Call for applications: 2020 Cultural Policy Research in Japan

The ICCPR 2020 will be held at Doshisha University in Kyoto from 1 to 4 September and will run under the theme Resilience of Cultural Policy.

Participants should submit their papers here. Submissions are underway and close on 13 December.

ICCPR 2020 invites participants to present papers from across the entire spectrum of cultural policy studies. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Cultural policy and globalisation.
• Cultural policies of migration, identities and acculturation.
• Cultural policy, religion and secularism.
• Cultural policy and global governance of networks and platforms.
• Global governance of cultural content, service and labour flows.
• Management and global governance of cultural data.
• Politics of culture and cultural policies in multiple modernities.
• Cultural policies and global inequalities.
• Governance of cultural diversity.
• Cultural sustainability policies.
• Culture in environmental policy.
• Intellectuals and cultural policy.
• Cultural policy and values.
• Historiographies of cultural policy.
• Implicit cultural policy.
• Comparative cultural policy.
• Arts education policy.
• Cultural policy and cultural industries.
• Artist policy.
• Creativity and the city.
• Cultural policy and development policy.
• Cultural policy as welfare policy.
• Culture and economy.
• Cultural policy and innovation systems.
• Cultural policy, cultural diplomacy and international relations.

Proposal categories

• Single papers
• Panel proposals
• Papers for Young Researchers' Workshop

Guidelines for proposals

The proposal must not exceed 500 words (excluding the reference list) and should include the following:

• Research questions that the paper will address.
• Methodological approach.
• Results.
• Description of what is original about the research.

Panel proposals

Panels should involve between three and five speakers (the ICCPR recommends four). The proposal must not exceed 1 000 words (excluding the reference list) and should include the descriptions of the core idea for the panel as well as short descriptions of all included papers.

Young Researchers' Workshop for postgraduate students (masters and early doctoral)

ICCPR 2020 will launch a new pre-conference workshop for younger researchers. Download the details here. 

“In the rapid globalisation and digital transformation of recent years, one major challenge for cultural policy seems to be how best to maintain or strengthen regional, local or various representations of communities’ own culture,” the ICCPR said. “Cultural policies of many nations, in the meantime, are increasingly expected to work with (or for) other policy areas such as economic development, social inclusion and urban planning.

“Is such an approach to cultural policy crossing many policy areas negatively affecting 'cultural policy proper' concerns? Was there any time in history when cultural policy was independent, autonomous and detached from the socio-economic aims of governments? To what extent is cultural policy of today 'resilient', or should it be so? ‘Resilient’ to what forces and in what directions? These are some of the issues this conference would like to address with invited guests and participants from all over the world.”

View original call here.