9th Midterm Conference of the RN-Sociology of the Arts (Porto, Portugal)

9th Midterm Conference of the ESA RN02 – Sociology of the Arts

Arts and Creativity: Working on Identity and Difference

8th, 9th and 10th September 2016 Porto, Portugal

Abstract submission: November 15th, 2015 – February 15th, 2016

The general topic of this Conference focuses on arts and creativity, questioning the processes through which in an increasingly global, open, different and multicultural world artistic creativity is (re)defined, fostered, evaluated and asserted. Focusing the debate on the relationship between arts and plural societies, on the one side, and on the place and statute attributed to art by the new rhetoric of the creative agenda and the creative economy, on the other side, the Conference aims to critically debate the role of the arts as a pillar of cultural, social-ecological and socioeconomic development, of social cohesion and active citizenship, as well as on the processes of identities construction. Thus, the approach will focus on the diverse ways through which the arts are intertwining with processes of identity-making, both at individual and collective levels, and the material and symbolic reframing of social, economic and cultural differences in contemporary societies.

WWW