DECEMBER 7, 2022 - Governance of cultural diversity in Arabic countries: Challenges and new trends
Dec 7, 2022 — All day
The Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) is pleased to present this virtual event:
Governance of cultural diversity in Arabic countries: Challenges and new trends
Following the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity by UNESCO on November 2, 2001, the subject of governance through the prism of cultural diversity is widely relayed in political and media discourse as a major theme. Paradoxically, and despite the ratification of the UNESCO Charter by the Ministries of Culture of the countries of North Africa and the Middle East, we observe a set of multiple difficulties, inherent to the way in which this question is concretely integrated into public policies.
This conference aims to take an in-depth look at the contemporary socio-political processes that run through the practices and governance spaces of cultural diversity in the MENA region, in all their complexity. This will allow us to raise the crucial question of the capacity of the governance of cultural policies in the MENA region, as well as their purposes, to adapt to the paradigm of cultural diversity, and these mutations.
Our speaker
Professor Sonia Mbarek
Sonia Mbarek holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Tunis. She is currently a teacher-researcher specializing in human rights, copyright, governance and cultural diplomacy, and sociology of international relations.
Appointed Minister of Culture and Heritage Preservation in 2016, she initiated the program of decentralized cultural cooperation with civil society, the establishment of the program of consultative bridges with private and public actors in the sectors of (book and scenic arts), the initiative of the first law on the status of the artist in Tunisia, and the project to enhance cultural rights in disadvantaged areas (pilot cultural school) and in the prison environment. During her stay as a visiting scholar at the Collegium de Lyon (2019-2020), she explored new avenues of research on the issue of cultural governance in Tunisia and the Maghreb. Sonia Mbarek is now associated with the Max Weber Center and the Triangle Laboratory of the ENS de Lyon, where she conducts research on the development of democratic cultures, as well as on public policies of culture and cultural rights in the Arabic world.
Sonia Mbarek is also recognized as an internationally renowned opera artist. As such, she has been giving lectures, master classes and concerts of Arab-Andalusian singing in Tunisia and the Arab world, in Europe and the United States since 1990.
She has chaired the International Festival of Carthage (2014-2015), as well as the Tunisian Music Festival (2005-2008).She was an ambassador of Tunisian tourism (Ministry of Tourism) 2014.Consultant-Expert to the American NGO Albustan Seeds of culture for the promotion of Arabic culture and arts in the United States since 2012.
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