Upcoming Events
FALL 08
Thursday 25 September, Emeritus Professor John Pick will discuss The Aesthetic Contract,UB Arts Management & Policy Occasional Paper Series No. 4
Distinguished Affiliated Scholar Professor John Pick will visit the program September 25 - October 5 and discuss The Aesthetic Contract with students and faculty of the program.
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Art of Management Conference in BANFF Sep 2008
Journeys and their perambulations: inquiries in artworlds and organisations
Second year student Erica Pastore and first year student Kate Boisvert have had their submitted abstracts accepted into different tracks at the Art of Management Conference in Banff 9-12 September, 2008
Program Director Dr Ruth Bereson will be co convening the track Journeys and their Perambulations: inquiries in artworlds and organisations. with Nina Kivinen, Åbo Akademi, Åbo Finland, Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Amos Anderson Chair of Philosophy, Culture and Management Åbo Akademi, Finland and Nomadic University Nurope and Distinguished Affiliated Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Stockoholm University, and Nurope
Wednesday 29 October, 2008 , 2pm Professor Dorothy Noyse will speak at the Baldy Center on developments in international law dealing with communally-held intellectual property.
Dorothy Noyes (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of OSU's Center for Folklore Studies. She studies the collective representations of plural societies, with an emphasis on how intergroup relations are articulated and manipulated through traditional performance genres. Her most recent book, Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), won the 2005 Book Prize of the Fellows of the American Folklore Society. Currently she is in the midst of a series of articles on intellectual property and the social organization of creativity, as well as a book project tentatively entitled Voicing Redemption: Industrial Feudalism and the Folk in Modern Europe. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University, NYU, the University of Barcelona, the Inter-University Centre (Dubrovnik), Georg-August Universität (Göttingen), and most recently an Open Society Institute summer seminar at Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj, Romania). She serves on the Executive Board of the American Folklore Society and as the Chair of its Committee on International Issues.
Ongoing Activities
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