Conference Archive February 2007
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This Culture.Info sub-portal provides links to culture-focused conferences, seminars and related events around the world which are of interest to those in the cultural sector, especially to managers, policy makers and researchers.
Most of these events have an international focus – i.e. they are aimed at an audience both in and beyond the country in which they are happening. The list below covers events from January to March 2007.
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February 2007
Technology, Reading and Learning Diversity
03 - 05 February 2007
TRLD, Technology, Reading & Learning Diversity is the only conference that integrates technology interventions with expert literacy strategies to ensure student success. Over the 25 years that TRLD has grown and evolved, leading researchers and educators have met annually to learn from one another in a think tank setting—intimate, collegial, thought provoking, and practical. Through quality speakers and relevant topics, TRLD gives educators tools and strategies to immediately implement Monday morning.
2nd International Conference on Art in Early Childhood
University of New England
05 - 08 February 2007
This conference celebrates art in early childhood in and across international social, cultural and historical contexts, Our People, Our Place, Our Time. The 2007 conference will be held at the University of New England, N.S.W. Australia. The goal of this conference is to bring together art and early childhood/ primary educators, researchers, and practitioners into an expanding and increasingly interdisciplinary discussion about early childhood and art. We will identify emerging directions in understanding how young children experience art and how they create and communicate their ideas and experiences visually and through the arts.
RHIZOMES III: Different Becomings
08 09 February 2007
The School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, the University of Queensland, invites you to participate in the School’s third annual postgraduate conference – designed by and for postgraduate students. The conference aims to bring together current research being carried out broadly within the humanities and to provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion in a relaxed but stimulating environment. Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of ‘rhizomes’ has been chosen as the conference theme to emphasise the principles of non-hierarchical connectivity across the broad spectrum of disciplines within the humanities.
Southwest Texas Popular/American culture Association
14 - 17 February 2007
Our annual meeting has received “two thumbs up” by academics and graduate students for its professionalism, depth of papers presented, invited dignitaries, and exciting new areas of scholarly interest within the popular and American culture movements. The SW/TX graduate student award program is one of the best in the country, continuing our mission for supporting the academic research of future scholars.
16th IFEA Europe Annual Conference: The Art of Growing: Lifecycles of Festivals and Events
14 - 17 February 2007
The Hellenic Culture Organisation (HCO) announces the 16th IFEA Europe Annual Conference, the leading festivals and events management Conference in Europe, to be held in Athens, Greece on 14-17 February 2007 with the central theme of The Art of Growing: Lifecycles of Festivals and Events. Following the successful organisation of the 1st Balkan Performing Arts Market, HCO is undertaking its next venture towards the creation of strong bonds and mutual exchanges among different cultural environments. As IFEA Europe is coorganizing a global Festival Research Summit in Melbourne, Australia in July 2007, no special Research Stream will be presented during this year's Annual Conference. Instead, a limited number of selected papers will be presented as part of the general conference programme. The IFEA conference will bring together professionals from around the world related to the festival and public events industry: festival managers, policymakers, consultants, marketeers, suppliers and academics. Leading experts will facilitate inspiring keynotes, panels will offer thought-provoking discussions and colleagues will present refreshing workshops on subjects related to the management of festivals and public events, their lifecycle and marketing. Conference delegates will profit from new ideas, full of new inspiration and establish cooperation with new interesting contacts, exchanging knowledge on arising trends and good practice.
The Art of Growing: IFEA Europe Annual Conference
14 - 18 February 2007
IFEA Europe, the European network connecting festival and public event professionals around the world, invites you to participate in the leading conference on festival and event management in Europe. We offer delegates to our conference an exclusive package of excursions and an IFEA conference that will fill your suitcase with new ideas, new inspiration, and a stack of business cards from new interesting contacts. You will return home with valuable notes on arising trends and good practice.
Hospitals and the Patient Experience: Architecture, Art Music and Literature
16 February 2007
Recent research into the social history of medicine has turned attention from the familiar providers of medical care (physicians, surgeons, nurses, institutional administrators) to the recipients, the patients themselves. Numerous new studies of patient experiences are currently underway. Responding to a wider trend to write history 'from below', scholars
initially focused upon the role of the sick individual within the 'medical marketplace', in an effort to understand patients' experiences of health and sickness. Only within the last few years has this new approach begun to be applied to the history of the hospital so as to incorporate new types of written and visual evidence and explore a much wider range of patient experiences than that embraced by earlier studies. This conference will bring together
for the first time this new historiography into an integrated exploration of the hospital as a healing environment in which therapy may come from a variety of sources, material as well as personal, natural as well as man-made.
Philosophy and Popular Culture
17 February 2007
We welcome papers from all philosophical traditions that address relationships between philosophy and culture
Changing Dynamics: The Amateur in Contemporary Music
22 - 23 February 2007
Submission are invited on the following topics:
• The role of the amateur in contemporary music-making today
• The role of the composer in meeting the needs of the amateur musician
• Recently composed repertoire suitable for amateur musicians
• An analysis of COMA’s Open Score pieces
• The history, development and legacies of COMA
• The place of contemporary music in the wider amateur sector
• Responsibilities of the amateur sector (such as defining and developing the ‘amateur’; challenging assumptions made about status and ability; ways forward in development, pedagogy and collaboration)
• Examples of ‘good practice’ that can be presented as posters, papers or offered as practical examples
• Examples of repertoire that could be promoted in concert
• Contemporary music and the arts
Neo-colonial Mentalities in Contemporary Europe? Language and Discourse in the Construction of Identities
23 - 24 February 2007
The aim of our workshop is to explore some of the major cultural groupings within the EU by investigating the emergent discourse that reflects their own and others’ sense of their evolving identity. According to the groups under observation, the workshop could be divided into three parts: ‘The “immigrant” Europeans - migrants into contemporary Europe’, ‘The Europeans of the regions’ and ‘The “new wave” Europeans’- ex-members of the Soviet bloc, among others.
The justification for this approach is above all its timeliness, with the EU having recently experienced a major expansion of membership and with new members waiting to join. Major players within the EU are still adjusting to the newcomers, yet without previously having really established a clear sense of their own European identities. While European identity is increasingly a topic of interest, no publications cover the same ground as the proposed workshop. The case for considering neo-colonial features within each group will be justified and explained from the perspective of post-colonial theory. The context will be examined from the perspective of EU discourse that reflects its stance on national, regional and ethnic identity and the policies aimed at encouraging a harmonious bonding of Europe’s postcolonial, diasporic, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and mobile communities.
Australian International Documentary Conference
23 - 26 February 2007
February 2007 sees AIDC coming of age. Documentary makers from around Australia and the world will join together in Adelaide to explore ideas, share experiences, showcase their work, make deals and get inspired.AIDC is a key event on the International Documentary circuit. The 2007 program looks at what inspires, how to use new tools and techniques and what are current best practice models in factual filmmaking, as well as providing stimulating marketplace opportunities. At the age of 20, AIDC continues to grow hand in hand with the Australian documentary industry. In 2007 we will celebrate over coming past growing pains and gear up for what may come. We can look back proudly at the past and approach the future in an inspiring and sustainable way. Contact: info@aidc.com.au
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