STP&A – Social Theory, Politics and the Arts

This website provides the following information:

• About STP&A
• 2007 Conference – 11-13 October, 2007, New York, USA
• Conference Venue – NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, USA
  

• Papers from 2006 conference – July 2006, Vienna, Austria (in development)
• Selected Links related to previous conferences

The Social Theory. Politics, and the Arts (STP&A) conference is an international and interdisciplinary gathering of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners that highlights current and conceptual issues in the development of cultural policy, theory, and arts administration practices in the United States and abroad. The conference typically draws participation from a broad range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, sociology, political science, management, economics, law, arts education, history and art history, and museum studies.

Click here to access "The Origins of Brigadoon: A History of the Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference" by Robert D. Leighninger Jr., Arizona State University. 

  2007 Conference

33^rd Annual Conference

11-13 October 2007, New York City

Conference Venue – NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South

NOTE – DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS HAS PASSED

Hosted by:

• Robert F Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
• Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 
• Research Center for Leadership in Action
• New York Foundation for the Arts
  
  
  Conference Co-Chairs

• Ruth Ann Stewart, Clinical Professor of Public Policy, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
• Radhika Subramaniam, Director of Cultural Programs, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
• Sonia Ospina, Co-Director, Research Center for Leadership in Action
• Michael Royce, Executive Director, New York Foundation for the Arts

For specific questions, send an email to stpa2007@gmail.com

Selected Links

About the 31^st Conference at the University of Oregon, 2005:

• http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~aadweb/STPA.htm
• http://aad.uoregon.edu/index.cfm?mode=stpa
• http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2005/12/crisscrossing_t.php

About the 30^th Conference at George Mason University, Virginia, 2004:

• http://mason.gmu.edu/~stoepler/STPA/home.htm
  

You may also find the following Culture.Info subportals of interest:

• research.culture.info (general resources for cultural research: bibliographies, journals and networks)
• observe.culture.info (cultural research organisations, including many who specialise in cultural research)
• policy.culture.info (databases and other resources providing information on cultural policies across the world)
• statistics.culture.info (sources of statistical data on culture or areas relevant to the cultural sector)
• gov.culture.info (pan-national government bodies and country-based agencies who promote culture internationally)