Events and meetings
INVENT CONFERENCE ROTTERDAM – Session IV
What cultural activity did/do you miss most during the COVID-19 pandemic? The INVENT team posed this question to people living in nine different European countries. Curious about the outcome of our research and the relation between culture and wellbeing? Join Session 4 of the INVENT Conference 2021. Register here. A prime interest of INVENT is the way culture can contribute
INVENT CONFERENCE ROTTERDAM – Session III
Are globalizing European cultures moving towards more inclusive or divided societies? Should we be thinking about cosmopolitanism differently altogether? Join Session 3 of the INVENT Conference 2021 and engage with our discussion. Register here. The mega-trend of globalization facilitates a move wherein European citizens tend to become more cosmopolitan in their cultural identity, tastes, and preferences. The INVENT project approaches
INVENT approach to societal values of culture disseminated to teachers and cultural professionals during the summer of 2021 (Croatia)
Croatian INVENT team co-leader Mirko Petrić participated in two events during the summer months of 2021, in which he presented and highlighted some of the ideas which are central to the INVENT project agenda to teachers and cultural professionals. Petrić gave a presentation entitled “What are Cultural Resources? The importance of teaching for their sustainability” at a workshop “Why is
INVENT presentation at NordMedia 2021 on the Danish cultural Twittersphere
On Thursday, August 19, the Danish team presents the paper “#kultur – Mapping conversations about culture in the Danish Twittersphere“ at the biannual Nordmedia conference, held online due to the ongoing Covid19-situation. The study is based on the Danish data from the first phase of the INVENT data scraping and investigates to what extent Danish news organizations and cultural journalists
Serbian INVENT team on ESA 2021 conference
The INVENT team from Serbia, together with Croatian and French colleagues, presents four studies at this year’s conference of the European Sociological Association. Predrag Cvetičanin and Inga Tomić-Koludrović focus on the impact of growing societal disparities on culture. Following Bourdieu, they examine how the conceptions of culture and perceptions of the social world (perceptions of the impact of social inequalities
Online Summer School on Media, Inequalities and Social Change
Current and Emerging approaches to Social In-/Exclusion in Media Studies Members of the Dutch INVENT team will be hosting the annual summer school of the Dutch national Research School for Media Studies (RMeS). The summer school will take place online from June 21-23 and features keynote presentations, seminars, and workshops by renowned scholars in the field. Approximately 40 PhD candidates
Does culture foster integration?
INVENT paper accepted at ESA Conference 2021 Our paper „Does Culture foster Integration? How the Perception of European Culture is Related to Support for European Integration.” has been accepted for presentation at the 2021 congress of the European Sociological Association in Barcelona. The paper is based on brand new data collected in the UK, Switzerland and Spain. Authors are Jörg
Conversations about culture in the Danish Twittersphere
The Danish INVENT team will present the first country-specific results of the project’s data-scraping efforts at the 2021 NordMedia online conference in August of this year. The presentation on “#kultur – Mapping conversations about culture in the Danish Twittersphere” will focus on how Danish citizens use Twitter in relation to arts and culture. It also provides a methodological report highlighting
Presentation of Invent project at Tampere University
The multiplicity of the understandings of culture and why it matters for cultural policy and politics Finnish team members Semi Purhonen, Riie Heikkilä, Ossi Sirkka and Sara Sivonen gave a presentation titled “The multiplicity of the understandings of culture and why it matters for cultural policy and politics” in the Sociology Research Seminar at Tampere University 11th of May. The
Presentation by Neta Yodovich at BSA-conference
Dr Neta Yodovich of the UK team presented a paper at the 70th annual conference of the British Sociological Association. “Is it a cultural greeting now to begin with ‘can you hear me’?”: The use of digital platforms during the pandemic and what it means for our future“. The paper featured key findings of the exploratory survey that was held
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