Shaping Asia’s Creative Futures: Cultural Relations, Technologies, and the Commons
11-14 December 2025
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
The 6th ANCER Conference is co-organised by the MA in Cultural Management Programme, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK, and the MA Arts & Cultural Leadership Programme, Faculty of Fine Arts Media and Creative Industries, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore.
Taking place in Hong Kong SAR for the first time, the conference and will have a special focus on East Asian perspectives in cultural management and the creative economy. How is cultural policy in Asia responding to current trends and cultural practices, and what can we learn from each other? How do digital culture and technological innovation impact arts management practice and creative pedagogy? How can sustainability and civil-society led practices of self-organisation, solidarity and communing contribute to the shaping of policy and the urban environment? What new relationships define the arts and cultural sectors and how do cultural practitioners work across borders?
The conference will feature keynote speakers, curated panels on the themes of cultural relations, technologies and the commons, and will include a panel for emerging scholars. More programme details will be published in the coming months.
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CALL FOR PAPERS BY EMERGING RESEARCHERS
We invite proposals for paper presentations for the Conference’s section for Emerging Researchers. Students, recent graduates of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and new independent researchers may submit papers on any of the following topics, addressing the specific themes of the conference:
- Cultural Policy
- Cultural Governance
- International cultural relations
- Creative cities
- Cultural Leadership
- Networks
- Cultural entrepreneurship
- Cultural value
- Organisational behaviour
- Organisational change
- Ethics
- Sustainability
- Commoning practices
- Technological innovations in artistic practices, pedagogy and research
Download the call paper here.
ANCER 2025 Conference Committee:
- Benny LIM, Associate Professor of Practice in Cultural Management & Director, M.A. in Cultural Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Ashley Lee WONG, Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies & Associate Director, M.A. in Cultural Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Audrey WONG, Programme Leader, MA Arts & Cultural Leadership, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore
- Sunitha JANAMOHANAN, Lecturer, Arts Management, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore
For more information, contact
sunitha.janamohanan@lasalle.edu.sg
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