03/09/2026
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS | 4th International Conference “The Future of UNESCO Chapters”
The UNESCO Chair in Interculturality, Good Governance and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, is pleased to announce the 4th edition of the International Conference The Future of UNESCO Chapters, entitled: Cultural Memory, Remembrance and Intercultural Resilience
📅 6 November 2026
📍 Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
Conceived as an interdisciplinary forum for sustained scholarly reflection, the conference brings together academic communities and practitioners interested in the ways in which philosophical inquiry may inform contemporary debates on leadership, governance, cultural identity, institutional memory, technological transformation, and sustainable development.
The 2026 edition acquires particular significance in the context of the 70th anniversary of Romania’s accession to UNESCO (1956–2026). It invites critical reflection on the relationship between cultural memory, remembrance, and intercultural resilience, and on how seven decades of Romanian engagement with UNESCO may illuminate future forms of collaborative governance and intercultural cooperation.
We welcome theoretical, empirical, and practice-based contributions addressing one of the following thematic areas:
• Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Cultural Memory: Challenges and Ethical Limits
• Intercultural Resilience in Geopolitical and Biopolitical Contexts
• Educational Challenges in Memory Studies
• Intercultural Resilience in Business Environments
• Seventy Years of Romania in UNESCO: Legacies, Commemoration, and Future Trajectories
📌 Submission deadline: 1 October 2026
📌 Notification of results: 6 October 2026
📌 Conference date: 6 November 2026
📩 Submissions: [email protected]
Submissions should include the paper title and institutional affiliation, an abstract, a short professional narrative CV, and the selected panel.
🔗 Full Call for Papers: https://unesco-chair.unibuc.ro/en/international-conference-the-future-of-unesco-chapters-cultural-memory-remembrance-and-intercultural-resilience-the-4th-edition-6-november-2026/
We warmly encourage colleagues from Romania and abroad to submit proposals and to disseminate this call across their academic and professional networks.
We look forward to fostering a rigorous and genuinely interdisciplinary dialogue on memory, interculturality, resilience, and the institutional imagination of the future.
