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TOPIC

SPEAKERS

FEB 4, 2002

Cultural Policy in Ireland in an International Context

Patricia Quinn, Director, Irish Arts Council

In dialogue with Mark Schuster, MIT & Visiting Professor of Cultural Policy, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies

The contemporary arts in Ireland recently have experienced a growth in government funding and a larger share of political attention than ever before. A third national strategy for arts development has been prepared and submitted by the Arts Council to Government, and when adopted, will provide a planning framework for arts development until 2006. Patricia Quinn discusses some of the implications of adopting an evidence-based approach to planning for the arts in Ireland, and Mark Schuster offers an international comparative framework.

MAR 4, 2002

What is the Likely Future of Federal Cultural Funding?

Stanley N. Katz, Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University
In dialogue with Don Michael Randel, President and Trustee of the University of Chicago

Stanley Katz, Professor and Director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies. His research has long focused upon the relation of philanthropic funding to public policy. The author and editor of numerous books and articles, his piece "Rethinking the Humanities Endowment" appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2001. Don Michael Randel is a distinguished scholar of music and has been President of the University of Chicago since 2000.

APR 15, 2002

Arts and Culture and City Revitalization

Robert Lynch, President and CEO, Americans for the Arts
In dialogue with Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, the University of Chicago

How have arts and culture initiatives helped to revitalize struggling communities and make successful communities even stronger? What lessons can be gleaned for Chicago and its wide variety of neighborhood and communities? Robert Lynch heads Americans for the Arts, an arts information clearinghouse dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for Americans to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. Saskia Sassen is one of the foremost theoreticians of globalization and the information society, with a particular interest in the global city.

MAY 6, 2002

Advocacy and State Cultural Policy

Jonathan Katz, CEO, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
In dialogue with Lawrence Rothfield, Associate Professor of English, Faculty Director, Cultural Policy Center, the University of Chicago

State government support has been for some time an increasingly important revenue stream for the arts, culture, and the humanities in the United States. Advocacy at the state level for the arts has been a particularly marked success, reflected in budget allocations surpassing the growth rate of state government overall. What is the infrastructure for advocacy at the state level? What works best and what are future challenges? What lessons learned from state-level culture advocacy apply to other levels of public sector advocacy and to increasing resources for cultural activities in general? Dr. Katz and Professor Rothfield will discuss these issues in light of the CPC grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to carry out an initial study of the cultural policy network in the state of Washington.