Metropolis of Europe

URBAN CULTURAL LIFE AND INTER-CITY CULTURAL INTERACTIONS

FOR ‘CULTURAL DIVERSITY’ IN EUROPE

PROGRAMME: Warsaw round table of experts, 23^rd – 24^th September 2005
Venue: Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego – BUW

Friday 23^rd September 2005

SESSION I :            Welcome and Introduction
Chair:                        Ritva Mitchell, CUPORE

City Hall Representative
Warsaw School of Advanced Social Psychology Representative
Kathrin Merkle, Council of Europe
Dorota Ilczuk, President of CIRCLE
Christopher Gordon, CIRCLE board member

Portraying the City: Multi-Cultural Landscape
Chair: Carla Bodo, Associazionne per l’Economia della Cultura

Lluís Bonet, University of Barcelona
Simona Bodo, Associazionne per l’Economia della Cultura
Mikko Lagerspetz, Estonian Institute of Humantities, Tallinn
Krisztina Keresztely, Hungarian Academy of Scoences, Budapest
Dorota Ilczuk, Kazimierz Krzysztofek and Jan Stanislaw
Wojciechowski, Jagiellonian University

General discussion

Close of session

Saturday 24^th September 2005

SESSION II              Cultural Practices of Minorities and Immigrants
Chairs:                       Kazimierz Krzysztofek, Warsaw School of Advanced Psychology and Pèter Inkei, The Budapest Observatory

Jean-Cèdric Delvainquière, Ministry of Culture and Communication, France
John Foote, Department of Canadian Heritage
Kira Kosnick, Nottingham Trent University

Rostyslav Kramar and Rafal Pankowski, Warsaw University
Kirill Razlogov, Russian Institute for Cultural research, Moscow
Nada Svob-Dokic, Culturelink

Discussion

SESSION III             Debate, Policies and Actions
Chairs:                       Anna Niewiadomska, International Co-operation, Minsitry of Culture and Christopher Gordon, CIRCLE board member

Carla Bodo, Associazionne per l’Economia della Cultura
Lluís Bonet, University of Barcelona
Mikko Lagerspetz, Estonian Institute of Humanities
Ritva Mitchell, CUPORE, Helsinki
Wanda Górska, Bielany Cultural District Unit

SESSION IV              Conclusions, Recommendations and Policy Actions
Chairs:                       Danielle Cliche, ERICarts and Jordi Balta, Interarts Foundation

Thematic summing up by Yudhishthir Raj Isar, American University, Paris

General debate

Round –up remarks by Dorota Ilczuk

This project was co-financed by the European Commission, Directorate -General for Education and Culture, City of Warsaw, City of Rome, Province of Rome, Budapest Observatory and CIRCLE.