[ecrea] CFP: Mapping Cultural policy in the Arab Region

https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/second-call-for-papers-mapping-cultural-policy-in-the-arab-region


    About the conference

The Arab Media Centre’s 
<https://www.westminster.ac.uk/arab-media-centre> 12th international 
conference, 'Mapping Cultural Policy in the Arab Region', aims to bring 
together academics, artists, policymakers, activists and civil society 
groups to discuss the role of ‘culture’ and ‘cultural policy’ in the 
Arab region within a context that takes into account the recent 
historical and political events that are reshaping the region’s 
societies, economies and culture industries.

Looking ahead to a post-oil future, Gulf states have for more than a 
decade been systematically investing in 'culture' or what is known as 
the ‘creative’ economy. In Arab countries that saw regime change since 
the uprisings of 2010, cultural policy constitutes an indispensable tool 
of struggle for both revolutionary and anti-revolutionary forces. And 
while the politics of difference and representation have resurfaced as a 
key and contentious issue in several Arab countries, Arab youth and 
subcultures, alienated by state-owned cultural institutions and the 
private culture industry sectors, have sought DIY strategies and 
independent sources of funding to give voice to new and alternative 
artistic forms of expression, including performative arts, experimental 
film and music.

The conference raises a number of questions:

  * What lessons can be learnt from the history of cultural policy in
    the Arab region?
  * How does focus on ‘Arab policy’ reinforce the marginalisation of
    non-Arab cultures in the region?
  * What roles do the Arab states play in the promotion of the Arts and
    to what end?
  * Have the Arab uprisings triggered a necessary or urgent interest in
    cultural policy?
  * What do we know about the politics of cultural policy making in the
    Arab region?
  * How do we assess the global/Western funding of Arab arts and cultures?
  * How do we evaluate and critique the Arab cultural policy reports
    emerging from the UN Convention on Cultural Diversity?


    Call for papers

We welcome papers from scholars, policymakers, artists and civil society 
group members that will engage critically with particular aspects of 
cultural policy in the Arab region. Themes may include but are not 
limited to the following:

  * Defining ‘Arab’ cultures and cultural policy
  * Current debates on cultural policy in the Arab region
  * Cultural policies and the anti-revolutionary movement in the Arab 
region
  * Publics, publicness and the Arts in the Arab region
  * National cultural policy groups in the Arab region: assessing the
    initiative
  * Cultural policy, authoritarian states and the co-optation of 
radical art
  * Cultural activism and policy making
  * Cultural policy in the Arab region between state and foreign/global
    funding
  * Cultural policy in the Arab region through the lenses of history
    (Nasserism, Baa’thism and the modernist project)
  * Tourism as cultural policy
  * Cultural policy and the Arab film industry/music industry
  * Cultural policy and supra-state bodies: a colonial legacy?
  * Cultural policy, secularism and cultural salafism
  * Implications of digital media on cultural policy in the Arab region
  * Minority politics and cultural policy in the Arab region.


    Conference fees and registration

This one-day conference, taking place on Friday 21 April 2017, will 
consist of plenaries and parallel workshops. The Keynote Speaker for the 
conference is Professor Naomi Sakr 
<https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/sakr-naomi>.

The fee for registration for all participants, including presenters, 
will be £85, with a concessionary rate of £43 for students, to cover all 
conference documentation, refreshments and administration costs.

Registration will open in February 2017.


    Deadline for abstracts

The deadline for abstracts is Monday 16 January 2017. Successful 
applicants will be notified by late January 2017.

Abstracts should be 300 words. They must include the presenter’s name, 
affiliation, and email and postal addresses, together with the title of 
the paper and a 150-word biographical note on the presenter. Please send 
all these items together in a single Word file, not as pdf, and entitle 
the file and message with ‘AMC 2017’ followed by your surname.

Send the file by email to (har-events /at/ westminster.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(har-events /at/ westminster.ac.uk)>.


    Travel expenses

Participants fund their own travel and accommodation expenses.


    Publication

There will be various openings for publication of selected conference 
papers, which will be discussed further after the conference.

The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by 
guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 
Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.

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