Libraries, archives, and museums as key pillars of modern European democratic societies?

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The Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES) invites you to participate in two public lectures and discuss how public Libraries, Archives, and Museums succeed in their mission to be key pillars of European democratic societies.

  • Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen: “How Can the Cultural Field Support Democracy?”:
    Democracy is a highly contested concept, with many different – and sometimes opposing – meanings. In this presentation, democracy is explored from a cultural policy perspective, considering it as rights (access), education/ enlightenment (citizenship), public sphere (dialogue), and participation (empowerment).

  • Krista Lepik-Verliin: ”Libraries, archives, and museums as key pillars of modern European democratic societies? But when exactly?“
    In this presentation, I will critically discuss the work pace of GLAM professionals in the context of accelerating social time, and technological, political, and social changes. Several time-related aspects create temporal paradoxes or dilemmas in the work of GLAM professionals. Besides attempting to solve various societal crises (including crises in democracy), we also need to seek solutions to these temporal paradoxes on individual and organisational levels.