Yudhishthir Raj Isar

 

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  Degrees:

BA, University of Delhi.

Maîtrise ès Lettres, Université de Paris V-Sorbonne.

 

  Professor of Cultural Policy Studies

 

  Academic Department:

Global Communications

 

 

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Profile updated: Jun-12

 
 

 

Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, on leave this semester,  gave the keynote address during the formal launch ceremony of the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, held on April 13.  He prepared a White Paper entitled ‘The Wealth of Multipolar World: New Horizons for Cultural Exchange?’ for a seminar on ‘Shifting Economic Power: New Parameters of Engagement in a Multi-Polar World’ organized by the Salzburg Global Seminar and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, April 28 – May 2 and was a speaker at the event.

 
 
 

 
Independent writer, public speaker and advisor on cultural policy issues. Former Director of Cultural Policies and of the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture at UNESCO, Isar was also Executive Secretary of the World Commission on Culture and Development (1994-95). In 1986-87, he was Executive Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Maître de Conférences at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) and a visiting professor at other universities in Europe and the United States. Eminent Research Visitor with the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, 2011-2013.  Co-founder and co-editor of The Cultures and Globalization Series published by SAGE, of which 5 volumes have appeared (see below). In 2004-2008 he was President of the European arts and culture platform Culture Action Europe. Member of the Board of the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), London, 1994-2010, Acting Chair in 2009-10; Special Advisor to the World Monuments Fund (New York) and the Sanskriti Foundation (New Delhi); International Advisor to Aid to Artisans (ATA) and to the World Bank’s Development Gateway. Consultant to the European Commission, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Cultural Foundation. Member of the International Council of Museums, and the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH).
 
 
 

 

 

The Cultures and Globalization Series, Volume 1 (2007), Volume 2 (2008), Volume 3 (2010), and Volume 4 (2011). Helmut Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Editors (Sage Publications, London):

http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book230745 
http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book230746 
http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book228916 
http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235384 
http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book236685 

 

'Hoggart in UNESCO: A Close-Up in Hindsight', in Michael Bailey & Mary Eagleton (eds.) Richard Hoggart: Culture & Critique. Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2011.

Review article entitled ‘Cultural politics micro and macro’, in International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2011, 1-3.

‘Civil society empowerment in third countries: are culture actors providing powerful voices in support of democratization processes?’, discussion paper prepared for the ‘European Culture Forum’, Brussels, 21 October, 2011 (http://culture-forum-2011.ec.europa.eu/index.jsp).

‘Cultural networks and cultural policy: some issues and imperatives’ in Biserka Cvjeticanin (ed.) Networks: The Evolving Aspects of Culture in the 21st Century Culturelink Joint Publication Series No. 15. Zagreb: Institute for Cultural Relations, 2011.

‘UNESCO and Heritage: Global Doctrine, Global Practice in Helmut Anheier and Y.R. Isar (eds.) Heritage, Memory & Identity, The Cultures and Globalization Series, 4. London: SAGE, 2011.

‘Chindia’: a cultural project?’ in Global Media and Communication, Vol. 6, Issue 3, December 2010.

‘Surviving the Crisis: A Strategic Perspective’ in NEMO, the newsletter of the Network of European Museum Organisations, December 2010.

‘Civil Society and Cultural Organizations’ and ‘Civil Society and Culture’ in International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, H.K. Anheier, S. Toepler & R. List (eds.).  New York:  Springer, 2010. 

‘Cultural Diplomacy:  An Overplayed Hand?’ in Public Diplomacy (magazine of the Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars at the University of Southern California), Issue # 3, Winter 2010.

 

‘International organizations and culture: new horizons for policy advice?’ in Zeitschrift für Politikberatung, Vol. 2, Issue 4 (2009). 

 

‘Le retour des biens culturels à leurs pays d’origine’ in Le patrimoine à l’UNESCO : Le défi de la sauvegarde.  Club Histoire, Association des anciens fonctionnaires de l’UNESCO, October 2009.

 

‘Unpacking Cultural Divides’ in special issue of Nordicom Review, ‘Media and Global Divides’. Jubilee Issue, Vol. 30, June 2009.

 

‘Cultural Policy:  Towards a Global Survey’, in  Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research (electronic journal). Vol. 1, 2009)

 

‘Global view:  from conceptual discontents to a global agenda’ in Creative Economy as a development strategy:  a view of developing countries (Ana Fonseca Reis, ed.), published by Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo (http://www.itaucultural.org.br/index.cfm?cd_pagina=2806).

 

‘Cultures and Globalization:  Conflicts and Tensions’ in Nordisk Kulturpolitisk Tidskrift  (Nordic Review of Cultural Policy). Vol. 11, No. 2, 2008.

 

‘Cultural policy: issues and interrogations in an international perspective’ in Beckman, Svante and Sten Månsson (eds.), KulturSverige 2009. Problemanalys och statistik.  Linköping:  SweCult, 2008.

 

‘Globalization, Regional Cooperation and Conservation’ in Heritage and Development (Papers and Recommendations of the 12th International Conference of National Trusts, New Delhi, December, 2007).  New Delhi, INTACH, 2008.

 

‘Cultural Industries and Cultural Expression:  A Fraught Relationship’ in OBS (Annual Publication of the Observatório das Actividades Culturais, Lisbon), no 16, 2008.

 

‘Culture’, Conflict and Security: Issues and Linkages’ in Hettne, Björn (ed) Human Values and Global Governance. Studies in Development, Security and Culture, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

 

‘Reflections of a “Peripheral Insider”. Convictions and Dissonances’ in Ramadan, Khaled D. (ed.)  Peripheral Insider.  Perspectives on Contemporary Internationalism in Visual Culture, Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2007.

 

‘The cultural economy:  issues, aporiae, challenges’, paper prepared for the workshop entitled Mapping the Cultural Economy in the Euro-Mediterranean Region, Seventh Mediterranean Social and Political  Research Meeting of the Robert  Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (21 - 24 March, 2007).

 

'Tropes of the "Intercultural": Multiple Perspectives', in N. Aalto and E. Reuter, eds., Aspects of Intercultural Dialogue. Theory. Research. Applications, Cologne, SAXA Verlag, 2006.

 

'Sustainability Needs Cultural Learning' in Museums & Social Issues, Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 2006 ('A Culture of Sustainability').

 

Metropolises of Europe. Diversity in Urban Cultural Life (ed., with Dorota Ilczuk), Warsaw, CIRCLE, 2006.

 

'Cultural diversity', in special issue entitled Problematizing Global Knowledge of the journal Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3) March-May 2006.

 

"Una 'deontologia interculturale': utopia o realismo utopico?", in S. Bodo e M. R. Cifarelli, eds., Quando la cultura fa la differenza. Patrimonio, arti e media nella società multiculturale, Rome, Meltemi, 2006.

 

Inclusive Europe. Horizon 2020. Conference Reader prepared for the Annual Conference of the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (EFAH), Budapest, November 2005. Budapest, Kultúrpont.

 

'Cultural learning: some issues and horizons'. Argument Paper commissioned by the Catalyst Conference, Liverpool and Manchester, September 2005. www.catalystconference.co.uk/cultural-selfhood-and-othernes/

 

'Tangible and Intangible Heritage: Are They Really Castor and Pollux?' In INTACH Vision 2020 (Proceedings of the conference INTACH 2020 organized by the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, INTACH, November 2004), New Delhi, INTACH, 2005.

 

'The mobilization of cultural identity and difference: some conceptual perspectives', paper presented at workshop entitled From the Politics of Culture to Cultural Policies, Sixth Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (16-20 March, 2005).

 

'Diversity policies need rethinking…' in the proceedings of a conference entitled Social and Cultural Diversity in Central and Eastern Europe: Old Factors and new, published by the Multicultural Centre Prague, 2005.

 
 
 
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Peter Barnet

Associate Professor of Global Communications

 

Jim Bittermann

Associate Professor of Global Communications; Membre, Légion d'Honneur.

 

Elaine Coburn

Assistant Professor of Global Communications

 

Waddick Doyle

Associate Professor of Global Communications; Director, MA in Global Communications.

 

Matthew Fraser

Associate Professor of Global Communications

 

Julien Guérif

Instructor of Global Communications and Film

 

Jayson Harsin

Associate Professor of Global Communications

 

Yudhishthir Raj Isar

Professor of Cultural Policy Studies

 

George Kazolias

Instructor of Global Communications

 

Youna Kim

Associate Professor of Global Communications

 

Justin McGuinness

Assistant Professor of Global Communications and Urban Studies

 

Stephen Monteiro

Assistant Professor of Global Communications

 

Robert Payne

Assistant Professor of Global Communications

 

Christy Shields-Argelès

Instructor of Anthropology

 

Charles Talcott

Assistant Professor of Global Communications and Comparative Literature and English; Chair, Department of Global Communications; Director, MA in Global Communications and Civil Society.

 

Julie Thomas

Associate Professor of Global Communications

 
 

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