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Yudhishthir
Raj Isar spoke at a ‘VIP debate’ organized
at the European Parliament in Brussels on
February 2 at the international launch of
Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture.
The other speakers were Prof. Nilufer Göle
of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales; Mr. Egemen Bagisa, Turkey’s
Minister for EU Affairs; the British
Member of the European Parliament Richard
Howitt; and Jonny Dymond (Moderator),
Brussels Correspondent for BBC News. On
February 18, he took part in a breakfast
debate organized in the Paris premises of
the European Parliament on the topic ‘UE:
quel élargissement pour quel avenir’
organized by EurActiv.fr, the French
member of the network of EurActiv, an
independent media portal fully dedicated
to EU affairs. Isar’s article
‘Cultural Diplomacy: An Overplayed Hand?’
appeared in Issue # 3, Winter 2010 of
Public
Diplomacy (magazine of the
Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars
at the University of Southern California). |
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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). |
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'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. |