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10 - Miscellaneous
2008
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28 November
- As
Claude Lévi-Strauss turns 100, UNESCO Director-General
pays tribute to one of the leading thinkers of the 20th century
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has
joined in paying tribute to French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss,
on the occasion of his hundredth birthday on 28 of November. “Claude
Lévi-Strauss, one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th
century, has always been very close to the unfolding history of
UNESCO. His work, with its humanist message and universal scope,
has radically changed our understanding of the world. Interested
in all civilizations, he has taught us about the complexity of
myths and the diversity of cultures, as well as their fragility.
Thanks to him, we know that the wealth of humanity lies in its
diversity and its ability always to accept the other,” declared
Mr Matsuura.
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- New
MA Course - MA Cultural Tourism - Leeds University - United Kingdom
Cultural Tourism is one of the most important and rapidly expanding
economic and social phenomena of the contemporary world. To respond
to the professional and intellectual challenges this implies for
cultural practitioners, heritage site managers, destination managers,
political planners, museum curators and academics, the Centre
for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University,
United Kingdom, has developed an important and innovative Master’s
qualification in Cultural Tourism.
7 November
- Centre
of Expertise on Culture and Communities
The Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities is a cultural
research and development centre at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
Advised by a national multidisciplinary team including leading
scholars, policy researchers, and cultural organizations, the
CECC brings together academia, policy, and practice in the following
four areas: (1) The state of cultural infrastructure in Canadian
cities and communities; (2) Culture as the fourth pillar of community
sustainability; (3) Culture in communities: Cultural systems and
local planning; and (4) The impacts of cultural infrastructure
and activity in cities and communities.
ENCATC. News. Issue 7 2008
- EU/CULTURE:
MEPs back new Erasmus Mundus Programme for student mobility and
university exchanges
MEPs today gave the green light to a second funding period for
the EU's Erasmus Mundus Programme, which aims to promote the EU
as a centre of academic excellence. In backing the estimated budget
of €950million for the 2009-2013 period of the new programme,
Parliament adopted changes to some of the criteria for obtaining
funding, with a view to simplifying visa applications for participants
from non-EU countries and ensuring a balance in terms of students'
gender and country of origin.
- EU/EDUCATION:
EC launches a new portal to promote European higher education
On 17 October, the European Commission launched a new web portal
called "Study in Europe" to promote the attractiveness
of European Higher Education to students from other parts of the
world. The portal, is part of a wide-ranging campaign to increase
the number of students from outside Europe who study in the EU.
"Study in Europe" provides clear and up-to-date information
about the range of courses on offer in European higher education
institutions, admission procedures, costs, scholarships and the
higher education environment in Europe. Potential students will
find help to decide which country they should go to, which university
they should choose, what they may need before they leave home
and what will happen when they arrive at their chosen campus.
"Study in Europe" covers thirty-two European countries,
their universities and what it takes to live and study in them.
In launching this portal Ján Figel, European Commissioner
for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, said, “European
higher education offers outstanding quality, diversity and opportunity.
Europe has a worldwide reputation as a centre of excellence in
learning, and the "Study in Europe" project will make
it easier for potential students around the world to see all that
European higher education has to offer.”
- EU/CULTURE:
Marseilles and Košice chosen as European Capitals of Culture
in 2013
On 9 September, the city of Košice was nominated as Slovakia's
choice for European Capital of Culture in 2013 by a panel of international
jurors meeting in Bratislava. Five days after, a jury chaired
by Sir Robert Scott recommended as well that the title of “European
Capital of Culture 2013” would be awarded to the city of
Marseilles (France). The Council of the European Union will formally
designate Marseilles and Košice in May 2009.With a budget
of 100 million euros over four years, Marseilles’ programme
of events revolves around ‘Euro-Mediterranean Workshops".
ENCATC. News. Issue 7 2008
6 November
- Revamped
website tells UN story in 130 languages
The Department of Public Information is marking United Nations
Day today by launching a redesigned website for UN Information
Centres (UNICs) that aims to tell the Organization’s story
in 130 languages. The website will serve as a portal to the Department’s
network of 63 UNICs worldwide, most of which are located in developing
countries. “This website enables our Information Centres
to bring the UN story to people around the world and to do so
in their local languages,” said Under-Secretary-General
for Communications and Public Information Kiyo Akasaka.
5 November
- Global
Ethics Observatory launches sixth database
UNESCO’s Global Ethics Observatory (GEObs), a system of
databases on bioethics and other areas of applied ethics in science
and technology, launched it sixth database on 30 October. The
launch took place at UNESCO in Paris, during the Joint Session
of the International Bioethics Committee (IBC) and the Intergovernmental
Bioethics Committee (IGBC).
- Director-General
opens Information Meeting on 2009 World Conference on Higher Education
On Tuesday 28 October, the Director-General of UNESCO, Mr
Koïchiro Matsuura, opened an Information Meeting for Permanent
Delegates on the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education (WCHE).
“The 1998 WCHE was a landmark event. It brought together
over 4,000 participants to address the defining issues for higher
education on the eve of the 21st century. Now, ten years on, is
the time to review progress made, and address emerging new dynamics”,
the Director-General said in his address.
- [italiano] Master
Universitario in Economia e Valorizzazione delle istituzioni culturali
Presso la Facoltà di Scienze politiche dell’Università
degli Studi Roma Tre è attivato per l’A.A. 2008/09
il Master di I livello in presenza in Economia e valorizzazione
delle istituzioni culturali. Referente del Corso Prof.ssa Gaetana
Trupiano. L’attività di valorizzazione dei beni culturali
presenta caratteristiche di intersettorialità e modalità
diverse per quanto riguarda la gestione, il finanziamento e la
programmazione degli interventi. Appare, quindi, importante inserirsi
con un master apposito nel discorso che ha quale base la centralità
delle risorse culturali in sede nazionale ed europea per la verifica
degli effetti economici, in termini di reddito ed occupazione,
delle diverse proposte. Il master intende fornire metodologie
per la conoscenza e l’analisi delle risorse culturali attraverso
l’esame critico delle esperienze concrete non solo italiane,
con l’intervento di docenti provenienti dall’Università
e dal settore operativo.
- Conference
on Water and Peace at UNESCO. Paris, November 4
Nearly 40% of the planet’s inhabitants depend on transborder
water resources, both surface and underground. In this context,
international cooperation is crucial for sharing this key resource.
This issue will be addressed at a conference entitled Water for
Peace, Peace for Water to be held at UNESCO headquarters on 13
November and co-organized by UNESCO, the Fondation Chirac, and
the Agence Française de Développement.
3 November
- The
UNESCO Courrier Number 9-2008: "Human Rights: a thorny path"
From Franco’s regime in Spain to Hindutva historical revisionism
in India by way of South American dictatorships, the dismal memory
of the past can contribute to human rights as long as it is revealed
and repaired. To mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, the Courier presents some backward glances that
can help us move forward.
- Culturelink:
changing dynamics in the digital culture
The International Relations Institute of Zagreb (IMO) has just
published Digital Culture: Changing Dynamics coordinated by Biserka
Cvjeticanin and Aleksandra Uzelac, IMO scholars and responsible
for the publishing collection of Culturelink. The work resumes
the results of a series of discussions carried out by scholars
and experts from several countries on the cultural impact of information
and communication technologies and the changes in the traditional
practices and cultural concepts arising from the digital era.
- Platform
on the Access to Culture: 1ª executive meeting of the Committee
Within the framework of the dialog process structured with the
civil sector, the General directorate of Education and Culture
of the European Commission presented in June 2008 three thematic
platforms, one of which is aimed at the access to culture. Mercedes
Giovinazzo, director of interarts, was chosen to chair the executive
Committee of this platform, accompanied by Kathrin Deventer, Secretary
General of the European Association of Festivals (in charge of
the Secretariat of the Platform); Mary Ann de Vlieg, Secretary
General of the Informal European Theater Meeting (IETM); Ilona
Kish, Secretary General of Culture Action Europe; and Henrik Zip
Sane, Secretary General of the European Association Open Air Museums.
The executive Committee met last October 7 in Brussels to analyze
the work carried out by the three work groups created by the platform
(with the respective objectives of learning/education, creation/production
and participation/public), the work schedule and the next meetings
of the Platform.
- Preparation
of the Euroafrican Campus of Cultural Cooperación
The Observatory of cultural policies in Africa (OCPA) and the
Interarts Foundation are currently preparing the first edition
of the Euroafrican Campus of Cultural Cooperation, which will
take place in 2009 in Maputo (Mozambique). In the context of this
preparation, these two institutions celebrated last October 14th
a preparatory meeting in Paris, having as objective the concretisation
of several aspects of logistics and content of the meeting. The
Campus benefits, among other things, the support of the Spanish
Agency of International co-operation for development (AECID),
the City council of Maputo and the Ministry of Education and Culture
of Mozambique. The project’s presentation document can be
downloaded from the website.
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Lançamento
dos livros GLOBALIZAÇÃO E MARGINALIDADE 1, 2 e 3 -
terça, 18 de novembro
LIvro 1 - Transformaçoes urbanas
Livro 2 - O Rio Grande do Norte em foco
Livro 3 - Desenvolvimento, na teoria e na práctica
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Managing
Diversity? European Cultural Foundation
Compiled by the European Cultural Foundation
ISBN: ISBN 978-9-0533-0653-6
This publication before you has a double aim: in the first place
it explores the complex ins and outs of managing diversity through
a pallet of essays and stories of practitioners in the field of
arts and culture; in the second place it explores diversity through
art – through the eye of the photographer Ahmet Polat. Polat,
born in 1978 to a Turkish father and a Dutch mother, has made photographing
diversity in society a leitmotif of his work. At the beginning of
2008, two organizations decided to bundle their common efforts to
explore the role, potential and limits of art when it comes to understanding
the diversity of the societies we are living in.
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Digital
Culture: The Changing Dynamics
Edited by Aleksandra Uzelac and Biserka Cvjeticanin
Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, 2008
ISBN 978-953-6096-46-6
The book entitled Digital Culture: The Changing Dynamics, is
the result of discussions among experts, members of the Culturelink
Network. In the course of the past few years on the impact of information
and communication technologies on culture and the changes that in
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Enabling
the Creators: Arts and Cultural Management and the Challenge of
Social Inclusion
Edited by Jolyon Laycock
Published by the European Arts Management Project in association
with the Oxford Brookes University Oxford, 2008
ISBN 978-1-873640-65-4
Enabling the Creators is one of the outcomes of the European Arts
Management Programme, a 2- year pilot project funded by the Leonardo
da Vinci (LdV) programme of the European Union. Its objective was
to develop new vocational training tools in arts and cultural management.
In line with general LdV priorities, it was intended to meet social
objectives of increasing employability, and accessibility to arts
and cultural activities.
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The
Social Impact of the Arts : an intellectual history
Eleonora Belfiore and Oliver Bennett.
ISBN: 978-0-2305-7255-3
Year: 2008
'The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History starts with
today's heated public debate about the 'intrinsic' and the 'instrumental'
in the arts, and then locates this debate within a history of ideas
that goes back over two thousand years to classical Greece –
Plato's Republic and Aristotle on catharsis. In tracing this history
and revealing that there is nothing new under the sun in arguments
about the arts, the authors show how the meanings of some key concepts
– among them, "the transforming power of the arts",
"art for art's sake", "the arts are good for you",
"the arts and cultural identities" – have evolved
over time, as parts of a very long-standing argument.
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