Conference: "Gender Mainstreaming & Cultural Rights" | India
The ArtsAcre Foundation: Museum and International Centre for Creativity and Cultural Vision (Kolkata, India) and the International Institute for the Inclusive Museum are organising an international conference entitled "Gender Mainstreaming & Cultural Rights", which will take place in Kolkata, India, between 19 and 21 December 2016. A call for papers has recently been launched.
This international conference, the subtitle of which is "Women and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development", aims to create a civic space for promoting gender and diversity in cultural institutions and agencies. More particularly, the following purposes are identified:
- Promoting critical reflections on the current state of gendered concerns.
- Sharing and promoting case studies and demonstration projects.
- Advancing critical discourse in gender studies and cultural institutions.
- Conceptual understandings of "gender mainstreaming" and "gender parity".
- Critical mapping of the current situation through case studies.
- Policy imperatives for transformative planning.
- Capacity building, upskilling and up scaling for achieving gender parity.
- Creativity – the ongoing exploration of the interplay between arts, culture, heritage, creativity and gender.
- Cultural diversity and embedding gender parity in cultural agencies.
- Any other interdisciplinary area that falls within the ambit of the Conference purpose.
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