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Dates: October 16-18, 2008 We invite submissions for the 34th International Conference on Social Theory, Politics & and the Arts. Paper and panel proposals are encouraged within the broad themes of social theory, politics and the arts. Social Theory is construed as the many artworlds of law, ethics, economics, and education. Art, Ethics and Law may include such topics as work for hire, artists’ rights, special zoning and defining what a studio is. Questions of ownership of antiquities and artifacts and museum collections, the ongoing saga of looted art, technologies and art law, and tax law are examples. Economics and the Arts refers to both the economics inside artworlds as well as the role of the arts in the larger economies. What are the economics of producing culture? What social forces coalesce to produce art? What role for art and culture for urban areas, regions and nations? We are particularly interested in the role of the creative arts in urban areas, urban renewal and arts districts, historic preservation as community investment, and artists as community activists. Education and the Arts focuses on the arts as an educating and acculturating factor in society. What role for art and music in schools? Are there artists in schools? What role for art schools in educating and training artists? How are community arts and education programs working as change agents? Politics refers to context, patronage, and protest. Context in the American case means the Constitution: the First Amendment and copyright for example. The Patron State (Cummings & Katz) is twenty years old. What has changed? What is the “European” approach? What role for the European Union and patronage in Europe? After 1989, if it is not the state in central Europe then who? What was the role for the arts in the protests of 1968, in 2008… in Czechoslovakia, in Paris, or in the United States? LBJ, criticized by artists, ignored the Arts Endowment–Where is that story today? Do professionalization, appropriations, and devolution mean that the states’ arts agencies have eclipsed the Arts Endowment in the United States? Will a new American President make a difference in art and cultural policy? The Arts refers to the arts, artists, audiences and new technologies. Topics include the Web and art, the emergence of a global aesthetic in design, in graffiti, in music, and in green design and sustainability. Does the global aesthetic range across the spectrum from popular to the fine arts? Who is the audience for the arts? Which arts? Are we able to go beyond Gans, Bourdieu, and Pew? Technologies and expression: What does the new political economy for art and music look like? What role for UNESCO and cultural NGOs? Finally, Baltimore. Topics with a particular reference or relevance to Baltimore are encouraged. Cities and states are laboratories for policy. Baltimore and Maryland are good examples. Most recently Baltimore museums eliminated admission fees. What is the effect on the perception of a public good? Artists have been a major force in Baltimore communities. Architecture & Sculpture: The Face of Baltimore? Historic Preservation: Cui bono? What role for local arts agencies, e.g., The Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Art and Culture. Maryland touts itself as America in miniature and the state arts agency and the local arts agencies support that assessment. We encourage comparisons with the Maryland State Arts Council and the states relationship with regional organizations e.g., The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and regional philanthropy. Papers are to be submitted via the Web site: http://scpp.ubalt.edu/conference/index.html |
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