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Thursday, October 30,
2008
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Keynote Speaker
What are Cultural Districts For?
Dr. Michael Rushton,
Director of the Arts Administration Program at
Indiana University
Ph.D., University of British
Columbia, 1990
Biography:
Professor Rushton is Director of the Arts
Administration Program, and has research
interests in cultural policy, tax policy, and
nonprofit organizations. In the field of
cultural policy he has published articles on
copyright, freedom of expression, other legal
rights of artists, the role of nonprofits in the
arts, and public funding of the arts (especially
the use of earmarked taxes for the arts). His
current research projects include the
relationship between the arts and urban and
rural economic growth, the use of economic
analysis in arts advocacy, the taxation of
nonprofit organizations, and measuring the
impact of racial and ethnic diversity on voting
behavior and social capital. Prior to joining
SPEA in 2006, Professor Rushton held positions
at Georgia State University, the University of
Regina (Canada), where he also served as Dean of
the Faculty of Fine Arts, the University of
Tasmania (Australia) and St. Francis Xavier
University (Canada). He has also held visiting
positions at Erasmus University (The
Netherlands), the University of Chicago, and
Freiburg University (Germany). From 1998 to 2000
he worked with the Cabinet Planning Unit of the
Government of Saskatchewan. He is Co-Editor of
the
Journal of Cultural Economics,
and is on the Editorial Boards of the
International Journal of Cultural Policy,
and
Public Finance and Management.
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