Current Issues in International Cultural Policy

Teachers College, Columbia University
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This course is intended for arts managers, arts funders and policy makers, artists, researchers, teachers, sympathizers, and thinkers. It is designed to provide a deeper understanding of some of the most pressing issues affecting the arts in the United States and around the world. It also seeks to examine the implications for the cultural sector of the rapidly changing political, economic and social context in which policies affecting cultural provision are formed and executed

Episodes

  1. 06/29/2010 · VIDEO

    A vibrant cultural ecology and its place in contemporary life

    This session reviews briefly the arguments and conclusions of the proceeding classes and seek to address the question: what constitutes a vibrant ecology; what contribution can and should government make to support that ecology; and why?

  2. 06/29/2010 · VIDEO

    Causal models underpinning cultural policy

    Cultural policy is premised on assumptions about causal relationships between expenditure, legislation, exhortation and other levers of power and influence and specific outcome.

  3. 06/29/2010 · VIDEO

    Cultural Diplomacy

    Current Issues in International Cultural Policy

  4. 06/29/2010 · VIDEO

    Globalization, democratization, recession

    Many trends in cultural creation and consumption have been and continue to be profoundly influenced by globalization. As we enter another chapter in the evolution of world economy, what trends are likely to dominate and how are they likely to affect cultural provision?

  5. 06/29/2010 · VIDEO

    Leisure time and technology

    Mapping the impact and the grounds for predicting how changes in the leisure market and in technology are going to affect further the composition and structure of cultural sector.

  6. 06/29/2010 · VIDEO

    Philanthropy, cultural markets, the 501(c)(3) form of organization and its alternatives

    The 501(c)(3) model is critically dependent upon a capital market that is philanthropic rather than commercial in character, highly circumscribed in its operation, and in which investment decisions are not informed by the ‘rational self-interest’ of neo-classical economics.

  7. 06/29/2010 · VIDEO

    Special Lecture

    Celebrating the 25th years of the Research Center for Arts and Culture

  8. 06/29/2010 · VIDEO

    The arts and the creative industries

    The synergies between the commercial, the unincorporated and non-profit cultural sectors and the extent of movement of individuals and intellectual property between them.

  9. 06/29/2010 · VIDEO

    The building boom and its implications for the ecology of culture

    What has driven the level of investment in physical assets? How has it been financed? What are the long-term implications for the vitality of cultural sector?

  10. 06/29/2010 · VIDEO

    The objective of cultural policy

    This class addresses the issue of the ultimate ‘ends’ or rationales of cultural policy, both instrumental and intrinsic.

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This course is intended for arts managers, arts funders and policy makers, artists, researchers, teachers, sympathizers, and thinkers. It is designed to provide a deeper understanding of some of the most pressing issues affecting the arts in the United States and around the world. It also seeks to examine the implications for the cultural sector of the rapidly changing political, economic and social context in which policies affecting cultural provision are formed and executed

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