Please register by Monday, 28 October 2024 via the link below to confirm your on-site participation.
For decades, the external educational and cultural policy of countries like Germany or France were characterised by a consensus of purpose, ways and means of international cultural relations. This consensus now seems to be in question. In domestic politics, this is due to the strengthening of political movements and parties calling for cultural relations to place greater emphasis on the national interest and demand a reorientation of priorities, cultural content and programmes. The AfD and the Bündnis Sarah Wagenknecht, the Rassemblement National, La France Insoumise, are cases in point, as are the Fratelli d´Italia, Fidez or the Republican Party. In addition to domestic challenges, external cultural policy increasingly sees itself in geopolitical competition with expansive autocracies such as China, Russia or Turkey, which vehemently seek to advance their own national interests and implement them in a strategic manner and in growing resources.
What does growing nationalism in the domestic and foreign policy domains mean for future cultural relations? Will the existing consensus remain? What changes are emerging – or might emerge given political changes and power shifts – in terms of goals, priorities, programmes, and activities?
To initiate a dialogue that will help to locate future external cultural policy, these questions and related issues will be discussed in a public debate at the Hertie School with:
The discussion will be moderated by Annette Riedel (Journalist) and closing comments will be provided by Hagen Schulz-Forberg (University of Aarhus).
The discussion will take place in English and will be followed by a reception on-site.
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Helmut K. Anheier is Senior Professor of Sociology at the Hertie School. He served as President of the Hertie School from 2009 to 2018. He is also a member of the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Luskin School of Public Affairs and visiting professor at LSE Ideas, London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Arjun Appadurai is Anthropologist and Emeritus Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. He has taught at numerous universities and published extensively on globalization, media, cultural identity and violence. He was a Visiting Professor at the Hertie School in 2020. He is a Founding Editor of the journal “Public Culture”.
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Gitte Zschoch is ifa Secretary-General. She was Director of the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in Brussels and worked previously for the Goethe-Institut in a number of different positions in Seoul, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Kinshasa and as Deputy Head of the Communications Division at the head office in Munich.
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Elsa Tulmets is associated researcher at the French-German Centre Marc Bloch (CMB) in Berlin and, since 2018, coordinator of the French-German programme "Pensées françaises contemporaines" at the Europa-University Viadrina of Frankfurt/Oder, in cooperation with the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the CMB. She is an expert in international relations and EU foreign policy and also specialises in interdisciplinary approaches in the field of environment, climate and energy.
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Hanna Radziejowska is a historian and has been the director of the Polish Pilecki Institute in Berlin since 2019. She also works as a coordinator, curator, producer and author for cultural and museum projects and on the topics of remembrance as well as the tragedy of the Warsaw district of Wola in August 1944 and coming to terms with the trauma of the massacre.
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Annette Riedel is an independent journalist and moderator. She moderates interviews and panel discussions with top politicians and renowned national and international entrepreneurs, artists and scientists for radio and TV programmes. She was Brussels-correspondent for Deutschlandradio (Public German National Radio) between 2012 and 2017, and previously Senior Editor at Deutschlandfunk Kultur from 2007 up to 2012.
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Hagen Schulz-Forberg is Associate Professor of Global and European History and Director of Studies for the Master in International Studies at Aarhus University (AU) in Denmark. Hagen Schulz-Forberg completed his PhD at the European University Institute (EUI) in Comparative European Studies. Over the years, he has held visiting professorships and research fellowships at a number of European and American universities.
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The External Cultural Policy (ECP) Monitor provides information on key data such as the economy and geopolitical position of selected countries and presents relevant information on their external cultural policy (ECP) measures. Concise country profiles and reports structure quantitative data and contextual information, e.g. on culture and art, language, education, science and research or media.
The ECP Monitor is a collaborative project of the Hertie School with ifa's Library and ifa's Research Programme.
More information on the ifa website and the Forum for International Cultural Relations.
Research Programme "Culture and Foreign Policy"
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