The call for papers (abstract) deadline is January 7, 2012. Related Videos are also Welcome.

Full papers are due at the Forum March 1, 2012. Authors selected will be notified by Jan. 30.

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Note for those wishing to only submit papers to the JUCR journal the deadline is April 15, 2012.

Theme: 

Arts Education and Crisis Management

The Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok is calling for papers, visual presentations, and workshops for our international Urban Culture Research Forum. The forum aims to encourage researchers, artists, and those involved in urban planning to seek cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural practices aimed at fostering the sustainable development of vibrant, livable cities and promoting cultural continuity. Presentations addressing one or more of the following issues are welcome:

1. •Education for art activism in areas of cultural, social, and environmental crises.
   

2. •Healing wounds – giving hope. Perspectives on trauma resolution and social rehabilitation through art intervention in disaster areas.
   

3. •Alternative media and urban protest - Artists confronting social and economic inequality.
   

4. •Art education promoting cultural sensitivity and dialogue.
   

5. •Urbanization at all costs? Artists and art institutions confronting urban cultural amnesia.
   

6. •Forever a ghetto? Models and methods of inter-disciplinary research on urban exclusion.
   

7. •Models of crises management in Asian art traditions and cultural documents.
   

8. •Cultural and religious traditions, rituals and symbols as media for survival, rehabilitation, and peace building.
   

9. •Promoting a culture of peace - Music, conflict transformation, and reconciliation.
   

10. •Our disappearing cultural heritage – Digitalization defeating document decay.
    

11. •Good bye youth clubs – welcome street violence. Reactions of Immigrant and disadvantaged youth in today’s urban crises.
    

12. •A generation at risk – Children’s art works mirroring today’s crises.
    

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Please also consider these suggestions of blueprints for art education and crises management beyond 2012 (as themes for panels or individual reports and research papers with special focus on Asian futures).

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2. •What is the place of art education in sustaining cultural distinctiveness in a globalized future?
   

3. •How can art education contribute to the survival of endangered art traditions?
   

4. •How can art education contribute to responsible and participatory citizenship?
   

5. •What is the place of art education in bridging cultural, ethnic, and social divisions?
   

6. •What will be the contribution of art education to the building a sustainable, sufficiency based creative economy and the establishment of new creative industries?
   

7. •How can artists create visions of urban sustainability and a new urbanity?
   

8. •What is the place of the arts in enabling urban communities to preserve and restore their historic character and cultural legacy?
   

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In short, how can we create spaces for everyone to participate in imaging and crafting our

eco-cities of the future?

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Please send abstracts (under 150 words) or visual presentation/workshop proposals (250 words) and a brief biography (100 words) to the forum staff at: urpcu -at- yahoo.com (replace “-at-” with “@”). Papers should be approximately 5000 words long, but not more than 7000 including the abstract, references and keywords (max 6). Images and figures are only accepted when they are necessary. Their captions need to be placed at the desired location in the paper, but sent separately. Low-resolution images may be located in the text and better quality originals sent independently for ease in emailing and high quality print when published. Submissions need to made utilizing the template .doc file on this website for standardization.

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Selected papers will be published in the forum’s proceedings. Each attendee will be allotted 15 minutes for their presentation followed by a 5-minute Q & A session.