Workshops
2012-2013
Fall Workshop Series: Topics raised by the Chicago Cultural Plan
- Nick Rabkin and Ra Joy: "The New Chicago Cultural Plan: Looking ahead or a retread?"
- Richard Evans: "The Real Work — New Practices for a New Era in the Arts"
- Lynn Basa, Martin Atkins, Halena Kays, Onye Ozuzu, and Laura Shaeffer: "What Have Artists Got To Do With It?: Artists Respond to the New Cultural Plan"
- Ian David Moss: "Solving the Underpants Gnomes Problem: Towards an Evidence-Based Arts Policy"
Winter Workshop Series: What can you do with an interest in the arts and cultural policy?
- Angelique Power: "So, you want to work at a Foundation? One funder's story"
- Ra Joy: "Give Voice to a Creative State: The Future of Arts Advocacy in Illinois"
- Karen Gahl-Mills, Joe Spencer, and Julie Burros: "With Arts at the Heart: Promoting artistic vitality in St. Paul, MN, and Cuyahoga County, OH"
- Rebecca Parker: "Practicing Community"
- Peter Linett: "Not Your Grandmother's Arts Scene: Cultural Change, Organizational Adaptation, and Social Research"
- Susannah Engstrom: "Building a Midwest Cultural Capital: Professional Theater in 1960s Minneapolis"
- Maria Kouri: "Economic crisis! Greece and the quest for cultural diplomacy"
Spring Workshop Series: Cultural Diplomacy
- Bill Ivey: "Starting Over: Reconfiguring American Cultural Diplomacy for the 21st Century"
- Robert Albro: "Cultural Diplomacy as Creative Collaboration: Applied Humanities Networks and Post-Values Partnerships"
- Morag M. Kersel: "U.S. Cultural Policy: People, Places, and Property in U.S. Foreign Relations"
- Richard Kurin: "Saving Haiti's Heritage: Cultural Recovery after the Earthquake"
- Deborah Lehr: "Egypt: A Public Private Partnership to Protect the Cultural Heritage of Countries in Crisis"
- Brian T. Edwards: "Iran, Cinema, and the Curious Logics of Circulation"
2011-2012
Fall Workshop Series: City Cultural Planning
- Michael C. Dorf on the original Chicago Cultural Plan
- Alan Brown on "creative capital"
- Alan Freeman on the evidence base for city cultural planning
- Robert Bruegmann on patterns in urban growth
- Carl Grodach on the cultural policy of Austin, Texas
- Jonathan Vickery on cultural policy in an age of scarcity
Winter Workshop Series: City Cultural Planning continued
- Drew Williams-Clark on mapping regional cultural indicators
- Monika De Frantz on reconstructing contemporary Europe in Vienna and Berlin
- Lawrence Rothfield on measuring the cultural vitality of scenes
- Daniel Silver on cultural mapping
- Eleonora Redaelli on authentic participation using GIS
- Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa Nicodemus on creative placemaking
Spring Workshop Series: New Media and Evolving Cultural Networks
- Libby Hemphill on social networks and cultural production
- Patrick Jagoda on transmedia games
- Eszter Hargittai in variations in online creative expression
- Stephanie Pereira on Kickstarter art project policies and successes
- Rebecca S. Graff on archaeology in the city of Chicago
2010-2011
Fall Workshop Series: Museums
- Suzanne Gaskins on cultural differences in informal family learning at a children's museum
- Diane Grams on locality and art in Chicago
- Cecilia Garibay on Latino families' leisure values
- Tom Shapiro and Peter Linett on the multiple audiences of campus-based art museums
- Steven Conn on the history of museum-building in the U.S.
- Joanna Woronkowicz on cultural infrastructure in the U.S.
Winter Workshop Series: NEA Reports and Discussions with Practitioners
- Nina Simon on the participatory museum
- Julie Burros on cultural policy from the perspective of the city of Chicago
- Cheryl Hughes on the role of local arts agencies in a cultural policy setting
- Ra Joy on cultural policy from the perspective of arts advocacy
- Nick Rabkin with a preview of his NEA report on arts participation and attendance
- Jennifer Novak-Leonard with a preview of her NEA report on a multi-modal understanding of arts participation
- Deepa Gupta on cultural policy from the perspective of foundations
Spring Workshop Series: Intellectual Property and the Arts
- Adrian Johns on the history and politics of policing intellectual property
- Gordon Quinn on Fair Use and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- David Beeman on constitutional boundaries of intellectual property law
- Douglas Noonan on historic preservation policy in Chicago
- Julia Rhoads on dance and intellectual property
- William Landes and Anthony Hirschel on copyright and appropriation art
- Carole Rosenstein with a national study of outdoor arts festivals
2009-2010
Fall Workshop Series
- Kevin Stolarick on understanding the economic composition of the arts
- Santi Furnari on the planning and development of Millennium Park
Winter Workshop Series: Ongoing CPC Projects
- Betty Farrell and Maria Medvedeva on demographic change and the future of museums
- Cheryl Hughes and Sarah Lee on careers in the cultural sector
- Jennifer Novak-Leonard on arts participation
- Vince Welsh and Yonghyun Kim on race/ethnicity and arts participation
- Nick Rabkin on the arts and arts education
- Joanna Woronkowicz on cultural infrastructure in the United States
Spring Workshop Series
- Ellery Biddle on internet policy in Cuba
- Greg Sandow on the rebirth of classical music
- Kevin Giglinto on arts marketing
- Peter Linett on postmodern cultural institutions
- Yue Zhang on the politics of urban preservation
2008-2009
Fall Workshop Series
- Steven J. Tepper on Chicago's crackdown on raves
Winter Workshop Series
- Tyler Cowen on the recent revolution in cultural economics
- Jennifer Novak on measuring the intrinsic impact of the arts
Spring Workshop Series: Controlling the Illicit Art and Antiquities Markets: Preventing Looting, Litigating Restitution Claims and Monitoring Purchases
- Lawrence Rothfield on the looting of the Iraq Museum
- Jeremy G. Epstein on resolving ownership disputes over art
- Derek Fincham on a rigorous standard for the good faith acquisition of antiquities
2005-2006
Fall Workshop Series
- Richard A. Peterson on omnivorous arts audiences
- J. Stan Barrett on P.T. Barnum's publicity techniques in the arts world
- Stephanie Williams on issues affecting audience development among black Americans at major mainstream art museums
Spring Workshop Series
- Luis Herrera on engaging schooled and unschooled artists in neglected urban spaces
2004-2005
Fall Workshop Series
- David Grazian on the production of popular music as a con game
- Michael J. Green and Rachel Barney on intrinsically scarce goods
Winter Workshop Series
- Thomas Smith on jazz musicians' earnings
- Damon J. Phillips on recorded jazz as a musical innovation of the early twentieth century
- Harrison C. White on the dynamics of arts markets
- Donald Sassoon on the evolution of cultural markets
Spring Workshop Series
- Ann Markusen on the arts' hidden contributions to regional development
- Richard E. Caves on organization and change in TV broadcasting
- Normal Bradburn on the Humanities Indicators project
2003-2004
Fall Workshop Series
- Frédéric Martel on French and American cultural politics
- Pierre-Michel Menger on the artist as worker
- Jennifer Novak on the relationship between participation in the arts & the realization of benefits
- Caryn Kuebler, Sarah Lee, and Jennifer Novak on measuring the arts & culture workforce
- Arthur Brooks on economics and public broadcasting
Winter Workshop Series
Jeffrey Milyo on social capital and support for the arts, Steven Tepper on incidents of public conflict over artistic and cultural expression, Katherine A. Giuffre on network analysis of relationships in the art world, and Diane Grams on art production networks in three Chicago communities.
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Spring Workshop Series
- Lior Strahilevitz on the right to destroy valuable property
- Richard A. Epstein on cracks in the foundation of copyright law
- Adrian Johns on the nature of intellectual property in the mid-twentieth century
- Martha Woodmansee on the concept of "authorship" and its connection to cultural dominance.
2002-2003
Fall Workshop Series: Landmarks Preservation and Regulation
- Richard Epstein on a conceptual framework for landmarks preservation
- Brian Goeken on landmark designation
- David Bahlman on economic incentives for historic preservation
- Mark Schuster on the list as a tool of historic preservation
Winter Workshop Series: Culture and Urban Amenities
- Terry Clark and Lawrence Rothfield on culture and urban amenities
- Neil Scott Kleiman on "The Creative Engine"
- John Brehm on values, information, and American public opinion
- Mark Stern on documenting culture's reach
Spring Workshop Series: Price and Value in Cultural Policy
- Roundable on "The Visual Art Critic" with Andras Szanto, James Elkins, and Andrew Patner
- William Landes on whether twentieth century American art stands the test of time
- James Pesando on the market for modern prints
- Michael Rushton on earmarked taxes for the arts
2001-2002
Fall Workshop Series: Contingent Valuation of Culture
- Richard Epstein on the contingent valuation method of cultural goods and services
- Don Coursey on empirical challenges of measuring cultural values
- Cass Sunstein on predictably incoherent judgments
- Robert Kling on contingent valuation applied to historic preservation
Winter Workshop Series: Changing Cultural Policy
- Mark Schuster on "Ephemera; Temporary Urbanism, and Imaging"
- Michael Rushton on a transaction cost politics analysis of the National Endowment for the Arts
- Michael Wakeford, Christopher Perrius, Siu Yuin Pang with a discussion of leadership succession in the nonprofit arts
- symposium on cultural property, collecting and identity
Spring Workshop Series: Cultural Policy and the Minority Question
- An arts professionals panel with Sylvia Chivaratanond, Gregory Sholette, Carlos Tortolero, and Felisia Wesson
- Hamza Walker on the Kara Walker controversy
- Jesse Shipley on the performing arts and cultural policy in Ghana
2000-2001
Fall Workshop Series
- Carroll Joynes and Lawrence Rothfield on 'optimistic' and 'pessimistic' models of cultural patronage
- J. Mark Schuster on the art and practice of comparative cultural research
- Don Coursey on measuring the health of our common culture
- Wu Hung on exhibiting experimental art in China
Winter Workshop Series: Self-taught or Outsider Art & Large-scale Surveys
- Gary Alan Fine on economics and identity in the outsider art market
- Bill Landes on the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990
- Kevin McCarthy and Arthur Brooks on the future of the performing arts in America
- Maria-Rosario Jackson and Joaquin Herranz on art and culture through a neighborhood lens
Spring Workshop Series: TV and the Public Interest & Comparative Cultural Policy Studies
- Tyler Cowen on why Hollywood rules the world
- Cass Sunstein on "republic.com"
- Ariana Hernandez-Reguant on artistic labor, contractual citizenship, and the Cuban culture industries
- Arvind Rajagopal on the violence of commodity aesthetics
- Allen Feldman on public safety and the deformation of spatial citizenship in NYC
1999-2000
Fall Workshop Series: Indigenous Property Rights
- Elizabeth Povinelli on "National Policies of Cultural Recognition and the Asymptotes of Reason"
- David Haddock on "Biological Arithmetic, Cultural Economics, and the Amerindian Termination Dilemma"
- Rosemary Coombe on "Culture: Anthropology's Old Vice or International Law's New Virtue?"
- Richard Epstein on "Conquest and Contract with Indigenous Cultures: A Partial American and New Zealand Comparison."
Winter Workshop Series: Property Rights and Museum Practice
- Patty Gerstenblith on "Museums, the Market and Antiquities"
- Rob McLaughlin on "Refracting Rights Through Material Culture: Implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act"
- Cora Goldstein on "Constructing visual culture: the art policies of the Third Reich and OMGUS"
- Craig Howe on "Sovereignty and Cultural Property Policy in Museums."
Spring Workshop Series: Measuring Tastes and Values
- John Brewer on trust and the art market
- Douglas Greenberg, John McCarter, and James Wood on assessing the impact of museums
- Tony Bennett on "Cultural Policy Beyond Aesthetics."