WOK at the International Conference on Cultural Policy Research

The International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR) is the largest and most prestigious conference bringing together cultural policy researchers from around the world. This year’s theme is “Cultural Policies in Democratic and Non-democratic Regimes”. After Tallinn (2018), Kyoto (2021) and Antwerp (2022), ICCPR 2024 will bo hosted the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw.

ICCPR, together with the International Journal of Cultural Policy, aims to create a space for representatives of various disciplines, both theorists from fields such as sociology, history, political science, cultural studies, and economics, as well as practitioners from around the world who are involved in the day-to-day running of cultural institutions. The academic community formed by the ICCPR serves as a platform for exchanging ideas and experiences.

The keynote speakers at this year’s ICCPR are Professor Joanna Wawrzyniak, Director of the Centre for Social Memory Research at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw; Professor Gabriel Bădescu, Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Babeș-Bolyai University; and Dr Melissa Nisbett, a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London.

The conference will feature four panels: (Post)war Cultural Policy in Ukraine, Crisis of Democracy and Artistic Freedom of Expression, Cultural and Heritage Diplomacy in International Relations, and Artist in Exile. The final panel, focusing on how cultural policies can support artists with migration experience, will be moderated by Anna Galas-Kosil, Deputy Director of WOK. She will be joined by Mary Ann DeVlieg (co-founder of the International Arts Rights Advisors), Judith Depaule and Aura Burzynski (representing the Agency of Artists in Exile in Paris), and Kastiaryna Ramanchyk (a Belarusian curator and cultural manager currently residing in Warsaw).