2025 文化的軌跡

Annual theme “Cultural MBTI: Culture as an Entangled Ecosystem”
Building on the 2024 symposium theme, “Cultural Trajectories—Dialectics of Cultural Value: Dialogue and Practice,” the 2025 International Conference introduces “Cultural MBTI” as a conceptual framework for exploring the diverse forms, logics, and trajectories of culture in the present moment. “MBTI” here signals an invitation to rethink culture through the lens of variation, adaptation, and relationality—emphasizing how cultures perceive, react, evolve, and connect in response to shifting environments.
Framing culture as a living, entangled ecosystem allows us to move beyond fixed definitions and instead trace how it is continuously co-shaped by institutions, policies, technologies, and communities. This year’s symposium will explore four key dimensions—Multiple, Bridge, Transformation, and Identity—to reconsider the directions of cultural policy, governance, institutional strategy, and social imagination.
We welcome researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from fields such as museums, heritage, creative industries, community building, arts management, performance, legal frameworks, and cultural studies to join this international conversation.
We welcome papers addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:
2025 International Symposium on Cultural Trajectories Call for Papers
Organizer: Graduate School of Arts Management and Cultural Policy, College of Humanities,National Taiwan University of Arts
Dates: November 21 (Friday) – 22 (Saturday), 2025
Venue: International Conference Hall, 10th Floor, Teaching and Research Building,
National Taiwan University of Arts

Sub-theme 1: Cultural Multiple|The Plural Forms of Cultural Governance
1. Data-driven cultural policy and decision-making models
2. Decentralized and participatory governance mechanisms
3. Practical challenges and institutional design in local cultural governance
4. The impact of emerging technologies on cultural heritage management
5. Civic participation and practices of cultural democracy
Sub-theme 2: Cultural Bridge|Bridging and Reconfiguring Cultural Values
1. The reconfiguration of cultural value and impact assessment in the age of technology
2. Financial sustainability practices for arts and cultural organizations within the creative economy
3. Ethical and intellectual property concerns of AI in content production
4. Cultural branding and city marketing through arts festivals and creative events
Sub-theme 3: Cultural Transformation|Shifts and Co-Creation within the Cultural Ecosystem
1. Digital transformation and organizational innovation in arts institutions
2. Collaborative models for local revitalization and cultural regeneration
3. Ecosystem approaches to cultural sustainability
4. Social innovation and cultural interventions
Sub-theme 4: Cultural Identity|Narratives and Imaginations of Identity
1. Decolonial practices and emerging multilingual cultural heritage policies
2. Digital technologies and their impacts on identity representation, heritage interpretation, and cultural equity
3. Museum exhibitions and the representation of ethnic diversity and the politics of memory
4. Community participation in shaping identities through performances and festivals
Sub-theme 5: Cultural MBTI|Personality Typologies of Culture and Cultural Work
1. The “cultural personalities” and professional competencies of workers in the cultural and creative industries
2. The development of cultural leadership and vision
3. Comparative analyses of cultural labor conditions and policy recommendations
Sub-theme 6: Open Topics|Expanding the Framework of Cultural MBTI
This sub-theme invites experimental, interdisciplinary, and critical contributions that expand the Cultural MBTI framework. We especially welcome work addressing marginal, underexplored, or emerging cultural issues. Open Topics offers a space to explore culture as a dynamic intersection of knowledge, technology, and values. It encourages forward-looking perspectives and inclusive approaches to cultural practice and theory.
Sub-theme 7: Approaches|New Thinking and Methodologies in Cultural Research and Practice
This sub-theme explores emerging methodologies that reflect the evolving complexity of cultural research and practice. We invite contributions that draw on experimental formats, artistic methods, or non-representational theory (NRT). Approaches encourage cross-disciplinary dialogue and welcomes unconventional, practice-based, or non-verbal research. It aims to expand the methodological dimensions of the Cultural MBTI framework and bridge academic and professional inquiry.
Sub-theme 8: Cultural Human Rights from an Asia Pacific Perspective
A special session co-organized with the Federation of International Human Rights Museums-Asia Pacific (FIHRM-AP)
1. How can cultural governance defend and promote cultural human rights?
2. What are the implications of digital networks and AI for cultural rights?
3. Decolonial practices and cultural revitalization in the Asia-Pacific region
4. Labor rights and working conditions within the arts and cultural sectors
Submission Guidelines
This symposium accepts submissions in both Chinese and English, and all submissions must be made online via the following form: https://forms.gle/tYvN8cKgmyDrgpWH9
1. Abstracts should clearly outline:
○ Research problem or significance
○ Methodology or project design
○ Findings (actual or anticipated)
○ Expected conclusions or recommendations
○ Keywords (up to five)
○ Abstract length: 300–500 words for Chinese abstracts, approximately 300 words for English abstracts
2. Review Process:
○ Abstracts will be reviewed by a panel of scholars and experts appointed by the organizing committee.
○ To encourage participation from postgraduate students in Taiwan and abroad, an independent review process will be conducted for doctoral and master’s students, and a designated number of presentation slots will be reserved.
○ Notification of acceptance will be announced by 5:00 PM (Taiwan Time) on June 23, 2025, on the websites of the 2025 Cultural Trajectories. Authors will also be notified via email.
3. Abstract Submission Deadline:
○ Submissions will be accepted until 11:59 PM (Taiwan Time), May 31, 2025.
The submission deadline has been extended to June 4 at 11:59 PM.
4. Full Paper Submission:
○ Authors of accepted abstracts must submit their full paper by 11:59 PM, August 31, 2025. Failure to do so will result in removal from the final symposium program.
○ Full papers may be written in Chinese or English. Suggested length: 10,000–15,000 characters for Chinese papers, or 8,000–10,000 words for English papers. Please follow the APA citation style.
○ Submitted papers must be unpublished. Authors are solely responsible for their content.
5. Publication and Access:
○ Accepted abstracts will be made available on the official symposium website.
○ A printed version of the proceedings will be provided to panel chairs and commentators only and will not be publicly published.
○ Full papers may be uploaded to the symposium website at the authors’ discretion.
6. Contact Information:
○ For inquiries regarding submissions, please contact the organizing committee via email:
amcpntua@gmail.com
○ For urgent matters, you may call Mr. Chan at +886-903-931-129, Monday to Friday, between 12:00 and 18:00 (Taiwan Time).
7. Related Websites:
○ 2025 Cultural Trajectories Symposium Official Website: https://www.amcp2025cts.com
○ Graduate School of Arts Management and Cultural Policy, NTUA:
https://acpm.ntua.edu.tw/web/index/index.jsp
○ ACPM Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ACPMForum/