The Network for Children and Culture organizes the European Inspiration Conference. The conference will focus on the importance of presenting art and culture throughout childhood and youth. The conference programme includes a wide range of keynote speakers and professional performances covering the latest developments in art and culture for children and young people. The conference, organized to celebrate the Danish EU Presidency, is interesting for politicians, researchers, professionals, artists, art educators and EU citizens.
The Aber Suzuki Center organizes the annual International Research Symposium on Talent Education. The focus will be on the applications of research as it relates to the Suzuki Method and music teaching and learning. Participants will learn how to take an everyday situation and distill it into a research question, how to locate and interpret other studies on the same issue, what is qualitative and quantitative research and how to know which method is best to use.
The Association for Cultural Economics International organizes an international conference. The conference will have theme-related special sessions and other regular ones. Several subjects will be discusses, for example: art markets and cultural consumption, cultural heritage and cultural tourism, culture, globalization and language, entertainment and media industries, internet economics and culture. The program is interesting for all scholars, business practitioners, consultants and policy-maker with an interest on the economics of culture and the creative industries.
The International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) and the Cyprus Society for Education through Arts organize the InSEA 2012 European Regional Conference. Major theme of this conference is arts education at the crossroad of cultures. Arts education should be in a constant process of redefining its scope, goals and processes in a rapidly changing world that is defined by globalization, mobility of cultures and information and communication technologies. The purpose of the conference is to serve as a meeting forum for people who have these issues at the core of their academic or practice work.
The Centre for the Study of Culture, Politics and Society and the International Journal of Cultural Policy organize the International Conference on Cultural Policy Research. The main subjects in the plenary sessions are cultural complexity and cultural creativity. In six special sessions participants will discuss about culture, politics and cultural governance. There is also a public debat in four sessions about the public management of cultural diversity.
AFS (Workgroup Schoolmusic) and VDS (Association of German music education) organize a national conference on music education in Germany. During the conference the whole range of music education in Germany is shown.
Erasmus University (School of History, Culture and Communication) Rotterdam organize the conference Museums and Communities. The Heritage of Belonging. The conference focuses on the relations between museums, heritage and communities. In times of mobility and change, history museums play an important role in societal questions of social cohesion, identity and belonging. This conference concludes the Community Museums Past and Present project, which is part of the NWO programme Cultural Dynamics.