February | 2020 | CCCI@City

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The Workshop on Cultural Economy: Twenty Years After

In January, some fifty or so academics, representing cultural studies, finance studies, management and organisation, cultural geography and social theory, among other disciplines, convened at City, for a symposium co-hosted by the Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries and the Journal of Cultural Economy (JCE). The anniversary event marked twenty years since “the workshop…

The state of the arts

Andy gave a keynote at a symposium in Paris (February 2-3) on the implications for cultural policy of digitisation. The Symposium was entitled ‘Towards a new cultural policy for the digital age’ and was organised by ZdHK (Zurich School of Art) and took place at the Gaite Lyrique theatre. Papers from the symposium are being…

Travels in Italy with Andy Pratt

Andy Pratt visited Milan and Turin to do lectures to cultural industries and cultural policy students at the end of January. Andy returned to deliver his annual inputs to the MA Cultural Projects for Development at the UNESCO/ILO training campus in Turin; then he visited Milan (Biccocca University) where he gave one of his regular…