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KPY Yearbook 2011 Launch and KPY Conferences 5 – “Cultural Management Education in Europe”

Istanbul Bilgi University Cultural Policy and Management Research Centre (KPY) will be launching third issue of KPY Yearbook with conference titled “Cultural Management Education in Europe” on 3rd May 2012.

The third issue of the new Yearbook for Cultural Policy & Management in Turkey is dedicated to ‘Heritage for Society’. The Yearbook draws on the experience of authors from Turkey, the and from all over Europe. It confirms the extent to which cultural heritage is intertwined with everyday life in Turkey as it is throughout the world. Further contributions to the Dossier underline the new approach to heritage and aim to highlight related research, projects and assessments in three sections 'Cultural Heritage Management Research and Assessment’, 'Cultural Heritage between Conflict and Reconciliation’, and 'Cultural Heritage in Perspective: A Feature on Roma Lore’. KPY Yearbook 2011 also pays tribute Dragan Klaić, a curious and uncompromising intellectual dedicated to the protection of cultural diversity.

Jean Pierre Deru, guest of KPY Conferences 5, is director of the Association Marcel Hicter pour la Démocratie culturelle (FMH). He is a director of the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management, which is organized by FMH and supported by the Council of Europe and UNESCO. Jean Pierre Deru, who is an expert at the fields of cultural policy and management, has collaborated on several significant projects.

Jean Pierre Deru will discuss about; trends in “cultural Education in Europe” notably talking about the “Vania” book he published with Milena Dragicevic-Sesic, Rod Fisher and Ritva Mitchell in the frame of Leonardo and the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management he conducts as a multiple layer tool. Dr. Deniz Ünsal, coordinator of İstanbul Bilgi University Cultural Management Post Graduate Programme will attend Deru’s presentation as discussant. Ünsal, is also editor of KPY Yearbook 2011’s dossier titled “Heritage for society”.

Cultural Policy and Management Yearbook (KPY Yearbook) is a new academic periodical that provides a unique international platform for publishing research papers and articles dealing with the practice and theory of cultural policy and management in Turkey and Europe. KPY Yearbook series has been published since 2009. It contains original research contributions from the fields of cultural policies and management, as well as reflections on current practice, analyses of local arts and culture production, and book reviews. It aims to be an essential reference point for cultural policy-makers, managers, scholars, students, artists and others interested in Turkish arts, culture and supporting their integration with Europe.

Jean Pierre Deru
Director of the Association Marcel Hicter pour la Démocratie culturelle (FMH) is guest of our 5th KPY Conference and Yearbook 2011 Launch event this year. He is a director of the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management, which is organized by FMH and supported by the Council of Europe and UNESCO.

Asist. Dr. Deniz Ünsal
Deniz Ünsal received her MA from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and PhD from Columbia University in Cultural Anthropology. She worked in different position at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, KIT Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam and Istanbul Modern before embarking on an academic career at Istanbul Bilgi University. Currently she teaches courses in museums, heritage and cultural policy; authors and edits publications in similar topics; is active in civil society organizations on museums and heritage issues.