Arts Rights Justice

Protecting and Promoting Artistic Freedom – an interview with Daniel Gad

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31273/LGD.2018.2201

Keywords:

Cultural policy, Rights and freedom, censorship and oppression, advocacy, arts, education

Abstract

The University of Hildesheim (Germany) is a leader in both arts education and research in cultural policy and management. They have a new innovative focus on social justice for artists and writers, and the policy implications and implementation of Cultural Rights for activists and NGOs. For the opening of this special issue, the journal Co-ed-in-Chief, Dr Jonathan Vickery, interviews Dr Daniel Gad on his new interests and the parameters of Rights as applied to culture and the arts.

Author Biographies

  • Daniel Gad

    Daniel Gad is managing director of the UNESCO Chair (Professor Dr Wolfgang Schneider) in Cultural
    Policy for the Arts in Development at University of Hildesheim since 2012. He is head of the Arts Rights Justice Program, which apart from a broad research stream, is organiser of the annual Arts Rights Justice Academy at the Hildesheim Kulturcampus. Since 2017, he is representing the University of Hildesheim on the Steering Committee of the Hildesheim bid for European Capital of Culture 2025.

  • Jonathan Vickery

    Dr Jonathan Vickery is director of the masters in Arts, Enterprise and Development in the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is interested in local development in multicultural contexts and since 2016 is co-Editor in Chief of The Journal of Law, Social Justice and Global Development.

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Published

2018-06-06

Issue

No. 22 (2018): Special Issue: Cultural Rights and Global Development

Section

Articles