Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events

Clive Gray, along with colleague Cecile Doustaly from the University of Cergy-Pontoise in Paris, has organised a conference to discuss the consequences of cuts in government support for the cultural sector in Britain and France. The conference will take place in Paris on the 15th/16th December 2011. Further details and the call for papers can be found at http://artsintimesofcrisis.wordpress.com/

David Wright will this week be visiting Chile at the invitation of the Observatorio de Politicales Culturales (OPC) and Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago. He will be presenting a paper at the 'Congess of Cultural Politics: What do we measure? How do we evaluate?' on conceptual and methodological developments in the cultural omnivore debate (12th-13th May).

His trip, partly funded by the British Council in Chile, will include a presentation at Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso and a research seminar with staff and research students at Universidad Diego Portales on problems with the comparative study of taste.

Respected music industry magazine, Music Week, reports on project work undertaken by a team of current students on the MA in Creative and Media Enterprises for the Association of Independent Festivals as part of their Creative Business Project module. The team have just embarked on the project to analyse the economic impacts of music festivals and will be reporting their findings to AIF and its members in June.