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mene, Kao deo kulturne diplomatije Jugoslavije, Bitef nije dozvolio svodenje svoje uloge na reprezentaciju slobode jugoslovenskog društva u hladnoratovskom podeljenom svetu već je svojim praksama izbora vodio sopstvenu politiku izgradnje sveta kulturnih odnosa mimo I uprkos geopolitičkim granicama.

Bitef i UNESCO katedra za kulturnu politiku i menadžment Univerziteta umetnosti u Beogradu

X KONFERENCIJA - BITEF I KULTURNA DIPLOMATUA: POZORIŠTE I GEOPOLITIKA

Predsedavajuća programskog odbora: Milena Dragićević Šešić X 1.1 2. OKTOBAR

PROGRAM x 1. OKTOBAR, SUBOTA, ATELJE 212 x 09:30 - 11:45 PLENARNA SESIJA PREDSEDNIŠTVO: Milena Dragićević Šešić i Ivan Medenica POZDRAVNI GOVORI: Vladan Vukosavljević, Ministar kulture i informisanja Republike Srbije; Zoran Eric, Rektor Univerziteta umetnosti u Beogradu UVODNIČARI: Žak Lang, Predsednik Institute arapskog sveta, bivši Ministar kulture, Ministar obrazovanja i Ministar obrazovanja i kulture Francuske, Pariz Mihail Švidkoj, Specijalni predstavnik predsednika Ruske Federacije za medunarodnu kulturnu saradnju, Moskva

The conference should consider the festival not as a safe haven, not only as a meeting point or a place of exchange, but as a platform for a polemical dialogue, confrontation of different aesthetics and thoughts and primarily as a "path to the future”, the flight path (Delhaize) in this completely changed political landscape. Bitef does not carry a usual festival name inspired by standard narratives of theatre festivals: dialogues, confrontations, meetings... Bitef, as Belgrade’s international theatre festival, has sucessfully entered geopolitical currents not as a follower but as a curator who, by understanding the context, points at untold links opening new roads of cultural diplomacy but even more so, at true forms of international cultural cooperation and exchange. As a part of Yugoslavia’s cultural diplomacy Bitef did not allow its role to be reduced to the representation of freedom of the Yugoslav society in the world divided by the Cold War; with its selection practices it pursued its own policy of building the world of cultural relations aside and despite geopolitical boundaries.

Bitef and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Management at the University of Arts in Belgrade

X CONFERENCE - BSTEF AND CULTURAL DIPLOMACY: THEATRE AND GEOPOLSTSCS

Programme Board Chair: Milena Dragićević Šešić x ist. 2 nd OCTOBER

PROGRAMME x SATURDAY, OCTOBER Ist,1 st , ATELJE 212 x 09:30 - 11:45 PLENARY SESSION Presiding: Milena Dragićević Šešić and Ivan Medenica Welcoming speeches: Vladan Vukosavljević, the Minister of Culture and Information of Serbia; Zoran Erie, the Rector of University of Arts in Belgrade Opening: Jack Lang, President of the Arab World Institute, former Minister of Culture, Minister of Education and Minister of Education and Culture of France, Paris Mikhail Shvydkoy, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation, Moscow

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