Upcoming events
9 March 2024
Erasmus University Rotterdam – Public lecture on media use and its social ramifications
Marc Verboord of the Dutch INVENT team will give a public lecture: Into the looking-glass world? Media use and its social ramifications in the Aula of Erasmus University Rotterdam on Friday, March 9, at 16.00 hrs. The inaugural lecture can also be followed via a live stream: https://eur.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9c1ebccd-b01b-4c9f-a845-b0a1009c243e
13 March 2024
Presentation for library professionals: New technologies and the public library in the light of comparative sociological research
Riie Heiikilä of the Finnish INVENT team will give a presentation for library professionals on The redistribution of cultural capital in the era of algorithms: New technologies and the public library in the light of comparative sociological research. The event is organized by the Regional State Administrative Agency in Varkaus, Finland.
21 March 2024
Conference presentation about structural topic model of open answers
Ossi Sirkka of the Finnish Invent team will present a paper at the Annual Conference of the Westermarck Society in Kuopio, Finland on 21 March 2024, titled Structural topic modeling of open answers and tools for validating computational analysis”
16 May 2024
Presentation for library professionals – User perspectives on the new Finnish flagship library Oodi
Riie Heiikilä and Ossi Sirrkka will give a presentation for library professionals, titled: Making sense of online conversations on the new Finnish flagship library Oodi. The event is organized by the Regional Development Taskforce and Lahti City Library.
23 May 2024
Meeting Haifa Center for German and European Studies
INVENT team member Tally Katz Gerro will give presentation – Societal values of culture in the EU: Findings from the INVENT project – for the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES)
27-30 August 2024
16th ESA Conference – Tension, Trust and Transformation
The INVENT team will present multiple papers at the 16th biennial conference of the European Sociological Association in Porto, Portugal.
Past events
8-9 February 2024
NEFCA – 24 Hours of Communication Science
Marc Verboord of the Dutch INVENT team delivered a paper on Media use, cultural orientations and support for populist political parties: Comparing nine
European countries – at the 2024 annual “Etmaal” meeting of the Netherlands and Flanders Communication Association (NeFCA) in Rotterdam.
7 February 2024
Presentation hosted by Multimedia Cultural Centre and Youth House Split
Mirko Petrić of the Croatian INVENT team gave a presentation Why finance culture and how to do it? Hosted at the Multimedia Cultural Centre and the Youth House Split, with support from KLFM radio, the live event attracted a significant audience of between 30 to 40 individuals, marking a considerable turnout for an expert meeting.
31 January 2024
Online lecture and debate hosted by the Croatian Sociological Association and the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Science
Mirko Petrić of the Croatian INVENT team delivered an online lecture – How citizens of nine European countries perceive inequalities in culture?. The event was organized by the Croatian Sociological Association and the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences and was attended by sociologists, anthropologists, and cultural policy experts from four Croatian cities.
11 January 2024
INVENT presentation on Understandings of culture and their social correlates
Semi Purhoneb and Ossi Sirkka of the Finnish INVENT team presented a paper, titled Understandings of culture and their social correlates at TaSTi intensive seminar “Culture, Politics, and Power: A Joint Sociological Symposium”, Varala, Tampere, Finland.
30 November 2023
Diversity Lab in Rotterdam
Together with several other EUR researchers, Susanne Janssen of the Dutch INVENT team co-hosted the Diversity Lab within the framework of the Rotterdam Vital Cities and Citizens Initiative. This collaborative effort brought together representatives from diverse cultural, educational, and sports organizations in Rotterdam, aiming to address the challenges of diversity in their respective professional spheres. The session commenced with the presentation of research findings, paving the way for an interactive group dialogue where participants shared experiences and discussed real-life scenarios. Remarkably, the exchange revealed a wealth of mutual support and diverse perspectives among the organizations, proving instrumental in fostering innovative approaches to diversity issues. The cross-sectoral composition of the group underscored the distinct strategies employed by different organizations, resulting in valuable insights and outcomes from the discussions.
13-15 September 2023
Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association
Valentina Petrović of the Swiss INVENT team presented a paper – Who votes for the New Left? Evidence from two Post-Yugoslav Successor States – at the Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association in Genoa, Italy.
31 August - 2 September 2024
ESA Midterm conference -New Perspectives and Interventions: The state of play in cultural sociology and sociology of the arts
INVENT team members delivered several presentations at the Midterm conference of the ESA Sociology of Arts and Sociology of Culture Research Networks in Sofia, Bulgaria:
- Cultural practices and socio-digital inequalities in Europe: empirical findings and theoretical considerations by Predrag Cvetičanin, Lucas Page Pereira, Mirko Petrić, Inga Tomić-Koludrović, Frédéric Lebaron, Željka Zdravković:
- The relevance of exploratory approaches in cultural policy: analysing understandings of culture in Croatia by Mirko Petrić, Inga Tomić-Koludrović, Augustin Derado & Iva Žunić:
Cf the full programme here.
3 - 5 July 2023
EUPOP2023 – The Darkness Within Conference
INVENT team members Neta Yodovich (UK team), Eva Myrczik and Franziska Marquart (Danish team) are giving a presentation #Solidaritywithsanna: The Drama of Mediated Scandals based on INVENT data scraping insights at EUPOP2023 – The Darkness Within conference at the University of Stirling.
21 June 2023
EU Policy Workshop
INVENT team members Susanne Janssen and Marc Verboord (Netherlands team) presented findings related to culture and wellbeing at the Online workshop: Societal value of Arts and Culture and the impact on Well-being, Mental Health and Inclusion for all. INVENT presented in the session on societal values and the impact of cultural policies in Europe, alongside sister projects MESOC and Uncharted.
19-20 May 2023
9th Croatian Sociological Association National Congress
Members of the Croatian INVENT team, Željka Zdravković, Iva Žunić, and Augustin Derado, presented their paper Turizam i nejednakosti u Hrvatskoj: analiza komentara na mrežnoj platformi Reddit /Tourism and inequalities: An analysis of the comments on the network platform Reddit at the 9th Croatian Sociological Association’s National Congress in Split on May 20th, 2023
19-20 May 2023
9th Croatian Sociological Association National Congress
Members of the Croatian and Serbian INVENT team, Mirko Petrić, Željka Zdravković, Inga Tomić-Koludrović and Predrag Cvetičanin, presented their Kulturne prakse i društvene nejednakosti /Cultural practices and social inequalities: Croatia in the European context at the 9th Croatian Sociological Association’s National Congress in Split on May 19th, 2023
19-20 May 2023
9th Croatian Sociological Association National Congress
Members of the Croatian INVENT team, Mirko Petrić, Augustin Derado, Iva Žunić, and Inga Tomić-Koludrović , presented their paper Generacijske razlike u shvaćanju kulture u Hrvatskoj /Generational differences in understanding of culture in Croatia at the 9th Croatian Sociological Association’s National Congress in Split on May 19th, 2023
27-28 April 2023
INVENT Conference
The INVENT project will hold its second and final Conference in Barcelona, Spain, on 27-28 April 2023.
9-10 March 2023
MESOC Conference: Exploring and Assessing the Societal Impacts of Culture
INVENT’s sister-project MESOC is hosting its final conference Exploring and Assessing the Societal Impacts of Culture in Paris (Césure – 13 rue Santeuil). Leader of the INVENT consortium Susanne Janssen will be joining a panel discussion between Horizon 2020’s sister-projects MESOC, UNCHARTED & INVENT.
16 February 2023
Transatlantic perspectives on Culture and Distinction
The INVENT project will be giving a presentation entitled “INVENT project: an empirical and multi-method approach to culture in Europe” at the seminar Transatlantic perspectives on Culture and Distinction. The seminar takes place at IDHE.S ENS Paris-Saclay (4 avenue des Sciences – 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette), where our French team members Frédéric Lebaron and Lucas Page Pereira will present from 16:00-18:00. Attend the seminar via Zoom by clicking on the button.
12-13 January 2023
Tensions in Societal Values of Culture: Can value conflicts be managed or mitigated?
INVENT sister project UNCHARTED organized a symposium featuring presentations and interactive reflections on the conceptual findings produced by the UNCHARTED Consortium, which interrogates contemporary tensions in the societal values of culture. The project took place at Goldsmiths, University of London. Susanne Janssen, Mirko Petric and Neta Yodovich participated in the event on behalf of the INVENT team.
19–22 October 2022
ECREA 9th European Communication Conference
INVENT will be presenting the paper “European Citizens’ Digital Cultural Participation” at ECREA’s 9th European Communication Conference in the Audience and Reception Studies section. The paper is co-authored by the Danish team (Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Franziska Marquart), the Dutch team (Susanne Janssen, Marc Verboord) and the Spanish team (Giuseppe Lamberti).
19–22 October 2022
ECREA 9th European Communication Conference
INVENT will be presenting the paper “Institutional trust and media use in times of political turmoil: a cross-national comparison of nine European countries” at ECREA’s 9th European Communication Conference in the Political Communication section. The paper is co-authored by the Dutch team (Marc Verboord, Susanne Janssen), the Danish team (Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Franziska Marquart) and the Spanish team (Jordi López-Sintas).
19–22 October 2022
ECREA 9th European Communication Conference
INVENT will be presenting the paper “Cultural participation in a digitized society: Comparing repertoires of online and offline cultural participation and their social correlates across Europe” at ECREA’s 9th European Communication Conference in the Digital Culture and Communication section. The paper is co-authored by the Dutch team (Susanne Janssen, Marc Verboord), the Danish team (Nete Nørgaard Kristensen) and the Finnish team (Riie Heikkilä).
6–8 October 2022
INVENT Team meeting
The INVENT consortium will be gathering in Zadar, Croatia to discuss the progress of the project.
22 September 2022
ICCPR 2022 – 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research
INVENT will be presenting the paper “Post-pandemic forms of mobility in culture and transformations in cultural policy” at the 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. The paper is co-authored by one of our Serbian team members (Dea Vidović).
20 September 2022
ICCPR 2022 – 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research
Session: Cultural Policy and Sustainability. INVENT will be presenting the paper “Beyond green: towards ecological politics of mobility in arts and culture” at the 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. The paper is co-authored by the Serbian team (Goran Tomka, Višnja Kisić).
20 September 2022
ICCPR 2022 – 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research
Members of the INVENT Project from the Serbian team, Goran Tomka and Višnja Kisić will be participating on the panel: Imaging postcapitalist cultural policies (UK & Serbia) at the 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
31 August–2 September 2022
ESA RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins
Session: Culture, Belonging and Integration. INVENT will be presenting the paper “Understanding the meanings of culture: A comparison between the Spanish and British societies” at European Sociological Association’s (ESA) RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins. The paper is co-authored by the Spanish team (Jinju Kim, Jordi Lopez-Sintas) and the UK team (Neta Yodovich, Tally-Katz Gerro).
9 September 2022
Croatian Cultural Policy Event
Mirko Petrić, gave a lecture in Croatian entitled “Oteta kultura – što građani smatraju kulturom a što im vlasti nude” (in translation: “Hijacked culture – what the citizens consider as culture and what is offered to them by the authorities”), at the Festival “Nosi se – Kolektivni protagonist” (in translation; Festival “En Vogue – The Collective Protagonist”, organized by the arts collective TeatRRO Verdi in Zadar. The topic of the lecture were the discrepancies between the citizens’ perceptions of what culture is and what should be funded in culture and the cultural policy priorities of European governments in the last two decades. The audience of this cultural policy event included theatre performers, independent cultural sector practitioners, journalists, and interested citizens.
31 August–2 September 2022
ESA RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins
Session: Culture, Belonging and Integration. INVENT will be presenting the paper “Religiosity and cultural practices: a comparative study of five European societies” at European Sociological Association’s (ESA) RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins, at the University of Portsmouth, UK. The paper is co-authored by the Serbian team (Danijela Gavrilović, Nemanja Krstić) and the French team (Frédéric Lebaron).
31 August–2 September 2022
ESA RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins
Session: Marginality, Communication and Trust. INVENT will be presenting the paper “Bottom-Up Conceptions of Culture: A Cross-National Comparison across Europe” at European Sociological Association’s (ESA) RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins, at the University of Portsmouth, UK. The paper is co-authored by the Finnish team (Semi Purhonen, Ossi Sirkka), the Dutch team (Susanne Janssen, Marc Verboord), the Danish team (Eva Pina Myrczik), the Swiss team (Simon Walo, Valentina Petrović), the Serbian team (Višnja Kisić; Goran Tomka) and the French team (Philippe Bonnet).
31 August–2 September 2022
ESA RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins
Session: Marginality, Communication and Trust. INVENT will be presenting the paper “Institutional trust and media use in times of political turmoil: a cross-national comparison of nine European countries” at European Sociological Association’s (ESA) RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins, at the University of Portsmouth, UK. The paper is co-authored by the Dutch team (Marc Verboord, Susanne Janssen), the Danish team (Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Franziska Marquart), and the Spanish team (Jordi López-Sintas).
31 August–2 September 2022
ESA RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins
Session: Cultural capitals, cultural practices. INVENT will be presenting the paper “In culture we are all equal? Leisure activities and social inequalities in nine European countries in the times of covid-19” at European Sociological Association’s (ESA) RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins, at the University of Portsmouth, UK. The paper is co-authored by the Croatian team (Željka Zdravković, Inga Tomić-Koludrović, Mirko Petrić), and the French team (Lucas Page Pereira).
31 August–2 September 2022
ESA RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins
Session: Cultural capitals, cultural practices. INVENT will be presenting the paper “Do social inequalities influence different types of cultural practices in the same way?” at European Sociological Association’s (ESA) RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins, at the University of Portsmouth, UK. The paper is co-authored by the Serbian team (Predrag Cvetičanin), the French team (Frédéric Lebaron; Lucas Page Pereira) and the Croatian team (Željka Zdravković, Inga Tomić-Koludrović).
31 August–2 September 2022
ESA RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins
Session: Cultural capitals, cultural practices. INVENT will be presenting the paper “The influence of cultural capital on the perception of globalizing processes in nine European countries” at European Sociological Association’s (ESA) RN07 mid-term conference: Culture(s) on the Margins, at the University of Portsmouth, UK. The paper is co-authored by the Croatian team (Inga Tomić-Koludrović; Mirko Petrić; Željka Zdravković), the Serbian team (Predrag Cvetičanin), and the UK team (Tally Katz-Gerro).
30 June 2022
INVENT members Sylvia Holla and Susanne Janssen present at conference “The Value of Culture after Corona”
On 30 June, 2022, the Boekman Foundation and the University of Utrecht co-hosted the conference “The Value of Culture after Corona”, in the Academy Building in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Guest of Honor was the Dutch state secretary of Culture and Media, Gunay Uslu, who opened the conference. The conference was attended by almost 200 cultural scholars, policymakers and practitioners. In addition to a keynote lecture by Prof. Eleonara Belfiore, the conference featured nine presentations of state-of-the-art research by Dutch scholars. INVENT team members Sylvia Holla and Susanne Janssen were invited to present findings from their big-data-analysis of online petitions in the field of culture by Dutch citizens and organisations. Their presentation (in Dutch) was entitled “Opkomen voor cultuur in turbulente tijden: online petities en burgerinitiatieven voor cultuur tijdens Covid-19″. Click here, to view the full conference programme.
2-3 June 2022
Everyday Creativity in (Post) Socialism – Interdisciplinary Workshop on Gender and Creativity Research
INVENT presented the paper “Cultural consumption and leisure time of men and women in post-transitional Croatia” at the conference Everyday Creativity in (Post) Socialism – Interdisciplinary Workshop on Gender and Creativity Research held in Graz, Austria. The paper is co-authored by the Croatian team (Inga Tomić-Koludrović; Mirko Petrić; Željka Zdravković,).
20 May 2022
INVENT coordinator Susanne Janssen presents at expert meeting of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
On 20 June, 2022, the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences hosted a discussion meeting on the “De macht en onmacht van meerstemmigheid – Hoe maken we meerstemmigheid productief” (Power and impotence of polyphony: how do we make diversity productive?”). Susanne Janssen delivered a keynote presentation (in Dutch) entitled “Veranderende visies op culturele diversiteit en de omgang daarmee in Nederland” (Changing perspectives on cultural diversity and how to deal with it in the Netherlands). Click here for the full programme.
5 - 7 May 2022
INVENT Team meeting
The INVENT consortium gathered in Zurich, Switzerland for its first in-person team meeting. The programme featured plenary sessions and small group discussions regarding future and ongoing data collections and communication and dissemination tasks and activities. Read more about the team meeting in the Newsletter II
30 SEPTEMBER 2021
INVENT presents at Academy of Sociology Conference
This year’s congress of the German Academy of Sociology took place from Sep. 29 to Oct. 01. As part of the session about “European Integration, Identity, and Populism”, INVENT team members presented results from their ongoing project. The presentation is entitled “Does culture foster integration? How the perception of European culture is related to support for European integration” and the authors are Jörg Rössel, Valentina Petrovic, Tally Katz-Gerro, Sebastian Weingartner, Pilar López, and Simon Walo. The session was held online on Thursday, Sep. 30 at 11:30.
23-24 SEPTEMBER 2021
INVENT CONFERENCE
Capturing the societal values of culture: Towards inclusive and participatory European cultural policies
INVENT hosted its first conference at Erasmus University Rotterdam: Capturing the societal values of culture: Towards inclusive and participatory European cultural policies. Click here for more information.
1 SEPTEMBER 2021
15th ESA Conference
INVENT team members presented at the 15th edition of the European Sociological Association Conference on September 1st, 2021.
18-19 August 2021
Nordmedia Conference
The Danish team presented a paper at the Nordmedia 2021 conference, entitled #Kultur – Mapping conversation about culture in the Danish Twittersphere.
2-3 July 2021
On July 2nd and 3rd, UK INVENT team members presented at an online conference in Japan entitled “Smart Cities and Creativity: Towards a New Intersection of Urban and Culture Theory – A Challenge after the Pandemic.” It explored fundamental questions relating to a smart city through the lens of arts, culture and creativity.
29-30 June 2021
The Croatian INVENT team gave a presentation entitled “What are Cultural Resources? The importance of teaching for their sustainability” at a workshop “Why is it important to open windows?”, organized by the Croatian national Education and Teacher Training Agency.
11 May 2021
Finnish INVENT team members 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.
13-15 April 2021
The UK INVENT team members 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“
23-26 March 2021
Members of the INVENT project participated in the 11th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research entitled “Resilience of Cultural Policy.”
They gave a panel presentation titled “Cultural Policy in the Age of Globalization, Digitalization, Mass-Migrations and Increasing Social Inequalities: New Concepts, New Approaches, new Methodologies”
10-12 March 2021
Croatian INVENT project team members participated in the 8th mid-term conference of the European Sociological Association’s Sociology of Culture research network (ESA RN7), “En-Compass-ing Culture(s): Beyond East/West and South/North”. The conference was hosted by the University of Helsinki.
10 March 2021
The coordinator of INVENT and the coordinator of UNCHARTED participated in a panel discussion on the manifold opportunities for cultural research in the context of Horizon Europe. The panel was convened by the incoming chair of the ESA Arts Network, Christopher Mathieu, as part of the ESA-ARTS conference The Social Effects of Art in Helsinki.
3 March 2021
The project leaders of INVENT, MESOC, and UNCHARTED presented and discussed their respective projects during a panel debate on The Social Impacts of Cultural Policies. The debate was organized in the framework of the online workshop hosted by the MESOC project.
19 February 2020
Clubture event
The Croatian INVENT team members presented at an event of the Clubture Association in Croatia on February 19th, 2020.
6-7 February 2020
The UK INVENT members presented the framework of the INVENT project in a talk titled “The New European Agenda for Culture and cultural stratification in the age of digital transformations” at a symposium titled “State of the Arts: Towards a new cultural policy for the digital age” organized by Gaîté Lyrique and The University of the Arts, ZHdK, Zurich, in Paris.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No