International Trends
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How are new international trends impacting on the UK's cultural status? |
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How do the four nations of the UK export their cultures, and to whom? |
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Are we at risk of a cultural brain drain? |
Commissioners:
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Mr Tony Ageh |
Mr Roly Keating |
Ms Ruth Mackenzie |
Sir Nicholas Serota |
This strand examines several questions about the position of Great Britain, and its four component nations, within the broad and complex network of (inter)national cultural production; questions which the Commissioners will raise in this fourth strand. This includes:
• How does English culture relate to that of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
• How ‘translatable’ is cultural policy, and how far has the ‘cultural value’ debate been exported?
• In what ways does British soft power draw on specifically international products, and what are the mutual influences between UK and ‘global’ culture?
• What is the relationship between the perceived ‘drain’ of English cultural professionals to the number of industry workers entering the UK from abroad?
Objectives:
- To trace out the UK’s cultural connections between its four nations;
- To map international cultural policy and diplomacy, and locate the position of the UK within it;
- To make recommendations that ensure that British culture thrives in this new global context.
Theme Four Events:
17 September 2014: Provocation, The British Council
29 October 2014: Commissioner Day
