Call for papers: UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

Call for papers - The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions: ten years after its adoption, issues and challenges for cultural policies of States?

When: 28 to 30 May, 2015

Where: Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

Context

The Conference will mark the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions adopted in October 2005 by UNESCO's General Conference. It will allow for a review of the Convention's achievements and to identify challenges State Parties should consider in the coming years, especially given the current issues and the multiplicity of referentials that are questioning current cultural policies. The Conference will involve national and international interveners, will foster exchanges between established and emerging researchers, policymakers and civil society stakeholders who, in the past 15 years, have collaborated in giving effect to the international legal instrument.

Themes

A researcher from the new generation will be selected for each of the following panel.

Submissions placing emphasis on exemplary projects, digital issues and economic development as themes cutting across the following panels will be favoured:

Panel 1 : Rethinking the role of cultural policies for the protection and the promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions

Panel 2 : Culture as a lever for the development and strengthening of societies

Panel 3 : The linkages/relations between the Convention and trade agreements

Panel 4 : The Convention faced with new challenges: future actors and priority areas for its implementation

Format

20 minute oral presentations in French or English followed by an exchange session with participants. Each panel will be composed of two established university researchers, one from Canada and one international, one university researcher from the new generation and one civil society representative.

To submit a proposal

Send a document containing the following:

A) Your proposed communication in compliance with the following requirements:

Project title

Five keywords * Identify the preferred panel of the four

Summary not exceeding 400 words (context, objectives, thesis, perspectives)

Short bibliography (a minimum of 5 relevant references) in support of the proposal

B) A short bio not exceeding 150 words

C) Complete coordinates (name, surname, title, institution, email, phone number)

Deadline

Please send your completed application before January 30, 2015 at: dboustany@cdc-ccd.org.

Applicants will be informed of the response of the selection committee after 10 February, 2015.

Travel Grant

Grants worth $2,000 CAD each are being offered by the Centre de la Francophonie des Amériques only for researchers from the Americas residing outside the province of Quebec (United States, Caribbean, Latin America, Canada) who are sufficiently proficient in French.

*Applicants requesting a travel grant should indicate it in their application and send their proposal in French.

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