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DISH2009 Digital Strategies in Heritage Conference
DISH is a new bi-annual international conference on digital heritage and the opportunities it offers to cultural institutions. The first edition of DISH takes place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on 8-10 December 2009. DISH2009 will host speakers from 11 countries in keynotes, debates, workshops and paper presentations.
Presentations 'Europeana Plenary Conference 2009'
Presentations and other documents from the Europeana plenary conference, Creation, Collaboration & Copyright (14 - 16 September 2009) are now online at the website of Europeana.
Het Firmament presents...
After three years of research, Het Firmament established a complete inventory of everyone involved in puppetry in Flanders and of all the different puppetry collections. Based upon this information, challenges have been formulated towards policymakers as well as towards the large heritage community of puppetry in Flanders. Never before this amount of information has been gathered.
Europeana: tell us what you think
All Europeana’s features are fully functioning now and they would like to know what you think about the site. Europeana is currently running a survey in all 27 EU languages. Your feedback is important for the future development of Europeana, so let them know what you want.
The future of intellectual property. Creativity and innovation in the digital era
The era of digital networks has given rise to new problems in the area of intellectual property. They include the question of how best to deal with the massive numbers of downloads of film, music and software via peer-to-peer file sharing. They also open up copyright issues arising out of the digitalisation of entire public libraries.
ICOM MPR Annual Conference 2009 | Museums and Tourism
ICOM MPR in close cooperation with the Pushkin Museum i Moscow and the Tolsty estate at Yasnaya Polyana is happy to invite you to a conference on issues related to museums and tourism 21 - 26 August 2009. The conference will give rich opportunities to discuss the relationship between museums, tourists and the travel industry. Tours will be offered to major museums and sights in Moscow, and one part of the conference will be held in Leo tolstoy's private estate. The conference is followed by a programme at the Sholokov Museum in the southern part of Russia.
Erfgoeddag 2009 | Out of friendship!?
The 2009 edition of the annual event 'Erfgoeddag' (Cultural Heritage Day) will take place on Sunday, April 26th 2009. Hundreds of organizations based in Flanders and Brussels join forces to set up a wide range of expositions, lectures, guided tours, culinary discoveries and much more. The central theme of this year's edition is 'Out of friendship!?'.Summer School in Tartu
Local Knowledge and Open Borders: Creativity and Heritage
University of Tartu / International Summer University
Degree Course | July 30 - August 4, 2009
6 ECTS credits
Call for papers | Euro Pop – The Consumption and Production of a European Popular Culture in the 20th Century
Whereas Europe as a political and economic project has received much scholarly attention, the European dimension of popular culture – the movies, books and sport events, the music, theatre and television, the fashion, food and tourism which are all aimed at a mass market and are meant to entertain – has been neglected. Wouter Steenhaut and Peter Scholliers win Flemish Culture Award
On February 2nd, the winners of the annual Flemish Culture Awards ('Vlaamse Cultuurprijzen') were announced. With these awards, the Flemish government acknowledges the people and organisations that help put Flemish culture on the map. 
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