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Dr. Sacha Kagan

2012

2011

  • Guest speaker: "Art and Sustainability - die Kunst der Nachhaltigkeit" - at the HfbK (Hamburg's art school), Hamburg, November 2011.
  • Guest participant at "Tipping Point India", Bangalore (India), November 2011.
  • Speech on “Gardens and aesthetics of sustainability” at the Cultura21 Forum: “The Cultivation of Ecology/-ies: gardens and complexity in rural and urban areas”, Studio Kunst und Landschaft, Hude (Oldenburg), September 2011.
  • Papers presentation: “Connecting Patterns: Sustainability and the Culture of Complexity”, + “Some roles of artists and inter-/trans-disciplinary projects in the emergence of sustainable creative cities”. European Sociological Association (ESA) 10th Conference: “Social Relations in Turbulent Times”, Geneva, September 2011.
  • Guest speaker: "Aesthetics of Sustainability: Fostering a sensibility to complexity" ; & systems thinking game facilitator - at the "Midi de la Recherche" in the framework of the "Chaire Arts & Sustainable Enterprise" at the ICN Business School, Nancy (France), June 2011.
  • Guest speaker: “Sustainability as the handling of complexity: an overview about art and sustainability” - "Can and do European Capitals of Culture contribute to a Culture of Sustainability?", a meeting organized jointly by Poiein kai Prattein and Cultura21 Nordic at the Universität der Künste Berlin, May 2011.
  • Guest speaker at the "Atelier Art, Ecologie & Développement Durable" organized by COAL and the French Ministry of Ecology. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France), March 2011. [PDF of the program]

2010

  • Guest speaker: "Wealth and Sustainability - Which wealth for which sustainability?" Open University, 'Ready to Change' Forum, within the framework of the Sostenuto project: "Thinking culture as a factor of economic and social innovation”. Bunker, Ljubljana (Slovenia), December 2010. [website] [PDF of the presentation's text] [video of the presentation]
  • Research Session Coordinator: “the cultures of unsustainability". European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network Sociology of Culture, 3rd mid-term Conference: “Culture and the Making of Worlds”. October 2010, Università Bocconi, Milan (Italy). And paper presentation: From the Unsustainable Creative Class to the Sustainable Creative City: An Emerging Shift in Cultural Policies? (October 14, 2010). ESA Research Network Sociology of Culture Midterm Conference: Culture and the Making of Worlds, October 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1692189 
  • Workshop Coordinator: “Sustainable Creative Cities: The role of the arts in globalized urban context”. 4th Connecting Civil Societies of Asia and Europe Conference: “Changing Challenges, New Ideas”. An official side-event of the ASEM8 Summit. October 2010, Brussels (Belgium).
  • Presentation ('World Café' format) of the Karamoja campaign. "Von der Internationalisierung der Hochschule zur Transkulturellen Wissenschaft". InternationaleFrauen Universität und Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, September 2010, Lüneburg.
  • Guest speaker: “Walking as art-science and as action-research for social transformation”. Festival Kanal, September 2010, Brussels.
  • Opening Speech: “Walking and Places: building transformations”. 1st International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST), August 2010, Gabrovo (Bulgaria). [website]

2009

  • Member of the Expert Panel of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF): conference “Culture|Futures: The transition to an ecological age” (alongside the UN Climate Change conference). Danish Cultural Institute, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (Denmark), December 2009. [website]
  • Guest speaker-participant: "Qué  TAL ? - Transdisciplinary Action-Research & Literacy". 2009 Summit of the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE): "Towards a Paradigm of Creative Education for the 21st Century". Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, Newcastle (UK), October-November 2009. [website]
  • Guest speaker: "arts and cultures of sustainability" + "art, social change and research". Europe-Latin-American Symposium "Focus on Art for Social Transformation: Art as a catalyst for Political, Economic, Social and Environmental Development". European Center for the Arts Hellerau, Dresden (Germany), May 2009.
  • Panelist: Panel Discussion on "Our responsibility for threatened indigenous people in our globalized world". Native and Indigenous Film Fest. Mazarykiana Brunensis Universitas & Moravské Zemské Muzeum, Brno (Czech Republic), May 2009. [website]
  • Panel organizer and paper presentation. Panel: "Pastoralism, sustainability and the complexity of humanitarian crises in Africa: comparative analyses and case studies". Paper: "The Karamoja Syndrome: Transdisciplinary systems research informing policy and advocacy". World Conference of Humanitarian Studies. University of Groningen (Netherlands), February 2009. [www.humanitarianstudies2009.org]
  • Panelist (debate on "Re-Routing Mobility") and guest speaker (on "Re-Writing the Future"). Burning Ice, Festival-Conference on art and climate change. KAAI Theater, Brussels (Belgium), January 2009. [Burning Ice website]
  • Panel moderator: "The multifaceted impact of climate change: pastoralism". Conference: "Climate Change and Security in Africa", organized by EGMONT, ACTED, CERI and CEAN. CERI (Sciences Po Paris), January 2009.

2008

    • Debate Moderator: "What future for pastoralist societies in East Africa?" International Conference: "The future of traditional societies in Africa: The situation of the Karamoja region of Uganda". University of Groningen in collaboration with ACTED. Groningen (Netherlands), November 2008.
    • Paper (Book discussion): Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures. "Arts, Culture and the Public Sphere: Expressive and Instrumental Values In Economic and Sociological Perspectives." Joint conference of the Arts RN and Culture RN of the ESA. Venezia (Italy), November 2008. [www.artculturevenice2008.org]
    • Coordinator: International Conference "European Awareness of Sustainability in Africa: Issues of Pastoralism". Leuphana Universität Lüneburg in collaboration with ACTED. Lüneburg (Germany), October 2008. [www.karamoja.eu]
    • Moderator: "Climate for Change: Sustainable and Creative Solutions. Food, Shelter, Mobility and Clothing: How does climate change affect our basic needs and which sustainable solutions are we looking for?". Asia-Europe Dialogue on Arts, Culture & Climate Change. International Conference at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (China), October 2008. [http://www.culture360.org/artandclimatechange/]
    • Participant: TippingPoint Germany 2008. Open Space conference at the PIK (Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung), Postdam (Germany), September 2008. [http://www.britishcouncil.de/tippingpoint/]
    • Guest Lecturer: On Sustainability and the Arts, at the HKU (Utrecht School of the Arts), Utrecht (The Netherlands), September 2008.
    • Guest speaker: about the film "Land of Thorns" by Steffen Keulig and Sacha Kagan. 3e Salon international des Initiatives de Paix. Paris (France), May 2008. [http://www.decennie.org/documents/Salon3/fr/films.html]
    • Panelist: "Indigenous livestock breeds and livelihoods in marginal areas. From 'destroyers of the environment' to custodians of biodiversity: How can pastoralists change their image?" Planet Diversity: World Congress on the Future of Food and Agriculture. Bonn (Germany), May 2008. [www.planet-diversity.org]
    • Panelist: "Greening the Arts: A Symposium to Explore a Role for the Arts in Creating a Sustainable World". Participation by videoconferencing (to reduce carbon emissions). Level Green Institute & the US Initiative for the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development. April 2008, Ithaca (New York, USA). 
    • Guest Lecturer: On Systems Thinking, Arts, Cultures and Sustainability. On Systems Thinking and  the Karamoja Awareness Raising Campaign. Geneva University of Art and Design, CCC Program. Geneva, Switzerland, April 2008. [http://www.ccc-programme.org]
    • Workshop coordinator: Karamoja Campaign (with ACTED). Universities of Bordeaux (France) and Groningen (The Netherlands). March 2008.
    • Plenary speech: "Arts and Intercultural Competence for Sustainability: The Case of Dance." Guest Speech for the launch of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue in Lithuania, International Interdisciplinary Conference "The Dynamics of Intercultural Dialogue in Lithuania and Europe: Experience, Practice, Prospects". National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius. March 2008.

    2007 

    • Workshop coordinator:"The win-win strategy of systems thinking: A workshop based on games for business beyond competition". 2. DSI Konferenz: Business Case for Sustainability. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. November 2007. [http://www.businesscaseforsustainability.eu/ ] 
    • With Mercedes Baines, moderation: "Can Art Matter? Conference opening", The Art of Engagement Online Conference, Islands Institute, Vancouver, Canada (and online  [http://islandsinstitute.ning.com/ ]), October 2007. 
    • Presentation/Vortrag: "The 'Leuphana' culture: Unsustainability in university reforms". Cultura21 guest day: "The cultural Dimension of Sustainability - Towards an ecology of culture", Biennale di Venezia, Collateral Event: Joseph Beuys “Difesa della Natura – The Living Sculpture : Kassel 1977-Venezia 2007”. Thetis New Arsenal, Venezia (Italy), September 2007.
    • Guest contributor at the Berlin workshop on 'the next generation of European leaders', British Council Regional Direction for Western Europe and North America, Response Consulting Ltd, British Council Germany, Berlin, May 2007.
    • Paper/Vortrag: "Some Artists' Engagement in Sustainability: a Qualitative Empirical Survey in Hamburg". Conference of the ESA (European Sociological Association) Sociology of the Arts Research Network, Lüneburg, March 2007
    • Workshop coordinator: "Free Software and Copyleft: bottum up models for cultures of sustainability?", with Alexander Finkenberger, Oleg Koefoed, Christian Papilloud and Davide Brocchi. Conference of the ESA (European Sociological Association) Sociology of the Arts Research Network, Lüneburg, March 2007
    • Response to David Haley's Keynote Lecture "The Limits of Sustainability: The Art of Ecology", Conference of the ESA (European Sociological Association) Sociology of the Arts Research Network, Lüneburg, March 2007
    • Presentation/Vortrag: "the 'too many artists' syndrome ", Guest Speech, Teach-In Program: Crosskick - Critiques Croisées, Halle Für Kunst e.V. and CCC (Critical Curatorial Cybermedia) Programm of the Haute école d’Art et de design in Geneva, Lüneburg, January 2007

    2006 

    • Keynote Speech: "Recent trends in arts financing and the role of the cultural entrepreneur". International Conference "Ice-free Culture 2006: Towards a new discourse on the management of culture", Klaipeda, Lithuania, November - December 2006.
    • Workshop coordinator: "Learning Sustainability through Games". DSI Symposium, Lüneburg, November 2006
    • Paper/Vortrag: Sacha Kagan and Hans Abbing, "Polity Conventions in Art Worlds: the constitution of authority configurations", STP&A (Social Theory, Politicsand Arts) 32nd annual conference, Vienna (Austria), July 2006. Available online [http://www.culture.info/images/stories/kagan_abbing.doc ] 
    • Paper/Vortrag: Hans Abbing and Sacha Kagan, "Social Price ", ACEI (Association for Cultural Economics International) conference, Vienna (Austria), July 2006. Available online [http://www.xs4all.nl/~abbing/DOCeconomist/Social%20Price%20060621.doc ]

    2005

    • Lecture/Vortrag: "Formal and informal economic and social barriers in the art worlds", Forschungskolloquium: Kultur und Gesellschaft, Universität Lüneburg, November 2005
    • Paper/Vortrag: "The artist and social change: Entrepreneurship in Conventions", Sociology of the Arts Research Network, 7th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Torun (Poland), September 2005

    2004

    • Workshop Coordinator, together with Lyudmila Petrova and Jean-Francois Duroure: "Intercultural Dance for Social Cohesion", Erasmus Genootschap voor Cultuurmanagement, Rotterdam (The Netherlands), May 2004. Online Webseite [http://sachakagan.chez-alice.fr/interc1024.htm ]

    2003

    • Coordinator: Round Table on policies for migrating tsigane populations around Bordeaux, Sciences Po Bordeaux (France), May 2003

    2002

    • Presentation/Vortrag + Workshop Coordination with Hans Dieleman: "Het Kunst van Duurzaamheidscommunicatie", Workshop in Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, co-organized by AIDA (Atelier voor Interactive Duurzaamheid Activiteiten) and MilieuBeleid GemeenteWerken Rotterdam (The Netherlands), August 2002

    2001

    • Rencontres IEP-Sud-Ouest, Plenary Debate with the painter Paul Rebeyrolle, Bordeaux (France), January 2001

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