As we announced in an earlier post, the VII International Seminar on Cultural Policies will take place on October 29 and 30 at the Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (GAM), with two CMUS researchers taking part.

On Thursday, October 29, researcher Tomás Peters will be the discussant for the keynote “Dancing naked in the desert on drugs: rethinking cultural policy in the anthropocene” by Dr. Steven Hadley, a cultural policy researcher at De Montfort University, England. The academic “questions how we might think about the current social role of culture within the context of both future-thinking and the ‘recurring non-problems’ of the arts sector. [...] [He discusses] how language is shaped by institutional contexts, policy frameworks and funding environments – a form of ‘cultural policy realism’ (after Mark Fisher) – and how this contributes to maintaining established hierarchies of value across artforms and epistemologies.”

On Friday, October 30, Carla Pinochet, alternate director of CMUS, will take part in the Talk and Dialogue in which PhD candidate Jenni Pekkarinen” Jenni Pekkarinen will present “Cultural Policies and Wellbeing in the Happiest Country in the World.” The scholar from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, “will address the relationship between cultural policies and wellbeing in Finland, a country that is not the happiest, but the most content in the world. Alongside an overview of the factors that may contribute to Finns’ life satisfaction, and of others that give no reason for such contentment, she will examine how Finnish cultural policies address subjective wellbeing. She will show that the link between culture and wellbeing is negotiated between the priorities of the Welfare State and the ideals of the creative economy.”

Tomás Peters is part of the event’s organization through his Fondecyt Project No. 11240541, “Towards a Sociology of Cultural Policies.”

VII International Seminar on Cultural Policies

Talk + Dialogue: Dr. Steven Hadley + Tomás Peters
Thursday, October 29, 9:30–10:30 a.m.
Room A1, GAM

Talk + Dialogue: Dr. (c) Jenni Pekkarinen + Carla Pinochet
Friday, October 30, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Room A1, GAM