"Digital media have not only made in-roads in the way visual artists, musicians, designers, film makers and other cultural practitioners work - they have created a new context". Michiel Schwarz's insightful Dutch policy paper on "e-culture", that has just been published in English, says stirringly that "the key here is not doing the old things with different tools, but rather 'to do other things'. Digital technologies and the Internet are opening the door to new forms of expression, changing the roles played by cultural institutions, and placing the audience and user increasingly centre stage".

The Penn Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania has a small number of $1500 stipends available for the 2005-2006 academic year for faculty in the humanities and allied disciplines from Philadelphia-area colleges and universities and for department directors and curators of Philadelphia-area arts and cultural organizations. The stipends are meant to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue and scholarship across the region's academies and cultural institutions.

WORKSHOP: Saturday, January 8, 9:00 AM - 12:00 AM

MODERATOR: Elizabeth Simpson, The Bard Graduate Center

More than one year after the beginning of the Iraq war, the cultural heritage of Mesopotamia is still in jeopardy. Many Iraqi cultural institutions were looted, the most conspicuous being the Iraq Museum in
Baghdad, and archaeological sites throughout the country are being systematically plundered...

After the decade of the dramatic decline due to the collapse of Soviet Union positive tendencies emerged in the cultural sphere of Ukraine...

One of the main reasons why misunderstandings occur between Chinese and western arts managers could be attributed to the differences in perception between the two cultures. The aim of this paper is to encourage Western arts managers to consider the power of culture and perception, and the impact of this on work performance, when working in a Chinese city such as Shanghai...

Cultural policy in Singapore arguably takes on a policing dimension, as it is typically about media censorship vis-à-vis the maintenance of social and political control. At the same time, it aims to extract economic productivity from citizens working in the arts and cultural sector...

Government opts for further consideration after a Three-year Study

This paper is based on an analysis and discussion of the present situation of the management of the culture and information sector in Vietnam from three perspectives: management tools, organizational structure and human resources...

The return of a Republican to the White House and increased Republican majorities in Congress apparently will have little to no effect on arts funding and its management in Washington. At the state level -- where governors and legislators had struggled with dwindling coffers -- the 2004 election reveals signs of renewed hope.

Whether its the increasing number of practical examples of success in your own and other communities or the academic research of Dr. Richard Florida (The Rise of the Creative Class), the evidence is in: it pays for a municipality to make a proactive role in arts and cultural development a key part of its core "business."...

An article by Stefan Tobias, Hannover (Germany), in: Journal of Cultural Economics

By David Maddison (nstitute of Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense), in: Journal of Cultural Economics

Determining the Value of Cultural Goods: How Much (or How Little) Does Contingent Valuation Tell Us?

By David Throsby, in: Journal of Cultural Economics

Körber Foundation & "Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen"

Visiting Fellowships and Junior Visiting Fellowships on "History and Memory in Europe"

At the outset one must admit that the following remarks about the performance of trustees of cultural institutions are based on the experience of the writer in Israel, but there is reason to suspect that in other countries the situation may not be all that different...

For more than five years "Les rencontres Association des Villes et Régions de la Grande Europe pour la culture (Les rencontres Association of European Cities and Regions for Culture" , has been leading a large debate on the setting up of a cultural policy for the European cities and regions...

Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellows at the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage will help expand and refine the theoretical framework for cultural heritage to include grassroots voices...

Consultants live in a nether world between practitioners (arts managers, public officials and, yes, occasionally even artists) and academics. The latter are Keynes' scribblers', whose hypotheses and hunches and, on rare occasions, full blown theories we reduce to the pat shorthand of our trade: concepts such as Baumol's cost disease, creative clusters, social capital.