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The Canadian Cultural Observatory provides a listing of current and upcoming cultural-policy-related events that is updated on an ongoing basis. Our emphasis is on promoting forums, workshops, conferences and roundtables hosted in Canada but international events are included if they are internationally inclusive and relevant.
Events are listed below chronologically. You can also search events scheduled in the near future by clicking on the current month on the Events calendar on the right. Having clicked on the current month, you can then search for events for any other month by choosing a month from the drop-down menu at the top left of the monthly event-calendar.
Culturescope also provides information on over 500 archived events.
A selected list of significant upcoming events is included in the Observatory’s free bilingual monthly newsletter.
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"The 2008 National Arts Action Summit"
Creator(s): Americans for the Arts | Event Start Date: 2008-03-31
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"Ce rendez-vous est l’occasion de traiter, de manière transparente, de la notion de patrimoine mondial comme un pari pour l’avenir."
Creator(s): Master professionnel SACIM | Event Start Date: 2008-04-03
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"Expanding the Debate: Multiple Perspectives on Immigration to Canada."
Creator(s): Metropolis | Event Start Date: 2008-04-03
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"To celebrate the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Faculty of Education, Prince of Songkla University, the Faculty of Education invites scholars from education and other disciplines to participate in the International Conference on Educational Leadership in Cultural Diversity and Globalization."
Creator(s): Prince of Songkla University | Event Start Date: 2008-04-08
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"The Biosphere of Grids and Networks"
Creator(s): NORDUnet and Funet/CSC-Scientific Computing Ltd | Event Start Date: 2008-04-09
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"Join hundreds of your colleagues at the only annual conference exploring the on-line presentation of cultural, scientific and heritage content across institutions and around the world: Museums and the Web."
Creator(s): Archives and Museum Informatics | Event Start Date: 2008-04-09
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"Abstracts (20 min. paper), and panel proposals are invited for submission."
Creator(s): University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal | Event Start Date: 2008-04-15
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"Has there been a shift in political use of the Internet and digital new media - a new Web 2.0 politics based on participatory values? How do broader social, cultural, and economic shifts towards Web 2.0 impact, if at all."
Creator(s): Royal Holloway, University of London | Event Start Date: 2008-04-17
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"This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the new and prominent place that the idea of culture has for the construction of identity and the implications of this for social membership in contemporary societies."
Creator(s): Inter-Disciplinary.Net | Event Start Date: 2008-04-18
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"Looking to encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand what it means for people, the world over, to forge identities in rapidly changing national, social and cultural contexts."
Creator(s): Inter-disiplinary.net | Event Start Date: 2008-04-18
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"Cultural Dynamics: Greasing the Wheels of Africa's Development."
Creator(s): International Conference on African Culture and Development | Event Start Date: 2008-04-21
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"Spurlock Museum and the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage and Museum Practices (CHAMP) have organized a major conference on "Contested Cultural Heritage" to be held at the Museum on Friday, April 25, 2008. Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, former Director of the Iraq National Museum and now Visiting Professor at the State University of New York-Stony Brook, will deliver the keynote address of the conference ("Mayhem in Mesopotamia" on April 24)."
Creator(s): Collaborative for Cultural Heritage and Museum Practices | Event Start Date: 2008-04-24
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"The Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities in collaboration with the City of Ottawa is pleased to announce a three-day Internation Symposium on Cultural/Creative Infrastructure."
Creator(s): International Symposium 2008 on Creative Construct | Event Start Date: 2008-04-29
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"The Futuresonic Conference brings opinion formers, futurologists, artists, researchers, technologists and scientists from the digital culture, art and music communities together around shared issues to do with technology, society, art and the city."
Creator(s): Futuresonic | Event Start Date: 2008-05-01
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"The Chair, in collaboration with the Observatoire sur la gouvernance de l’Ontario français and the "Language and Politics" Research Committee of the International Political Science Association, is organizing a conference "Governance and Democratic Participation Within Linguistic and National Minorities", May 1st to May 3rd, 2008 at the University of Ottawa."
Creator(s): University of Ottawa | Event Start Date: 2008-05-01
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"New thinking is needed on how diverse communities can co-operate in productive harmony instead of leading parallel or antagonistic lives."
Creator(s): Comedia and EUCLID | Event Start Date: 2008-05-01
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"The Statistics Canada Socio-economic Conference provides an annual forum for empirical research focusing on issues of concern in Canadian public policy."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Event Start Date: 2008-05-05
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The conference topics and themes are devoted to public and private buildings, churches, temples and other places of worship, memorials and monuments of all kinds, castles, lighthouses and towers, bridges, city walls and fortresses, pyramids, tombs and ziggurats, archaeological sites and any other cultural vestiges."
Creator(s): ICOMOS | Event Start Date: 2008-05-05
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"HERITAGE 2008 aims to gather in an International Conference several worldwide experts on the relationships between Heritage and Human Development, Natural Environment and Building Preservation."
Creator(s): Heritage 2008 | Event Start Date: 2008-05-07
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« Ce colloque a pour objectifs d’explorer la diversité des relations politique/culture et les enjeux et défis en matière de politique culturelle se présentant au sein des sociétés occidentales. »
Creator(s): Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) et Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine du Québec (MCCCF) | Event Start Date: 2008-05-07
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Technology in the Arts: Canada is now accepting proposals for presentations and hands-on workshops for the May 2008 conference.
Creator(s): Center for Arts Management and Technology and Centre for Cultural Management | Event Start Date: 2008-05-09
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"The symposium aims to foster and promote work that is intended to make a constructive contribution to the communication field and its development."
Creator(s): Istanbul University | Event Start Date: 2008-05-14
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21e colloque de Les Arts et la Ville
Creator(s): Les arts et la ville | Event Start Date: 2008-05-14
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"The Annual Meeting of the CSA provides a forum for scholars, students, and other persons interested in Cultural Studies in all its diverse manifestations to exchange their work and ideas across disciplinary lines and institutional locations."
Creator(s): Cultural Studies Association | Event Start Date: 2008-05-22
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"The world of contemporary theatre is a world of shifting sands and shadows."
Creator(s): Theatre Training and Research Programme | Event Start Date: 2008-05-28
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"Thinking Beyond Borders - Global Ideas: Global Values"
Creator(s): Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences | Event Start Date: 2008-05-31
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"The CWSA/ACEF is now seeking proposals, in either French or English, for its annual."
Creator(s): Canadian Women's Studies Association | Event Start Date: 2008-06-01
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"Whether we consider Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, the Young British Artists or any other ‘discovered’ artist, in most cases private collectors have played a pivotal role in their breakthrough."
Creator(s): University of Groningen, Institute of Biography | Event Start Date: 2008-06-05
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"The objective of this five-day international conference - June 11-15, 2008 - is to discuss the practicalities of theories that are applied to culture."
Creator(s): International Cultural Research Network | Event Start Date: 2008-06-11
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Culture and Creativity as Location Factors – Looking beyond Metropolitan Areas
Creator(s): European Academy of Bozen-Bolzano (EURAC Research) | Event Start Date: 2008-06-11
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"The Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) is a scientific society that includes academic scholars, government officials, foundation officials, managers of arts and cultural organizations and artists, united in their interest in furthering understanding of the economic aspects of the arts and culture in their own countries and throughout the world."
Creator(s): The Association of Cultural Economics International | Event Start Date: 2008-06-12
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"Masks: the online journal of law and theatre invites proposals for a conference on the intersections of law and theatre to be held on the campus of the University of British Columbia June 17-19, 2008."
Creator(s): Mask Journal | Event Start Date: 2008-06-17
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Bilingualism in a Plurilingual Canada: Research and Implications
Creator(s): Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute, University of Ottawa | Event Start Date: 2008-06-19
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"The 8th international conference dedicated to museum professionals."
Creator(s): Agenda | Event Start Date: 2008-06-25
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"ISTAS is an annual international forum exploring the social implications of technology. ISTAS 08 will bring together participants interested in sharing their research, projects and ideas."
Creator(s): ISTAS 08 | Event Start Date: 2008-06-26
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"Generated knowledge is usually communicated. Implicit or explicit management of knowledge generation and communications is usually required for both: knowledge generation and communication."
Creator(s): International Institute of Informatics and Systemics | Event Start Date: 2008-06-29
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"CRONEM's 2008 conference will address issues bound up with nationalism, ethnicity and citizenship from a multi-disciplinary perspective."
Creator(s): CRONEM (Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism | Event Start Date: 2008-06-30
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"The University of Portsmouth have a large grant from AHRC to write the history of British visual culture in the 1970s. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the relationship between 1970s British society and culture in its broadest sense."
Creator(s): The School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at University of Portsmouth | Event Start Date: 2008-07-01
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“Archives and the Canadian Narrative – Re: Telling Canada’s Stories” and “Regional Archives in the Digital Universe.”
Creator(s): Archives in Canada Conference Series (ACCS) | Event Start Date: 2008-07-01
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Theme: "Of Sacred Crossroads"
Creator(s): Association for Cultural Studies | Event Start Date: 2008-07-03
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