ICCPR 2008

ICCPR 2008 aims to provide an outlet for an interdisciplinary and international exploration of the meaning, function and impact of cultural policies. Cultural policy is understood as the promotion or prohibition of cultural practices and values by governments, corporations, other institutions and individuals. Such policies may be explicit, in that their objectives are openly described as cultural, or implicit, in that their cultural objectives are concealed or described in other terms. The historical range is not limited to any given period, but the ICCPR is primarily concerned with material that is relevant to the contemporary world and which contributes to a fruitful international exchange of ideas.

ICCPR 2008 acknowledges the multiplicity of meanings around the idea of culture and the inter-relationship of these meanings. However, whilst it takes a broad view of culture, encompassing a wide range of signifying practices that include the products of the media, the arts and various forms of government or religious display, ICCPR 2008 will attempt to maintain a focus on policies relating to culture as symbolic communication rather than culture in the anthropological sense as 'a whole way of life'.

ICCPR 2008 addresses itself to all those with a serious intellectual interest in how and why different agencies attempt to work on the cultural practices and values of individuals and societies.

ICCPR 2008 welcomes participants to Istanbul , the biggest city in Europe and the former capital of three empires (Eastern Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman); and a historical centre of Islam, Orthodox Christianity and Eastern Christianity. The city also benefits from being at the meeting point of two continents and different cultures. These features make the city culturally one of the most important places in the world. The venue of the conference is Yeditepe University , which was established in 1996 and situated at 26 August Campus, on the Asian side of Istanbul.