The Politics of Heritage: Diasporas and the Production of Cultural Policies
Presenter: Jonathan Paquette
This paper documents the production of cultural policy and pays attention to the diaspora's contribution to policy development. In particular, this paper focuses on Asia.
Revitalizing Urban Allure through Creative City Strategies: Planning, Power & Policy in NYC’s Bloomberg DecadePresenter: Shoshanah Goldberg-MillerThis paper utilizes data from 21 semi-structured interviews with key policymakers, nonprofit leaders, developers, and philanthropists together with archival and historical materials to analyze the ways that creative city strategies were utilized in New York City’s revitalization in the 2000s.Discussions of field building, agenda setting, urban allure, and the return to the city center ground the analysis.
Comparing Overall Tourism Rates and Arts and Cultural Tourism Recovery after 9/11
Presenter: Alex Hinand
The researcher compared overseas arrivals into the United States from 2000-2015 to the overall symphony, art museum, and nonprofit theatre attendance during the to see if cultural tourism followed the same trends as overall tourism post-9/11.
Oops! We Did It Again? A Review of Artspace’s Calling All Artists 2011 Survey Development and ImplementationPresenter: Keith D. LeeThis paper focuses on planning and implementation of the initial survey that determined the location for an Artspacehousing unit in Downtown Memphis and highlights several planning conflicts in arts research due to the consistent omission of ethnic demographics in planning, implementation, and execution.
