of rurality and nature through active countryside tourism
Papers addressing other aspects of tourism and regional development are accepted.
The conference will take place in Leeds, UK, on 23-25 January 2013.
Paper proposals (title and an abstract of not more than 300 words) should be submitted to Dr Kate Dashper, k.dashper@leedsmet.ac.uk by 29 September 2012. All presenters must register for the conference. More information about the call for papers can be found at icreth.wix.com/countrysidetourism
Making Diversity Work for Cities
An Intercultural Cities Milestone Event
Dublin, Ireland, 6 8 February 2013
In 2008 the Council of Europe and the European Commission, together with a group of pioneer cities, took a challenge: to develop and test a culturally competent approach to integrating diverse communities. The Intercultural cities initiative was born.
At the heart of this novel approach to integration lies the concept of Diversity advantage. The Dublin milestone event will be an opportunity to take stock of what cities have achieved, what works and what does not, and under which conditions, what challenges remain and how they can be addressed together with partners from other networks and organisations.
In Dublin the following questions will be discussed:
- What does diversity advantage mean in practice and how can different kinds of urban policies be shaped through the intercultural lens?
- How can cities develop a strategic approach to the diversity advantage?
- Is the concept supported by research evidence?
Over 60 cities in Europe and beyond have joined the Intercultural cities programme and pursue the diversity advantage. At the Dublin event these cities will share their experience and learning:
- What does diversity advantage mean in practice and how can different kinds of urban policies be shaped through the intercultural lens?
- What intercultural strategies have cities adopted? How have they managed to build broad local partnerships to ensure grassroots involvement, transversality and sustainability? What challenges are they facing and how are they dealing with them?
- How can cities demonstrate the reality of diversity advantage? Is the concept supported by research evidence? How can the results be assessed?
Participants will learn about the tools which have been created to support cities in implementing the intercultural integration approach: a Step-By-Step guide enables a structured approach to policy audit, citizen involvement in strategy development and an Intercultural Cities Index helps cities make evidence-based judgments about the impact and outcomes of their policies and resource investment.
Thematic workshops will review the meaning and practice of interculturalism in various policy fields such as culture, education, housing and neighbourhood development, safety and policing.
For more information please visit www.coe.int/interculturalcities or consult the draft programme at www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/culture/Cities/Dublin/DraftProg_en.pdf
Art and Geography: Aesthetics and Practices of Spatial Knowledges
Lyon, France, 11-13 February 2013
The conference Art and Geography: Aesthetics and Practices of Spatial Knowledges, to be held in Lyon, France, on 11-13 February 2013 will take place in connection with a research project funded by the French National Research Agency, Médiagéo, aiming to explore the contemporary contours of what is geographical and to question the boundaries between cultural activities, in this case, art and geography.
The aim is also to examine the latest geographical approaches to and the hybridization of geographical knowledge in contemporary art as part of a broader discussion of their respective contributions. The conference is at the crossroads of contemporary geography and art. With the latest developments in how space, place and environment are viewed in contemporary art, it is necessary to take a critical look at how relevant geography's various responses to this 'spatial turn' have been, and to unravel the implications - in factual, methodological, theoretical and epistemological terms - of the convergence between contemporary art and geography.
Proposals from geographers and artists from diverse backgrounds and with varying experiences in the field are welcome. All liberal arts researchers with similar interests in the spatial/geographical dimensions of art are also welcome to contribute.
Deadline for submissions is 30 October 2012.
Further information: artgeographie.sciencesconf.org/
Sauti za Busara 2013
Call for African Music Films
Old Fort, Stone Town, Zanzibar, 14-17 February 2013
Sauti za Busara is the annual music event in East Africa and widely known as the friendliest festival on the planet. The Sauti za Busara music festival is accepting submissions for the 2013 African Music Film Programme, the 10th edition of this popular annual event, set to take place on 14-17 February 2013 in the historic Old Fort, Stone Town, Zanzibar.
Sauti za Busara festival is looking for a variety of feature length films, stimulating and entertaining shorts from around Africa. These can be music clips, recorded concerts, music documentaries or more experimental films. The best films will be selected for screening at the festival: Eligible are:
- films telling a story about music or musicians from the African Continent and diaspora;
- films representing the wealth and diversity of music from East Africa and beyond;
- music films of interest to local, regional and international audiences;
- films with great visuals, quality sound and music that is firmly rooted in Africa;
- films including new and unheard of sounds, as well as established artists; and
- foreign language films should ideally be subtitled in Kiswahili and/or English.
The next edition in February 2013 will feature 200 musicians - more than twenty groups from East Africa and beyond; acoustic and electric, upcoming and established, all performing live.
The deadline for applications is 16 November 2012. Application forms and more information are available at busaramusic.org
For enquiries please contact press@busara.or.tz
Infecting the City Public Arts Festival
Open Call for Submissions
Cape Town, South Africa, March 2013
The Africa Centre has begun preparation for Infecting the City Public Arts Festival, that will be held in the first week of March 2013. The Festival offers a unique opportunity to bring art, music, dance and performance out of theatres and galleries and into the streets and public spaces of Cape Town's Central Business District (CBD). Its aspirations are to challenge audiences, breach boundaries, shift perspectives and help make sense of the public spaces we occupy. The Festival's aim is to develop a public art intervention that resonates and challenges people to connect with each other and the City, through art.
Visual and performing artists are invited to submit works that are either completely new, or have been previously staged. The work can be a full ensemble piece, an intervention, a live performance, a visual art piece, an installation, a video, a happening, working with technology, via social media, totally interactive or some other newly imagined form. All works should translate to or work within a public environment, and should actively engage intentional and incidental audiences. There is no specific theme, though works that concern issues of urbanity are encouraged.
The call for submissions is open until 15 August 2012. A shortlist of applicants will be compiled by 1 September and finalists will be selected by 15 October.
Please email all applications or queries to info@infectingthecity.com
www.infectingthecity.com/2012/wp-content/themes/itc2012/images/ITC2013-Call-for-Submissions.pdf
Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage: Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures
Call for Papers
Taipei, Taiwan, 5 - 9 April 2013
University of Birmingham - Ironbridge Institute and National Taiwan University in association with UNESCO UNITWIN Network Tourism, Culture, Development and the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, UK, are organizing an international conference on Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage: Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures, to be held in Taipei, Taiwan, 5-9 April 2013.
The cultural heritage of nation states, regions and communities is not only seen as a marker of identity but is also, more than ever, open and projected for global consumption. Domestic and international tourists visit both their own pasts and those of others through a vast diversity of tangible heritage sites buildings, monuments, museums, landscapes etc. and also a variety of intangible heritage rituals and performances. But the motivations and practices of those which are involved in the protection, preservation, display and management of cultural heritage can, and frequently do, differ from tourists who metaphorically 'visit' the past and, the tourism sector which selectively packages the past in the form of heritage. Such divergences reflect the different values attached to cultural heritage and the different value systems through which heritage is filtered.
In this context, this conference seeks to examine both the tensions and opportunities in the processes of valuing and protecting cultural heritage and, in mobilising it for development purposes in the wider social sphere. The conference will explore how heritage 'works' in the context of shifting and mobile values and, the various ways in which tourism and tourists shape, embed and change the value of heritage in societies. The Conference aims to provide critical dialogue beyond disciplinary boundaries and the organizers invite papers from all disciplines and fields including: anthropology, archaeology, art history, architecture, cultural geography, cultural studies, ethnology and folklore, economics, history, heritage studies, landscape studies, leisure studies, museum studies, philosophy, political science, sociology, tourism studies and urban/spatial planning.
Papers dealing with all categories of heritage are invited world heritage, natural heritage, built and urban heritage, colonial heritage, religious heritage, heritage landscapes, intangible heritage, museum heritage, food heritage etc. etc. Potential themes of interest include:
- understanding tourist experiences of heritage sites narrative, memory and emotion;
- interpreting and communicating the values of heritage engaging complex audiences;
- identity building through tangible and intangible heritage challenging traditions;
- regeneration programmes based on heritage economies of nostalgia;
- processes of commodifying pasts for touristic consumption (dis)inventing tradition;
- heritages of conflict power, glory and displacement; and
- mobile heritage diasporas, routes and roots.
Please send a 300 word abstract of your paper with a clear title to ironbridge@contacts.bham.ac.uk no later than 5 October 2012.
For further information on the conference, including the programme, speaker profiles and accepted abstracts please contact Caroline Ashton; tel.: 0121 414 9136; e-mail: ironbridge@contacts.bham.ac.uk; internationaltaipei2013.wordpress.com
Media and Creative Industries Policies, Business and Challenges
Lisbon, Portugal, 3-4 May 2013
The 6th Conference of the International Media Management Academic Association (IMMAA) on Media and Creative Industries - Policies, Business and Challenges will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on 3-4 May 2013.
The programme committee invites researchers and practitioners to submit proposals for papers to be presented at the 2013 IMMAA annual conference. Please send either completed papers, where available, or a brief summary of the topic to be presented. The programme committee also invites proposals for panel topics; recommendations for outside speakers, including for keynote and opening speakers; andrecommendations for other researchers to whom a call for papers should be sent.
Submissions should be sent to Paulo Faustino with the subject "Lisbon IMMAA Conference" at faustino.paulo@gmail.com.
The deadline for abstracts (max. 1 page) is 28 February 2013, for full papers (max. 25 pages + annexes) 10 April 2013.
IMMAA is a collaborative professional group of academic researchers on the subject of media management. The link between them is the desire to develop research and teaching of media management to students and professionals.
7th Bucharest International JAZZ Competition 2013
Bucharest, Romania, 18 25 May 2013
The Bucharest International Jazz Competition, organized by jmEvents.ro, is a unique event on the professional Romanian jazz scene, but also is ranked among the first three jazz competitions in Europe. It is addressed to bands and vocalists aged up to 35 years of age, and its mission is to contribute to the acknowledgement of Romanian and international jazz values. An entire week is dedicated exclusively to jazz.
The contest is followed by jam sessions and workshops, where international specialists share their jazz knowledge and skills with the participants. The Bucharest International Jazz Competition is more than an international contest, it is a statement it promotes young musicians' creativity and freedom of expression at a time at which the commercial is the compromise for success in music. Musicians with different backgrounds come together on the EUROPAfest stage and give their best to the public. Most contestants have an impressive portfolio, attending prestigious international events such as the Jazz Festival of Montreux, Red Sea International Jazz Festival or Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival USA.
The deadline for applications is 10 February 2013.
Contact: Prof. Luigi Gageos, Competition Director, jmEvents; tel.: +40 722 383 542; fax: +40 21 323 66 00, e-mail: luigi.gageos@jmEvents.ro; www.jmEvents.ro
International Symposium on Language for International Communication
Riga, Latvia, 23-24 May 2013
The Department of English Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia announced the 2nd International Symposium on Language for International Communication, to be held in Riga, Latvia, on 2324 May 2013. The symposium, organized as a two-day interdisciplinary conference, endeavours to establish links between disciplines concerned with the instrumental use of language in international communication and with the study of its acquisition, the main focus being on fostering innovative methodological approaches to empirical research.
The aim of the forum is to bring together distinguished scholars, practitioners and novice researchers from different linguistic backgrounds and disciplines for a discussion on the role of languages in international communication in the modern world. Researchers from all over the world are invited to share their research results and new ideas at the conference to promote cross-cultural cooperation. The focus of the forum is on subfields of general and applied linguistics, such as semantics, pragmatics, text and corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, lexicology, lexicography, translation and interpretation.
The abstracts will be published in a Book of Abstracts. All papers with positive reviews will be published in the LInCS2013 Proceedings. The costs of both publications are included in the registration fee. Selected papers will be published in the Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts (online) is 1 December 2012 Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 20 December 2012 Submission of the article manuscript electronically for reviewing: 20 February 2013.
E-mail addresses for correspondence regarding registration and conference programme: Zigrida Vincela, zigrida.vincela@lu.lv and
Natalia Cigankova, natalja.cigankova@lu.lv; regarding abstracts and manuscripts: Monta Farneste, mfarneste@lanet.lv
For more, please see www.lu.lv/lincs2013/
ICAS 8: The EastWest Crossroads
Macao, China, 24-27 June 2013
The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is the premier international gathering in the field of Asian Studies. It attracts participants from over 60 countries to engage in global dialogues on Asia that transcend boundaries between academic disciplines and geographic areas. Since 1998, ICAS has brought more than 15,000 academics together at seven conventions. ICAS is an active accelerator of research.
ICAS 8: The East West Crossroads will be hosted by the University of Macau (UM) and will be held from 24 to 27 June 2013 in the Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel. Some 1,500 to 2,500 Asia specialists are expected to attend. This city is located in the heart of East Asia and successfully merges its long history of culture and tradition with diversity and cosmopolitanism.
Deadline for proposals: 15 July 2012
Submission of abstracts for panels, roundtables and papers can be made using ICAS 8 registration forms, available from www.icassecretariat.org.
General information about ICAS 8 can be found at www.umac.mo/icas8, or contact the ICAS Secretariat at icas@iias.nl
AIMAC 2013
Call for Papers
Bogota, Colombia, 26-29 June 2013
Researchers are invited to submit proposals for paper presentations to the 12th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC 2013), to be held in South America for the first time in Bogota, Colombia, on 26-29 June, 2013.. Proposals from any relevant discipline will be considered, provided they make an original academic contribution to the study of cultural management. This scientific conference will address 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, design).
Papers are welcome on all arts and cultural management areas, including:
- strategic marketing (including fundraising and sponsorships),
- consumer behaviour,
- product and brand management,
- strategic management and planning,
- organizational behaviour,
- governance,
- leadership,
- human resource management,
- finance/control,
- organization of creative industries,
- corporate social responsibility,
- corporate finance strategies,
- corporate communication strategies,
- cultural entrepreneurship,
- creative and cultural industries,
- creativity and innovation,
- the creative city/region,
- business models,
- cultural diversity and management,
- art and Culture as a strategy to reach social change, and
- internationalization.
All research that utilizes the arts and cultural industries as a context of study for probing broader business research questions is welcome.
All those wishing to present a paper at the conference must submit an abstract of 1,000 1,500 words. The deadline for abstracts is 31 October 2012. Abstracts will undergo a double blind review process, and authors will be informed of acceptance by early 2013. There will be awards for Best Paper in each research track, Best Paper for the conference, and Best Doctoral Research.
For information on the programme schedule and local arrangements, please visit www.aimac2013.org
Please contact: infoaimac2013@uniandes.edu.co
Transcultural Perspectives on the Future 2013
Chicago, USA, on 19-21 July 2013
FUTUREtakes, a Transcultural Futurist Magazine, invites members of the Culturelink community to serve as panelists in the fourth annual Transcultural Roundtable, also known as Transcultural Perspectives on the Future 2013. As in the past three years, the roundtable will be a special session of World Future 2013, an annual conference sponsored by the World Future Society. World Future 2013 is scheduled to take place in Chicago, USA, on 19-21 July 2013.
Topics of interest are posted at www.futuretakes.org/Transcultural.html and subordinate pages. Each panelist will be asked to make a 15-minute presentation and to be available during the Q&A period at the end of the session. Although neither the World Future Society nor FUTUREtakes is able to pay travel or conference expenses of the participants, Transcultural Roundtable 2013 panelists and other conference speakers are eligible for reduced conference registration fees.
Prospective panelists are asked to advise FUTUREtakes of their interest by 30 November 2013. For further information, write to info@futuretakes.org
Between Education, Commerce and Adventure. Tourist Experience in Europe Since the Interwar Period
Berlin, Germany, 26-28 September 2013
The international conference Between Education, Commerce and Adventure: Tourist experience in Europe since the Interwar Period, will take place in Berlin, 26-28 September 2013.
Over the course of the twentieth century, tourism in Europe experienced a veritable earthquake: it ceased to be confined to the upper and middle classes and became increasingly accessible to the working class. This trend was certainly facilitated by the fact that national legislation in many Western European countries from the mid-1930s onwards granted the right to paid vacation for employees, in addition to rapidly rising standards of living in post-1945 Western Europe. Mass tourism took on many forms, among which commercial tourism featured prominently. According to Furlough and Baranowski, by the onset of the 1960s commercial tourism had created a "full-throttle global industry". Still, numerous seemingly antagonistic models of mass tourism have emerged in Europe since the 1930s: social tourism undertaken by non-profit enterprises, state-sponsored tourism in Nazi Germany as well as in socialist European countries involved thousands of tourists and aimed at endowing their vacation with "purpose" and "meaning". Moreover, the 1960s also witnessed the emergence of a mobile youth, appreciating both domestic and cross-border trips; some of these youths engaged in so-called "alternative" tourism, as opposed to mass and package tourism.
The aim of the conference is twofold: First, in order to better illuminate the diversity of tourist experience, it seeks to critically investigate the argument of the prevalence of commercial tourism. It intends to further scrutinize interconnections among the abovementioned and seemingly competing tourist models. A telling case is the growing appropriation of "alternative" tourist patterns by commercial tourism providers in West Germany in the late 1970s. Moreover, the conference aims to help rethread the scholarly analysis of a plethora of profound economic, social, cultural and political transformations that shaped Europe in the 20th century through the needle of mass tourism as a diverse phenomenon. It seeks to approach tourism from the perspective of the experiences of the tourists as well as of the discourses that tourists employed to lend meaning to these experiences. It intends to examine tourists of differing background with regard to social class, gender, age, nation and ethnicity, and to illuminate how travel was experienced and conceptualized by tourists who lived in various political regimes across Europe. It also wishes to closely examine the entanglements between tourism and other forms of cross-border mobility, such as migration and student exchange. Therefore, even though research investigating single countries may certainly be fruitful and is welcome, the organisers would like to encourage the submission of papers which employ a transnational and/or comparative perspective in order to test the significance of Europe as a terrain, in which transnational mobility posed challenges to national borders.
Potential topics to be investigated in the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Cold War and tourism. Tourist mobility across the Cold War blocs.
- Tourism, gender and sexuality.
- Cross-border tourism and "European integration".
- Tourism as a generational experience. Young tourists inside and outside commercial tourism. Youth hostels across Europe. Youth politicization and tourism in the 1960s and the 1970s.
- Tourism and migration in post-World War II Europe. Discourses and experiences of the immigrants as tourists. Interviewing of tourism and migration affecting consumer cultures in both the native and the host areas of the immigrants. Tourism, migration and the forging of transnational spaces.
The conference welcomes interdisciplinary approaches in various fields of the humanities, including history, social/cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, media studies and political theory.
The conference is organized by Professor Dr Thomas Mergel and Dr Nikolaos Papadogiannis (Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) as well as by PD Dr Maren Möhring (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam). It is scheduled to take place on 26-28 September, 2013 in Berlin and will be held in English and German. Proposals for a paper should be either in English or in German.
Please send an abstract by 31 July 2012 to Nikolaos Papadogiannis at papadogn@hu-berlin.de or npapadogian@gmail.com
Sustaining Music, Engaging Communities
5th IMC World Forum on Music
Brisbane, Australia, 2124 November 2013
The 5th IMC World Forum on Music: Sustaining Music, Engaging Communities will be held in Brisbane, Australia, on 21-24 November 2013, followed by the 35th IMC General Assembly on 25-26 November 2013. The IMC World Forum on Music will be co-organised by the International Music Council, the Music Council of Australia and Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University.
According to the vision of the organizers, over 1,000 music professionals and other enthusiasts from all over the world will discuss, plan, be part of, and experience the future of music on this planet: musicians, producers, managers, administrators, festival directors, journalists, scholars, educators, facilitators, activists, policy makers and other lovers of the art in its myriad forms and contexts. This is more than a conference - several parallel sessions on traditional music, a video installation about the future of music, an interactive demonstration about mobile phones, music theatre production, etc. will be performed.
But the global dialogue starts long before that. Between July 2012 and November 2013, over 1,000 individuals involved in music are asked to speak on camera for no more than five minutes on what they see as the greatest challenges or opportunities for music in their particular field of music - whether it is music libraries or the world stage. These videos are made available online on a dedicated website, and set the agenda for the Brisbane gathering. At the conference, they will be playing continuously in the foyer of the conference venue, while five of the most outspoken voices from different continents will lead a debate on key issues for global musical futures. Key events will be live streamed throughout the event and vodcast after. Physical and online participants will be invited to identify key issues that arise, while seven carefully selected rapporteurs will make notes during sessions and in the corridors. These will feed into The Brisbane Declaration, an action agenda approved by the 35th IMC General Assembly immediately after the Forum to set some of the key priorities and actions for the world of music globally towards 2020, and subsequently disseminated widely and proactively to help shape sustainable, engaged music practices across the planet.
For more information please contact: International Music Council, 1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, France; tel.: +33 1 45 68 48 50; fax: +33 1 45 68 48 66; e-mail: wfm@imc-cim.org
Performing Arts Management Today
Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria, 17 - 21 December 2013
Performing Arts Management Today is an international professional conference open to arts managers, arts administrators, arts management educators and consultants, arts entrepreneurs, fundraisers, producers, arts agents and talent managers working in various artistic disciplines from all over the world, interested in the research of topical questions and processes in contemporary performing arts administration and training. The conference is an opportunity to meet potential collaborators and partners - performers from different creative genres and techniques, actors, dancers, directors, choreographers, musicians; casting directors, artists, authors, theatre managers, festival organizers and arts publishers from different countries.
The main tasks of the conference are to gain important insights into today's best management strategies for arts and cultural organizations of various sizes and scale, to consider relevant questions in contemporary arts management education and training, to establish new contacts, to exchange experiences with colleagues from different countries, and to lay the foundation for future networking and collaboration. The conference working language is English.
Currently the conference is accepting presentation proposals. Presentation formats: reading/lecture, paper presentation, practical workshop/master class, video/photo demonstration, other way of demonstration offered by Speaker/Presenter can be considered. Submission guidelines and practical detailsare available at www.iugte.com/projects/performingartsmanagement
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