Culture and the Periphery: Conference on Nordic Cultural Policy Research at Bifröst November 2. 2018

Culture and the Periphery: Conference on Nordic Cultural Policy Research at Bifröst

The ninth Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research (NCCPR) 2019 will be held at Bifröst University in Iceland. The theme of the conference is cultural peripheries and it focuses on questions concerning marginal culture, definitional boundaries of cultural policy research, and fringes in cultural politics.  

The NCCPR 2019 is an inclusive, multidisciplinary conference where practitioners and researchers address issues regarding Nordic cultural policy, from standpoints which are relevant both to academic research and to the cultural sector. We invite papers variety of fields and practices provided that the contributions relate to Nordic cultural policy research in a broad sense.

Researchers are invited to submit proposals for paper presentations. Topics of interest are amongst others: Cultural and creative industries, cultural policy and changing artistic practices, cultural policy and cultural heritage and peripheral methods in cultural policy analysis. The deadline for submission of abstracts to the NCCPR 2019 is January 15, 2019. More information can be found here  

 

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  2. Small university that emphasises personal service
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