Past Speakers and Lectures online
Video conference with the Broadway Speakers Bureau Program, The Broadway League, April 3
Students from the program will take part in a video conference participating with members of the Broadway League in NYC and students from universities across the US.
Wednesday 19 March 2008, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy 509 Obrien Hall 12pm-2pm rsvp ub-artsmanagement.buffalo.edu
Kevin V. Mulcahy Sheldon Beychok Distinguished Professor Department of Political Science, Louisiana State University will present "Coloniality, Identity, and Cultural Policy."
This talk is an exploration of the construction of cultural identity in formerly-colonialized cultures. It covers Mexico, South Africa, Quebec, Ukraine, Puerto Rico.
Dr. Mulcahy’s research focuses on public policy with specific emphases on governments and the arts and comparative cultural policymaking. His areas of expertise also include American foreign policymaking and cultural diplomacy.
Professor Mulcahy was named Fulbright Distinguished Fellow as the Laszlo Orszagh Chair in American Studies in Budapest for 2002-2003. Dr. Mulcahy is also the Executive Editor of the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society.
Friday 29 February 2008, The Humanities Institute 830 Clemens Hall 1pm - 3pm
Dr Carole Rosenstein will present her research at the Humanities Institute new faculty seminar series in a talk entitled "Cultural Policy and the Life of the Humanities in Communities"
This paper is forthcoming in Koritz, Amy and George Sanchez (eds.), Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina. University of Michigan Press.
Wednesday 31 October Kevin Garland Executive Director National Ballet of Canada
Kevin Garland, Executive Director of the National Ballet of Canada will visit the program and speak to students about the company. She was previously executive director of the Canadian Opera House Corporation. She has also been an National Ballet of Canada board member for ten years. Students from the program will also visit the company in Toronto in November, receive a tour of the new venue and see a production. To find out more about the National Ballet of Canada click here
Friday 27 April 2007 Robert Austin -- Managing in the Creative Economy
Since the industrial revolution, managers have refined their understanding of how to create business outcomes (products and services) with increasing reliability and efficiency. The resulting management principles, processes, and practices have been successful in creating societal wealth and raising the standard of living in developed economies. More recently, a variety of factors, including technological advances and globalization of the world's labor markets, has directed new attention to a different set of principles, processes, and practices: those that lead to valuable inconsistencies in outcome. "Creative economy firms" produce value, not by generating similar outputs more efficiently, but by generating novel outputs that are more valuable than their predecessors. Consider: When an industrial process results in a surprise, we call it a "quality problem;" but creative economy firms often experience problems if they cannot consistently surprise their customers. The management approaches that lead most successfully to these two different kinds of value creation are, not surprisingly, different. In this session, I will discuss a new course on this subject in the Harvard Business School curriculum, and the research framework that underlies the course.
Robert Austin, Author of Artful Making. What Managers Need to Know about How Artists Work. Prentice Hall 2003
Thursday 12 April 2007 12.15pm Baldy Center 509 OBrien Hall
Michael Sartisky is President and Executive Director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, which is headquartered in New Orleans. He will be speaking about "Transformation Through Strategic Planning: Matching Institutional with Community Needs."
Michael Sartisky will discuss the work involved in making the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities the largest of all the state humanities councils. In so doing LEH has networked and partnered with the universities, schools, museums, libraries, public television and radio, state legislature, municipalities, the philanthropic sector, and community-based organizations. He will be using the example of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities as the illustrative model of what is possible. By example, how it has influenced policy and practices in these partner institutions.
Monday 2 April 2007 12.00pm Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
Cultural Diplomacy from the Standpoint of National Arts Service and Advocacy Organizations
Andy Finch Senior Director of Government Affairs, Americans for the Arts will speak to the Cultural Policy and Diplomacy Working Group at The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. Andy serves as Americans for the Arts' chief lobbyist on Capitol Hill and at the federal executive agencies. Prior to joining Americans for the Arts in 2003, he served as a special assistant and arts education advisor to U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley from 1999 to 2001, and as a lobbyist for the American Association of Museums from 1990 to 1999.
Cultural Diplomacy from the Standpoint of National Arts Service and Advocacy Organization
National arts service organizations such as Americans for the Arts and the American Association of Museums represent practically all of America's major non-profit arts institutions. The U.S. Department of State routinely asks them to interact with arts professionals who are visiting Washington on citizen exchange programs, foreign arts organizations routinely turn to them for professional advice and financial resources, and advocates of U.S. exchange programs expect them to lobby for increased funding. While stronger than most of their foreign counterparts, however, they do have limited staff and finances. Andy Finch will discuss how national arts service organizations face these challenges, speaking from his own experience with the two organizations named above.
Fall 2006
Thursday December 7, 2006 -- 7.30pm Venue: Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre
Visiting
Scholar Clemens Thornqvist will discuss his research dissertatation: The
Savage and the Designed: Robert Wilson and Vivienne Westwood as Artistic Managers.
The research explores innovative methodologies tin the field of design management. The research suggests that rather than what might at first appear to be a laissez-faire
type of process of organization by a manager who has completely lost control,
is in fact it is quite the reverse. Clemens will discuss how this research also
impacted upon the way in which the entire doctoral research was undertaken.
The doctoral work was supervised by Prof. Pierre Guillet de Monthoux and Prof. Lisbeth Svengren at the School of Buiness, Stockholm University and funded by the Swedish School of Textiles, University College of Borås, Sweden.
Tuesday, October 31 2006
Professor
Milena Dragicevic-Sesic
Professor of Cultural Management and Theory of Mass Media at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.
Professor Dragicevic-Sesic is an internationally renowned writer on cultural policy. She is the author of the unesco publication Intercultural Mediation in the Balkans, co-author of Arts Management in Turbulent Times: Adaptable Quality Management [Navigating the arts through the winds of change] Boekmanstudies Amsterdam (2005), and written a chapter Transcultural Europe, Palgrave Macmillan (2006).
Professor
Dragicevic-Sesic will have a dialogue with Maja
Hadziosmanovic, Mediacentar Manager for TV/Film Production in Sarajevo.
Maja is currently in Buffalo on a six week residency Program at Hallwalls Center
for Contemporary Art and made possible by CEC Artslink. 
Monday, October 23, 2006 Visual Studies
Department Lecture Series, 6:30
Center for the Arts (CFA) Screening Room #112
Speaker: Graeme Sullivan,
Teachers College, Columbia University
In this presentation, Graeme Sullivan will draw on information from his recent book, Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts, to argue that painting and other studio-based practices can be a form of research.
Graeme
Sullivan is Chair, Department of Arts and Humanities, and an Associate
Professor of Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. He taught
at the University of New South Wales, Australia from 1988, before taking up
the position at Columbia Teachers College. Since the early 1990s his research
has involved an ongoing investigation of creative and critical-reflexive thinking
processes and research practices in the visual arts. He has published widely
in the field of art education and in 1990 the National Art Education Association
(NAEA) awarded him the Manual Barkan Memorial Award for his scholarly writing.
Graeme's most recent publication is Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the
Visual Arts (2005), which argues that studio art is a form of research. Graeme
maintains an active art practice and his Streetworks continue to be created
and installed in different cities and sites (see www.streetworksart.com
)
August 2006
Dr. Ruth Bereson presented"The Underbelly of Cultural Policy Making". Click below to hear the lecture.
- The University of Western
Australia, Institute of Advanced Studies. "The Underbelly of Cultural Policy
Making" ,
for PDF click: Ruth Bereson Public Lecture Perth, Australia
Dr. Bereson's lecture to be in conjunction with the Perth Winter Arts Fesitval ; please click here for full Perth Winter Arts Festival program in PDF format (Friday, July 21, 2006) Click here to listen to the lecture - The University of Western
Australia, Institute of Advanced Studies. Seminar on Cultural Policy
and Diplomacy
for PDF click: Ruth Bereson Post Grad (Monday, July 24, 2006)
May 2006
Dr. Ruth Bereson presented a paper at The Essex Management Centre, United Kingdom entitled Unwrapping Christo.
November 22-24, 2005
Dr. Ruth Bereson has been invited to present a paper at a conference on November 22nd - 24th in France called "Arts, Enterprises and Technologies: Which models of cultural development for Europe?" see the following website for more information: http://www.c2s-organisation.com/ciaet05/program.php?lang=fr
Dr. Ruth Bereson's abstract for this conference is:
Christo -- Une étude sur la diplomatie, le business et l art (Christo -- A study of diplomacy, business and art)
In which ways do Christo and Jeanne-Claude's works present themselves to their audience? The artists' enterprise involves a number of sectors of today's artistic, social, political and business environment on a grand scale. Such practice will be interpreted both against a contemporary and historical framework involving the discussion of the place of art in society, the politics of negotiation and diplomacy, the use of public space, the worlds of business and enterprise. An international inquiry based program was developed between three disciplines at Teachers College, Columbia University (curatorship and business, arts management and art education) looking at The Gates in Central Park in February 2005. This presentation explores questions arising from the project and suggests that a lateral approach to art works and their environment could capture the multi-levelled meanings which such enterprises evoke.
November 18, 2005
Media
Artist Dr. Richard Jochum will be giving a talk on Friday, November 18th,
between 9am and 11am in room 144 of the UB Center for the Arts. To view Dr.
Jochum's bio, click on this website address: http://www.richardjochum.net/start.html.
Thursday-Friday, October 13-14, 2005
Dr. Ruth Bereson delivered the Keynote Lecture at the Conference in Budapest, Hungary on October 13-14, 2005, "Opera as a Place of Representation: European Opera Houses in the 19th Century in Comparison".
For more details, please view the conference programme [in Microsoft Word format] and visit the conference website: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=147409