2005-11-15
Review of the VIII Congress "European Culture"
The VIII Conference European Culture was held at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, between the 19th and the 22nd October 2005. The conference organization aimed at promoting the encounter of scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds who would present papers under the theme of Europe: encounters and frontiers.
In the conference, there were plenary sessions and session where papers were presented. The plenary sessions had two main themes: 15 years of Conferences European Culture and Whats Europe for you?, which was a debate with students of the organising Committee of the Conference. The presentation of papers was organised by common subjects and three of these sessions were dedicated to Sociology of Culture, Cultural Policy and Cultural Management.
Though these sessions were exclusively devoted to these issues, people interested in them would also find useful to attend sessions such as the ones dedicated to the European Identity, Economy in Europe, Organisational and Labour Culture, and Local and Regional Cooperation, just to name some.
The extensive diversity of sessions and papers made this conference extremely rich and informative, nevertheless this very feature made it also somehow confusing. The reason why papers were aggregated as they were was not always fully comprehensible and the fact that people were presenting their papers in several different languages without translation made the sessions all the more heterogeneous. Moreover, it is my impression that both the general title and this years theme of the conference were lost, i.e. the papers presented seldom could actually be directly connected to the title and theme of this conference. A conference such as this, however, always brings the added-value of being a place where encounters take place and frontiers are analyzed, so in this sense the conference served its purpose.
Website: http://www.unav.es/cee/viiicongre.html
Though these sessions were exclusively devoted to these issues, people interested in them would also find useful to attend sessions such as the ones dedicated to the European Identity, Economy in Europe, Organisational and Labour Culture, and Local and Regional Cooperation, just to name some.
The extensive diversity of sessions and papers made this conference extremely rich and informative, nevertheless this very feature made it also somehow confusing. The reason why papers were aggregated as they were was not always fully comprehensible and the fact that people were presenting their papers in several different languages without translation made the sessions all the more heterogeneous. Moreover, it is my impression that both the general title and this years theme of the conference were lost, i.e. the papers presented seldom could actually be directly connected to the title and theme of this conference. A conference such as this, however, always brings the added-value of being a place where encounters take place and frontiers are analyzed, so in this sense the conference served its purpose.
Website: http://www.unav.es/cee/viiicongre.html
An article by Susana Graça, correspondent, Lisbon/Portugal
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