ICRRA Conference 2024. Decolonial Practices in International Cultural Relations: Building Trust
The ICRRA Conference 2024 takes place on 4 November (day 1), 6 November (day 2) and 7 November (day 3).
About the conference
International Cultural Relations are still largely carried out with the help of infrastructures shaped by the legacies of European overseas colonialism. Historical reflection is essential, as are practices of relearning. Research and discussions on fair collaboration and its implications on behavior, terminology, hierarchies, and access have only started. At the multilateral level, practices of cooperation are being renegotiated in a similar way. As multilateral tools and institutions seem unable to respond effectively to today’s profound challenges, UN Secretary-General António Guterres recently called for “frameworks that are networked and inclusive; and that draw on the expertise of all of humanity.” But who creates these frameworks and institutions and sets the terms for inclusivity?
An inclusivity that allows epistemological pluralism is only possible with diverse participation. Conversely, diverse participation is only effective when epistemologies open up. How should we handle this binary? There is also a need to attend to the local and distinct nature of specific experiences of post-colonial and decoloniality.
The ICRRA Conference 2024 provides a conversation on current approaches to these questions, bringing together diverse perspectives. The conference does not aim to be all encompassing. Instead, it understands itself as both a space for dialogue and a process. The planned keynote and panels will highlight multiple research perspectives and global case studies. Unsettling spatial order paradigms, it will present and explore diplomatic practices, as well as contemporary artists’ engagement with frameworks of diplomacy. Questioning current epistemological orders, the conference will provide a space for re-examination and reflection of who decides which epistemologies shape the discourse. The conference will also feature reflections from new ICRRA members.
The conference language is English with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish.
I will participate in this conference in the third panel Questioning Relational Paradigms of Exchange.
Etiquetas: Decolonial Practices in International Cultural Relations, ICRRA, Conferences