In the event titled “Emancipating Cultures beyond Multiculturalism From Canonizing Cultural Institutions towards Commoning Art Constitutions” Pascal Gielen, professor of sociology of art and politics at Antwerp University in Belgium, will discuss the importance of making conflicts and tensions visible and livable, rather than their elimination or suppression within the framework of multiculturalism and the ways cultural institutions can be the ideal platforms for this.

Cultural Policy and Management Conferences-9: Cultural Heritage and Post-War Recovery

Professor. Sultan Barakat (Founding Director of the Doha Institute, Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies) will be our guest for the ninth annual Cultural Policy and Management Conferences organised Cultural Policy and Management Research Center (KPY). Professor Barakat will share with us his ideas and work on the new dynamics in the process of protection and improvement of the cultural heritage, which has been destroyed in different geographies of the world with the reason of armed conflicts in recent years

The South African government tabled a draft White Paper on Arts, Culture and Heritage in 2016 as a new policy statement twenty years after the adoption of the first post-apartheid cultural policy document in 1996. Then, the challenge was to affirm the right of all South Africans - rather than only white South Africans - to “participate in the cultural life of the community and to enjoy the arts”. The current draft policy document seeks to respond to the key contemporary challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality, legacies of the apartheid past but exacerbated over the last twenty-two years.