The Cultural Age
Online and in the streets we encounter a more diverse range of cultures than ever before. Culture is a space in which values are expressed and interpretated. In partnership with the AHRC, Demos is hosting two seminars to investigate how policy-makers can link up with academics to think about what this means, and how the understanding of complex cultural issues can be brought into different policy areas.
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- The Cultural Age Last week, we hosted the first of our Cultural Age Seminars. It addressed education for the cultural age. We've put a transcript of the opening speech on the website - it's available for download here.The next seminar will be held on 23rd June and will address Integration and Cohesion in the Cultural Age. Speakers include Rushanara Ali Associate Director of the Young Foundation, Kim Knott - Head of the AHRC Diaspras, Migration and Identites Programme and Moira Sinclair -... from : samjones 9th June 2008
- The Cultural Age - Integration and Cohesion Earlier this week, we held the second of our two seminars on The Cultural Age.It focused on integration and cohesion. One of the most interesting things to emerge was that much is going on in the cultural sector, policy-making and academic research but, often, each is unaware of what is going on in the other. At the very least, some of those ends could be tied up in conversations between participants of Monday's session. Another area of debate was long-term change. ... from : samjones 27th June 2008