The role of culture in conflicts
The International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (iccpr), the world's largest conference for cultural policy research, is coming to Germany this fall after Montreal, Istanbul and Barcelona: The University of Hildesheim is hosting the world congress from September 9 to 12, 2014.
The conference will open in Hildesheim. Speakers include Bernd M. Scherer, Director of the House of World Cultures Berlin and Basma El Husseiny from the Egyptian cultural research institute Al Mawred Al Thaqafy in Kario. The congress will continue in Berlin on September 12 and 13.
A total of 400 experts from around 60 countries are expected to attend. In 75 parallel forums, they will discuss cultural policy and transformation processes, cultural education and participation. Registration as a visitor to ICCPR2104 is possible via the conference website, but the number of places is limited.
Contributions from Switzerland come from Iolanda Pensa from the Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI) and Lisa Marx from the University of Geneva.
More info: www.iccpr2014.de
