Please post--CFP: (Berlin 3/28-29) Art as Cultural Diplomacy: (Re)Constructing Notions of Eastern and Western Europe

Dear SHERA,
Can you kindly post the below CFP to your listserv which I hope will be of
interest to your subscribers? You will find the CFP also attached as a .pdf
file. Thank you very much.

With kind regards,
Cassandra Sciortino

University of California, Berkeley
PhD  Candidate University of California, Santa Barbara
https://ucsb.academia.edu/CassandraSciortino


Call for Papers for the Panel: Art as Cultural Diplomacy: (Re)Constructing
Notions of Eastern and Western Europe

Berlin, Germany, March 28 - 29, 2014

(As part of the Third Euroacademia International Conference 'Re-Inventing
Eastern Europe' to be held in Berlin, Germany, 28-29 March 2014)

Deadline for paper proposals: 1 March 2014

Panel Organizer: Cassandra Sciortino, University of California,
Santa Barbara

Panel Description:

Art as Cultural Diplomacy: (Re)Constructing Notions of Eastern and Western
Europe
The panel "Art as cultural diplomacy" seeks papers that explore
the function of art (in its broadest definition) as an instrument
of cultural diplomacy by the state and, especially, by
nongovernmental actors. The main theme of the session is the question of
art and diplomacy in Europe before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Papers are welcome which explore issues related to the role of
art, diplomacy and the politicization of the European Union and
its candidate countries, as are those which consider how the arts
have pursued or resisted East-West dichotomies and other narratives
of alterity in Europe and worldwide.

The panel seeks to combine a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives
to explore how art--its various practices, history, and theory--are an
important area of inquiry in the expanding field of cultural diplomacy.
Selected papers will be invited for publication in a book.

Some examples of topics include:
* How can art serve as a neutral platform for exchange to promote dialogue
and understanding between foreign states?

* How can art, including organized festivals (i.e. film, art, music.),
cultivate transnational identities that undermine dichotomies of East and
West, and other narratives of alterity in Europe and beyond it?

* The implications for art as an instrument of diplomacy in a postmodern
age where geopolitics and power are increasingly mobilized by image based
structures of persuasion

* How has/can art facilitate cohesion between European Union member states
and candidate states that effectively responds to the EU's efforts to
create "unity in diversity."

* The politics of mapping Europe: mental and cartographic

* Community based art as a social practice to engage issues of European
identity

* The difference between art as cultural diplomacy and propaganda

* The digital revolution and the emergence of social media as platforms for
art to communicate across social, cultural, and national boundaries?

* Diplomacy in the history of art in Europe and Eastern Europe

* Artists as diplomats

* Art history as diplomacy--exhibitions, post-colonial criticism, global art
history, and other revisions to the conventional boundaries of Europe and
its history of art

* The international activity of cultural institutes

If interested in participating, please send a maximum 300 words abstract
together with the details of your affiliation until 1 of  March 2014
simultaneously at [email protected] and
[email protected]

For the complete details of the conference and on-line application please
see:
http://euroacademia.eu/conference/third-reinventing-eastern-europe/

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