STPA Conference Update -- 10/4
Darren Flusche
Dear Conference Participants and friends,
The Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference is now just one week away and we are looking forward to having you join us. It is going to be a very exciting three days. We would like to take this opportunity to share some more details about the conference with you. Registration will take place on Thursday morning from 9 to noon. There will be opening and closing plenary sessions (lunch will be served only at the closing plenary), two evening receptions in SoHo and near Wall Street, a late-night Happy Hour on Friday, and almost 50 panels addressing this year's five themes.
Keynote Speakers
We are thrilled to announce the following keynote speakers:
Opening Plenary (Thursday, 10/11, 12:30 – 1:30) - Kate Levin, Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs - Kate D. Levin is the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA). Through DCA, New York City is the largest public funder of nonprofit culture in the United States. For FY 2008, the City is providing nearly 900 arts organizations with over $163 million of expense funding and will invest $1.4 billion is capital projects at 215 organizations over the next few years. Commissioner Levin will share her thoughts on why it is essential for local governments to fund culture, as well as her thoughts on the best strategies for making these investments.
Closing Plenary (Saturday, 10/13, 12:30 – 2:00; Lunch Served) - Neil Baldwin, author, professor - Neil Baldwin is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at Montclair State University, co-director of the NYU Biography Seminar, and was founding Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, sponsor of the prestigious National Book Awards.
Receptions
Please join us for the following evening
receptions:
Wagner Opening Reception (Thursday, 10/11, 6:30
- 8:30)
Relax with old and new friends over hors d'oeuvres and a wine and beer bar and see the opening of the Wagner Art Gallery's exhibit "Framing Advantage." The reception will take place at the Puck Building, home to NYU's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor (at Houston Street).
Drinks in the Studio (Friday, 10/12,
6:30 – 8:30)
See multi-media artists working in raw commercial space at Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council's (LMCC) reception, located at 120 Broadway.
Lunches
Dine Around the Square (Friday, 10/12, 1:00 – 2:30)
The long unstructured lunch on Friday is yours to schedule – take a walk around downtown NYC, catch up with colleagues, or finish a conversation from a panel session. But if you are looking for a slightly more structured lunch, sign up for one of our "Dine Around the Square" sessions. There will be discussions on getting published in the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, life as an emerging cultural policy scholar, and the National Arts and Social Change Funding Circle. And if you don't see a lunch topic that interests you, just propose one of your own to STPA...@gmail.com!
Lunch will be served on Sunday during the closing plenary, please note you should plan to get lunch before the opening plenary on Thursday.
Remember, if you haven't yet registered for all of this, it's not too late -- https://wagner.nyu.edu/leadership/stpa2007.php
All of us at STPA look forward to seeing you in a week.
Sincerely,
Darren Flusche
Conference Coordinator
STPA2007