CULTURELINK – Centre for Research in Cultural Policy, Development and Cooperation
CULTURELINK Centre was established in 2024 as a result of IRMO’s long-term engagement in coordinating the Culturelink Network. The Centre aims to build on and further develop IRMO’s affluent research repository and decades-long commitment to coordinating the global cultural network (culturelink.org) for research and collaboration in the field of cultural development, which gathered more than 2000 institutional and individual members from all continents since its establishment in 1989.
Culturelink Centre’s work and activities will provide an organizational and infrastructural framework for the Department of Culture and Communication national and international research partnerships and collaborations c contributing to the wider outreach and better visibility of the Department’s research results.
Through interdisciplinary international scientific and professional collaboration at the local, national, and global levels, CULTURELINK Center, aims to advocate for culture as a public, universally accessible good that is not reduced to an instrumental role of ‘added value’ to other areas such as economy, politics, foreign relations, etc. To that end, CULTURELINK aims to contribute to understanding cultural policy as an independent area of public policy and fosters a critical approach to researching cultural practices and finding sustainable patterns of cultural action.
In line with the legacy of the Culturelink World Network’s work, the CULTURELINK Center aims to endorse global cultural dialogue by promoting knowledge from local, peripheral, and marginalized contexts. This particularly applies to revitalizing existing and establishing new international collaborations with actors from the European (semi)periphery, the Global South, as well as focusing on underrepresented social groups, cultural practices, and new trends in cultural development and policies arising from so-called subordinate positions.
The Center’s focus in the coming period will focus on issues concerning sustainable cultural policies, cultural diversity, cultural rights, forward-thinking cultural development, development perspectives of digitization and digital transformation in culture.
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Memorial Conference “Cultural Diversity, Networks, and Cultural Policies: The Legacy of Cultural Optimism of Biserka Cvjetičanin” Held as a Tribute to the Esteemed International Scholar and IRMO Emerita, Biserka Cvjetičanin
Organized by the CULTURELINK Centre of the Institute for Development and International Relations and the Centre for Democracy and Law Miko Tripalo, an international memorial conference titled "Cultural Diversity, Networks, and Cultural Policies: The Legacy of Cultural...
Lecture by Dr Steven Hadley – “Cultural Policy Realism – What is to be Done?” as part of the Culturelink Guest Lecture Series held at IRMO
Upon the launch of the Centre for Research in Cultural Policy, Development and Cooperation – CULTURELINK at the Department of Culture and Communications, Institute for Development and International Relations, Professor Steven Hadley from Trinity College Dublin in...
Call for Papers for an Edited Book “Cultural Diversity, Cultural Networks, and Cultural Policies: The Legacy of Biserka Cvjetičanin’s Cultural Optimism”
The Culturelink Center announces a call for papers for an edited volume titled: "Cultural Diversity, Cultural Networks, and Cultural Policies: The Legacy of Biserka Cvjetičanin's Cultural Optimism," which will be published as part of the Culturelink Joint Publication...
Memorial Conference – Cultural diversity, cultural networks and cultural policies: The legacy of Biserka Cvjetičanin’s cultural optimism
Friday, 4 October 2024, 10h, Kuća Europe, Ul. Augusta Cesarca 4-6, Zagreb The CULTURELINK Centre / IRMO, in cooperation with the Centre for Democracy and Law Miko Tripalo, is inviting you to the memorial conference “Cultural Diversity, Networks, and Cultural Policies:...
Culturelink Guest Lecture Series: Lecture by Steven Hadley – “Cultural Policy Realism – What is to be Done?”
CULTURELINK – Centre for Research in Cultural Policy, Development and Cooperation is inviting you to the first lecture within the Culturelink Guest Lecture Series, which will be held on Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 4 p.m. in the library of the Institute for...
Memorial Conference ‘Cultural Diversity, Networks, and Cultural Policies: The Legacy of Biserka Cvjetičanin’s Cultural Optimism’
October 4, 2024, House of Europe, Zagreb SAVE THE DATE The CULTURELINK Center / IRMO, in cooperation with the Miko Tripalo Center, is preparing a memorial conference in honor of our long-time and respected colleague, Dr. Biserka Cvjetičanin. To honor her rich...
IRMO Scientific Council accepted the establishment of Centers of excellence CULTURELINK and CEMEDIG
The Scientific Council of the Institute for Development and International Relations, at its meeting on February 27, 2024, accepted the foundation of two Centers of Excellence, CULTURELINK and CEMEDIG, which are being established as part of the CULTMED project -...