Upcoming
2018
10 December Milan, Bicocca PhD programme
4 December Cultural Leadership seminar, QMUL
16 November Creative Asia, Almaty, Khazakstan
14 November Knowledge curation as an embeded process (Urban Laboratory series) UCL
30.October Understanding and supporting innovation in the cultural and creative industries Internationale Fachkonferenz, Ministry or Work and Energy, Berlin
24 Oct Creative industries as transdisciplinary field, Singapore
19.October The value/s of Creative hubs, Dept of new media and coms, NUS, Singapore
17.October Experience of creative hubs, Aliwel Arts Centre, Singapore
17.September Creative hubs, Singapore
4.July Creativity, Knowledge, Cities Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol.
25.May Review of report of heritage and culture and regeneration, Council of Europe, Paris
27.April The digital and cultural industries, Mexico Guadalarja
19.April The Creative economy and cities, China, Suzhou
10.April Researching cultuiral policy making, New Orleans, USA
29.May Khazakstan, British Council, Almaty and Astana
27.May Creative Cities summit, Westminster
26 May CoE report , heritage and culture and regeneration , House of Lords, Westminster, hearing
9. Feb Milan Biccoca. PhD porgramme
29.Jan Turin , Series of lectures for ILO/UNESCO/University of Torino on the creative economy and policy for MA in "World Heritage at Work"/”Cultural Projects for Development”
2017
Nov 30-Dec 3, Guadalajara, Mexico. UNESCO special expert group on urban cultural policy and sustainability
Nov 22-26, Astana , Khazaksthan, British Council expert group on cultural mapping
Oct 20-25th, Presentations at 4th Urals Art Fair, Yekatarinburg Russia, on precarious labour and the arts, and on world city of culture metrics
Oct 12-13 Hull, Spaces and Flows conference, keynote lecture on culture, cities and policy
Oct 4-6 Zurich Art School, Seminar on Culture, creativity, Asia and Europe. Paper on creativity and knowledge
Exchange
Sept 11-13th RC21 of International Sociological Association session on culture and cities.
Aug 14-20 Singapore. Lecture at NUS on policy for the cultural economy and cities. Lecture on the Cultural economy, and Advisory work for Singapore Management University on developing a new programme on Cultural Policy.
July 23- Aug 1 Brazil, series of lectures on the creative economy (with Prof G. Crossick) to academics an policy makers in Porto Allegre, Rio de Janerio, and Sao Paulo.
July 12-13 Barcelona, lecture at Montreal HEC- Barcelona creative management summer school
April 20-21 Seminar on labour and the precarious economy, Portsmouth University
May 27-30 Aarhus, Denmark. Meeting of the Council of Europe on Culture, Heritage and Regeneration.
Presentation of draft briefing paper.
Feb 7th Briefing DCMS on industrial strategy
Jan 29-30 Turin, Series of lectures for ILO/UNESCO/University of Torino on the creative economy and policy
for MA in "World Heritage at Work"/”Cultural Projects for Development”
2016
November 18-27 Vietnam. Research for British Council /Vietnam Government on Creative Hubs.
Oct 3-6 Washington DC, lecture to Latin American Development Bank and the creative economy.
September 22-29 Mexico City, Urban Experimental Laboratory key note lecture (with Charles Landry) on creative
CIties
September 15-17 Prato, Italy: UNCTAD expert seminar on cultural economy
July 5th-10th Seoul, South Korea, presentation on gentrification and culture for Korean Artists Group; and lecture
on intrenationalisation and the art gallery business to Art School.
June 27-July 2 New Dehli, India. AHRC meeting on UK India research projects
June 21-21 Vallolodid, Spain, Association of cultural economics: keynote on the future of cultural economics
30 May, Cambridge, Seminar at CRASSH cities seminar series
21 May, ZHdK/CSM workshop, London on ‘curating urban policy’ (I organised this)
27 march- April 3 , San Francisco, AAG conference, special session organised on the creative economy and
cities
Feb 1-2nd Turin, Series of lectures for ILO/UNESCO/University of Torino on the creative economy and policy
for MA in "World Heritage at Work"/”Cultural Projects for Development”
Jan 28th Creative Hubs symposium. London
Jan 21-24th Singapore Art Fair, presentation. Art in the Urban Age
2015
December 1-4th, Guadalajara, Mexico. Panlel on cultural policy at the FIL international book festival; also a lecture on art crticism and participation in the arts.
Nov 26-29th, Seoul, South Korea, Keynote on cultural gentrifictaion at Artists, Gentrification and Urban Regeneration; and Lecture on the globalisation of museums
Nov 16th, Bristol GoS Cities Foresight, Final report and feedback.
Nov 6th, Bristol, The Rooms REACT hub final event. Spoke on two panels: knowledge transfer and national policy debates, and CWL insights on KT.
Sept 11th Warwick, Warwick-Melbourne Seminar on the Cultural Economy Network
August 25-30, Oxford, conference on Economic Geography. Innovation and knowledge exchange
July 10th Manchester, interview on BBC Newsnight at Manchester International Festival
June 5-8th, Ohid, Macedonia, The cultural economy and cultural labour, challenges of policy making.
May 14th-16th , Athens, Cultural policy, cities and the recession, Acropolis Museum
May 7-8th, 2015, Berlin, Erkner, International conference “Creativity in arts and sciences: collective processes from a spatial perspective”, my paper on 4 modes of knowledge transfer in hubs
April 29-30th, Glasgow, Urban Studies Fellowship seminar (Cecila Dinardi)
April 20-16th 2015 Chicago, USA. AAG conference. Paper on fab labs, and paper on creative cities and the South
March 14-16 2015 Hong Kong, Seminar at Art Basel
Feb 28th-March 5th, Shanghai, AHRC seminar at the ‘Great Britian’ expo.
January 2015 Turin, Italy. Series of lectures for ILO/UNESCO/University of Torino on the creative economy and policy for MA in "World Heritage at Work"/”Cultural Projects for Development”
2014
Nov 21 Milan, EXPO event
Oct 23-24 Berlin, ‘Re-telling the history of the cultural industries policy’, WZB
October 21 London, Arts and Cultural Forum. Arts and culture : changing roles in regeneration
Oct 16-17 Milan, URBER-QUASI PhD commission, Università Milano - Bicocca
Oct 2-3 Florence, Unesco world forum on Culture and Cultural Industries. Presentation: Financing culture: a culture bank?
July 28-9 Prato, UNESCO experts Cultural economy network workshop; and presentation to Prato regional agencies on the UNESCO creative cities network, Monash University Centre, Prato.
July 26-27, Venice, Architecture Biennale; ‘weekend special workshop’ on globalisation culture and cities. Creative Hubs, Arsenale; organised by Zurich School of the Arts.
July 19-24, Osaka, Association of Urban Creative 3rd annual conference, Osaka City University, panel chair
June 30, London, Pre-report presentation of Foresight The future of cities papers. The future of Cities and Culture
June 24-25, Berlin, Knowledge exchange networks, Freie University, School of Business and Economics; presentation, and advisory on project
June 18-20, Milan, advisory panel to Milan 2015 Expo: Presentation : The value/s of the creative city
April 28-20, Galway , Ireland. advisory on European City of Culture bid, Galway University
March 25-27, New York, panel on creative economy and cities, City of New York University Graduate School (CUNY)
Mar 12 London, AHRC Creative economy show case, Presentation on Creative Hubs and the CWL project.
Feb 12-17 New Orleans, Learning from the creative city; lessons for New Orleans?; and PhD seminar, Tulane University.
Feb 9th-10 Turin, Visiting professor: , Series of lectures for ILO/UNESCO/University of Torino on the creative economy and policy for MA in "World Heritage at Work"/”Cultural Projects for Development”
Feb 3 London, Creative Works Laboratory. Knowledge exchange and Hubs: Mare Street to the World
Jan 21st London, Launch of the 2013 UNESCO Creative Economy report at City University. Panel discussion
2013
November 13-15th: World Cities Culture Summit, Istanbul, Turkey (BOP/GLA)
see http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/events/world-cities-culture-summit-istanbul-2013
November 17th: Panel 'What's the value of cultural policy' to celebrate Dave O'Brien's new book, City University
see http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2013/november/whats-the-value-of-cultural-policy
October 10th-11th : 2nd European Colloquium on Culture, Creativity and Economy, Berlin
see http://www.irs-net.de/download/aktuelles/Conference_Booklet-web.pdf
October 21-23: Cultural Economy, Sustainable Development and the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. A workshop hosted by UNESCO, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Monash University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
October 16-17th: 'Promoting sustainable development through culture:current status, challenges and prospect, International Forum on Culture and Development, Seoul, South Korea, Korean National Commission for UNESCO
October 29th: UTC - 40 years anniversary colloquium on innovation, Sorbonne, Paris, France
see http://www.utc.fr/utc-40-ans/news002a0095.php
http://interactions.utc.fr/colloque-innover-innovation-sorbonne-29-octobre-2013
web cast available here: http://webtv.utc.fr/watch_video.php?v=H63WH5H6G35B my part is at 74 minutes.
September 13th: 'The spectre of the creative industries' , Cultural Policy Under New Labour AHRC seminar, Leeds University,
September 9th-10th: 'Let's face the music and dance'. Austerity and the cultural economy., The Arts Economy conference, International Sociological Association, Sociology of the Arts RC37, Sheffield Unviersity
April : Research, Creativity and Business 2: Making the Extraordinary, CASS business school , City University.
March: Medellin, Colombia, British Council
March: Milan, Paolo Fresco Lecture at Università Bocconi. “Athena’s Mirror: Culture, Creativitiy, Cities, Contradictions”
see http://www.ask.unibocconi.it/wps/wcm/connect/Cdr/Centro_ASK/News/5+March+2013
March :Milan: URBEUR at Dip. Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università Milano - Bicocca, "creative industries, cities and governance
Feburary : Berlin: Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, executive seminars on topics associated with the creative city, and creative city policies
http://www.hertie-school.org/facultyandresearch/research-centres/research-centres/centre-for-cultural-policy/
January: Turin, Series of lectures for ILO/UNESCO/University of Torino on the creative economy and policy for MA in "World Heritage at Work"/”Cultural Projects for Development”
2012
December : Kyoto, Japan: Doshisha University
November:University of Florence , creative cities and policy making, and its problems
November:International Biennial of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, Florence, organised by the Florens Foundation : local capacity building, the creative industries and the development agenda
November: RSA conference, London: Culture and recession
October: Montreal, Canada. “Innovative Districts” the event was a unique
initiative of McGill University and École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), in
partnership with the City of Montreal.
July: Berlin: culture as engine, keynote at Akademie der Kundst, Berlin
July: Paris. Sciences Po, keynote on the recession and the creative economy, Association of urban creativity, 1st annual conference.
June: Quito and Asuncion: keynote lecture for WIPO and national governments of Paraguay and Ecuador and author’s rights society of Latin America, on copyright and the creative industries,
June: Strasbourg, Lecture on cultural intermediaries, CNRS conference on intermediaries and creative industries
June: Creative Industries: Design for innovation conference on 27 June in Westminster
May: Montreal: lecture on proximity and creative clusters, to Promixity Conference, Montreal HEC
April: Shanghai, World Cities Culture Report pre-launch event. Lecture on world cities and culture
March: TCCE conference, British Library, on knowledge exchange and the creative econmoy
February: Santiago de Compostella, on cultural policy and clustering
2011
December: Milan
November: Hamburg
October: Florence
October: Geneva, WIPO
September: Turin
July: expert advisory Nigeria, British Council
July: lecture on ‘IPR and cultural industries’: British Council High Level UK-Sino expert meeting, July 11-13
see BC link
July 5-9: Montreal HEC Summer School, Montreal, Canada. Presentations on ‘neo-liberalism and the creative city’, and ‘London as a creative city’.
See links to HEC summer school blog
June : “The qualities of innovation: or, how newness enters the world”, Keynote presentation at launch of the Culture-Society-Innovation Hub, School of Performance & Cultural Industries, University of Leeds. June 16th
May: Can Western consumers really help development by buying ‘world music’? Culture, Media & Creative Industries (CMCI) symposium, Cultural consumers and copyright, KCL. 19 May
March: Two presentations on : the conceptualisation; and, the measurement of the creative industries at a Regional Training Seminar supported by the Creative Industries Section of the World Intellectual Property Organisation, The European Union, and the International Trade Commission. St Lucia (March 29-31).
March: Transformationsräume, Kultur und Kreativität Auftaktsymposium Oberhafen HafenCity, March 25-7th. Keynote presentation- Transformations of the cultural economy,
2010
December: "Creative Cities: Enabling the practices of urban creativity”, The International Symposium on City, Culture and Society - Reinventing the City for Cultural Creativity and Social Inclusion". Osaka City University, Japan on December 15-17, 2010
November: “The creative city?”, Institute for Urban Design , ETH Zürich, Switzerland. November 4. 2010
October: October: “The cultural economy, creative organisations and the city” inta.pdf World Urban Development Congress INTA 34, workshop 1: Community of Competences on Workspace Urbanism, Oct 25-26, 2010. San Sebastián. Spain.
September: Torino, Series of lectures for ILO/UNESCO/University of Torino on the creative economy and policy for MA in "World Heritage at Work"/”Cultural Projects for Development” 13-14th September
September: ‘Reputation work/the work of reputation’: Work employment and society conference, Brighton, 7-8th September
July: panel on ‘Creative Cities after the Fall of Finance’, International Sociological Association Annual Conference, Gothenburg, 12th July
June: Copenhagen Association of cultural economists international (ACEI) Conference, Panel “Cultural, creative or experience Industries – what difference does it make?” June 11th
June: Barcelona, International Congress "Postmetropolis", Governance of the Metropolitan Regions in the 21st Century. Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). June 9th (7-11th)
May: Keynote lecture ‘Constructing an evidence base for research and governance of the cultural and creative industries: reflections on the last decade’. public launch of the RCCIL database on 11th May 2010 at City University London A video of this presentation
March: talk on theme of ‘Local and European production in a world of global markets’ at EUROPEAN FORUM ON CULTURAL INDUSTRIES, March 29-30th, Barcelona
March: key note paper at Creative City Forum, Mannheim, March 24th
March: Cultural policy round table: Advisory on Arts Council England strategic framework, March 6th
2009
December: Creative cities: Tensions within and between social, cultural and economic development. A critical reading of the UK experience. Departmental Seminar, Department of Geography, University of Woollongong, Sydney (forthcoming in Cities, Culture and Society)
November: Governance and the cultural industries, keynote at conference on Governance and the Cultural Industries, Leipzig
November: Special expert seminar, WIPO, the cultural industries and IPR, Geneva
November: LSE Urban Programme, London regeneration seminar: Tate Modern: testing the limits to regeneration (forthcoming in Cities, Culture and Society)
October: Talk at ESRC and DCMS supported seminar – ‘Museums, the cultural industries & social inclusion: outlining & unearthing alternative perspectives’, Sackler Centre of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
October: meeting of the Media Cluster Research Group in London (organised by R.Picard) : The London media cluster
September: Series of lectures for ILO/UNESCO/University of Turin on the creative economy and policy, Turin
July: Creative cities, UNESCO creative cities network, Seoul, South Korea
May: The multiple dimensions of clustering in the Advertising, Film and Television industries in Britain.
ESF seminar, Rotterdam
May: Governing by numbers: mapping the cultural industries, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
April: The cultural industries and copyright, Goethe Institute, Brussels
April: Cultural and creative industries summit, Brussels
March: Creative Cities?, Ove Arup, London
March: Music and Copyright, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University
January: World cities and the cultural economy, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Interview about venture capital: chilli media, Taiwan
2008
November: seminar Dept of Human and Economic Geography, Gothenberg, Sweden
November: “Culture and Creative Industries Policies: Linking Production and Consumption” or, ‘Why not to build a contemporary art gallery (by a starchitect, in an old power station, next to some water with a bridge)’ at ‘L’attractivité : Maîtrise du temps et de l’espace’, Colloque International PUCA-CRETEIL-TVES, Paris
September: lecture on cultural industries policy in London, Berlin
September: Series of lectures for ILO/UNESCO/University of Turin on the creative economy and policy, Turin
August: (with Tarek Virani) A Precarious Culture: An examination into the nature of employment in the music industry. RGS annual conference, London
August: Creative cities; and, Creative economy and development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
July: 1st European Conference on Cultural and Creative Economy, Brussels , Details
June: Urbanisation in the US: Phoenix, Phoenix Arizona.
May: Creative cities, Urban Development Group, London See video
May: Artists and precarious labour, Cultural Studies Association of America, New York
April: Releasing creativity event, Kingston University
February: Creative industries: 10 years on, Open University, Milton Keynes. Info and video
February: paper given to, The Social Effects of Culture, organized by the Boekman Foundation in co-operation with the Directorate General Culture and Media of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Hague
January: Methodology for the Creative Economy Report, UNCTAD High level meeting, Geneva
2007
December: The creative economy and regional policy, Leeds, National Creative Industries Conference, Keynote
November: Creative industries debate, The Bargehouse, South Bank (transcript to follow).
October: Creative cities: a critical view, University of Osaka, Creative cities symposium, Keynote.
September: Series of 5 lectures for ILO/UNESCO/University of Turin on the creative economy and policy, Turin
June: The state of the cultural economy, Gulbenkian 50th Anniversary lecture, Lisbon. Report and video
June: Methodologies for the cultural industries, Faculty of Arts, University of Zurich
May: The cultural industries and policy, German Presidency Event, Berlin . Download presentation
April: The cultural economy and cities, Copenhagen Business School. Info
April: British Sociological Association annual conference: new media and new work, London
2006
December: The cultural industries research agenda, Edinburgh, Cultural Industries Research Network, ESRC event
December: New media and the city, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
December: The internationalisation of the film industry, Queensland University
October: Cultural clusters: the European experience, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
October: Cultural industries and policy, Beijing
September: Advanced producer services and the cultural economy, Toulouse University
May: Advertising and creativity, Dept of Geography, Southampton University
March: Cultural clusters, Osaka University
March: The cultural industries in London, Barcelona City Council/ University of Barcelona
January: The creative class: a critique, Manchester University
2005
November: The cultural industries: organisation and policy, Copenhagen Business School
October: Cultural industries and local authorities in Europe, Les Recontres (Association of European cities and regions for culture), Liverpool
October: Culture and creativity- the advertising industry, Special seminar at School of Economics and Business Administration, Reykjavik, Iceland
September: The film industry, an example of a cultural commodity chain, RGS annual conference, London
April: The governance of the cultural industries, AAG conference, Denver, USA
March: Work, Organisation, Place: the case of the new media industry, International Labour Process Conference, Glasgow
March: Key note presentation to a conference on ‘Creative Cities and Creative Industries’ Kyoto University, Japan
January: ‘The UK advertising industry’ Departmental Seminar, Newcastle University
2004
December: ‘Growth and change in the cultural industries’, Key centre for cultural industries, QUT, Brisbane, Australia
September: ‘Defining, measuring and benchmarking the cultural industries: the cultural industries production web approach’, Special lecture to Hong Kong creative industry leaders
May: ‘Cultural capital: finding money that is smart enough for culture’ paper, World Social Forum, Barcelona
April: 'Creative clusters: a critical perspective' RTN European urban research network, LSE
2003
December: ‘Approaching the analysis of cultural policy and the cultural industries’, AHRB special seminar on cultural policy research, Glasgow University
September: ‘The cultural industries production web: implications for policy and analysis’, Cities Institute seminar, Westminster University
September: ‘The regionalisation of cultural industries policy’, Hong Kong University
July: ‘Policy and data issues associated with the provision of working spaces for artists’: Tate Modern/creating places conference
June: ‘The rich tapestry’. Key note presentation to a special seminar of the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) on the relationship between academic research and policy in the creative industries
May: ‘A cool look at the ‘New economy’’, ESRC seminar on the New Economy, Nottingham University
April: ‘Production chains in the cultural industries’, evidence to the Mayor’s commission on creative industries,
April: ‘The creative industries production chain: presentation’, to a seminar at the London Development Agency (LDA) on research in the creative industries
March: ‘ New media and urban change’ Departmental Seminar, Geography, Southampton
Feb: ‘New media networks, virtual and material, and place: Regional Studies meeting
on the new economy, London
2002
December: ‘The new economy, consumption and innovation’. Special seminar: Brisbane, Australia
November: ‘Key note presentation on creative clusters at the First 'creative clusters' conference’ Sheffield
October: ‘Creative destruction: new media in San Francisco’, Newcastle University/CURDS anniversary conference
April: ‘The cultural industries: problems of cross-national comparison’. American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, Los Angeles , British 2017