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Cultural Congress: How to Make Europe Dream?
Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th March 2008

This congress brings to London writers, artists, musicians, philosophers, filmmakers and others to discuss the future of the arts in Europe and the meaning of engagement today.

Venue: Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of the
Arts, 16 John Islip Street,
London, SW1P 4JU

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Agenda of the Congress

Saturday 15th March : Transnationalism in the Arts

12.30 Introduction: How to make Europe dream?

Afternoon Workshops

What are the implications for the arts, literature and music of thinking beyond national boundaries? What are the relationships between universalism, europeanism and transnationalism in the arts?

1.30 – 2.45 Workshop 1: Language, point of view, audience, overture:

2.45 – 3.15 – Break

3.15 – 5: Workshop 2: The tradition and the future

Sunday 16th March: Engagement in the Arts

The second day of the congress turns towards the question of political engagement in the arts: what is it to be an engaged European artist? Has the meaning of engagement changed in Europe since Sartre’s employment of the term?

1.00 – 2.30: Workshop 3: Aesthetics and politics: what does engagement mean in Europe?

2.45 – 4 Workshop 4: European Action and the Arts

4.10- 5.40: Informal Workshop 6: What has economics got to do with culture?

5.40– 6: Break

6: Evening public debate: The Meaning of Engagement: Towards a European Cultural Avant-Garde

Including the participation of Boyan Manchev, Leonardo Kovacevic, and Howard Caygill

Engagement and the Arts in Europe

As artists, writers and musicians come to London for a Cultural Congress as part of the Festival of Europe, what is the relationship between the arts and engagement in Europe?

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