Cultural Policy listserv
February 6, 2002

Dear Members of the Cultural Policy listserv:

Hello all.  Lots of good information for you this week.  Thanks to those of you who have congratulated the Center on its new leadership and direction.  A new team, a new office... what's next in 2002?!?  We'll keep you posted!    

In this update please find:

  1. News from the Center -- Announcement of new leadership!

  2. Announcements from the Community

  3. News from the Sector

  4. Calendar of Events and Opportunities

Best wishes,

Allison Brugg Bawden
abrugg@culturalpolicy.org

News from the Center

  1. CENTER FOR ARTS AND CULTURE ANNOUNCES NEW LEADERSHIP
    The Center for Arts and Culture announced yesterday its appointment of Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, former director of the White House Millennium Council, as Center President and Chief Executive Officer. The Center also announced that Bill Ivey, Branscomb Scholar at Vanderbilt University and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, will join the Center as its Senior Fellow in February, 2002. Margaret J. Wyszomirski, Professor of Public Policy and Art Education at Ohio State University, will be named Senior Fellow in 2003.

    The full press release is available from the Center at http://www.culturalpolicy.org/news/02-04-05.htm.

    Please update your contact information!

    Ellen McCulloch-Lovell
    President and CEO
    Center for Arts and Culture
    819 Seventh Street, NW, Suite 505
    Washington, DC 20001
    phone: 202.783-5277
    fax: 202.783-4498
    email: elovell@culturalpolicy.org
    www.culturalpolicy.org
  2. CULTURAL AGENCIES AND PRESIDENT BUSH'S FY 2003 BUDGET REQUESTS
    On February 4, 2002, President Bush submitted his FY 2003 budget requests to Congress. Cultural agencies fared well, most receiving requests for increases. Below, find several articles highlighting the budget requests and a short list of figures for cultural agencies. The President's complete budget request can be read online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2003/budget.html

    The Bush Administration has recommended that the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science be eliminated. "While the Administration supports the nation’s libraries, it does not support duplicative or ineffective agencies. NCLIS’ products-primarily reports on a wide variety of information issues-have failed to have a significant impact on public policy. NCLIS does not operate programs; 100 percent of its funding has been for salaries, travel, and other expenses for its commissioners and staff. The Administration believes that other agencies can take on the responsibilities of NCLIS that continue to be necessary, such as compiling basic statistics on libraries. NCLIS’ other activities have failed to demonstrate that their results justify their cost. The budget recommends eliminating this agency in 2003, saving taxpayers $1 million."
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Announcements from the Community

  1. National Endowment for the Arts Announces Grants to Organizations Deadlines
    Deadline: Various

    The National Endowment for the Arts ( http://www.nea.gov/ ) provides funding to support the core artistic and public service projects of organizations that are devoted to the arts.

    Funding opportunities are currently available in support of four of the Endowment's goals: 
    Creativity -- the making and presentation of artistic work, and the development of professional artists (Deadline: March 25, 2002); 
    Organizational Capacity -- the development of arts organizations that are stable and generate public confidence (Deadline: March 25, 2002);
    Access -- making quality art as broadly available as possible (Deadline: August 12, 2002); 
    Heritage and Preservation -- keeping America's cultural heritage intact by recovering and preserving the nation's artistic achievements (August 12, 2002).

    Assistance is available to nonprofit organizations of all sizes and for projects in all arts disciplines.

    Complete guidelines and application materials are available at the Endowment's Web site.
    http://www.nea.gov/guide/Orgs03/OrgIndex.html
  2. 28th Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics & the Arts: Focusing on Historic Preservation & Cultural Diversity
    October 3 - 5, 2002
    The College of Charleston
    Charleston, South Carolina
    Deadline: March 15

    Co-Sponsors:
    Arts Management Program, School of the Arts, College of Charleston
    The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

    This year's Conference on Social Theory, Politics & the Arts will take place in historic Charleston, South Carolina and will focus on issues of historic preservation and cultural diversity. We welcome panel proposals and papers from all disciplines that explore themes related to these topics.

    Charleston, which was settled in 1670, offers a unique combination - the easy pace of a southern coastal community and the sophistication and beauty of Old World Europe. Its well-preserved architecture and history are evident throughout the city and on the historic plantations and gardens nearby. In addition to rich architectural environs, a visit to Charleston offers a fascinating glimpse into the unique cultural diversity of this area and the complex social history associated with it.

    The conference will be held on the campus of the College of Charleston located in the heart of the city. Most areas of the downtown peninsula are easily accessible on foot while miles of beaches and marshlands can be found a short drive away. The conference hotel will be the Holiday Inn Historic District, with special rates during the Conference (call toll free 1-877-805-7900 for reservations).

    Please submit, by email or fax, a thematic panel proposal or a paper title (with a one-page summary) by March 15, including all relevant contact information. Presenters will be notified by May 1.

    Lori Kornegay
    Visiting Assistant Professor
    Arts Management Program
    College of Charleston
    66 George Street
    Charleston, SC 29424
    Tel: 843/953-6301
    Fax: 843-953-7068
    Email: kornegayl@cofc.edu
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News from the Sector

At the top: We were all shocked to learn last Tuesday of Michael Hammond's death. Below, please find a link to information from the National Endowment for the Arts.
http://www.nea.gov/endownews/news02/Hammond2.html

More information is available from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58117-2002Jan29.html

Articles Related to September 11

  1. The New York Times surveys public art and gallery shows inspired by the September 11 tragedies.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/arts/design/01COTT.html?todaysheadlines

  2. A new report out from the Association of Art Museum Directors shows that 80% of museums have not seen a measurable drop in attendance post- Sept. 11 and 99% of expansion plans for U.S. museums are going ahead. The Art Newspaper reports.
    http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=8712

  3. The Village Voice looks at the losses to New York City's arts community and reviews a report from the New York State Council on the Arts.
    http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0205/zimmer.php

  4. The Open Society Institute has released "After the Attacks," a special issue of Open Society News this winter. The issue "examines some of the key areas of concern that have emerged since September 11 to call attention to the importance of protecting and strengthening open society values in this time of crisis." 
    http://www.soros.org/osn/winter2002/

Access & Equity

Cultural Content and Information Distribution

  1. The San Francisco Chronicle says that pay-for-listing search engines in " may have "put their futures in question by flouting time-tested business practices that require an absolutely clear separation between editorial content and advertising." Will ethical questions put search engines at risk?
    http://www.sfgate.com/technology/beat/

  2. In the New York Times, "In AOL's Suit Against Microsoft, the Key Word Is Access." Echoing the concerns that small, independent ISPs have been making for the last couple of years, AOL joins the fray -- could Microsoft use its software to control how AOL's services are packaged and delivered to customers? 
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/24/technology/ebusiness/24SOFT.html

Media Consolidation and Access to Cultural Content
  1. There have been a slew of articles in the paper lately discussing potential administrative changes in the federal agencies that oversee media mergers. While this has been a major FTC function, there has been White House discussion of moving oversight to the Department of Justice. The proposal has faced sharp criticism from members of Congress and advocates who feel that the DoJ would give mergers an "easier ride." Wired has a good article reviewing the issue. 
    http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50145,00.html

  2. In "Is bigger better?" the Boston Globe looks at Clear Channel's far reach. While its size is unparalleled in the entertainment industry, critics wonder whether this is dangerous. 
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/027/living/Is_bigger_better_+.shtml
  3. TV Insite reports that the Association of Local Television Stations is on the verge of shutting down. The "ATLV has been hit hard by consolidation, losing several of its major members after larger companies purchased them."
    http://www.tvinsite.com/broadcastingcable/index.asp?layout=story&doc_id=67197&display=breakingNews

  4. At Open Democracy, William Hoynes writes in "Why Media Mergers Matter" that the debate about media consolidation and integrations should be about more than economics. It should consider effects on democracy, culture and politics.
    http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=5&DocID=995&DebateID=210
Digital Divide
  1. In "Digital Divide Plan in Peril" WashTech at the Washington Post reports that President Bush's submitted FY 03 budget requests would "kill to widely heralded grant programs to help low-income, rural and other disadvantaged groups share in the benefits of high technology." One of them is the Technology Opportunities Program at the Department of Commerce. 
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23353-2002Feb4.html

  2. NTIA has released a new study, "A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of the Internet." The statistics give an interesting portrait of progress on the digital divide and persistent barriers that need lowering. 
    http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/nationonline_020502.htm

  3. The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy has issued a new report, "Beyond Access: a Foundation Guide to Ending the Organizational Divide," which looks at the digital divide that organizations face. 
    http://www.ncrp.org/Report_3pgs.pdf

Community

Culture and Community Development

  1. Actor Kirk Douglas and his wife have donate $2.5 million to renovate a city theater in Los Angeles and provide programming flexibility.  The Los Angeles Times reports.
    http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Theater-X!ArticleDetail-50833,00.html

  2. The Chicago Tribune reports on a Dale Chihuly exhibition in Garfield Park, a neighborhood "in the heart of the city's blighted West Side," that is drawing crowds comparable to those who came to see the cow parade. What will be the lasting effects for this neighborhood?
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0201240188jan24.story?coll=chi%2Dleisuretempo%2Dhed

  3. In "A Fight to Keep an Island's Black Heritage" the Christian Science Monitor reports on the efforts of the residents of St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia to "keep developers at bay" and maintain the island's identity. 
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0129/p03s01-ussc.html
Cultural Citizenship
  1. Robert Putnam has a new piece in The American Prospect called "Bowling Together" in which he explores the effects of the September 11 tragedy on our national psyche. Will the civic engagement of the late fall and early winter of 2001, engendered by a national crisis, stick? Or will lone bowling resume as the country returns to business as usual? 
    http://prospect.org/print/V13/3/putnam-r.html

Creativity & the Law

Freedom of Expression

  1. In a spin on the sometimes tense relationship between artists and religious groups, a San Francisco artist is suing a Catholic group over comments the group made concerning an exhibition. The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/24/MN72041.DTL

  2. The New York Times reports that poet and performance artist Sarah Jones has filed suit against the FCC, "charging that it violated her First Amendment rights when it fined a radio station for playing a spoken-word song by her with vivid sexual imagery."
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/arts/30STAT.html?todaysheadlines
Intellectual Property and Copyright
  1. A serious challenge to Disney's Winnie the Pooh hegemony? The Guardian (London) reports that the family who bought the merchandising rights to Winnie the Pooh from AA Milne has filed suit against Walt Disney to terminate the company's license on the cuddly bear and claim back-damages of hundreds of millions of dollars. 
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,641528,00.html

  2. In "The Great Giveaway," the New Scientist looks at OpenCola, the "world's first 'open source' consumer product." The manufacturer has made the instructions for making it freely available, and is allowing people to modify and improve the recipe as they see fit. Why would they do this? It's a grand experiment in "copyleft." 
    http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/copyleft/copyleftart.jsp
  3. Wipout.net is currently running a "counter-essay contest." What is a counter-essay? In March 2001 the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched an essay contest asking students to submit essays on what intellectual property means in daily life. Wipout's counter-essay contest is on the same topic, but they are looking for slightly more critical approaches. Deadline is March 15, 2002.
    http://www.wipout.net/home_eng.html

Education & the Creative Workforce

Arts Education / Education Through the Arts

  1. In the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Questions arise as more arts groups venture into schools" -- partnerships between schools and local arts organizations are on the rise, but, who's paying for it? Are there measurable results? 
    http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/1025893.html
Labor Issues
  1. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports in "Artist support subject of study in Cleveland, 8 other cities" on the Urban Institute study on the support structure for artists.
    http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/entertainment/1012478105301938.xml
Culture and Higher Education
  1. In "Consortium of 12 Universities Begins Project to Deliver Academic E-Books," the Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the development of a collaborative effort that builds off their joint online library catalog. 
    http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002012301t.htm

Globalization

Culture and Identity

  1. The Brookings Institution has released a new book by Philip H. Gordon and Sophie Meunier, The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization. The French Challenge deals with France's effort to adapt to globalization and its consequences for France's economy, cultural identity, domestic politics, and foreign relations. The authors begin by analyzing the structural transformation of the French economy, driven first by liberalization within the European Union and more recently by globalization. By examining a wide variety of possible measures of globalization and liberalization, the authors conclude that the French economy's adaptation has been far reaching and largely successful, even if French leaders prefer to downplay the extent of these changes in response to political pressures and public opinion. They call this adaptation "globalization by stealth."

    The authors also examine the relationship between trade, culture, and identity and explain why globalization has rendered the three inseparable. They show how globalization is contributing to the restructuring of the traditional French political spectrum and blurring the traditional differences between left and right. Finally, they explore France's effort to tame globalization-maîtriser la mondialisation-and the possible consequences and lessons of the French stance for the rest of the world.
    http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/french_challenge.htm

Culture and Development

  1. The Washington Post reviews an exhibit at the Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center that explains the role that artists played as "Latin America moved from dictatorship democracy in the last 20 years." 
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A746-2002Jan31.html

  2. The MediaChannel has an interesting op-ed, "Democratizing Communications And The Media: Focus And Scope" in which Osvaldo León argues that communications rights must be central to the struggle for democratization. 
    http://www.mediachannel.org/views/oped/leon.shtml

Heritage & Preservation

Commercialization of Heritage

  1. Here are series of articles, mostly from the Washington Post, documenting tensions among the Smithsonian Institution's stakeholders as the museum tries to balances fundraising and scholarship:

  2. In First Monday, Bernard F. Reilly Jr., President of the Center for Research Libraries, writes in "What the Cultural Sector Can Learn from Enron," "At first glance free-market energy titans like Enron seem to have little in common with the more modest museums, libraries, historical societies, and archives that populate the cultural sector. The former exist in the world of global trade and their activities are driven by money and profit. Until relatively recent times museums and other cultural organizations have operated in a far remove from this world, caring for and fostering our cultural heritage and quietly striving to increase the amount of knowledge in the world. During the last century, however, both sectors have evolved from commerce in tangible resources to trade in intangible ones." 
    http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_2/reilly/

National Investment

State Level Investment in Culture

  1. The New York Times reports on a "War of Words" between the French government and Louvre. Catherine Tasco, the French culture minister has reprimanded Henri Loyrette, the new director of the Louvre, for publicly complaining about the budget shortfalls that require the museum to close one-quarter of its galleries each day. The museum cannot pay for security.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/arts/design/30ARTS.html?todaysheadlines

  2. The government of Australia announces $1.7 million in grants for community arts projects. 
    http://www.dcita.gov.au/cgi-bin/graphics.pl?path=6183
Philanthropy in the United States
  1. An interesting report out from the Vesper Society -- "Accessing Venture Philanthropy: The Possibilities from a Nonprofit Perspective"
    http://www.vesper.org/publications/Venture21/accessing.html

  2. And in "Venture Philanthropists Expanding Reach" the Christian Science Monitor reports that relationships between foundations and grantees are getting longer and that venture philanthropists are seeking qualified organizations for funding rather than accepting unsolicited proposals.
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0204/p14s05-wmgn.html

  3. The New York Times reports that the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced Wednesday that it has made $600,000 in emergency grants for New York City arts groups centered below 14th Street that were affected by the World Trade Center collapse.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/24/arts/design/24WARH.html?todaysheadlines

  4. From Andante classical music magazine, "Collapse of Enron Threatens Houston's Performing Arts Companies." In Houston, it's not just a case of a loss of philanthropic activity. With 4,000 people out of work, the ripple effects have only begun to be felt.
    http://www.andante.com/magazine/article.cfm?id=15772
  5. Philanthropy News Digest reports that the endowment of the Hewlett Foundation will nearly double in the next three years. http://fdncenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=4800069

  6. Philanthropy News Digest also reports that the McArthur Foundation has appointed a new board chair. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, an author and education professor at Harvard University, will assume the responsibility in June of this year. 
    http://fdncenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=4800082

Technology's Effects on Culture

  1. In "Stop, Historians! Don't Copy That Passage! Computers are Watching" the New York Times reports on the different kinds of software now available that "rout out copycats with maximum efficiency and minimum effort." With a recent spate of accusations of plagiarism among America's elite historians, how will a new level of oversight effect scholarship?
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/arts/26TANK.html?todaysheadlines

  2. At dc.Internet.com, "Are Consumers Ready for Online Films?" 
    http://dc.internet.com/views/article/0,1934,2111_958531,00.html

The Shape of the Creative Sector

  1. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Salon would consider publishing a print magazine. But, industry analysts wonder "what kind of publisher they could ever dupe into doing such a thing in this kind of market."
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/29/BU218846.DTL&type=business

  2. The Boston Globe reviews an exhibit on fashion photography at the Institute of Contemporary Art that "throws out ideas about the tangled relationships between culture and commerce." 
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/025/living/Fashioning_new_view_of_culture_commerce+.shtml
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Calendar of Events and Opportunities

Below, please find new event listings as well as calendars for February and March 2002.  To review past events or to view information on events scheduled in April 2002 or later, please visit the Center's online calendar at http://www.culturalpolicy.org/resources/conf.cfm.  

New Events

  1. Life in a Distributed Age: Information Law Institute Guest Lecture
    February 6, 2002 5:30 PM
    Vanderbilt Hall, Room, 210, New York University

    The Information Law Institute will present a lecture by Siva Vaidyanathan, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. The talk will examine a series of conflicts between models of distributed information and centralized information regulation. The Napster battle serves as the first case study. It then considers a series of seemingly disparate examples of similar tensions and clashes, including encryption, secrecy, privacy, and security. The talk argues that we must take a systemic view of such conflicts and discuss ways to preserve democratic processes that depend on relatively open information systems.

    The presentation will be followed by a discussion with Helen Nissenbaum and members of the audience.

    http://www.law.nyu.edu/ili/index.html
  2. Beyond Copyright: Do Artists Have Rights? A panel discussion on the Visual Artists Rights Act
    February 21, 2002 (12:30-2:00 PM)
    Philadelphia, PA
    Part of the 90th annual conference of the College Art Association

    with panelists:

    http://www.studiolo.org/CIP/VARA/CIP-VARA.htm
  3. Artists Contributing to America
    March 11, 2001 4:30 PM
    Hosts: ArtTable, The Kennedy Center

    ArtTable and the Association of Art Museum Directors invite you to a symposium on the issue of artists' being able to take a tax deduction for contributing their own works to a nonprofit institution. Since 1969, when the law allowing such deductions was repealed, the number of works contributed by artists has dropped dramatically. A bill currently in Congress would again allow fair-market deductions, and a distinguished panel will explore in depth the many issues related to this policy.

    Panel:

    This event is being held in conjunction with Arts Advocacy Day.

  4. The Tourist Historic City. Sharing Culture for the Future
    March 17 - March 20, 2002 (optional tour March 21)
    Bruges, Brussels

    ‘The Tourist Historic City’ will bring together culture, arts and heritage managers and interest groups, tourism managers and marketers from both the public and private sector, as well as experts, consultants and academic researchers.

    The full program of the conference is available. It features plenary sessions and thematic workshops, organised along the three tracks of the conference:

    International experts will share their views. Names include: Greg Ashworth (NL), Richard Butler (UK), Theo Beckers (NL), Georges Cazes (Fr), Graham Dann (UK), Jean Michel Dewailly (Fr), Bill Gartner (US), Alan Lew (US), Jafar Jafari (US), Abraham Pizam (US), Greg Richards (Nl), Tony Seaton (UK), Harry Timmermans (Nl), Jan van der Borg (It/Nl), Norbert Van Hove (B), Geoff Wall (Canada), Alan Williams (UK)…

    Tourism researchers and tourism officials from about 30 countries have already submitted abstracts for this conference, which will provide a truly international experience. Take a look at the program and read some of the selected abstracts online:
    www.visitflanders.com/conference

    Bruges (Flanders/Belgium), medieval city, art city and tourist destination will host the conference. In 2002, Bruges will be Cultural Capital of Europe, and many events are planned to celebrate this title.

    Registration for The Tourist Historic City is open. You can read all about the registration procedures, accommodation and transport on our website. If you wish to attend, you can download your registration form or register online through:
    www.visitflanders.com/conference.

    Contact e-mail: Conference@visitflanders.com
  5. Networking 2002: "Building Relationships, Making Connections, Identifying New Opportunities"
    April 17-18, 20002
    Capital Hilton, Washington, D.C.

    WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
    The annual Networking conferences provide the premier forum for higher education information technology leaders to gather to discuss policy and practical issues associated with advancing networking technologies and usage, and to launch and report on major initiatives. People who should attend this conference include campus chief information officers, college and university government relationship professionals, campus librarians, computer science faculty members, and government policy leaders engaged in federal information technology issues.

    The Networking 2002 program will begin with continental breakfast at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 17, and will continue through noon on Thursday, April 18. Attendees are encouraged to take advantage of the Capitol Hill visits that will occur Thursday afternoon.

    For more information, visit
    http://www.educause.edu/netatedu/events/net2002/

    SPONSORS
    Networking 2002 is sponsored by:
    EDUCAUSE
    American Library Association (ALA)
    Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
    Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC)
    Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
    Computing Research Association (CRA)
    Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN)
    Internet2
    NASULGC

    For additional information on all EDUCAUSE conferences, see:
    http://www.educause.edu/conference/conf.html
  6. US/ICOMOS International Symposium: Heritage Preservation as a Tool for Social Change
    April 17 - April 20, 2002
    Santa Fe, New Mexico USA

    The theme of this year's conference is "Heritage Preservation as a Tool for Social Change" and will explore, among other things, the ways in which preservation has and can be used to renew traditions and culture, enhance living conditions and local economies and provide venues for training and intergenerational exchanges. Sessions such as "Volunteerism & Community Service" and "The Tangible & Intangible Aspects of Preservation" will highlight Cornerstones' philosophy and model.

    Site visits will give participants an opportunity to learn about volunteer-driven preservation projects and see first-hand how rich cultures and traditional communities are sustained through preservation.

    KEYNOTE SPEAKER
    Richard West Jr. New York, New York
    Executive Director Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

    SYMPOSIUM SESSIONS:

    http://www.icomos.org/usicomos/symp02/information.htm
  7. Beyond the DMCA: A Copyright Conference
    April 25 - April 26, 2002
    Host: U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
    Washington, DC

    The conference is in celebration of World Intellectual Property Day.

  8. The 28th Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics & the Arts: Focusing on Historic Preservation & Cultural Diversity
    October 3 - October 5, 2002
    The College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina

    Co-Sponsors:
    Arts Management Program, School of the Arts, College of Charleston
    The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

    This year's Conference on Social Theory, Politics & the Arts will take place in historic Charleston, South Carolina and will focus on issues of historic preservation and cultural diversity. We welcome panel proposals and papers from all disciplines that explore themes related to these topics.

    Charleston, which was settled in 1670, offers a unique combination - the easy pace of a southern coastal community and the sophistication and beauty of Old World Europe. Its well-preserved architecture and history are evident throughout the city and on the historic plantations and gardens nearby. In addition to rich architectural environs, a visit to Charleston offers a fascinating glimpse into the unique cultural diversity of this area and the complex social history associated wit it.

    The conference will be held on the campus of the College of Charleston located in the heart of the city. Most areas of the downtown peninsula are easily accessible on foot while miles of beaches and marshlands can be found a short drive away. The conference hotel will be the Holiday Inn Historic District, with special rates during the Conference (call toll free 1-877-805-7900 for reservations).

    Please submit, by email or fax, a thematic panel proposal or a paper title (with a one-page summary) by March 15, including all relevant contact information. Presenters will be notified by May 1.

    Lori Kornegay
    Visiting Assistant Professor
    Arts Management Program
    College of Charleston
    66 George Street
    Charleston, SC 29424
    Tel: 843/953-6301
    Fax: 843-953-7068
    Email: kornegayl@cofc.edu

February's Events

  1. Life in a Distributed Age: Information Law Institute Guest Lecture
    February 6, 2002 5:30 PM
    Vanderbilt Hall, Room, 210, New York University

    The Information Law Institute will present a lecture by Siva Vaidyanathan, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. The talk will examine a series of conflicts between models of distributed information and centralized information regulation. The Napster battle serves as the first case study. It then considers a series of seemingly disparate examples of similar tensions and clashes, including encryption, secrecy, privacy, and security. The talk argues that we must take a systemic view of such conflicts and discuss ways to preserve democratic processes that depend on relatively open information systems.

    The presentation will be followed by a discussion with Helen Nissenbaum and members of the audience.

    http://www.law.nyu.edu/ili/index.html
  2. "AFTER THE INTERNET" -- JAMES O'DONNELL. The National Endowment for the Humanities' e-Humanities lecture series on digital technology and the humanities
    February 13, 2002
    Washington, DC

    The Internet bubble has burst. The Internet is boring. Even The Economist is reduced to devoting a special section to the wireless Internet in order to gain and hold its readers' attention. This is an opportunity for serious thought and action about the integration of information technology and information science in the humanistic organon. How are we different because we live in this wired world? How are we not different? What is reasonable to expect?

    James J. O'Donnell is Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely on the cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean world and is a recognized innovator in the application of networked information technology in higher education. In 1990, he co-founded Bryn Mawr Classical Review, the second on-line scholarly journal in the humanities ever created. In 1994, he taught an Internet-based seminar on the work of Augustine of Hippo that reached 500 students. He also serves as resident Faculty Master of Hill College House at Penn. He is a Trustee of the National Humanities Center, has served as a Director and will become President-Elect in 2002 of the American Philological Association, and served as a Councillor of the Medieval Academy of America.

    Register online at: http://www.neh.gov/news/ehumanities-register.html
    Event information: http://www.neh.gov/news/ehumanities.html
  3. Leading Change Now: A workshop for nonprofit, business, and government leaders
    February 13 - 15, 2002
    Kellogg Conference Center, Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Avenue, NE, Washington, DC

    You can dramatically improve your ability to make plans real by developing the capacity to champion and coach change efforts. This workshop explores the role and responsibilities of internal change agents and provides models that improve human interaction, enhance leadership skills, and, most important, focus the institution's ability to achieve planning goals.

    The core concepts will show you how to:

    Who should attend:
    This workshop develops leaders and facilitators of organizational change. Most participants engage with Qm2 in change and improvement programs in their corporate, government, or nonprofit organization. They often have responsibility for coaching, advising, and training others at home. Sending a team of at least two people enables mutual support when implementing what's learned back home. The following qualities serve as a guide for selecting the right participants:

    Format:

    For registration information, contact:
    Mary Case
    PH: 202/544-2687; FX 202/547-9439
    marycase@qm2.org
  4. Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference
    February 13 - 17, 2002 
    Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States 

    Time is running out for registration with the February meeting of the Southwest-Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. This organization has been discovering the wonders of popular culture in our region for the last 25 years. Our last meeting in Albuquerque brought over 900 registrants. We anticipate a similar involvement from scholars of the region - or who study the region - for the February, 2002 meeting. 

    There are many areas of study, and they are all listed on the web site with point-of-contact information for each area. Here are the generic categories: 


    The web site spells out all the details of the subject Areas and is far more inclusive than this generic listing. Any scholar working in these Areas will find a good forum for the work; graduate students are urged to try their wings at regional meetings like this one. (There are a number of prize competitions for graduate students - see web site.)

    Albuquerque is a wonderful venue for our meetings because of its multi-cultural environment, its natural beauty, and its proximity to Santa Fe. (Participants often take a day trip to Santa Fe to experience that wonderful city.)

    This year, the guest artist is TONY HILLERMAN, the creator of the "Navajo mysteries" that have been so popular with various reading publics. The Presidents and other officers of the national PCA and ACA groups will be at the meeting as will Ray and Pat Browne, Founders of the organizations.

    Each year, the Universidad de las Americas (UDLA) hosts a sumptuous reception for participants, a time when we hear about the next Congress in Puebla/Cholula, Mexico.

    E-mail enquiries: RollinsPC@aol.com
    Website: http://www.swtexaspca.org
  5. BIGGER... BETTER... BEAUTIFUL??? A conference on the impact of E.U. enlargement on cultural opportunities
    February 14 - February 17, 2002
    Budapest, Hungary
    Sponsors: EUCLID International; Budapest Cultural Observatory; Cultural Contact Point Hungary

    The conference aims to develop further links, both theoretical and practical, between the cultural sectors of the European Union and the Accession Countries - and to discuss the impact of enlargement on the wider Europe. The conference will address:

    The conference will include specific sessions which explore the development of partnerships, exchanges and other links, using examples of good practice and cast studies.

    The conference will not ignore the challenges that enlargement is likely to highlight and which will need to be addressed and overcome: ranging from national and European bureaucracy to the differences in traditions, cultures, languages - both within the enlarged European Union and in respect of theose European countries which are not currently applying for E.U. membership.

    For the existing members of the E.U., there will also be specific sessions which address the changes likely as a result of the eventual reduction of the current levels of Structural Funds, which have provided considerable support for the cultural sector over the past decade. For the accession countries, on the other hand, there will be opportunities to learn from the experiences of Member States in benefiting from the support available from these Funds.

    The conference aims to encompass a broad definition of the cultural sector: the performing & visual arts, literature, museums & heritage, the film & audiovisual sector, and the creative industries.

    For more information contact:
    KulturPont Iroda (Cultural Contact Point Hungary)
    Email: bbb@kulturpont.hu
    http://www.bbb.kulturpont.hu
  6. 90th Annual College Art Association Conference
    February 20 - February 24, 2002
    Philadelphia, PA

    The 90th Annual Conference in Philadelphia will be the second to implement the changes recommended to the Board of Directors by the Annual Conference Committee. The success of the new program criteria and categories is evident in the exciting program developed for the 2001 Conference in Chicago . The new system has produced a Conference program that embraces more effectively the diversity of CAA's growing membership and the variety of methodological approaches to the study and practice of art. An equally stimulating program is expected in Philadelphia, where CAA returns after an absence of almost twenty years.

    http://www.collegeart.org/caa/conference/2002/index.html
  7. Beyond Copyright: Do Artists Have Rights? A panel discussion on the Visual Artists Rights Act
    February 21, 2002 (12:30-2:00 PM)
    Philadelphia, PA
    Part of the 90th annual conference of the College Art Association

    with panelists:

    http://www.studiolo.org/CIP/VARA/CIP-VARA.htm
  8. "The Next Generation of Digital Scholarship: An Experiment in Form" -- Will Thomas and Ed Ayers The National Endowment for the Humanities e-Humanities lecture series
    February 27, 2002
    Washington, DC

    The use of online resources has exploded in recent years. Students and scholars routinely turn to the web for primary documents, reference works, and the latest reviews. But we have not yet forged a new form of scholarly communication and argumentation for the digital environment. In this talk, Ayers and Thomas present a prototype of a journal article designed to take advantage of the possibilities of the web while addressing some of the limitations of that context.

    Will Thomas is the Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Research Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He teaches the history of Virginia since 1865 and is the author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (LSU, 1999). He also served as the co-author and assistant producer of The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia's History Since the Civil War, an Emmy-nominated series on the history of Virginia for public television.

    Edward L. Ayers is the Hugh P. Kelly professor of history at the University of Virginia. Ayers has written extensively on Southern history and race relations. His books include All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions and The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction. He is the founder of the Valley of the Shadow project at the University of Virginia. Ayers has received a number of grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright. Ayers received a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee, and his master's and doctorate from Yale University.

    For more information: http://www.neh.gov/news/ehumanities.html
    To register online: http://www.neh.gov/news/ehumanities-register.html

March's Events

  1. Capacity Building for Nonprofits and Foundations: The future of Effectiveness for Nonprofits and Foundations
    March 6 - March 8, 2002
    Washington, DC
    Sponsor: Grantmakers for Effective Organizations in partnership with the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers and the Grantmakers Evaluation Network

    NONPROFIT EFFECTIVENESS
    Join your colleagues for a discussion among funders about nonprofit organizational effectiveness. We'll start by defining it. We'll discuss different schools of thought about the role of funders in promoting organizational effectiveness among nonprofits. We'll examine, compare, and contrast different approaches. We'll debate the pros and cons of diverse approaches to capacity-building. We'll discuss the venture philanthropy perspective that ties significant and long-term investments in nonprofits to major involvement in governance and decision-making. In all cases, we'll examine expectations being set and what we've learned about documenting and measuring outcomes.

    FOUNDATION EFFECTIVENESS
    We'll also explore the other side of the coin -- funder effectiveness. We'll talk about clarity of mission and its relationship to program development, grantmaking, management, and evaluation. We'll review the latest research on funder effectiveness -- what's been learned and what we need to learn. We'll hear about how foundations are leveraging, for their own operations, lessons learned by nonprofits. We'll look at the impact a commitment to capacity building has had on funders' grantmaking approaches and boundary crossing efforts underway. Throughout out discussions, we'll debate what's working and what's not and focus on actions and implications for the future.

    Who should attend: Staff, directors, officers and trustees of foundations, giving programs, regional associations of grantmakers (RAGs), and infrastructure association groups that support funders

    For more information, please contact Carol Lapp, Conference Coordinator
    Email: CarolJLapp@aol.com
    Visit: http://www.geofunders.org/geo2002/index.htm
  2. Redefining Preservation, Shaping New Solutions, Forging New Partnerships
    March 7 - March 8, 2002
    Sponsors: University of Michigan University Library; the Association of Research Libraries (ARL Michigan League, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

    Preserving knowledge and building dependable preservation practices in an ever-changing scholarly environment is a challenge for all libraries. To help shape new solutions, ARL and the University of Michigan University Library are presenting a national conference to identify, explore, and examine the current and evolving preservation issues confronting academic libraries and institutions.

    The conference is designed for library directors, assistant/associate directors, preservation administrators, and members of the vendor community servicing library preservation needs. Focusing on topics of particular interest to those working with library preservation needs, it will provide an opportunity to learn about existing practices and examine emerging trends in the area of preservation.

    Topics include:

    For more information, visit: http://www.lib.umich.edu/conferences/preservation/
  3. The 2002 Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy
    March 11, 2002
    The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC

    Nancy Hanks served as president of Americans for the Arts (formerly the American Council for the Arts) from 1968 to 1969, when she was appointed chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, a position she served through 1977. During her eight-year tenure at the National Endowment for the Arts, the agency's budget grew 1,400 percent. Until her death in 1983, Nancy Hanks worked hard to bring the arts to prominent national consciousness. This year marks the 15th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy, established to honor her memory and to provide an opportunity for public discourse at the highest levels on the importance of the arts and culture to our nation's well-being.

    For more information, call Americans for the Arts at 202-371-2830 or email events@artsusa.org.

  4. Artists Contributing to America
    March 11, 2001 4:30 PM
    Hosts: ArtTable, The Kennedy Center

    ArtTable and the Association of Art Museum Directors invite you to a symposium on the issue of artists' being able to take a tax deduction for contributing their own works to a nonprofit institution. Since 1969, when the law allowing such deductions was repealed, the number of works contributed by artists has dropped dramatically. A bill currently in Congress would again allow fair-market deductions, and a distinguished panel will explore in depth the many issues related to this policy.

    Panel:

    This event is being held in conjunction with Arts Advocacy Day.

  5. Arts Advocacy Day: The 2002 National Arts Action Summit
    March 11 - March 12, 2001
    Jurys Hotel, Washington, DC

    The Arts Advocacy Day Conference will take place from March 11-12, 2002 and will feature the 15th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy and the national convening of Arts Advocacy Day 2002 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Arts Advocacy Day 2002 is Co-Sponsored by more than 60 national cultural, educational and civic organizations and is held in cooperation with the Congressional Arts Caucus.

    For more information, call Americans for the Arts at 202.371.2830 or email events@artsusa.org. Information about the meeting agenda, registration, hotel and travel an be found at http://www.artsusa.org/upcoming/aad_2002/index.html.

  6. The Tourist Historic City. Sharing Culture for the Future
    March 17 - March 20, 2002 (optional tour March 21)
    Bruges, Brussels

    ‘The Tourist Historic City’ will bring together culture, arts and heritage managers and interest groups, tourism managers and marketers from both the public and private sector, as well as experts, consultants and academic researchers.

    The full program of the conference is available. It features plenary sessions and thematic workshops, organised along the three tracks of the conference:

    International experts will share their views. Names include: Greg Ashworth (NL), Richard Butler (UK), Theo Beckers (NL), Georges Cazes (Fr), Graham Dann (UK), Jean Michel Dewailly (Fr), Bill Gartner (US), Alan Lew (US), Jafar Jafari (US), Abraham Pizam (US), Greg Richards (Nl), Tony Seaton (UK), Harry Timmermans (Nl), Jan van der Borg (It/Nl), Norbert Van Hove (B), Geoff Wall (Canada), Alan Williams (UK)…

    Tourism researchers and tourism officials from about 30 countries have already submitted abstracts for this conference, which will provide a truly international experience. Take a look at the program and read some of the selected abstracts online:
    www.visitflanders.com/conference

    Bruges (Flanders/Belgium), medieval city, art city and tourist destination will host the conference. In 2002, Bruges will be Cultural Capital of Europe, and many events are planned to celebrate this title.

    Registration for The Tourist Historic City is open. You can read all about the registration procedures, accommodation and transport on our website. If you wish to attend, you can download your registration form or register online through:
    www.visitflanders.com/conference.

    Contact e-mail: Conference@visitflanders.com
  7. The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive
    March 20 - March 23, 2002
    Old College, The University of Edinburgh

    The electronic revolution of the last decade has transformed the nature and the potential of the public collection. It is now possible to envisage libraries, museums and art galleries which are accessible, in part or in whole, online. The publishing industry is in a state of turmoil as it makes the transition to electronic dissemination of its products; scholarly research has been revolutionsed by the resources of the internet including online publishing, email, scholarly lists, and the formation of new databases. E-commerce is in the process of transforming the retail book trade. What, in this context, is the future of the archive?

    Bringing together librarians, curators, archivists, publishers, booksellers and academics, the conference will seek to address some of the central issues that arise from the rapidly forming new information order:

    Plenary speakers include:

    Further information from:
    Professor John Frow
    Director
    Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
    The University of Edinburgh
    Hope Park Square
    Edinburgh EH8 9NW
    Scotland

    Tel: 0131 650 4671
    Fax: 0131 668 2252
    Email: iash@ed.ac.uk
     http://www.ed.ac.uk/iash/archive.conference.html
  8. SAINT LOUIS COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: "The Changing Research and Collections Environment: The Information Commons Today"
    March 23, 2002
    Host: National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH)
    Sponsor: Samuel H. Kress Foundation
    Hyatt Regency Union Station, St. Louis, MO

    The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) announces the first in its 2002 series of NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS. The meeting will be part of the first joint conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America and the Visual Resources Association. The subject of this first 2002 meeting is "The Changing Research and Collections Environment: The Information Commons Today."

    The meeting is free-of-charge and open to the public. It will be held 9:30am-12:30pm on Saturday March 23 in the conference hotel: the Hyatt Regency in the refurbished Union Station, St Louis. Designed by Theodore Link, and once the second busiest train station in the nation, this 1884 building is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

    The Town Meeting will focus on the history and meaning of the "information commons," a free public resource, and how it intersects with licensing, one of the prevailing mechanisms for distributing digital resources today.

    After contextual introductions, the meeting will open with legal counsel Michael Shapiro (currently Attorney-Advisor, Office of International and Legislative Affairs, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office), who will review the evolution of the notion of an "Information Commons." Architectural historian and Bryn Mawr lecturer Jeffrey Cohen will then speak about the practical issues of implementing a public domain database to provide wide and free access to certain cultural material.

    The second part of the meeting will open with Mary Case (Association of Research Libraries) describing current trends in licensing, currently the leading means of distributing digital information online. She will be followed by two speakers describing the approaches of two organizations in licensing cultural materials, principally for educational and nonprofit use. First, Robert Clarida (Partner, Cowan, Liebowitz and Latman) will speak on the copyright approaches of the Mellon Foundation in developing and distributing the ArtSTOR collection (an independent not-for-profit organization that will develop, "store," and distribute electronically digital images and related scholarly materials for the study of art, architecture, and other fields in the humanities). Tony Gill (Program Officer, Research Libraries Group) will then outline the licensing arrangements for contributors and academic subscribers to RLG Cultural Materials (a new digital multimedia collection of works and artifacts drawn from the collections of RLG member institutions) and will also describe the Alliance's future aspirations for wider licensing to the commercial and pay-per-view sectors.

    The meeting will conclude with an open forum with questions, comments and discussion on the issues raised by the presentations.

    http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings02/stlouis.html
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