2001 - 2002 Cultural Policy Workshops

Fall 2001: Contingent Valuation of Culture

• October 4: Richard Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor, UC Law School, an introduction to the contingent valuation method of cultural goods and services

• Readings: "The Revenge of the Redwoods? Reconsidering Property Rights and the Economic Allocation of Natural Resources" by Daniel S. Levy and David Freidman. The University of Chicago Law Review; Chicago; Spring 1994.
  "Contingent Valuation: Is Some Number Better than No Number?" by Peter A. Diamond and Jerry A. Housman. The Journal of economic perspectives: a journal of the American Economic Association. 8, no. 4, (Fall 1994): 45.
  "The contingent valuation debate: Why economists should care" by Paul R. Portney. The Journal of economic perspectives: a journal of the American Economic Association. 8, no. 4, (Fall 1994): 3.
  "Valuing the environment through contingent valuation" by Michael W. Haneman The Journal of economic perspectives: a journal of the American Economic Association. 8, no. 4, (Fall 1994).

  
  
• October 18: Don Coursey, Ameritech Professor of Public Policy, Irving Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, "Measuring Cultural Values: Empirical Challenges"
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  Readings same as previous session above.

• November 1: Cass Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Law School, Department of Political Science and the College, "Predictably Incoherent Judgments"
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  Reading: "Predictably Incoherent Judgments"
  
• November 15: Robert Kling, Department of Economics, Colorado State University, "Contingent Valuation Applied to Historic Preservation: Special Issues"

• Readings: "Estimating the Public Good Value of Preserving a Local Historical Landmark" [PDF file], by Robert Kling, Charles Revier, and Karin Sable.
  Background reading: "Contingent Valuation of Quasi-Public Goods" by Catherine Chambers, Paul Chambers, and John Whitehead [link to Proquest, accessible from UC server]
  The survey instrument for this latter study is here: http://personal.ecu.edu/whiteheadj/data/stg/stgcv.htm

Winter 2002: Changing Cultural Policy

Conveners: Lawrence Rothfield (English/Cultural Policy) and Mark Schuster (Cultural Policy)
Recent and ongoing work in cultural policy research.

• January 17: Mark Schuster, (Urban and Cultural Policy, visiting professor at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago), "Ephemera, Temporary Urbanism, and Imaging"
• January 31: Michael Rushton, (Economics, University of Regina), "Paying the Piper, Calling the Tune: A Transaction Cost Politics Analysis of the National Endowment for the Arts"
• February 14: Michael Wakeford (History), Christopher Perrius, Siu Yuin Pang (Cultural Policy), A Discussion of Leadership Succession in the Nonprofit Arts
  Readings: John Kreidler, "Leverage Lost: The Nonprofit Arts in the Post-Ford Era"
  Mike Wakeford, "'The Concrete Megalopolis Needs Its Grass Spots, Too': Nonprofit Arts Leadership in Chicago, 1971-2001"
  Marjorie Schwarzer, "Director Turnover: Are We Sustaining our Talent?"
  
• March 1: Cultural Property, Collecting and Identity: The Schultz Case and After, a half-day symposium moderated by Michael Dietler (Anthropology) and Richard Neer (Art History)

  Speakers:
  Bennet Bronson, Curator of Asian Archaeology and Ethnology, Department of Anthropology; The Field Museum
  Michael Dietler, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World; University of Chicago
  Patty Gerstenblith, Professor of Law; DePaul University
  Karen Manchester, Curator of Ancient Art; Art Institute of Chicago
  Richard Neer, Assistant Professor, Art History Department, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World; University of Chicago

Spring 2002: Cultural Policy and the Minority Question

Convener: Tanya Fernando (Comparative Literature)
In this quarter, we will be addressing minority issues within the cultural policy arena. How does a shift in focus to marginalized cultures allow for a different understanding of how cultural policy works? How do we negotiate and legislate policies regarding the representation of minority groups? How do exhibition topics and practices of museum display affect relationships between disparate communities? What policies need to be implemented in order to ensure fair transactions for minority or marginalized groups in an international system of art exchange?

• April 18: Arts Professionals Panel with:
  Sylvia Chivaratanond - Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  Gregory Sholette - Professor, School of the Art Institute
  Carlos Tortolero - Founder and Executive Director, Mexican Fine Arts Museum
  Felisia Wesson - General Counsel, Field Museum of Natural History
• May 2: Hamza Walker, Director of Education, The Renaissance Society
  "Nigger Lover or Will There Be Any Black People in Utopia: The Kara Walker Controversy"
• May 16: Jesse Shipley, Anthropology, University of Chicago
  "The Politics of Culture in the Postcolony: The Performing Arts and Cultural Policy in Ghana"
• May 30: CANCELLED