Konference Kultura a diplomacie

Konference se bude zabývat potenciálem kultury pozitivně ovlivňovat rozvoj vztahů mezi Evropou a zbytkem světa. Zaměří se i na hledání praktických námětů jak co nejefektivněji využívat schopnost kultury přibližovat náš způsob života založený na hodnotách demokracie, svobody a lidských práv a získávat tím pro něj větší porozumění. Pozornost bude věnována také platformě Evropské unie jako nástroji pro posílení kapacity jednotlivých členských států oslovit publikum v zemích jako je Čína, či Indie.

Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí ČR akci pořádá ve spolupráci se sdružením kulturních institutů zemí Evropské unie - EUNIC. Dalšími partnery jsou Ústav mezinárodních vztahů a Česká centra (která jsou členy sdružení EUNIC).

Konferenci bude možné sledovat živě a ze záznamu na webových stránkách:  http://www.mzv.cz/EUNIC a http://www.czech.cz.

 

Pracovním jazykem konference je angličtina, program proto přinášíme také v angličtině

 

Program

8:45 - 9:00    Registration


9:15 - 9:35       Welcome Addresses

Mr. Jan Bondy, Director of the Public Diplomacy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

 

Mrs. Ana Paula Laborinho, President of the EUNIC Global Network

9:35 - 9:45    Opening Statement
   

Mr. Marek Pokorny, Director of the Moravian Gallery, Brno


9:45 - 11:00     Panel 1

Mr. Ali Fisher – “Power and influence in Public Diplomacy”

Mr. Ladislav Pflimpfl – “The value of public diplomacy institutions to external players and partners: from ideas to facts”

Discussion moderated by Mr Flemming Johannesen, team leader at the Public Diplomacy and Communication Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Denmark

11:00 - 11:20    Coffee break


11:20 - 12:45    Panel 2
   
Mr. Berthold Franke – ”EU Integration in the German Foreign Cultural Policy” 

Mr. Peter Rantasa – ”National branding as a tool for Public and Cultural Diplomacy: the case of Vienna”

Discussion moderated by Mr. Jan Michal, Permanent Representative of the European Commission in the Czech Republic

12:45 - 13:00        Closing Statement
   

Mr. Gottfried Wagner – “10 provocative arguments on culture in the EU’s external relations”

13:00       Buffet Lunch - hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic


Speakers


Ali Fisher – United Kingdom    

For the past four years, Ali Fisher has been Director of Mappa Mundi Consulting, working as an independent public diplomacy strategist and researcher. He specializes in providing insight to enhance organizational strategy and evaluation through network analysis. In addition, his research has been used in projects focused on law enforcement and counter-terrorism. Prior to 2008, Mr. Fisher directed the Counterpoint think tank at the British Council and was a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter, U.K. He completed a Masters in U.S. Intelligence Services and his PhD at the University of Birmingham. In addition to his commercial work, Ali regularly produces work for academic publication.


Berthold Franke – Germany

Since August 2009, Berthold Franke is Regional Director Southwest Europe, Director of the Brussels institute and Goethe-Institut-delegate for European affairs. He joined the service of the Goethe-Institut in 1989. After short assignments in Munich, Hongkong and Göttingen he held posts in Warsaw/Poland - Head of department for cultural programme (1991), Dakar/Senegal - director (1994), Munich/Headquarter – Director of department for public relations (1998), Munich/Headquarter – Director of department for culture and information (2001),     Stockholm/Sweden - Director (2003), and Paris/France – Regional Director Southwest Europe (2008). Mr. Franke studied Music, German Literature and Social Sciences in Aachen (PhD in Political Theory) and worked also as musician, journalist and university teacher.


Ana Paula Laborinho – Portugal

Anna Paula Laborinho is Professor at the University of Lisbon. She has specialised in travel writings, especially Asian routes. She has lectured at graduate and post-graduate levels in the fields of Portuguese Literature, Hispanic-American Literature and Asian Studies. She coordinates a research line on Orientalism at the Centre of Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon. During her 14 years in Macau, she assumed the post of Director of the Cultural Institute of Macau, and she was a teacher at the University of Macau, where she helped to establish the Institute of Portuguese Studies. During the period from 1996 to 2002, she was President of the Portuguese Institute of the Orient, institution responsible for promoting and divulgating the Portuguese language and culture in Eastern Asia. She is currently the President of the Camões Institute and the President of the EUNIC network.


Ladislav Pflimpfl – Czech Republic

Ladislav Pflimpfl has spent his career studying and practicing public diplomacy and cultural management with a particular interest in partnerships between public and private sectors and cultural relations. He has been Director of Czech Centre’s London office since 2004, with previous posts including head of Operations and Programme Departments of the Czech Centres’ Head Office in Prague. As a keen networker, he served in the EUNIC London presidency team, advised on cultural policies and projects to Sovereign European Arts Prize and the EBRD, speaks at cultural and public diplomacy seminars and conferences, lectured on cultural networking in Russia and Kazakhstan and is author of numerous features on foreign policy in the academic and general press, and media. Mr. Pflimpfl gained his PhD with thesis on modern public diplomacy at the Charles University in Prague after an MA in arts management.


Marek Pokorny – Czech Republic

Since 2004, Marek Pokorny has been Director of the Moravian Gallery, Brno and also Director of the International Biennale of Graphic Design, Brno. From 2003 to 2004 he served as Curator-in-Chief of the Dům Pánů z Kunštátu gallery of the House of the Arts, Brno. From 1992 to 2000, he held several positions as a journalist, serving as head of culture pages of Týden weekly (1999-2000), deputy head of culture pages of Dnes daily (1994–1999), head of culture pages of Lidová demokracie newspaper (1993–1994), and head of culture pages of Prostor daily (1992). As its founding member, he was editor of the journal Detail, a visual culture review (1995–2000). He worked also as coordinator of  “Translocation new media / art”, an international project (in collaboration with the AVU Academy, Prague, Springerin journal (Austria) and Magazyk Sztuki journal (Poland), supported by the  EU (1998–1999).

       
Peter Rantasa – Austria

Peter Rantasa has been working as a curator at the interface of art, culture and business for more than 20 years. He is simultaneously a cultural manager and mediator, an artist and theorist. He has a background in telecommunications, electronics, biomedical technology, philosophy, electro acoustics and experimental music as well as process management and systemic business coaching.
From 1999 onwards he was the Executive Director of Mica – Music information center Austria. He planned and managed various international cooperation projects in the framework of EU programs. Mr. Rantasa is also the founder and curator of many music festivals in Austria and on an international level. As a lead consultant and executive director of the World Culture Forum Alliance NY/USA he has dealt extensively with the question of cultural diversity and also assisted in the preparation of the UNESCO convention dealing with this topic.


Gottfried Wagner – Austria

Mr. Gottfried Wagner acts as an advisor to the More Europe initiative. Currently he also serves as special envoy for international cultural-political projects at the Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture of Austria. From 2002 to 2009, he was the director of the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam. In the 1990s he focused on cultural and educational cooperation with Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe as director of KulturKontakt Austria. He also worked as a teacher, university lecturer and civil servant at the Ministry of Education of Austria. He studied philosophy and literature in Vienna.     

MORE EUROPE, based on best practice evidence and research, is a cultural civic initiative to highlight and reinforce the role of culture in the EU’s external relations. It calls on Member States, civil society and EU institutions to work together in order to join up their vision, pool resources, and coordinate their activities. More Europe aims to shape external cultural relations and is based on a bottom-up approach. For more information please visit http://www.moreeurope.org/.