Revisioning Culture for Cultural Policy II: "What's your problem?"

NACDI is hosting a series of three open mic sessions to expand the conversation on cultural policy and contribute to the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development – MONDIACULT 2022. We will discuss issues that are at the heart of the concerns for people working close to the cultural sector. The sessions will take place online via zoom, and will have a short opening by a guest who then will allow for a wide open conversation with whoever wants to share any concern in relation to culture and cultural policies.

We invite you to join us to express your concerns, questions, interests, and suggestions regarding cultural policies and the agenda established for UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development – MONDIACULT 2022. Open to the public, anyone is welcome to share in the conversation by providing comments and concerns with respect to culture and cultural policies. You can also add your thoughts to the online twitter conversation by including our handle @nacdiplomacyi in your tweet.

 

Justin O'Connor, Professor of Cultural Economy, University of South Australia and Visiting Professor, School of Cultural Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Between 2012-18 Justin was a member of the UNESCO ‘Expert Facility’, supporting the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Cultural Diversity. Previously he helped set up Manchester’s Creative Industries Development Service (CIDS) and has advised cities in Europe, Russia, Korea, Vietnam and China. Under the UNESCO/EU Technical Assistance Programme he has worked with the Ministries of Culture in both Mauritius and Samoa.

Justin is the author After the Creative Industries: Why we need a Cultural Economy (2016) and co-editor of the 2015 Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries and Cultural Industries in Shanghai: Policy and Planning inside a Global City, (2018). He has published Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China (2020) and co-edited Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Asia (2020). His new book, based on the work of the Reset Collective, Art, Culture and the Foundational Economy is due out with Manchester University Press in 2023.

 

Sarah E. K. Smith, Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University; NACDI Team Member

Sarah's research and curatorial projects address contemporary art, with a focus on exhibitions, museums, and cultural policies. Current projects encompass topics from contemporary video art and artists’ labour unions to the international circulation of exhibitions, curatorial networks, and cultural diplomacy. In 2015, Sarah was the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. Additionally, she has held a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

 

This event is hosted by NACDI, in partnership with International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), the Tijuana Cultural Center (CECUT), the Universidad Panamericana (Mexico), and the Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico).