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Conference Overview

“GLOBAL CULTURE AND CREATIVITY: FROM DESIGN TO INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE?”

6-7 NOVEMBER 2014, WINCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM

In partnership with following academic journals:

Futures: The journal of policy, planning and futures studies

Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption,

Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation, and

Critical Perspectives on International Business

Global culture is increasingly understood as not only the spread of ideas, meanings, and values across world space but also as the transmission of creativity or the phenomenon whereby something novel and helpful is created or designed such as innovative notions, inventive artworks, and enterprising solutions to longstanding managerial problems. The concept of global culture arose in the 1990s within the wider dialogue concerning economic, political, and technological globalization. Global culture combines such diverse subjects as: consumption; publishing on the Internet; popular culture; multimedia videogames; international travel; interactive cultural circulation; individualization; and spatially extended cultural relations beyond national borders such as entertainment, design, advertising, and art. Global culture is usually typified by the creative expansion of cultural and material relations, the creation of shared and contested standards and forms of knowledge, individual and collective identities, and rising interconnectedness among different peoples.

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Conference Chairs and Keynote Speakers

Conference Chairs

Ashok Ranchhod, John Armitage, Héléna Karjalainan, Joanne Roberts and Tibor Mandjak

University of Southampton-Winchester School of Art

 

Keynote Speakers:

- Patrick Cohendet, HEC Montréal, Canada

- Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

- Sara deFreitas, Murdoch University, Australia

- Hakan Hakansson, Norwegian School of Management

- Agnes Hofmeister-Toth, Corvinus University of Budapest

- Stuart Macdonald, Aalto University, Finland, andLeicester University, UK


 

Deadlines, Submission and Review Process

Deadlines, Submission and Review Process:

*Latest news* All abstract submissions results will be posted by 31st of July.

**Second Call for Papers**

a) We are still accepting new submissions for Full and Working Papers until 14th of October 2014

14th October 2014     Deadline for submission of full paper (5,000 to 8,000 words including references) / Working papers (2,000 to 5,000 words including references)

20th October 2014 Acceptance notification of Full and Working papers

27th October 2014             Deadline of registrations

6-7 November 2014             4th Interreg conference, Winchester, United Kingdom

THE BEST PAPERS FROM THE CONFERENCE WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE ACADEMIC INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS: FUTURES: THE JOURNAL OF POLICY, PLANNING AND FUTURES STUDIES, LUXURY: HISTORY, CULTURE, CONSUMPTION; PROMETHEUS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN INNOVATION, AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS.

THERE WILL BE A NOMINAL FEE OF £100 FOR DELEGATES TO COVER REFRESHMENTS, MEALS, CONFERENCE DINNER AND CONFERENCE PACKS 

Paper Submission to:

Doctoral DAY – 5th November

Chairs: Dr Mine Karatas-Ozkan (University of Southampton) and Dr. Sunil Manghani (University of Southampton)

The conference will feature a Doctoral colloquium where PhD students will have the opportunity to present and discuss their work with academic mentors. There will be sessions on several aspects of doctoral training including the research process, methodologies, publishing and doctoral examination.

 

Conference Topics and Tracks

All the above topics are acceptable themes of discussion by conference attendees as long as they establish linkages with global culture and creativity, design, innovation and enterprise. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

-       The management of meanings, values, and artworks in global markets

-       Economic, political, and technological consequences of creative activities

-       Knowledge consumption, publishing, and the Internet

-       Shared and contested standards and forms of knowledge ownership

-       Intellectual property in an era of global culture

-       Popular culture, multimedia, social media, virtual worlds and international mobility

-       Individual and collective identities and rising interconnectedness

-       Interactive cultural circulation, individualization, and spatially extended cultural relations beyond national borders

-       Entertainment, advertising, material and immaterial relations

-       Cultural and creative spaces: from the communities to the city and beyond to the global metropolis

-       Design, innovation and enterprise from the top to the bottom of the global pyramid

-       Globalization of cultural sectors: from art, media and design to software, museums and universities

-       Virtual globalisation and games related topics

-       Challenges of a global mono-culture

 

Additionally, we invite papers for any of the following four conference tracks that are specifically linked to the conference’s academic journal partnerships:

Track 1: Futures of gaming in art and design

Track 2: Global luxury consumption and production

Track 3: Global cultures of creativity and innovation

Track 4: Critical perspectives on global creative businesses

This conference aims to initiate discussions and debate on global cultural theories and practices in management, strategy, and organization identified with creativity, design, innovation and enterprise.

We invite prospective conference attendees to submit papers that include a broad range of global theories and cultural methodologies. Only contributions that make explicit links with the conference themes will be included.

 

Conference Venue and Location

Guildhall Winchester is a magnificent Victorian building in the heart of the city which provides the perfect setting for any unique and stylish event.

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