Cultural Management and its Boundaries: Past, Present, Future (Edited by Constance DeVereaux, HUMAK Publications 2011) is the final volume of the series Cultural Management and the State of the Field. It extends the conversations a group of researchers, educators, and practitioners began and developed in Volumes 1 and 2 exploring the practices, theories, methods, history, issues, challenges, opportunities, and events of cultural management as a field. The present volume, as its title indicates, is concerned with where the field has been, is now, and where it is going in the future.

The series, and this volume, is intended to stimulate both reflection and reflective discourse as the field continues to develop. What is evident is that cultural management has much to offer to the continued creation, production, and dissemination of artistic and cultural expression in ways that are unique to the field. Within its roughly defined boundaries there remain many open questions. Readers are invited to consider these questions and to use the conversations and articles offered herein as beginning points for their own inquiries and debates.

 

To order: HUMAK Publications

Cultural Management and the State of the Field, April 2007
The Cultural Manager as Global Citizen

The Cultural Management Program at Humak University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland invites academic and practitioners as participants for the first of a series of symposia on topics concerning the field of cultural management. The goal of the symposium is to provide an opportunity for reflection and discussion within the cultural management community on issues concerning the state of the field. The forum will result in published proceedings for dissemination.

We are particularly interested in addressing the following topics: The role of the cultural manager and cultural management in a global society; The cultural manager as a global citizen; Cultural citizenship in the context of national identity vs. international identity; Culture as a theoretical tool

Cultural Management and the State of the Field, April 2008
The Science of Arts and Cultural Management – impossibility or necessity?


This year’s theme asks academics and practitioners to engage in the debate on the relationship between arts management and social scientific principles. Is there a science of Arts and Cultural Management? Who needs it? Is it possible to combine managerial passions to scientific approaches, or vice versa? What are the leading guidelines of arts management education, scientific practices or principles of working life conditions?

Cultural Management and the State of the Field, April 2009
Exploring the Boundaries of Cultural Management – Past, Present and Future

We invite academics and practitioners to engage in debate on the past, present and future of our field. What is the relevant history of the field? Who are its seminal thinkers? Where is it today? What are its current trends? Where will it be in the future?

Cultural Management and the State of the Field, May 2010
Cultural Management and Pedagogy: Discourses and Practice

What are the pedagogical ideologies that are shaping our field and its future managers? What is the educational philosophy that is put into practice in different training programmes? How can we adapt best practices on an international level?

 

Publications reflecting our past symposia (2008-2009) to be ordered:

HUMAK Publications