Conference at ICWiP 2009: Global crisis - Brave New world?
Speakers:
Vladimír Šucha - Director, Directorate-Generalfor Education and Culture European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Rogier Elshout – theme manager “identity & encountering”, Rotterdam EYC2009, Your World
Rogier Elshout – theme manager “identity & encountering”, Rotterdam EYC2009, Your World
Kadri Vanem - Bureau Member, European Youth Forum
Zsuzsanna Ozsvári - Honorary Consul of the Republic of Hungary in The Republic to the Gambia
Päivi Kaarina Kataikko – Assistant Professor at Technische Universität Dortmund, Faculty of Spatial Planning, Department of Urban Design and Land Use Planning
Adalberto Mohai-Szabó Junior – lecturer, Faculdade Interação Americana, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Kia Golesorkhi – lecturer at University Pécs, Faculty Business and Economy
Balázs Németh - PhD Associate Professor, Faculty of Adult Education and HRD, Regional Lifelong Learning Centre
Jon L. Martinson - Acting Pol/Econ Counselor, American Embassy Budapest
ICWiP 2009: Cult-Urbs Interdisciplinary International Student Conference
The goal of Cult-Urbs Interdisciplinary International Student Conference is to actively involve young minds from Central European universities and youth associations in thinking and debating about ‘urbanness’ and creative industry, how to reform their city and city-region, improve their urban life and encourage them to network, co-operate and travel.
The conference will offer good ground for:
- learning about these influential European projects;
- looking at what Central European cities and urban youth communities can gain from them;
- presenting what young people, especially students of HEIs can contribute to urban development via creative and innovative projects;
- discussing what creative industry means and might mean for cities, especially for those planning a paradigm shift (such as Pécs, from a former mining town to a regional cultural centre);
- analysing the strengths and opportunities of international youth tourism in light of regional development;
- introducing student initiatives as good-practice cases, as well as projects for future collaboration among CEI countries.
As in 2008 during our highly successful international conference on sustainability, Cult-Urbs will provide ‘student scholars’, mostly Ph.D. students with the opportunity to deliver papers on their respective research in any of the connected fields.
Our five workshop topics proposed for this year's conference are the following:
Democracy – Global DeMOCKracy?
Is the very idea utopious and therefore naive or is it worth striving towards it and constantly work on it? Is it even desirable to have global democracy or do we inevitably need contra-forces?
Cult-Urbs – ARTificial beLIEves?
Urbanness – Believe – Reformation – Youth, how does all of this link and connect? What does today’s youth in their urban surroundings believe, what do they wish for and what do they want to reform and how? Do we have what it takes to make a difference?
Economy and Finances – Is money $af€ty?
How much does the global financial crisis affect our lives? Does the media create the mass panic or do we really have to worry? What can we do to prevent a personal dilemma?
Global politics – OBA-MAnia?
What are the expectations we have from Obama’s presidency? Are they maybe too high or are they justified? How much can one president change? Does the media only distort our view of the president?
The goal of Cult-Urbs Interdisciplinary International Student Conference is to actively involve young minds from Central European universities and youth associations in thinking and debating about ‘urbanness’ and creative industry, how to reform their city and city-region, improve their urban life and encourage them to network, co-operate and travel. The conference is a good possibility to meet representatives from the previous and forthcoming European Capitals of Culture (ECOC) from Central Europe – i.e. Cracow and Prague (2000), Graz (2003), Sibiu (2007), Maribor (2012), Kosice (2013) - to share experiences and knowledge about the title to be ECOC city. Furthermore the new European programme “European Youth Capital” will be presented by Rotterdam 2009 and Torino 2010 (the first two EYCs selected), and discussed to link interested cities, communities, institutions and to share ideas and experiences.
The conference will offer good ground for:
- learning about these influential European projects;
- looking at what Central European cities and urban youth communities can gain from them;
- presenting what young people, especially students of HEIs can contribute to urban development via creative and innovative projects;
- discussing what creative industry means and might mean for cities, especially for those planning a paradigm shift (such as Pécs, from a former mining town to a regional cultural centre);
- analysing the strengths and opportunities of international youth tourism in light of regional development;
- introducing student initiatives as good-practice cases, as well as projects for future collaboration among CEI countries.