ICRRA Conference 2024/2025 - Conference Proceedings

International Cultural Relations are still largely carried out with the help of infrastructures shaped by the legacies of European overseas colonialism. Historical reflection is essential, as are practices of relearning. Research and discussions on fair collaboration and its implications on behaviour, terminology, hierarchies and access have only started. The ICRRA 2024/2025 conference questioned epistemological orders: It explored diplomatic practices, as well as contemporary artists’ engagement with frameworks of diplomacy (Northern America), discussed how epistemological pluralism can be achieved through decolonial frameworks and structural change (Germany and Ukraine), presented research on the concept of Extalgia and festivals as paradigms of exchange (Nigeria), and debated on the role of Artivism and its potential for reimagining post-colonial narratives (Canada, Mexico, Columbia). This grey literature publication is an essential resource for researchers and students who want to delve deeper into the topics that were presented by our specialists during the conference’s panels.