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Twitter tag and livestream link

For those who cannot make it to the conference this time, to follow the event on Twitter use the hashtag #cleurope2015.

In addition, we are pleased to announce that the following sessions of the conference will be livestreamed:

Thursday 16 April 5.10–6.10pm	Keynote Alexandre Quintanilha – Inclusive knowledge… how?
Friday 17 April 9.30-11am	Policy-makers/stakeholder panel Room: MAL B36 Maureen Freely, Warwick University (UK) Philippe Keraudren, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission Svend Erik Larsen, Aarhus University (Denmark), Academia Europaea Wolfgang Mackiewicz, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) Rosella Magli, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Angela Schindler-Daniels, German Aerospace Center (DLR), the National Contact Point for Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities (Germany), NET4SOCIETY network Milena Žic Fuchs, University of Zagreb (Croatia), ALLEA
Friday 17 April 1.30-3.30pm	Project presentations Room: MAL B36 Rebecca Braun – How might changing the way we research literary authors open up academic debate to a wider community of users Madeleine Campbell – The Jetties project Robert Crawshaw – Underground Poetry and ‘Poems on the Underground’ Idalina Conde – European iconographies for cultural literacy Gabriel García-Ochoa & Nick Monk – Integrating Cultural Literacy in Transdisciplinary Contexts: an educational experiment Octavian Saiu – Cultural literacy, local community and the global public sphere: the case of Sibiu International Theatre Festival Gerardine Meaney – Approaching the baggy monster: cultural literacy concepts, network analysis and nineteenth-century novels Schamma Schahadat – TransStar Europa
Friday 17 April 6.00-7.00pm	Keynote Michael Cronin – Eating Our Words: Books, burgers and the biosphere
Saturday 18 April 11am–12 noon	Keynote Aleida Assmann – Resonance and Impact: towards a theory of the emotions in cultural memory
Saturday 18 April 3:00-4pm	Keynote Lars Elleström – A Medium-Centred Model of Communication in the Context of Cultural Literacy

Keynotes titles and abstracts

Check out the programme where we added all abstracts of our keynotes:

Keynote Alexandre Quintanilha, Universidade do Porto (Portugal) – Inclusive knowledge… how?
Keynote David King, University of Cambridge (UK) – Towards ecocivilisation in the 21^st century: re-incorporating humanity into the natural world
Keynote Aleida Assmann, Universität Konstanz (Germany) – Resonance and Impact: towards a theory of the emotions in cultural memory
Keynote Lars Elleström, Linnaeus University (Sweden) – A Medium-Centred Model of Communication in the Context of Cultural Literacy

Full programme with abstracts and biographies for all authors will follow soon.

New poster and flyer

New poster and flyer for the conference are now available.

The programme is now updated with keynotes speakers biographies and will soon include accepted contributions.

A4 poster (PDF)
A5 flyer (PDF)

Many thanks to our designer Giacomo Mannironi.

Keynotes and confirmed speakers

The Steering Committee for the first international conference Cultural Literacy in Europe 2015 is pleased to announce the list of keynote speakers:

Aleida Assmann, Universität Konstanz (Germany)
Michael Cronin, Dublin City University (Ireland)
Lars Elleström, Linnaeus University (Sweden)
David King, University of Cambridge (UK)
Alexandre Quintanilha, Universidade do Porto (Portugal)

In addition, the following speakers confirmed their participation in the policy panel:

Maureen Freely, Warwick University’s Connecting Cultures Research Priority Programme
Stefaan Hermans, European Commission (DG Research & Innovation, Reflective Societies)
Svend Erik Larsen, Academia Europaea