In February 2004, the AHRB agreed to fund the seminar network as well as ESRC. AHRB's funding will allow us to extend the seminar series by 3 more seminars (one calendar year), and to draw in a broad cross-section of participants to reflect the spread of art and humanities and social science domains of interest. AHRB's contribution will ensure that the analysis of the cultural industries is truly cross-disciplinary. With these additional funds we also hope to be able to invite scholars from outside the UK to some of the seminars.

LSE Press Release|

Overview

This seminar series is funded by ESRC until 2005. Six seminars are planned, one each term, at different locations in the UK. The seminar series was launched in December 2003 with the first seminar held at LSE. Details of the seminars and downloadable papers can be found below.

Why is the series needed?

The cultural industries sector is chronically under-researched. In part this is a problem of 'newness', and the pace of change in the constituent industries. However, it is also a problem of the development of appropriate and robust theories, concepts, data measures, and means of evaluation. The overall aim of the cultural industries seminar network will be to begin to address these problems. Specifically, its objectives will be:

To stimulate research on the cultural industries and related policy issues
To review and shape a research agenda
Bring together scholars working in the area, but in a number of disciplinary contexts, and also to mobilise those scholars with related interests
Bring scholars and practitioners together
Move towards the establishment of a robust evidential basis of policy making and strategic planning
Create and sustain an academic research network on the cultural industries

The seminar series

The objective is to focus on six key themes that are central to devising the future research agenda on the cultural industries. The themes are as follows:

Definitions and data: to explore methodological problems and solutions
Internationalisation: to draw out lessons from international development in the cultural industries, and policy making
Management and organisation: to explore similarities and differences with other sectors, and to address issues of intellectual property rights
Clusters and Quarters: to examine the processes of clustering, and how it may best be researched and understood
Strategic policy: discuss models of policy making and practice in a comparative framework
Social and economic impacts: role, methods and evaluation of 'impacts'

Each of the seminars will have the same format, that of a key discussant and 4 contributors. Individual seminars will be dedicated to a single theme. However, it is anticipated that there will be considerable overlap and cross-cutting.

Downloads

Details of the first seminar, the Evidential Base|, including downloadable papers and presentations are now available.

Information on the second seminar, Creative Organisation and Management|, is also available below.

A list of the plans for the remaining seminars in the series can be found here|

Discussion and dissemination

An on-line discussion network enables participants to continue discussions on topics raised in the seminars: the list is called 'cultural-industries'. This can be accessed here

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cultural-industries.html|

You can post discussion or view archives from this site. If you are not already a subscriber to a 'JISC mail base' list you will first need to register (a simple process); all current attendees at the first seminar have automatically been signed up to the list.

Seminar 1: The Evidential Base

LSE December 15th 2003

The aim of this seminar was to review some of the issue and problems associated with basic information on the cultural and creative industries; this information can take the form of statistical measures, institutional and regulatory information that constitutes basic information, as well as analytical and theoretical understandings of the processes that these data seek to represent.

This issue has greater significance as the policy community is looking for relevant evidence upon which to develop policy in this area. We were also seeking to become aware of the needs of policy makers, as well as the needs of academics, in the constitution of an evidence base.

Presentations were sought from a number of experts in specific fields of knowledge within the cultural industries, in the hope that the seminar would provide a forum to consider similarities and differences across the sector.
A further objective was to open up the division of public and private/ profit-not for profit to scrutiny. One argument that we were seeking to explore was the hybridisation of the sector (that most parts include both for profit and not for profit activities, and state funded and market supported activities).

Links to the four presentations are included below as are short biographies of the presenters.

Sara Selwood (Westminster University/Policy Studies Institute)- The Resource sector: relevant information on publicly funded museums, libraries and archives sector
Dave Laing (Independent Consultant)- The challenges of understanding the music industry, amateur and commercial (Presentation)
David Steele (Film Council)- Information on film funding, production and exhibition (Presentation)
Alan Freeman (Greater London Authority)- Definition and the creative industries: are they industries? (Presentation)

Attendee List|

Seminar 2: Creative Organisation and Management?

Wednesday 3rd March, 2004 Queens University, Belfast

Speakers:

Professor Allen J. Scott
Centre for Globalisation and Policy Research - UCLA

Paper: "A New Map of Hollywood: The Production and Distribution of American Motion Pictures"

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a738552489|

Professor Gernot Grabher
Centre for Research on Socio-Economics of Space - U of Bonn

Paper: "Learning in Projects, Remembering in Networks?"|

Dr Sean Nixon
Department of Sociology - U of Essex

Paper: "Pleasure at Work- the Gender Ambivalences of Work-based Sociability"|

SEMINAR 3: Manchester Metropolitan University

Friday 24th September 2004| Manchester Metropolitan University
Local chair, Dr Justin O'Connor, Manchester Institute for Popular Culture

Ivan Turok - Paper: The Distinctive City|

Hans Mommaas - Paper: Cultural Clusters and the Post-industrial City|

The link below should take you to a general map of the all saints campus, which contains the ormond building (no.23 on the map); http://www.mmu.ac.uk/about/locations/allsaints.php|

The following link is for visitor parking information; http://www.mmu.ac.uk/about/locations/asvisitor.php|

Summary|

Speaker Biographies|

Participant List|

Seminar 4: Leicester De Montfort University

Monday 13th December, 2004
Local Chair: Dr Franco Bianchini, International Cultural Planning and Policy Unit (ICPPU), De Montfort University
See Outline|

Speakers & Papers:

Franco Bianchini (bio|) & Jude Bloomfield (bio|), ICPPU
Paper: 'Rethinking urban cultural policies from an intercultural perspective|'

Tony Graves (bio|), De Montfort University, Leicester
Paper: 'Cultural diversity and the Arts Council of England's New Audiences programme: a constructivist approach to evaluation|'

Carol Leeming
Paper: 'Mainstream: a capacity-building initiative for culturally diverse creative practitioners and organization in the East Midlands' (coming soon)

Jude Bloomfield (bio|), ICPPU
Paper: Crossing the Rainbow - Multicultural/Intercultural Performing Arts in Europe| (a report that the paper was based on)

Jaideep Mukherjee (bio|), University of Leicester
Paper: 'Bringing "Bollywood" to the UK's East Midlands: reflections on localised strategies of engagement between regional cultural economies and transnational cultural industries|'

Attendee List|

Seminar 5: Cultural and Creative Industries in International Perspective, University of Leeds

Seminar Programme|

Location: Wentworth Room at Bretton Hall Campus

Presentations

Barbara Woroncow: The Global Net and the Local Hook|

Andy Pratt: Transferability and comparability of information about the cultural industries|

Phil Wood: Watching them watching us: Why is the world so interested in British ideas about creativity?|

Justin O'Connor: Exporting creative industry policies to 'transitional' economies': St. Petersburg and Shanghai.|

The cultural industries are widely regarded as industries that configure the relationship between the local and global in complex ways. One major facet of that complexity is the particular set of challenges this sets for development, policy and innovation in intervention. A wide range of countries from across the geo-political and economic spectra are turning to the cultural industries for a plethora of socio-economic policy objectives.

The UK experience is part of the growing global dialogue about these issues. The seminar The Cultural Industries: International Developments is designed to reflect upon some of this dialogue by addressing the questions:

1. What are the common and distinctive elements in the experience of developing the cultural industries around the globe?

2. What is to be learned from that experience that can lead to policy innovation?

The seminar will be addressed by specialists who have been involved in both UK and international cultural industries development work and will be of interest to academics, policy-makers and practitioners with an interest in development.

To reserve a place please contact Katja Haferburg on 0113343 9151 or email: k.haferburg@leeds.ac.uk| (please write 'ESRC Seminar Leeds' in the subject line).

Participant List|

Seminar 6 - The Effects of Intellectual Property on the Organisation of Cultural Production

Date: Friday 16th September 2005

Local Organiser: Prof. Martin Kretschmer|

Location: Bournemouth University, Law School, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management
http://www.cippm.org.uk/

See Outline|

Draft abstract:

It is evident that intellectual property rights influence both what is culturally produced, and how it is produced. For example, if copyright does not award an exclusive right to make adaptations, more derivative works will be produced, artistic collaborations will be structured differently, as will be relations between artists, producers and recipients.

This seminar aims to explore legal, aesthetic and business perspectives on the effects of intellectual property rights. Starting from the experience of the music industry, comparisons with other sectors, including fashion, film and games might be drawn.

Flyer|

Presentations

Friedemann Kawohl & Martin Kretschmer: Quotation in Music|

David Wall: Policing Elvis: Legal Action and the Shaping of Post-Mortem Celebrity Culture as Contested Space|

Mark Carey & David Wall: MP3: The Beat Bytes Back|

A special issue of a journal is currently being prepared based upon papers from this seminar edited by Andy Pratt and Martin Kretschmer. Details to follow.

Attendee list|

Seminar 7 - INITIATING, DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING COLLABORATION of the Cultural Industries and higher education

Location: Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol, Royal Fort House, Bristol BS8 1UJ

Time: 10.00 am -4.45 pm, Wednesday, 8 March 2006.

Further details: (see pdf|)

To book a place contact: a.l.mager@lse.ac.uk

Seminar 8 - Management of Culture / Culture of Management

Date: 28th June 2006

Place: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (Central Campus), Scarman Road, Coventry CV4 7AL

This is the eighth seminar in the ESRC / AHRB Cultural Industries Seminar Network. The seminar will examine the emergence of distinctive approaches to leadership and management in the cultural sector. At a time when the cultural industries are subject to managerial orthodoxies and 'best practice' imported from other sectors, this seminar sets out to recapture distinctive traditions of cultural leadership, creative management and cultural entrepreneurship and argues that the management of culture depends upon a distinctive and autonomous culture of management. Speakers will be Chris Bilton (CCPS, University of Warwick), Giep Hagoort (HKU Amsterdam), Nicola Jennings and Sara Selwood (City University) Paola Merli (De Montfort University), Erich Poettschacher (Instinct Domain, Vienna), David Wilson (Warwick Business School).

The seminar is free of charge, but attendees should contact Vivian Winterhoff
(v.winterhoff@lse.ac.uk) to confirm a place. ARHC/ESRC will also pay reasonable travel costs.

Directions

The following link takes you to maps of campus and directions: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/|

The seminar will take place in Warwick Business School on Central Campus (building 60 on the campus map) in lecture room B0.01. The campus is about 15 minutes by taxi from Coventry Station, and about 20 minutes by taxi from Birmingham International Airport. Trains to and from London Euston leave every half hour and the journey time is approximately 1 hour 15 minutes. Local taxis will be able to drop you at Warwick Business School. Car parking is available in car parks 15 or 16 (see map).

See full programme| and summary|

List of attendees|

Papers & presentations

Chris Bilton Cultures of management: Cultural policy, cultural management and creative organisations|

Chris Bilton The culture of management and the management of culture|

Eric Poettschacher Mindscapes: Interventions for business outlaws|

David Wilson Creativity and Management|

Seminar 9 - Final Seminar: New Directions in Research: Substance, Method and Critique

Date: Thursday 11th and Friday 12th January 2007

Location: Royal Society of Edinburgh

22-26 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PQ, Scotland

Map and Directions|

The Royal Society of Edinburgh is located in central Edinburgh, a short walk from Waverley

Station and a 20 minute bus or taxi ride from Edinburgh Airport.

Final Cultural Industries Seminar

For the last seminar in the series, which began in December 2003, the organisers thought it would interesting to review some of the ground that has been covered and to pose issues and questions that will contribute to the development of future research agendas. To those ends contributors to the seminar will address questions of policy and investment, including human capital, the adequacy of economic accounts of the culture industries, the relations of the culture industries to broader economic processes, and even the usefulness of the notion of culture industry itself. There will probably be occasions to re-consider Adorno and Horkheimer's original ironic use of the term.

Speakers

Ø Trine BILLE, Copenhagen Business School (presentation|)

Ø Martin CLOONAN, Glasgow University and John WILLIAMSON, Paisley University (presentation|)

Ø David HESMONDHALGH, The Open University (Leeds University from April 2007) (paper|) (presentation|)

Ø Dave LAING, University of Liverpool (presentation|)

Ø Christopher MAY, Department of Politics, Lancaster University (paper|)

Ø David THROSBY, Economics Department, Macquarie University - Economy (paper|)

Ø Jeremy VALENTINE, Queen Margaret University College (paper|)

Seminar Programme|

Attendance is free but places are strictly limited.

To reserve a place, please contact:

Jenny M'BAYE, Urban Research Centre Administrator, LSE.