Conference on Social Theory, Politics And The Arts 

32nd Annual STP&A Meeting, Vienna 2006 

This website provides download links to most of the presentations and papers from the above conference, grouped under the various themes of the conference:

• Plenaries
• Stream A: Creative cities/creative sector
• Stream B: Artists, Audiences and Arts Organizations
• Stream C: Specific Art Fields, Identity Issues
• Stream D: Cultural Policy

Please note that a number of these downloads will be in PDF format.

Plenaries

Plenary: Developing Comparative Cultural Policy Models

• Marrit Bakke: Factors in the Process of Developing a Government Cultural Policy
• Jane Cataldi:  Research Models for Cultural Policy Change: Transfer and Learning: A Comparison
• Godfrey Brandt: From Culture to Multi-culture: Paradigmatic Shifts in Arts Management and (Multi) Cultural Policy for the 21^st Century
• Kevin Mulcahy: Cultural Policy Paradigms

Plenary Session Roundtable: Agents of Cultural Policy Learning, Transfer & Convergence

• Margaret Wyszomirski, Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Arts Policy & Administration.
• Marit Bakke, Professor Emeritus,Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.
• Patricia Dewey Assistant Professor, Arts and Administration Program and Associate Director for Cultural Policy, Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy, University of Oregon.
• Ann Galligan, Associate Professor in the Department of Cooperative Education and Co-Director of the Cultural and Arts Policy Research Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
• Raj Isar, Jean Monnet Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, Department of International Communications, The American University of Paris

Presentation of Creative Industries in Vienna

• Norbert Kettner, departure
• Michael Stampfer, wwtf, Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds

Stream A: Creative cities/creative sector

Panel#1a:  Economy and Employment in the Creative Sector

• Andrea Hull, Brian Long: What are Today's Emerging Artists Emerging Into?
• Elisabeth Mayerhofer: Creatives, Get Rally!  The Tricky Topic of Political Organisation of Creators
• Dagmar Abfalter, Birgit Huber, Antonia von Vopelius: Success Counts: An Empirical Analysis of Workplace Satisfaction and Motivation in Theatre

Panel #2a: The Creative Sector and Urban Revitalization

• Ruth Ann Stewart: Arts as an Urban Revitalization Tool: Understanding the Historical Context and Rationale
• Jason Franklin: Public and Private Support for Rebuilding Lower Manhattan Through the Arts: A Case Study
• Carmen Marie Rogers: Mechanisms for Municipal Investment and Support of Urban Cultural Communities
• Nicholas Crosson: Case Study of Greater Philadelphia

Panel #3a: Economic Impact of the Creative Sector

• Anu Kivilo: The First Economic Impact Study of Creative Industries in Estonia: How to Reorganize the Statistics So That It Would Describe the Reality?
• Eleonora Redaelli: The Creative Industries in American Cities: An Exploratory Analysis
• Pier Luigi Sacco, Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Laura Alborghetti: Urban Public Art: A Strategic Tool for the Exploitations of Human Capital or Marketing Initiative for the Promotion of Urban Area?  The Cases of Montreal, Barcelona and Sydney
• Katarina Zivanovic, Ivana Antic: Kikinda Mammoth: Heritage as an Initiator of Socio-Economic Development

Panel #4a: Comparative Public Funding for the Arts

• Magdalena Cierna, Peter Tschmuck: A Comparative Analysis of the Institutions and Structures of Public Funding in Slovakia and Austria
• Martha Mary Friel, Michele Trimarchi: Listing in the performing arts sector: Rules and strategies in the Italian experience
• Dan Eugen Ratiu: The Subsidized Muse or the Market-orientated Muse?  Supporting Artistic Creation in Romania, Between State Intervention and Art  
• The Subsidized Muse or the Market-orientated Muse?  Supporting Artistic Creation in Romania, Between State Intervention and Art Market
• Donatella de Paoli, Emma Stenström: The Creative and Commercial Turn of Cultural Policy in Scandanavia
• gi Sacco, Massimiliano Nuccio, Giorgio Tavano Blessi: Cultural Policies and Local Planning Strategies: The role of Culture in Local Sustainable Development
• David C. Prosperi: ‘Economic’ and ‘Spatial’ Aspects of Creative Industry Clusters: Examples from South Florida
• Jane Andrew: Towards an Understanding of the Relationship Between Creative Capital and Regional Economic and Employment Development via Analysis of Locally Specific Supply Chain and Workforce Needs Matrices
• Doris Grundei: The Importance of Developing Cultural Products for Regional Development

Panel #6a: Creative Sector: Definitions and Theory

• Graeme Evans, Jo Foord: Creative Spaces - An International Comparitive Study of Creative Industries Policies
• Simon Roodhouse: The Cultural Industries: Creative Definitions, Quantification and Practice
• Dan Silver, Lawrence Rothfield, Terry Nichols Clark: A Theory of Scenes
• Volker Kirchberg: The Cultural Turn in Urban Development: Surveying Concepts of 'Creative City,' 'Creative Industries' and Policies of Arts and Planning on Baltimore, MD

Panel #7a:  Cultural Institutions and Creative Cities

• Patricia Dewey: The Leadership Role of Flagship Arts Organisations in Pacific Northwerst Urban Cultural Development
• Maja Breznik:  The Role Of Culture in the Strategies of 'City Regeneration'
• Pier Luigi Sacco, Michele Viviani, GiorgioTavano Blessi: Corporate Social Responsibility and Cultural Policies: The Role of Cultural Institutions in Urban Development Strategies
• Anna Grega: Corporate and Community Embedding - A Dynamic Process that can Contribute to Cultural Development and a Custom-Built Cultural Policy

Stream B: Artists, Audiences and Arts Organizations

Panel #2b: Austrian Cultural Policy

• Monika Mokre: Deregulation and Democracy: The Austrian Case
• Michael Wimmer: What Makes Cultural Policy Really Austrian?
• Andrea Grisold:  One Deregulation Fits All? The Austrian Broadcasting Sector After the European ‘Liberalization’ Effort
• Peter Tschmuck: The Budgetary Effects of 'Privatising' Major Cultural Institutions in Austria

Panel #3b:  Value and Values in Cultural Policy

• Carole Rosenstein: Toward a Measure for Cultural Value
• Hans Abbing, Sacha Kagan: Social Price
• Annukka Jyrämä, Anne Äyväri: Differing Values and Norms: Enablers or Barriers in the Knowledge Creation Process? An Art Project in a Business School.

Panel #4b: International Cultural Policies and the Creative Sector

• J.P. Singh: The Meta-power of Culture: Understanding Cultural Production and Cultural Policies
• Insul Kim:  Building New International Relations through Art and Culture: Developing a New Scheme for Potent Cultural Diplomacy
• Stefan Toepler, Aimee Fullman: After the Convention:A North American Perspective on the Issue of Defining Cultural Diversity

Panel #5b:  Cultural Policy Change 

• Katya Johanson: An Alternative Approach to Cultural Policy Analysis
• Gordon Shockley:The Policy Implications of the Arts Implications of the Arts Endowment Political Environment 1989-1999
• Dessislava Gavrilova: De-Regulation, Privatization, or  (Re)Regulation: The Reform Deficit in the Cultural Sector.  The Case of Post-Communist Transition  
• Katja Lindqvist: An Iron Arm Length's Embrace: The Strategic and Economic Aspects of the Relationship Between Art Organisations and Organisations and Public Principals in Sweden

Panel #6b : Reinventing National Cultural Policies

• Anna Grega: Changing a cultural policy recipe - human capital as a catalyst ingredient
• Sara Selwood: The English Arts Council: Closer Than Arms Length
• Margaret Wyszomirski: Policy Decentralization, Drift, and Paradigm Shift

Panel #7b: Authority and Legitimacy in Cultural Policy and Administration

• Alan Stanbridge:  Interrogating Theory, Justifying Practice: Cultural Policy and the Problem of Legitimization
• Constance DeVereaux: Speaking Art to Power
• Patrycia Kaszynska: Creative Industry—Oppressive Industry: Adorno, Benjamin and the Culture Industry
• Sacha Kagan, Hans Abbing: Polity Conventions in Art Worlds: The Constitution of Authority Configurations

Stream C: Specific Art Fields, Identity Issues

Panel #1c: Heritage and Cultural Policy

• Laura Young: A Framework for Resolution of Claims for Cultural Objects
• Steven Pulimood:  The Fine Art of Repartiation
• Sandra Braman: Art in Dispute: National Difference on Art that Crosses Border

Panel #2c: Issues Concerning Museums

• Pier Luigi Sacco, Alessia Zorloni:  Building A Place for Contemporary Art: Comparitative Analysis of Museums in the 21st Century
• Suzanne Keene: Turning the Museum Inside Out: How Can Museums Deliver Public Value from their Stored Collections?
• Nora Wagner: Managing Education in Berlin's Museum

Panel #3c: Comparative Heritage Policy Perspectives

• Eva Vicente, Angel de los Ríos: The Evolution and Recent Developments of Cultural Heritage Policy: The Case of Castile and Leon.
• Hyojung Cho: The Policy System and Political Dynamics in the US Heritage Conservations
• Monica Lotreanu:  A Strategic Approach to Revitalization of the Cultural Heritage as a Part of Micro-Regional Sustainability
• Shafi Noor Islam:  Indigineous Heritage Tourism as a Fundamental Base for Cultural Economy in the CHT: A Case Study

Panel #4c: Identity and Policy

• Michael L. Naylor: Legacy of Race in Austria
• Jung Eun Song: An Exploratory Researchof Immigrant Arts Participation:  The Case of the Columbus Asian Festival
• Stephen Miles: Agency and Domination in Communicative Performance

Panel #5c: Identity, History, and Participation

• Lois Foreman-Wernet: The Masculine-Feminine Dimension of Culture: A Comparative Investigation
• Karen Frostig: Austrian Funding Practices Regarding Funding Post-War Projects Dealing with Holocaust Legacies
  
• James E. Modrick: Conceptualising Identity and Space: The Politics of Access
• Julia de Roeper, Susan Luckman: Future of Audiences for Local Stories: Audience and Industry Perceptions of National Narrative Storytelling in the Digital Age

Stream D: Cultural Policy

Panel #1d:  Managing the Creative Industries

• Stephen Boyle:  The Rise and Fall of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Classical Music Production in Australia
• Erik Hitters, Miriam van de Kamp, Paul Rutten: Breaking the Sound Barrier?  Independent Music Productions from Scotland and the Netherlands on the Global Market
• Arthur H. Sterngold: The Over-selling of Business Marketing Methods to Arts and Cultural Organizations

Panel #2d:  Arts Audiences and Donors

• Carole Rosenstein: Civil Society in Support of Public Culture: Nonprofit Public Libraries and ‘Friends of the Library’ Organizations in the US
• Javier Stanziola: Corporate Support for the Arts and Heritage in the UK: Where Has It Gone to?
• Yoko Hayashi: Issues of Arts Management in Public Displays of Works of Art in Japan

Panel #3d: Actors in Cultural Policy and Administration

• Tasos Zembylas:Legality and Fairness In the Performance of Cultural Administration
• Katarzyna Jagodzinska: Signum Temporis:  State - Institution - Artist: Artistic Work in Poland
• Dessislava Gavrilova: Actors, Institutions, Multiple Streams and Cultural Policy Reform: The Case of the Sofia City Fund for Culture

Panel #4d:  Challenges for Arts Management Education

• Elmar D. Konrad:  Artists as Entrepeneurs: Imparting Entrepreneurship - Knowledge as a key Competence in Education and Teaching of Artistic Professions
• Cecelia Fitzgibbon: The Development of Standards for Arts Administration Education Programs: Process, Product, and Implications for Teaching Management of the Cultural Industries
• Kaija Rensujeff: Effects of University Level Training in the Arts on the Employment of Artists

Panel #5d  The Cultural Industries: Film and Broadcasting

• Thomas Heskia: Public Film Finance in Europe: Cultural vs. Competition Policies
• Linda Ludwin: UK Feature Film Production
• Margit Rohringer: The Documentary Film in the Age of New Media.  In Retrospective: The Different Faces of the So-Called Revolution in Romania, or the 'making of History'

Panel #6d: Professionalization and Portfolio Careers in the Creative Sector

• Ann Galligan: The Spectrum of Arts Educators
• Joni Cherbo: The Pipeline for Individual Artists
• Patricia Dewey:  Arts Managers and Professionalisation
• Sybil Frei: Arts Management Education and Careers in Canada

Panel #7d: Artists in Changing Environments

• Pier Luigi Sacco, Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Thomas Pilati: The Role of North American Independent Artist Run Spaces Dealing with the Development of Cultural Milieu in Society: The Case of Montreal and Quebec Province
• Regina Sperlich: Popular music in the Digital Mediamorphis: Transformation of Rock Music and Electronic Music in Austria 
• John McCann: Building Leadership as a Practice Among Artists, Administrators, and Trustees