This symposium will be held between October 3 and 5, 2013, and is intended to generate a space for reflection, analysis, debate, and agreements towards the consolidation of cultural management as a profession in Mexico. The initiative arose in order to congregate cultural management professionals, institutions, universities, organizations, associations, networks, collectives, enterprises, and other groups or people interested in the professionalization of cultural management, and will take the form of an exchange of experiences and learnings around its history, advances, issues, and collaborative working proposals that will make it possible to define an action path for the various agents in the field.
Given the participatory nature of the Symposium, interested individuals can participate in several ways: with presentations of research or the systematization of experiences regarding conceptual, methodological, legal, and technical elements involved in cultural management; presenting the experience of specific organizations or cultural projects; as exhibitors promoting their institution, organization, company, or project, in order to network with other participants and to commercialize their products or services; as a co-organizing sponsor, supporting the promotion and diffusion of the event or assisting in its scheduled activities.
The symposium will focus on six transversal topics of current interest: Education and Research in Cultural Management; Cultural Policies and Local Development; Cultural Businesses and Enterprises; Cultural Management and Communication; Artistic Practices and Social Change; Networks, Professional Practices, and Associations in the Cultural Field.
The Symposium's Academic Committee is comprised of academics from the following higher-education institutions: Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas Universidad Benito Juárez Autónoma de Oaxaca, Universidad de Guadalajara, Universidad Veracruzana.
Whatever their chosen manner of participation, all interested participants must complete a regristration form, available in the Symposium's web page. Availability is limited. Interested presenters must provide a 200-word abstract, specifying the topic addressed and three keywords, along with their registration form, to the following address: ponencias@encuentrodegestioncultural.org.mx. Send registration form to: inscripcion@encuentrodegestioncultural.org.mx
The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday, August 16. The list of accepted presentations wil be published on Monday, September 2 via the Symposium's web page, where the complete requirements can also be found: www.encuentrodegestioncultural.org.mx.