Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue Lima, Peru 5-7 November 2025

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Cultural Trends invite you to:

Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue

Lima, Peru 5-7 November 2025
 

Announcement

We are pleased to announce Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue to be held at the PUCP campus in Lima, Peru, on 5-7 November 2025. This event, organized by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú -PUCP, is part of the Global Dialogues on cultural policy series from Cultural Trends. The event, which will be held for only the second time outside of Europe, will establish Peru as a global discussion platform on cultural policy research based on a North-South dialogue.

The event follows the hugely successful inaugural Global Dialogue event which took place at the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center in Santiago de Chile from 28-30 November, 2023. That event, organized by the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage and the University of Chile saw over 250 delegates from 16 countries and 5 continents come together to debate and discuss cultural policy in a dialogue format designed to be non-hierarchical, open access, porous and sector-facing.

Co-designed by a team of academics, policy makers and practitioners from the world of cultural policy, this event will generate a community of researchers from Europe, Latin America and globally. The motivation of this Global Dialogue event is to develop future networks with - and between - academics from Latin America and their peers at a global level. Each Global Dialogue carries forward the networks and conversations from previous iterations, and we are delighted that Dr Tomás Peters (University of Chile), now a member of the Editorial Board of Cultural Trends, will deliver a keynote in Peru.

The international cooperation organizations confirmed as partners for Lima 2025 are:
British Council Peru

Cultural Centre of Spain in Lima (AECID)

The Ibero-American Secretariat

UNESCO Peru

The Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI)

United Nations Development Programme Peru

This event will discuss the current and future challenges of cultural policy research. Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue will feature talks by international guests, discussion workshops and meetings between specialists and interested publics, as well as with cultural organizations, international cooperation officers, and institutions. The event will also lead to a bilingual special issue of Cultural Trends coordinated by a guest editorial team of LATAM and other scholars.

Themes for this Global Dialogue include (but are not limited to):

• Culture and urban development
• Cultural policy and indigenous rights
• Culture for climate action
• Culture and social inequality
• Cultural governance and public policy
• Artistic freedom and cultural policy
• Sustainability and cultural heritage
• Funding policies for cultural and creative industries
• Cultural workers and the status of the artist
• Culture as global public good
• Culture rights, digital transformation and artificial intelligence

These are just some of the issues that this event will address with invited guests and participants from all over the world. We warmly welcome submissions which explicitly adopt a trans and/or inter-disciplinary approach. Workshops and panels will be in either English or Spanish, with simultaneous translation for keynotes and larger sessions. Please specify your preferred presentation language.

The ethos of the Global Dialogue is to ensure that access is as broad as possible. For this reason, keynote talks will be free and open to the public, and there will be no registration fee for the event. Please note that this is an in-person event. We hope to either livestream and/or record some talks.

Proposal categories:

• Short papers (approx. 3000 words)

• Full Papers (approx. 8000 words)

• Panel or workshop

Proposals should include an abstract/description of the event (max 150 words) alongside the names and affiliations of all speakers/presenters plus short bios (max 100 words). Please send your proposal to culturaltrendsjournal@gmail.com by Monday 7 July (until 11:59 p.m. CEST).

Key dates:

Submission of proposals: 7 July 2025

Organizing team response: 11 Aug 2025

Registration and confirmation of attendance: 29 Aug 2025

Final schedule publication: September 2025

Publication of Cultural Trends Special Issue: 2026/7

For more information, please contact:

Cultural Trends

Dr Steven Hadley

Email: sdjhadley@gmail.com

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - PUCP

Santiago Alfaro Rotondo, M.A.

Email: salfaro@pucp.pe

Cultural Trends

https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ccut20

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

https://www.pucp.edu.pe/en/

PUCP campus
https://reservatuespacio.pucp.edu.pe/ubicacion/campus-pucp/
 

About the Cultural Trends Global Dialogues

All scholars enjoy the benefits of belonging to a particular academic community. Yet who we cite, collaborate with and hear speak either upholds/reinforces or unsettles the geopolitical economy of ideas, and the associated intersectional systems of power contained within them. At Cultural Trends, we recognise the need to enable dialogue between researchers, academics, policy makers and practitioners from different geographies, traditions and socio-economic contexts.

The traditional academic conference format is not always suited to achieving this end, so we have developed the model of a ‘Global Dialogue’ to find innovative and flexible ways to engage beyond our usual communities. The Cultural Trends Global Dialogue model is a new initiative for the journal, designed to build global partnerships and relationships through processes of dialogue and exchange in flexible event formats. The ethos of the Cultural Trends Global Dialogue model is premised on the following:

• A local host will be invited to design the structure of the event
• Events will be situated within, and co-created in response to, the local context
• Content and themes will be in response to local initiatives and concerns
• Dialogues will foster a trans and inter-disciplinary approach
• Dialogues will be as porous as possible, and accessible to practitioners, artists, policymakers, international cooperation officers, academics and activists.

Each Cultural Trends Global Dialogue will be unique. Each will follow a different format, subject to the local context. This might mean, for example, that keynotes are given as free public talks, or that the registration fee is kept deliberately low (or that there is no fee at all). We recognise that practical issues such as access to travel funds, differing academic calendars and differing hierarchies of method all act as barriers to dialogue, and we hope the new and iterative format will help address these.