The First Session of International Cultural Administration Annual Meeting Held Successfully in UIBE
The first session of International Cultural Administration Annual Meeting was held at the conference room of Cheng Xin Building. Vice President of UIBE, Zhao Zhongxiu and Director Chen Wenling from the State Council attended the meeting.
The center topic was “cultural development and policy under globalization”, and there were 15 secondary topics such as “national cultural strategy”, “cultural regulation”, “cultural trade”, “art management”, “cultural heritage” and “tourism”. About 200 scholars from seven countries and regions around the world attended the meeting. The meeting was hosted by Professor Wu Chengzhong, Director of Culture and Recreational Industry Research Center of UIBE.
Vice President Zhao extended gratitude to the attending of scholars from both home and abroad in the ceremony speech. He pointed out that since the UIBE’s internationalization project started at 2009, the university has always devoted it to international cultural exchanges and cooperation. The university has held and organized many international meetings in different areas, which exerted extensive influences. The International Cultural Administration Annual Meeting is the highest level international academic meeting in cultural administration during the recent years. With its unique subject background and profound academic meaning, the meeting will certainly attract more students to join in the subject development and research, and the meeting will have significant impact on the establishment of academic platform for western and eastern exchanges and the internationalization progress. President Zhao hoped the meeting could help improve exchanges and friendship and advance academic science.
Dean Peng Xianggang from School of Public Administration introduce the subject feature and development of the Cultural Administration Major of SPA, and he hoped the attending scholars should fully take advantage of the meeting to extensively exchange academic ideas on the meeting topics, so as to contribute new ideas, policies and wisdom to the development of cultural administration of countries.
There was also an appointment ceremony held during the meeting for the first part-time researchers of Culture and Recreational Industry Research Center of UIBE. Dean Peng gave away appointment letters to the 15 researchers and took a group photo.
The meeting consisted of 6 parts, including “globalization and cultural development”, “globalization and cultural policy”, “cultural industry and creative industry management”, “cultural capital and arts management”, “cultural heritage and cultural resources” and “tourism and recreational management”. The organization committee received about 40 conference theses both from domestic scholars and foreign scholars. The committee selected 20 to share with attendees during the meeting. Professor Allen J. Scott, the world top scholar in cultural economy and regional cultural development policy, also the professor of SPA of University of California, made a speech with the title of “Beyond the Creative City: Cognitive-Cultural Economy and the New urbanism” at the beginning of the meeting. Professor Alfred Hornung from University of Mainz of Germany analyzed cultural issues administration of China and the US under globalization. Director JinYuanpu of Cultural Industry Research Center of Renmin University of China made a speech on “global localization and local globalization”, and Director XiongChengyu of National Cultural Industry Research Center of Tsinghua University made a speech on “China’s cultural development strategy under globalization”.
The meeting was hosted by UIBE and co-organized by SPA and School of English Studies. Dean Peng Xianggang of SPA, Director Xia Haiquan of International Exchanges and Cooperation Center and Director Zhang Xiaofeng of Party Committee Propaganda Department attended the meeting.
