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Company: International Intelligence on Culture

THE CHANGING INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE 
OF CULTURAL POLICIES

Seminar organised by International Intelligence on Culture and the Department of Arts Policy and Management, City University, London

Friday 23 November 2001 (10.00-18.00)
At Barbican Centre (Cinema 3) and City University (Barbican Centre, level 7)

DRAFT PROGRAMME 

9.30 | Registration and coffee (Cinema 3, Barbican Centre, Level 4, Frobisher Crescent)

10.00

Welcome and introduction to the seminar
Professor Eric Moody (Head, Department of Arts Policy & Management, City University) Chair for morning session

10.10

How the policy landscape is changing – an introduction to the issues
Rod Fisher, International Intelligence on Culture

10.30

Is Nothing Sacred? Confronting the cultural policy inheritance 

(1) Policy challenges and developments in the context of political and organisational change: the cases of Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Wales
Professor Anthony Everitt (Writer and Consultant)

(2) From welfare state to management by results – towards a paradigm shift in Nordic countries? 
Dr Ritva Mitchell (Head of Research, Arts Council of Finland)

11.20 | Coffee break

11.40

Developing policies for countries with multiple priorities and minimal resources. The situation in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe
A panel discussion led by Dr Miklos Marschall (Director, Transparency International, Berlin) with Dr Ritva Mitchell and Christopher Gordon (Arts Consultant)

12.25

Policy and structural developments in Australia and New Zealand
Sarah Gardner (Executive Director, International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies) (to be confirmed)

12.55

Summing up of the morning session
Timothy Mason (Museums, Heritage and Arts Consultant)

13.10-14.15 | Lunch (Gresham seminar room, City University Department of Arts Policy & Management, level 7, Frobisher Crescent, Barbican)

14.15

Parallel breakout sessions
Discussion Group A
What are the implications for arts councils/culture agencies and their constituency of a shift from a focus on funding to a focus on development?
Chair: Dr Miklos Marschall
Moderator: Patricia Quinn, Director, Irish Arts Council (to be confirmed)

Discussion Group B
Structural change in England: a harbinger of recentralisation policies?
Chair: Professor Anthony Everitt 
Moderator: Christopher Gordon with the participation of Pauline Tambling (Executive Director of Research & Development, Arts Council of England) and others

15.30

Cultural policy responses to macro factors of change

(1) Policy responses to the impacts on European cities of macro factors of change
Dr Franco Bianchini (Director of Cultural Planning Research, De Montfort University)

16.00 | Coffee break

16.15

(2) McDonalds is not the only answer! Emerging cultural policies and dilemmas in East and South East Asia with particular reference to Hong Kong, Singapore and Viet Nam
A panel discussion led by Sun-man Tseng (Arts Consultant) with Rod Fisher and Ritva Mitchell

17.00

The hybridisation of policies: a cross-national perspective on government choices in policy implementation
Dr Mark Schuster (Visiting Professor of Cultural Policy at University of Chicago)

17.30 | Final question session

17.45

Summing up of the afternoon session
Andy Feist (Senior Research Fellow, Department of Arts Policy &  Management, City University)

18.00 | Seminar closes

N.B. Time for questions and debate is being programmed throughout the day.