Speakers

Dr Marcin Poprawski  (M) is a Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, works in the Institute of Cultural Studies at the AMU, he is also a co-founder and research coordinator of ROK AMU Culture Observatory. Since 2006 is lecturing at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder. He has a Ph. D. in humanities, musicology - aesthetics (AMU Faculty of History). His research interests, publications topics and projects include: cultural policies, cultural ecosystems and culture-led city development, organisational cultures in cultural & creative organisations and heritage institutions, festivals management models and its impact on local communities, cultural studies and professional education of cultural sector’ labour, cultural management and entrepreneurship, music aesthetics, organizational aesthetics, and inter-generational transmission of cultural values. He is an expert of the Association of Polish Cities, former member of the Urban Cultural Policies Council of Polish National Centre for Culture.

He recently was involved as an expert in international research projects, inter alia on audience engagement (for European Commission, coordinated by Fondazione Fitzcarraldo in Turin: “Study on audience development – How to place audiences at the centre of cultural organisations”) or cultural and creative spillovers (coordinated by ECBN from Rotterdam and ECCE Dortmund: “Testing innovative methods to evaluate cultural and creative spillovers in Europe”). In 2016 he was a Jury Member of the N.I.C.E. Award (European Award for Innovations in Culture and Creativity in Europe). Currently he is involved in the “Connecting Audiences” project consortium leaded by the University of Deusto in Bilbao in cooperation with partner institutions from Belgium, UK, Denmark,  and Italy. Since 2013, he was twice elected Vice-president of ENCATC, Brussels based leading European network on Cultural Management and Cultural Policy education & research. He is a member of an international board of the Kalejdoskop East – West Art Platform located in Coventry (UK).

He was also a co-founder and a director of the Guitar Academy Festival – an international music festival located every summer since 2007 in over 20 towns of Western Poland. He improved his professional skills in teaching cultural management and cultural policy during internship in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick (UK) in 2012 and within the project “Teaching Cultural Policies” held at Central European University in Budapest (H) in 2008. He was a guest lecturer at DAMU Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (CZ), JAMU Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (CZ), VSMU in Bratislava (SK), Art University in Poznan (PL), and The Academy of Heritage post-graduate study program by ICC / Cracow University of Economics (PL).

He recently wrote a chapter entitled “New organisms in the cultural ‘ecosystems’ of cities: The rooting and sustainability of arts & culture organizations” to appear in The Routledge Companion to Management and the Arts (5th ed.) edited by William Byrnes and Aleksandar Brkić and published by Routledge in 2019. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (SAGE Journal) special 2019 issue will  contain his paper on alternative teaching methods for cultural sector actors.