ICCPR 2026 – Ottawa

• Cultural policy (local, national, and international)
• Cultural policy development and implementation
• Cultural policy and regional development
• Cultural policy and social dynamics (religion, secularism, migration, etc.)
• Cultural policy and sustainability
• Cultural and creative industry policies
• Arts and heritage policies
• Arts education
• Evaluation of cultural policy
• Cultural policy in the digital age
• Cultural management and cultural policy
• Cultural policy, international development and cooperation
• Comparative cultural policy
• Intellectuals and cultural policy
• Theories and concepts of cultural policy
• Culture and international relations
• Historiographies of cultural policy
• Cultural diplomacy

Professor Jonathan Paquette, School of Political Studies. Research Chair on Cultural Heritage Policies in the Francophone World, University of Ottawa.

• Professor Julie Bérubé, Department of Administrative Sciences, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). Research Chair on Culture and Creative Economies of Regions.
• Christopher Gunter, associate professor. Elisabeth-Bruyère School of Social Innovation, Saint Paul University, Ottawa.

• Naomie Allard, coordinator, Research Chair on Culture and Creative Economies of Regions (UQO).
• Alexandre Schiele, PhD, researcher, Research Chair on Cultural Heritage Policies in the Francophone World, University of Ottawa.
• Gabriela Sanchez, PhD, researcher, Research Chair on Cultural Heritage Policies in the Francophone World, University of Ottawa.

ICCPR 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 acknowledges the multiplicity of meanings around the idea of culture and the inter-relationship of these meanings. However, while 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 will attempt to maintain a focus on policies relating to culture as symbolic communication rather than culture in the anthropological sense of “a whole way of life”.

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

The main function of ICCPR is to promote, in association with the International Journal of Cultural Policy, a biennial research conference of high academic standards in different parts of the world.

The conference provides an opportunity for researchers to present papers that reflect on cultural policy from any relevant discipline, provided they make an original academic contribution to the field. Proposals for papers are rigorously assessed by at least two members of the Scientific Committee (see below). Papers based on research that is primarily “instrumental” (such as market research) or on research designed for the advocacy of a preconceived institutional position are not normally accepted. This does not exclude applied research of high academic quality, particularly research that advances methodology.

Chair

• Sigrid Røyseng, Norwegian Academy of Music/ BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway.

Vice-chair

• Bjarki Valtysson, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Members

• Gonzalo Enríquez-Soltero, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
• Kiwong Hong, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea
• Linnéa Lindsköld, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Sweden
• Nabuko Kawashima, Department of Economics, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
• Hye-Kyung Lee, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
• Jonathan Paquette, School of Political Studies, Collège des chaires de recherche sur le monde francophone, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Marcin Poprawski, Humak, University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
• Arturo Rodríguez Morató, University of Barcelona, Spain
• Aron Weigl, EDUCULT, Institute of Cultural Policy and Cultural Management, Vienna, Austria

1999 Bergen, Norway

2002 Wellington, New Zealand

2004 Montréal, Canada

2006 Vienna, Austria

2008 Istanbul, Türkiye

2010 Jyväskylä, Finland

2012 Barcelona, Spain

2014 Hildesheim, Germany

2016 Seoul, South Korea

2018 Tallinn, Estonia

2020/2021 Kyoto, Japan

2022 Antwerp, Belgium

2024 Warsaw, Poland