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>
> CONFERENCE ON NEW TRENDS IN CULTURAL POLICY FOR The 21ST CENTURY
> ORGANIZED BY THE AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY AND
> CO-SPONSORS*
> April 30 - May 1, 1998
> Thursday & Friday afternoon Swayduck Auditorium, The New School - 65
> Fifth Ave (near 14th St)
> Friday morning - TISCHMAN AUDITORIUM, NYU, 40 Washington Square South,
> 1st floor
>
> Registration is necessary to attend: Call 212-998-8538, or send e-mail
> to <priv.culture@nyu.edu>
> or see our home page: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/privculture/confer.htm
>
> DESCRIPTION
>         The purpose of the conference is to engage in discussion of new trends
> in cultural support, with a particular focus on the privatization of
> public culture. Privatization involves not only the threat of
> elimination, or reduction, of certain public venues of funding (the NEA
> and the NEH in the U.S.; reduction of government subsidies in Europe and
> Latin America), but also the corporate buy-up of art (Microsoft) and
> corporate interest in culture-related tourism (Disney). Although the
> role of corporations in cultural support in Europe and Latin America is
> minimal, excepting national and quasi-national banks and utilities, new
> legislation is making it possible to establish U.S.-like forms of tax
> incentives for donations to the arts and culture.  The conference will
> entertain a range of perspectives on current changes in cultural
> support. We expect to draw on the best traditions of analysis and
> critique. Among the questions we will discuss are: What are the effects
> of changes in funding on cultural practices? What practices will receive
> impetus, which ones will be relegated to increasing marginality? How are
> audiences taken into account? Is there increasing or diminishing concern
> for communities of practitioners and audiences who have participated
> minimally in venues of elite public culture (museums, classical music
> concert halls, theaters), in contrast to commercial culture (rock and
> rap concerts, discos, TV, movies)? How does the so-called Third Sector
> (non-profit corporations and NGOs dedicated to cultural work that are
> appearing in Europe and Latin America) factor into the new terrain of
> support and practice?  What are the ways in which the "private" and the
> "public" continue to be distinguished or have become increasingly
> difficult to tease apart?
>         The participants come from all sectors--arts organizations, culture
> industries, foundations, government agencies, practitioners--and from
> several world regions: East and West Europe, U.S., Latin America, and
> Australia. The comparative perspective is warranted not only by the
> increasing impact of globalization as a rationale for cutting government
> budgets, including those earmarked for cultural support, but also by
> transnational collaborations in practice and support, such as those of
> the European Union's Cultural Policy Commission.
>
> This conference is the inaugural event for the Privatization of Culture
> Project, a New York University - New School for Social Research - CUNY
> Graduate Center Humanities Residency Fellowship Program sponsored by the
> Rockefeller Foundation.
>
> For information on the residency fellowship program, send e-mail to
> <priv.culture@nyu.edu> or see our web site
> http://www.nyu.edu/projects/privculture/privcul.htm
>
> Organized by the American Studies Program at New York University
> *Co-Sponsors
> Dean of Humanities, NYU         The Graduate Faculty, The New School
> Cinema Studies, NYU             Western European Program, The New School
> Center for Latin American       Sociology Department, The New School
>   & Caribbean Studies, NYU
> King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU     Pratt Institute
> Center for Media Culture and History, NYU   Center for Cultural Studies,
> Department of Spanish and Portuguese, NYU       Graduate Center - CUNY
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> PROGRAM
>
> Thursday, April 30
>
> MORNING SESSION - SWAYDUCK AUDITORIUM, THE NEW SCHOOL
>
> 9:00 - 9:05  WELCOME
> Judith Friedlander, Eberstadt Professor of Anthropology and Dean,
> Graduate Faculty, The
>    New School for Social Research
>
> 9:05 - 9:30 OPENING SPEECH
> John Brademas, Chair, President's Commission on the Arts, President
> Emeritus, NYU
>
> 9:30 - 11:00 - CONTEXTS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPPORT FOR CULTURE
> Tony Bennett, Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy,
> Griffith University
> NÊstor García Canclini, Director, Universidad Aut�noma
> Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico City
>
> 11:10 - 1:00 - THE STATE AND SUPPORT FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE
> Omie Kerr, Cultural AttachÊ Officer, USA Embassy-Mexico City
> Eduard Delgado, Interarts, Barcelona
> JosÊ Luis Martínez, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico
> Kevin Mulcahy, Louisiana State University
> Andras Torok, Hungarian National Cultural Fund, Budapest, Hungary
> Francisco Weffort - Minister of Culture, Brazil
> Margaret Wyszomirski, Ohio State University
> Moderator: Vera Zolberg, Sociology, The New School for Social Research
>
> Lunch 1:00 - 2:15
>
> AFTERNOON SESSION - SWAYDUCK AUDITORIUM, THE NEW SCHOOL
>
> 2:30 - 4:00 - THE TRANSFORMATION OF SUPPORT IN HUNGARY AND BRAZIL
> Andras Torok - Hungarian National Cultural Fund, Budapest
> Francisco Weffort - Minister of Culture, Brazil
>
> 4:10 - 6:00 - CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORT
> Alberta Arthurs, MEM Associates, Former Director, Arts & Humanities,
> Ford Foundation
> Michael Gary, Howard Gilman Foundation
> Marci Hamilton, Cardozo Law School
> Marcela de Madariaga, U.S. Mexico Fund for Culture
> AndrÊ Midani, International Music, Time-Warner
> Lynn Szwaja, Arts and Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation
> Moderator: George Y³dice, American Studies Program, NYU
>
> 7:00 - 9:00pm Reception - King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center - Atrium
>
> FRIDAY, May 1
>
> MORNING SESSION - TISCHMAN AUDITORIUM, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
>
> 9:00 - 9:05 WELCOME
> Catharine Stimpson, University Professor and Dean of Graduate School of
> Arts and Science, NYU
>
> 9:05 - 9:30 -  OPENING SPEECH
> Mary Schmidt-Campbell, Dean, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
>
> 9:30 - 11:00 - TRANSNATIONAL AND REGIONAL SUPPORT FOR CULTURE
> Eduard Delgado, Interarts Observatory, Barcelona
> JosÊ Luis Martínez, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico
>
> 11:00 - 1:00 - AUDIENCES AND PUBLICS
> Susan Cahan, Peter Norton Foundation
> Faye Ginsburg, Center for Media, Culture & History, NYU
> John Hartley, University of Wales at Cardiff
> Lucina JimÊnez, Academia del Centro Nacional de las Artes
> Richard Kurin, Center for Folklife Programs & Cultural Studies,
> Smithsonian Institution
> Nellie Lozanova, The Open Society
> Moderator, Judith Balfe, Sociology, College at Staten Island & Graduate
> Center, CUNY
>
> 1:00 - 3:00 Lunch
>
> AFTERNOON SESSION - SWAYDUCK AUDITORIUM, THE NEW SCHOOL
> 3:00 - 4:25 SUPPORT FOR ELITE, MIDDLEBROW AND VERNACULAR CULTURES
> Joni Maya Cherbo, Co-author of Outsider Art
> Andrea Fraser, Artist
> Toby Miller, Cinema Studies, NYU
> Herb Schiller, University of California at San Diego
> Catharine Stimpson, University Professor and Dean of Graduate School of
> Arts and Science, NYU
> Moderator, John Wineland, American Studies Program, NYU
>
> 4:35 - 6:00 LABOR, CITIZENSHIP & CONSUMERISM
> Stanley Aronowitz, Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY
> JosÊ Lever, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico
> Randy Martin, Social Sciences and Management, Pratt Institute
> Justin Lewis, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
> Sharon Zukin, Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY
> Moderator, Andrew Ross, Director, American Studies Program, NYU
>
> 7:00 - 9:00 - Reception - King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center