Yudhishthir Raj Isar has joined the Advisory Board for a proposed Handbook of Arts-Based Research, a project launched by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, and attended a first meeting held in Stockholm on May 6-7.  On May 30, in Istanbul, he moderated a session entitled "Creative expressions and the Cultural Industries" organized by the same foundation in cooperation with the Forum on Culture of the Center for Civil Society at UCLA that was held during the Annual Conference – Fostering Creativity – of the European Foundation Centre.

Former Director of Cultural Policies and of the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture at UNESCO, he 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 a number of other universities in Europe and the United States. President of the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (EFAH). Member of the Board of the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), London; of the International Board of the Forum Cultural Mundial, Rio de Janeiro, and of the Advisory Board of the Fitzcarraldo Foundation, Turin. 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, the International Network for Cultural Diversity (INCD), CIRCLE and the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH).

'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.