2000 - 2001 Cultural Policy Workshops

Fall Quarter 2000

• October 12: Carroll Joynes and Lawrence Rothfield (University of Chicago, Cultural Policy Program), “Half empty or half full? A discussion of ‘optimistic’ and ‘pessimistic’ models of cultural patronage”
• October 26: J. Mark Schuster (MIT, Urban Studies and Planning), “The Art and Practice of Comparative Cultural Research”
• November 9: Don Coursey (University of Chicago, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies), “Measuring the Health of Our Common Culture”
• November 30: Wu Hung (University of Chicago; Art History, East Asian Languages and Literatures), “Exhibiting Experimental Art in China”

Winter Quarter:

• January 18: Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern, Sociology), “Economics and Identity in the Self-Taught or Outsider Art Market”
• February 1: Bill Landes (University of Chicago, Law School), “What Has the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 Accomplished?”

• February 8: Kevin McCarthy and Arthur Brooks (RAND Corporation), "The Future of the Performing Arts in America"
• March 1: Maria-Rosario Jackson & Joaquin Herranz (Urban Institute), “Art and Culture through a Neighborhood Lens: Implications for the Development of Cultural Policy"

Spring Quarter:

• April 5: Tyler Cowen (George Mason, Economics), “Why Hollywood Rules the World, and Whether We Should Care”
• April 26: Cass Sunstein (University of Chicago, Law School), “Republic.com”

• Reading: Chapters 1 & 2 of republic.com

• May 3: Ariana Hernandez-Reguant (University of Chicago, Anthropology), "A Different Kind of People": Artistic Labor, Contractual Citizenship, and the Cuban Culture Industries”
• May 25 (Friday): Arvind Rajagopal (NYU, Culture and Communication), "The Violence of Commodity Aesthetics: Hawkers, Demolition Raids and a New Regime of Consumption," and Allen Feldman (National Development and Research Institutes, Anthropology), "Philoctetes' Island: Public Safety and the Deformation of Spatial Citizenship in NYC." A SPECIAL DOUBLE SESSION Friday, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Pick 16