Special Lecture: Introduction to Art and Culture in the Global Age
Jenny Johannisson
Decentralization Processes in Swedish Cultural Policy – with examples from the other Nordic countries

“Introduction to Art and Culture in the Global Age” is a series of special lectures organised by the Graduate school of Global Arts. In this course we invite specialist from around the world to give lectures and workshops. Hosted by Arts Management and Cultural Policy field, this time we welcome Dr. Jenny Johannisson to discuss about Swedish cultural policy. At the same time we have a special guest Dr. Sigrid Røyseng for a lecture titled “Rejection of public art: Conflicting definitions and evaluations”.

Date & Time: Friday, May 17th, 2019. 4:20pm to 5:50pm
Place: Large Meeting Room, 2F, Senju Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts

＊Students of TUA are welcome to join.
＊Lecture will be delivered in English.

Lecture 1.
“Decentralization processes in Swedish cultural policy, with examples also from the other Nordic countries”
by Dr. Jenny Johannisson
Associate Professor Centre for Cultural Policy Research Swedish School of Library and Information Science University of Borås, Sweden

Biography

Jenny Johannisson is associate professor of Library and Information Science at the Centre for Cultural policy R
esearch, The Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås. Her main research interests are local and reginal cultural policy against the backdrop of globalization processes. In several externally funded research projects, she has primarily explored how local and regional public administration deals with inc
reased political autonomy in the cultural policy field. Since September 2018, she also works as an analyst at the Swedish Agency for Cultural Policy Analysis, assigned by the Government of Sweden to independently evaluate, analyze and pres
ent the effects of proposals and measures taken in the cultural policy field. Since 2012, she is the chair of The International Conference of Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR) Scientific Committee.

Lecture 2

“Rejection of Public Art: Conflicting Definitions and Evaluations”
by Dr. Sigrid Røyseng
Professor, Cultural Sociology at the Norwegian Academy of Music
Professor II, BI Norwegian Business School

Biography
Sigrid Røyseng is a Professor of Cultural Sociology at the Norwegian Academy of Music and Professor II at BI Norwegian Business School. She is trained as a sociologist from the University of Oslo and holds a PhD in Organization Theory from the University of Bergen. Røyseng has worked extensively with research on cultural policy, cultural entrepreneurship and cultural leadership. In the period 2014-2015 she was the editor in chief of the Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy.

Organized by: Sumiko Kumakura Lab, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Special Cooperation by: Doshisha University, Organising committee of the International Conference on Cultural Policy Research 2020 Kyoto.

Enquiries:
Faculty Room, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
info-ga(at)ml.geidai.ac.jp