IN THIS ISSUE

Job Opening

1.   DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC ART STUDIES PROGRAMME

Calls for Papers

2.   FIFTH ANNUAL LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY CONFERECE

3.   CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY IN EAST–WEST RELATIONSHIPS

Calls for Entries and Applications

4.   INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS LABORATORY

5.   9th ANNUAL KOKKALIS GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP

6.   SOIMA 2007: SAFEGUARDING SOUND AND IMAGE COLLECTIONS

7.   ARCO/BEEP NEW MEDIA ART AWARDS

8.   EUROPEAN DIPLOMA IN CULTURAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 2007/2008

International Conferences

9.   INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON CULTURAL RIGHTS AND DIVERSITY

10.   CULTURAL POLICIES AND IMMIGRATION: EXPERIENCES AND REFLECTIONS

11.   FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS EUROPÆ THESAURI

12.   ENCATC CONFERENCE ON THE BOLOGNA PROCESS

13.   CULTURAL MANAGEMENT IN A CHANGING ENVIROMENT

14.   LA RENCONTRE DE BELFAST

15.   4TH ACADEMIC NETWORK CONFERENCE

16.   2006 CIRCLE ROUND TABLE

17.   SIETAR EUROPA CONGRESS

Projects

18.   CULTURAL PORTAL CULTUREGUIDE.GR SHUT DOWN

19.   NEW ELIA WEBSITE GOES LIVE

20.   MAPPING OF FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR THE ARAB WORLD

New Books and Publications

21.   DIFFERING DIVERSITIES – EASTERN EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

22.   CHALLENGE OF TRANSCULTURAL DIVERSITIES – CULTURAL POLICY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY

23.   MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA

24.   JAVNOST – THE PUBLIC

1.   DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC ART STUDIES PROGRAMME

The Public Art Studies programme at the USC Roski School of Fine Arts is seeking a Director to fulfil the Assistant or Associate Professor position, tenure track. Deadline for applications is 31 December 2006. >>>

2.   FIFTH ANNUAL LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY CONFERECE

This research conference will take place on 19–23 July 2007 in Leeds, United Kingdom, under the title Things that Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel. Paper abstracts of 300 words should be submitted as soon as possible, but no later than 23 March 2007. >>>

3.   CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY IN EAST–WEST RELATIONSHIPS

The Gheorghe Sincai Research Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, organizer of this international symposium to take place in Targu Mures, Romania on 25-26 May 2007, invites paper proposals of 150-250 words. >>>

4.   INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS LABORATORY

Organized by IUGTE and 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, the Laboratory will be held in Riga, Latvia, on 30 March – 04 April 2007. A limited number of places is available. >>>

5.   9th ANNUAL KOKKALIS GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Southeastern Europe Study Group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, invite paper proposals to their ninth annual workshop to be held on 02 February 2007. Submission deadline is 27 November 2006. >>>

6.   SOIMA 2007: SAFEGUARDING SOUND AND IMAGE COLLECTIONS

The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) announces its SOIMA 2007 course on Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and São Paulo on 6-31 August 2007. Application deadline is 10 January 2007. >>>

7.   ARCO/BEEP NEW MEDIA ART AWARDS

In collaboration with the International Art Fair ARCO, BEEP/Data Logic opens a call for entries for the second edition of its acquisition awards ARCO/BEEP New Media Art Awards. Register at the website. >>>

8.   EUROPEAN DIPLOMA IN CULTURAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 2007/2008

Fondation Marcel Hicter, the organizer of the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management, announces a call for applications for the academic year 2007/2008. Deadline for applications to this pan-European training programme is 15 January 2007. >>>

9.   INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON CULTURAL RIGHTS AND DIVERSITY

The Korean National Commission for UNESCO is organizing this international forum to be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on 14-15 November 2006, focusing on the identification and analysis of the principles of cultural rights and diversity as stated in international instruments, and their application in public circles. >>>

10.   CULTURAL POLICIES AND IMMIGRATION: EXPERIENCES AND REFLECTIONS

Organized by the Interarts Foundation, with the support of the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia and the DG Cultural Cooperation and Communication of the Spanish Ministry of Culture, this seminar aims to create a meeting point for the two working areas of cultural policy and immigration. The seminar will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on 21-22 November 2006. >>>

11.   FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS EUROPÆ THESAURI

Under the title of Treasures of the Church, European Treasures, the first international congress of Europæ Thesauri, the International Association of Treasures and Churches' Museums, will be held in Beja, Portugal, on 22-25 November 2006. >>>

12.   ENCATC CONFERENCE ON THE BOLOGNA PROCESS

The European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC) announces its conference entitled The Bologna Process in Practice – Perspectives for Cultural Management Courses, to be held in Potsdam, Germany, on 23-24 November 2006. >>>

13.   CULTURAL MANAGEMENT IN A CHANGING ENVIROMENT

The Department of Culture of the Tartu City Government invites potential participants and interested individuals to an international cultural management conference entitled Cultural Management in a Changing Environment, to be held in Tartu, Estonia, on 23-24 November 2006. >>>

14.   LA RENCONTRE DE BELFAST

Les rencontres will host its Annual General Meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 23-26 November 2006. The dates coincide with the Annual Meeting of Banlieues d'Europe, the European network of cultural operators from the suburbs. >>>

15.   4TH ACADEMIC NETWORK CONFERENCE

The Academic Network, part of the European Academy of Digital Media (EADiM), will hold this event in Vienna, Austria, on 24-25 November 2006, in conjunction with the EUROPRIX Top Talent Festival, where the best young European e-content producers and multimedia designers will present their award-winning projects and experts will discuss cutting edge topics. >>>

16.   2006 CIRCLE ROUND TABLE

A CIRCLE round table on European Art and Culture Between Free Trade and Cultural Diversity. A Delicate Dialogue? will be held in Helsinki, Finland, on 15–17 December 2006. The event is being organised by the project's leading partner CUPORE with the help of the Boekman Foundation. >>>

17.   SIETAR EUROPA CONGRESS

The Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) will hold its 2007 Congress in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 25-29 April 2007, under the title East, West, North and South: Culture's Influences on Economy, Politics, Ecology and Religion. >>>

18.   CULTURAL PORTAL CULTUREGUIDE.GR SHUT DOWN

A call for support has been launched by cultureguide.gr, Greece's internationally awarded cultural portal which has been shut down by the Ministry of Culture just a day after the opening of the Internet Governance Forum in Athens, Greece. >>>

19.   NEW ELIA WEBSITE GOES LIVE

The new ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts) website has gone online. With it, ELIA is entering a whole new and more interactive era, offering members a forum to exchange research experiences and a member search engine to establish contacts and cooperation. >>>

20.   MAPPING OF FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR THE ARAB WORLD

The King Hussein Foundation Information and Research Center, commissioned by the European Cultural Foundation in collaboration with Ford Foundation (Cairo) and SIDA, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, is currently conducting a mapping of funds available for the cultural sector in the Arab world. >>>

21.   DIFFERING DIVERSITIES – EASTERN EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

The Council of Europe has published a new book by Andera Ellmeier and Béla Rásky which takes a look at the shift from homogeneity to diversity as the new social norm requiring a rethinking of the processes, mechanisms and relationships necessary for democratic policy development in diverse societies. >>>

22.   CHALLENGE OF TRANSCULTURAL DIVERSITIES – CULTURAL POLICY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Another addition to Council of Europe's publication series, this book offers an overview of how the economic dynamics of globalization have intensified not only the transnational flows of cultural goods, media products and information, but also human transnational migration. >>>

23.   MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA

Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy is published by the School of English, Media Studies and Art History in association with the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. The current issue's theme is Media Education. >>>

24.   JAVNOST – THE PUBLIC

Published by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana, Javnost – The Public is the journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture. Its latest issue, vol. 13 no. 3/2006, is devoted to Forgotten Communication Scholars. >>>

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