ECHIC Annual Conference Athens, 4-5 April 2019
ECHIC Conference 2019
4-5 April 2019, Athens, Greece
The Byzantine Museum
Humanities and the Arts
Creative Industries and Cultural Democracy
Following a string of successful conferences in major European cities (Dublin, Utrecht, Nottingham, Oporto, Pamplona, Macerata, Edinburgh and Leuven) the next Conference of the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres (ECHIC http://www.echic.org/) will be held in Athens in April 2019. The conference will be hosted in collaboration with the University of the Peloponnese and other participating Greek education and cultural institutions.
The conference will address the interface between humanities and the arts within Europe in a globalised world. The conference will focus on the creative industries as a paradigmatic topos of such confluences. It will also reflect on questions about the relation between creative economies and cultural democracy, and, at a more fundamental level, of the relation between creativity, ethics and politics which cut across boundaries between the Humanites, the Arts and Social Sciences and speak to contemporary concerns beyond academia.
The programme will feature keynote lectures, 15′-20′ papers, 5′-10′ project presentations/demos, panel discussions, as well as the annual meeting of ECHIC and networking workshops. Upon Registration, there also will be options of guided tours and visits to sites of cultural interest, such as the Acropolis and the new Acropolis Museum.
Confirmed keynote speakers include:
Dr Myrsini Zorba, Minister of Culture and Sports, Greece
Professor Rick Rylance, Dean of the School of Advanced Study-University of London
Professor Max Saunders, King’s College- University of London
Delegates from:
- The Greek Ministry of Research and Technology
- The National Hellenic Research Foundation
- The National Museum of Contemporary Art
- The European Commission in Greece
as well as other cultural institutions and universities in Greece and the rest of Europe
More to be announced soon
In order to join us, please visit the CFP and Registration pages of the site
Conference Organiser: Dr Angeliki Spiropoulou, Associate Professor of European Literature and Theory, University of the Peloponnese; Research Fellow, School of Advanced Study-University of London
The conference is held under the auspices of
THE UNIVERSITY OF
ECHIC Conference ATHENS 4-5 April 2019 