Symposium in cultural policy and management

Lost In CCI recently received this call for papers…

REVEALING ALL 2: The second annual symposium for research students in
cultural policy and management

The Department of Cultural Policy and Management, City University
and the Department of Drama, MA Arts Management and Cultural Policy,
Goldsmiths College, University of London, are hosting the second annual research
student symposia. This will take place on 30 November 2007 in
London.

The annual symposia is for research students from all UK
universities with a tradition of research in the fields of cultural policy and
management.

The intention is to provide participating students with the
opportunity to network, collaborate and receive formal feedback from their peers. We
expect the symposium to focus on issues close to the hearts of
those who make cultural policy and promote its implementation in this
country. Papers should include analysis, primary research, comparative case
studies, models of policy-making, impact studies etc. Last year the event attracted a
number of individuals from government and independent agencies
concerned with arts policy who provided feedback on the papers presented.

We would like to invite abstracts from all research students who are
working in the field. If accepted, participants will be invited to
give a twenty minute presentation on an aspect of their research. The day
will open with a keynote presentation, followed by panels which will be
themed by research topics. These will be chaired by members of staff from
City and Goldsmiths. Feedback will be given by presenters’ peers and members of
staff present. We also propose publishing the papers presented at the
symposia, in City University’s newly re launched ejournal, Cultural
Policy, Criticism and Management, some of last years contributions are here
and more will follow soon. (www.city.ac.uk/cpm/ejournal/
ejournal_june2007.html)

All students wishing to participate should send a 300 word abstract
with a title and their name, address, course, university and email on the
same page by 30th September 2007, addressed to s.selwood@city.ac.uk. Short
listing will take place between 2nd and 12th of October, and
participants will be notified if they are being invited to give a paper by 16th of
October 2007.

Details of the venue and symposium will be circulated by 30th
October 2007

Flying Start Programme for Women Entrepreneurs

We received this information about an event that female readers of Lost in CCI may want to know about…

The Flying Start Programme for Women Entrepreneurs

Running from January 7th – 9th 2008 the Programme is the first of its kind specifically for women that are looking to start a business. The programme targets getting all participants up and trading within 12 months of attending. The Programme is also open to those that have been trading for less than 6 months and will target pushing your business forward.

The Programme is open to graduates and final students. All business ideas are welcome to apply.

The Programme is c ompletely free and includes:

A 3 day course where you learn all the business skills needed and make the connections to make it happen
An experienced mentor that will support and help you for 12 months
Focused follow up meetings that get you any further help you need to get you trading
Accommodation and food are included free of charge. There are 60 places available. The Application process has now opened, click here to apply online. The deadline for applications is 21st November 2007.

For further information go to the women’s website or call 0121 503 3242

Art in the Age of Competitive Cultural Nationalism

This event might be of interest to readers of Lost In CCI. Source: MyCI mailing list.

Discussion event @ Market Gallery, Glasgow
2-4pm, Saturday 27th October

Art in the Age of Competitive Cultural Nationalism

• How do notions of nation, nationalism and instrumentalisation relate to the everyday practice of art institutions and the artist as constituents of neoliberal globalisation?

• What is the purpose of the state-funded art institution today?

• Since these institutions are essentially part of the nation state, how detached from political influence can they actively be?

Far from being unusual or unproblematic, these are commonplace questions that pivotal public art institutions in Finland, with others geographically, have been critically engaging with for some time.

In a recent talk by Marita Muukkonen of the art magazine FRAME, and formerly of NIFCA, she has stated: “Looking at recent policy and political developments in arts and culture in Finland and the EU it becomes clear that cultural-political instrumentalisation and economisation is infused with nationalist and protectionist tendencies, and that is a growing concern.” Marita also worryingly identifies the strengthening tendency of the transformation of cultural politics into cultural economics, the idea of arts and culture as a competitive factor of national economic growth.

Here in Scotland we are daily saturated with the competitive nationalism of ‘Scotland the brand’: The 250th anniversary of Rabbie Burns’ birth has already been appropriated by the Scottish Government as ‘Homecoming Scotland’, “Promoting Scotland as the modern, confident and dynamic nation it is today”. Its advisory board is chaired by Allan Burns, not a poet but director in Scotland of the multinational drinks monolith Diageo: “It aims to co-ordinate the handling of the full programme of events in 2009 to ensure maximum economic benefit.”

Under the guise of National Culture, does the parliamentary process really have little else to offer than the regional exploitation of natural resources and labour forces by globally mobile capital? And what of the separatism of global competition that acts as a vehicle for national and cultural chauvinism?

But let’s take the influence industry at its word, if there is such a thing as the ‘knowledge economy’, if it truly is a contest, isn’t it time we at least caught up with our northerly and eastern neighbours and started to ask equally searching questions about the manifestations of Scottish cultural nationalism?

Marita Muukkonen’s text — ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place — The Possibilities for Contemporary Art Institutions to Function as Critical Political Spaces’ (that formed part of the Public Preparation series for the upcoming Biennale of Young Artists, in Estonia, http://www.biennaleofyoungartists.org ) — will form the basis of a discussion to be held at Market Gallery in collaboration with Variant magazine. Please read the PDF of Marita’s text before the discussion, which is available at: http://www.variant.org.uk/events/MM_Market.pdf

Market Gallery
2-4pm, Saturday 27th October
334 Duke Street, Glasgow, G31 1QZ
http://www.marketgallery.org.uk

Variant
http://www.variant.org.uk

Welcome to CCI

This week King’s College London welcomed fifty new students to the MA CCI programme.

Among them are graduates in Advertising, Anthropology, Fine Art, Art History, Biochemistry with Management, Business Administration, Cinema Studies & Comparative Literature, Communication and Media Studies, Design, Development Studies, Economics, English, History, Human Geography, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Management, Marketing, Museum Studies, Music Journalism and Criticism, Music, Popular Music and Recording, Political Science, Social Science and Sociology.

Students have joined us from the following places: Austria, Belgium, China, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, Nepal, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, UAE, the UK and the USA.

The photo above was taken by one of our new Chinese students, Weilin Wang.

M.A. Postdoctoral Fellowship

This research opportunity may be of interest to CCI students and alumni…

The Courtauld Institute of Art
Research Forum/Mellon Foundation M.A. Postdoctoral Fellowship for period 1 September 2008 to 31 August 2009
£22,000 per annum plus £300 travel award upon application

This fellowship offers an early career researcher in the field of Modern or Contemporary art the opportunity to pursue a research project while gaining teaching experience in a research environment and working in close collaboration with senior scholars to deliver interdisciplinary M.A. courses. These experiences will enhance the appointee’s curriculum vitae and advance their prospects of obtaining other research awards and posts within the academic community.

Applicants are expected to be at an early stage of their career, not currently holding or having held a permanent university post and having received a doctorate within three years of taking up the award (and no later than December 2007).

Applicants are asked to submit (1) a covering letter explaining the candidate’s specific interest in the Fellowship; (2) a completed application form including a statement of up to 1,000 words describing the proposed research project and its expected outcome; (3) a curriculum vitae; (4) a writing sample (a published work or a dissertation chapter); (5) two letters of recommendation, including one from the candidate’s supervisor – these can be sent separately; and (6) an equal opportunities monitoring form. For further details please visit the Courtauld website www.courtauld.ac.uk or email recruitment@courtauld.ac.uk or telephone 020 7848 1881.

Closing date: 1 November 2007

The Courtauld Institute of Art promotes equal opportunities.

James Brown’s chops

Our own Dr Harvey G. Cohen featured on the letters page in last Saturday’s Guardian, defending the songwriting and musicianship of Chuck Berry and James Brown against some negative comments in an article published few days earlier. You can read Harvey’s letter here (fifth letter down).

Film-making and regeneration

Film, Television, Tourism and Regeneration

A One Day International Conference

15th November 2007 – Leeds, UK

“There are close and increasingly recognised relationships between the film and television industries, tourism development and regeneration programmes across the UK and internationally. The connections between the ‘real’ and imagined places shown on screen with tourism promotion, the development of tourism products and packages and tourist demand are becoming widely recognised by destination marketing agencies and private sector tourism organisations. However, the relationships between film, television and tourism are not fully understood and film tourism has often developed in an ad-hoc, unplanned and opportunistic way.”

To read more, click here and then on the link for Screen Tourism: Film, Television, Tourism and Regeneration (2007).

Too many festivals?

The number of cultural festivals and carnivals has seen huge growth in recent years. A free one-day seminar at City University, 9.00am – 7.00pm, Friday 26 October 2007, entitled Exploring Festival Economies, will look into this phenomenon, including

• economic impact, tourism, and urban regeneration
• management, professionalisation, and commodification
• funding, sponsorship, and cultural capital
• institutional relationships and ownership

Academics and students with a research interest in festivals, carnivals and events are welcome to attend. Admission is free, but pre-registration is required by 12th October 2007 at www.celebrating-enterprise.org.uk.

For further details, click here.

Events at the Serpentine

MA CCI alumnus Claire Flannery, who is now working at the Serpentine (one of London’s leading art galleries), has been sending us information about some of the gallery’s forthcoming events.

Two that particularly grabbed our attention are Public Experiment: Sound this Friday (7th September), and, a fortnight later, Matthew Barney in Conversation (21 September).

Hope they don’t mind us pinching the still from Barney’s Bjork video for this post….

Liverpool’s cultural sustainability

We received this ad via the Cultural Industries mailing list…

THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
MANAGEMENT SCHOOL
PhD Studentship

AHRC/ESRC funded research: ‘Cultural Sustainability? Liverpool in 2008’
£12,600 tax free stipend

An opportunity has arisen for a fully funded research studentship leading to the qualification of PhD based on research into the theory and practice of cultural policy. This research, focused on culture-led regeneration on Merseyside in the context of Liverpool as European Capital of Culture 2008 and associated with the research programme Impacts 08, will develop as an ethnographic study into the definition of creative industries. The studentship will seek to uncover new and unique ways of defining what it is to be a creative industries entrepreneur and how this perception supports or contradicts policy-oriented definitions of the sector, what happens within the sector and the importance of the sector to locality. Funding will cover student’s fees and a maintenance grant as above.

Applicants are required to submit a CV and a 2 page summary of the nature of their personal interest/expertise in the research as outlined in the further particulars. Submissions should be submitted to Alan Southern by 4pm on Friday the 21st September.

For informal enquiries please contact: Alan.Southern@liverpool.ac.uk

Applicants should download further particulars from here, where further details about the application procedure are available.
The application form can be downloaded here.

Closing Date: 21 September 2007