CCQO at the Assembly of the Council of Europe for Cultural Policies – Prague
The 16th Assembly of Compendium Experts held in Prague under the Council of Europe Chairmanship of the Czech Republic will be the public starting point for this new Compendium “architecture”, most probably including debates and decisions about the future division of main responsibilities within the new organisation as well as about content priorities after 2017. The Council of Europe and ERICarts, both representing the legacy and intellectual property of the Compendium, will continue to have a special role as the Founding Members of the new association.
During the last two decades, the Compendium contributed substantially to both policy making and research or documentation projects in Europe and beyond, in addition to being regularly used as a source of information by tens of thousands of individuals in Europe and worldwide. This successful performance would not have been possible without its community of independent experts and their professional work at “arm’s length” from funders and other stakeholders. These experts, many of them represented by the European Association of Cultural Researchers e.V. (ECURES), have been involved in the development phase, including at the last meeting of stakeholders and experts in Cyprus, March 2017. In the new structure, they will keep their essential role as independent experts at the heart of the association. This could become even more important, should the new organisation be able to carry out additional projects or move, at a later stage, towards a European Research Institute Consortium.
In line with the tradition of previous Compendium Assemblies, there will also be a Public Forum on Friday the 10th November organised in cooperation with the Arts and Theatre Institute Prague that will focus on the “Role and mission of National Cultural Institutions in the context of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Nation-States in Central and Eastern Europe”.
PUBLIC FORUM
Mission and Role of National Cultural Institutions in the context of
the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Nation-States in Central and Eastern Europe
Friday, 10 November 2017
Location: St Anne ́s Church – Prague Crossroads (Zlatá, Prague 1)
09h30 Registration
10h00 Welcome Note – Daniel Herman, Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic
10h15 Key note speaker – Pascal Gielen, Antwerp research Institute for the Arts (ARIA)
10h45 PANEL DEBATE I:
NATIONAL CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS – INSTRUMENTS OF POPULISM?
Chair: Kathrin Merkle, Head, Culture and Cultural Heritage Division, Council of Europe Goran Tomka, Lecturer and Researcher, University of Arts and UNESCO Chair in cultural policy and management, Belgrade, Serbia
Jiří Fajt, General Director of the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic Tamás Jászay, Theatre Critic, Editor, Szeged University, Hungary
11h45 Lunch
12h30 PANEL DEBATE II:
ARE NATIONAL CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS LOSING THEIR LEGITIMACY?
Chair: Alice Koubová, Institute of Philosophy, Prague
Iulia Popovici, Performing arts critic, editor, curator, Arts University, Tîrgu Mureş/ Márosvásárhely, Romania (TBC),
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Goran Injac, University lecturer and researcher, performing arts curator, curator of Eastern European Performing Arts Platform, artistic director of Slovene Mladinsko Theatre in Ljubljana, Slovenia (TBC)
Dieter Haselbach, Executive Director, German Centre for Cultural Research / Zentrum für Kulturforschung, Berlin
Marta Ljubková, National Theatre in Prague (TBC)
14h00 Conclusions of the organisers
14h30 End of the Public Forum and of the official part of the programme
Afternoon: Cultural Visits (facultative)