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Programme

Speakers at The Paris Conference on Arts & Humanities (PCAH) will provide a variety of perspectives from different academic and professional backgrounds. This page provides details of presentations and other programming. For more information about presenters, please visit the Speakers page.

Friday, June 16 to Sunday, June 18 will be held at the Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France. Monday, June 19 will be held online.

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Friday, June 16Friday, June 16Saturday, June 17Sunday, June 18, 2023Monday, June 19

15:00-17:00: Pre-Conference Tour | Palais Garnier Opera House
This is an optional extra. Pre-registration is required. With only 25 spots available for this unique Parisian experience, don't miss the chance to join your colleagues in exploring the architectural masterpiece that is the Palais Garnier.

Location: Maison de la Chimie

14:00-14:30: Conference Registration & Coffee | Salle 262

14:30-14:45: Welcome Address & Recognition of IAFOR Scholarship Winners | Salle 262
Joseph Haldane, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan
Georges Depeyrot, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, France

14:45-15:15: Keynote Presentation | Salle 262
There is No New Normal
Donald E. Hall, Binghamton University, United States

15:15-16:05: Keynote Presentation | Salle 262
Things Matter
Bruce Brown, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom

16:05-16:15: Conference Photograph | Salle 251

16:15-16:45: Coffee Break | Salle 251

16:45-17:45: Featured Panel Presentation | Salle 262
Diplomatic Tables: Food, Wine, Politics and Culture
Jeannie Cho Lee, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy, United Kingdom
Daisuke Utagawa, Daikaya, United States
Joseph Haldane, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan (Moderator)

17:45-18:45: Conference Poster Session & Welcome Reception | Salle 251

20:30-22:30: Conference Dinner | Le Procope (Ticketed Event)

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Location: Maison de la Chimie

08:30-09:00 Registration & Coffee

09:00-10:40: Onsite Parallel Presentation Session 1
Salle 232: Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication
Salle 233: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis
Salle 234: Learning Experiences, Student Learning & Learner Diversity
Salle 269: Design, Implementation & Assessment of Innovative Technologies in Education
Salle 203: Counselling, Guidance & Adjustment in Education
Salle 103: Education, Sustainability & Society: Social Justice, Development & Political Movements
Salle 201: Workshop Session: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis

10:40-10:55: Coffee Break | Salle 251

10:55-12:10: Onsite Parallel Presentation Session 2
Salle 232: Interdisciplinary Humanities
Salle 233: Teaching and Learning
Salle 234: Learning Experiences, Student Learning & Learner Diversity
Salle 269: Higher Education
Salle 203: Adult & Lifelong Learning
Salle 103: Education & Difference: Gifted Education, Special Education, Learning Difficulties & Disability
Salle 201: Workshop Session: Learning Experiences, Student Learning & Learner Diversity

12:10-13:10: Lunch Break

13:10-14:00: Onsite Parallel Presentation Session 3
Salle 232: Cyberspace, Technology
Salle 233: First Nations and Indigenous Peoples
Salle 234: Learning Experiences, Student Learning & Learner Diversity
Salle 269: Educational Policy, Leadership, Management & Administration
Salle 203: Assessment Theories & Methodologies
Salle 103: Education & Difference: Gifted Education, Special Education, Learning Difficulties & Disability
Salle 201: Workshop Session: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts

14:00-14:15: Coffee Break | Salle 251

14:15-15:30: Onsite Parallel Presentation Session 4
Salle 232: Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music
Salle 233: Literature/Literary Studies
Salle 234: Adult, Lifelong & Distance Learning
Salle 269: Higher Education
Salle 203: Knowledge Creation, Preservation & Access: Curation, Librarianship, Information & Archival Science
Salle 103: Educational Research, Development & Publishing
Salle 201: Workshop Session: Adult, Lifelong & Distance Learning

15:30-15:45: Coffee Break | Salle 251

15:45-17:00: Onsite Parallel Presentation Session 5
Salle 232: Visual Arts Practices
Salle 233: Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities
Salle 234: Foreign Languages Education & Applied Linguistics
Salle 269: Higher Education
Salle 203: Curriculum Design & Development
Salle 103: Higher Education
Salle 201: Workshop Session: Professional Training, Development & Concerns in Education

17:00-17:15: Coffee Break | Salle 251

17:15-18:55: Onsite Parallel Presentation Session 6
Salle 232: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
Salle 233: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis
Salle 234: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis
Salle 269: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis
Salle 203: Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary & Transdisciplinary Education
Salle 103: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis
Salle 201: Workshop Session: Nurturing Creativity & Innovation: New, Innovative & Radical Education

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Location: Maison de la Chimie

08:30-09:00: Registration & Coffee

09:00-10:40: Onsite Parallel Presentation Session 1
Salle 232: Language Development & Literacy
Salle 233: Professional Training, Development & Concerns in Education
Salle 234: Challenging & Preserving: Culture, Inter/Multiculturalism & Language
Salle 269: Education, Sustainability & Society: Social Justice, Development & Political Movements
Salle 203: Design, Implementation & Assessment of Innovative Technologies in Education
Salle 103: Design, Implementation & Assessment of Innovative Technologies in Education

10:40-10:55: Coffee Break | Salle 251

10:55-12:10: Onsite Parallel Presentation Session 2
Salle 232: Language, Linguistics
Salle 233: History, Historiography
Salle 234: Foreign Languages Education & Applied Linguistics
Salle 269: Educational Policy, Leadership, Management & Administration
Salle 203: Educational Research, Development & Publishing
Salle 103: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis

12:10-13:10: Lunch Break

13:10-14:25: Onsite Parallel Presentation Session 3
Salle 232: Aesthetics, Design
Salle 233: Science, Environment and the Humanities
Salle 234: Higher Education
Salle 269: Higher Education
Salle 203: No Sessions
Salle 103: No Sessions

14:25-14:40: Coffee Break | Salle 251

14:40-15:55: Onsite Parallel Presentation Session 4
Salle 232: No Sessions
Salle 233: Challenging & Preserving: Culture, Inter/Multiculturalism & Language
Salle 234: Higher Education
Salle 269: Educational Policy, Leadership, Management & Administration
Salle 203: Primary & Secondary Education
Salle 103: Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary & Transdisciplinary Education

15:55-16:10: Coffee Break | Salle 251

16:10-17:50: Onsite Parallel Presentation Session 5
Salle 232: Ethnicity, Difference, Identity
Salle 233: Mind, Brain & Psychology
Salle 234: Professional Training, Development & Concerns in Education
Salle 269: Education, Sustainability & Society: Social Justice, Development & Political Movements
Salle 203: Design, Implementation & Assessment of Innovative Technologies in Education
Salle 103: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis

17:50:18:00: Onsite Closing Session | Salle 233

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Location: Online

09:00-10:40: Online Parallel Presentation Session 1
Room A: Literature/Literary Studies
Room B: Interdisciplinary Arts, Media and Culture
Room C: No Sessions

10:40-10:55: Break

10:55-12:10: Online Parallel Presentation Session 2
Room A: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis
Room B: Interdisciplinary Education
Room C: Curriculum Design & Development

12:10-12:25: Break

12:25-13:15: Online Parallel Presentation Session 3
Room A: Challenging & Preserving: Culture, Inter/Multiculturalism & Language
Room B: Assessment Theories & Methodologies
Room C: Curriculum Design & Development

13:15-13:30: Break

13:30-14:45: Online Parallel Presentation Session 4
Room A: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis
Room B: Interdisciplinary Education
Room C: Interdisciplinary Education

14:45-15:00: Break

15:00-16:15: Online Parallel Presentation Session 5
Room A: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis
Room B: Interdisciplinary Education
Room C: Foreign Languages Education & Applied Linguistics

16:15-16:20: Online Closing Session

*Please be aware that the above schedule may be subject to change.

Featured Presentations

  • Things Matter
    Things Matter
    Keynote Presentation: Bruce Brown
  • Diplomatic Tables: Food, Wine, Politics and Culture
    Diplomatic Tables: Food, Wine, Politics and Culture
    Featured Panel Presentation: Jeannie Cho Lee, Jasper Morris, Daisuke Utagawa
  • There Is No New Normal
    There Is No New Normal
    Keynote Presentation: Donald E. Hall

Conference Programme

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The Conference Programme contains access information, session information and a detailed day-to-day presentation schedule.

Important Information Emails

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Pre-Recorded Virtual Presentations

A number of presenters have submitted pre-recorded virtual video presentations. We encourage you to watch these presentations and provide feedback through the video comments.

Virtual Video Presentations

Previous Programming

View details of programming for past PCAH conferences via the links below.

PCAH2022
Things Matter
Keynote Presentation: Bruce Brown

Material things matter. Without them we would not have the means to reify our abstract thoughts and experiences — to ‘anchor’ them in the physical world. But, in recent years, the ubiquitous presence of material things in our lives (but not their role or value) has come under fire. For many, the legacy of industrial manufacture and marketing has left us with a consumer culture that exploits the resources of our natural world in order to produce disposal goods of little value that soon end up in landfill. Perhaps, in response to this, a new generation of digital natives has sought to democratise the means by which virtual surrogates are produced and distributed—and, in the process, reduce toxic waste and damage to the environment. This presentation will consider the space between these two extremes and the intrinsic value of material things as essential elements in the fabric of our individual and collective lives.

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Diplomatic Tables: Food, Wine, Politics and Culture
Featured Panel Presentation: Jeannie Cho Lee, Jasper Morris, Daisuke Utagawa

Food and wine are boundary-traversing languages that shape our understanding of and relationship with the world. In the world of culinary diplomacy, France is a superpower, and exercises outsized influence, and in this panel, we will look at how France has played and continues to play an important role in educating, training and quality assurance, and how other countries engage around food, sometimes contentiously.

Like other forms of cultural diplomacy, culinary diplomacy requires skill and knowledge of chefs and food experts who communicate their own country’s history and culture through gastronomy. However, it is also at the level of “ordinary” people engaging around the food and drink that they love, and the personal vulnerability that exists in sharing their own “soul food”.

Food and drink are conduits that connect people and societies in ways conventional diplomacy between countries cannot. Whether as an ordinary tourist, or as a leader of a country, individuals taste and digest, both literally and metaphorically, the culture, history, and politics of other countries.

In this panel, three different professionals from three different nationalities, but with a shared love and professional interest in French cuisine and wine, talk about their relationship with food and wine, in this exciting international, intercultural and interdisciplinary space.

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There Is No New Normal
Keynote Presentation: Donald E. Hall

As we emerge from COVID and the requirements we all endured for masking, distancing, and curtailed travel, we have heard regularly that we have now entered a post-COVID "new normal." That term begs the question, of course, of what "old normal" is being referred to and how precisely we have deviated from it. It further obscures the fact that the queer theorist Michael Warner, in The Trouble with Normal from a quarter-century ago, rejected the whole notion of "normality," arguing that as a term, it has been used primarily as a means to assert control by dominant powers - normalising their interests - rather than to capture a widely common or desirable way of being.

So, was there in the years immediately pre-COVID a static and definable "normal" that then evolved radically into a "new" state over just 24 months or so? To put it bluntly, "no." The U.S.-based Pew Research Center has joined others in addressing this topic directly, concluding that our supposed "new normal" is really only an intensification of trends already present well before the pandemic: worsening social inequality, deepening mistrust of authority, science, and fact, and a turn toward authoritarianism as populations reject diversity, inclusion, and demands for social justice. Yes, we may have seen an appreciable uptick in remote work and online delivery of education, but even those simply meant more isolation and less immediate interaction with those unlike ourselves, and therefore worsened all of the social threats just mentioned.

To proclaim a "new normal" is at best a form of wishful thinking that a definitive break has occurred with a past that is viewed most often with nostalgia but at other times with distaste or condescension. It absolves us from reckoning with long-standing injustice and our own culpability in entrenched patterns of violence against the disenfranchised. It allows us to see ourselves and our quotidian lives as having endured something cataclysmic, emerging then phoenix-like, changed irrevocably. If we are living in the "new," then we no longer have to reckon with the "old," including long-standing and continuing crimes against others' selfhoods. The concept of a "new normal," in effect, absolves us of responsibility.

Instead of wasting time by celebrating or reviling a "new normal," we should work instead to document the trends that the pandemic magnified and trace down the intensified threats to civil society and economic security that have arisen because of or in response to the pandemic. This does not hinge on the concept of anything radically "new," rather it posits an incrementalist model of deepening fears of difference and desperate reassertions of old ideologies—a toxic, continuing normalisation of intolerance and indifference. As U.S. politicians wage renewed war on transgender youth and what they deride as "critical race theory" and "woke" culture, the old norms seem very much alive and all too present.