Conference Programme

 

Day 1: Monday 18 June 2012, Newcastle University Business School

 

9:00-9:30

 

Registrations and refreshments

Business School

9:30-10: 30

Introductory Speeches

Business School

 

 

 

 

Welcome note

Vice Chancellor - Chris Brink

 

Response

Professor Li Xiaomu, Deputy President of Beijing International Studies University & Dean of National Institute of Cultural Development

Social Renewal in context

Professor Mark Shucksmith, Institute for Social Renewal, Newcastle University. 

 

Setting the Scene, UK

Eric Cross, Dean of Cultural Affairs

  

10: 30-11: 00

  Coffee

 

11: 00 – 11: 10

Round Up

Dr Joanne Berry

 

11: 10 – 11: 30

 

Cultural and Creative economies in Higher Education

 

 

Professor Mo O’Toole and Dr Joanne Berry

11:30-13:00

Keynote Speakers

Philippe Kern, Director, KEA Associates, Brussels, "Towards a Creative Europe".

Andrew Pratt, Professor of Culture Media and Economy, Kings College, London "The Cultural Contradictions of a Creative City".

13:00-14:30

Lunch & Viewing of Exhibition

Business School UG/PG Social Space

 

14:30-15:45

Practitioner Focus

Insights and analysis from China and the UK

  • Erica Whyman, Chief Executive of Northern Stage
  • Johannes P. Moehrlein, Speaker from Groningen
  • Daniel P A Wallder - Star and Shadow, Community Interest Company, Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

15:45 – 16: 00

 

Coffee

 

16: 00- 16: 50

 

  • Joseph Hillier – Artist
  • Rosie Morris - Artist

 

16: 50- 17: 00

Round Up

Dr Joanne Berry

 

17:00

End of 1st day formal programme

 

 

 

 

Day 1: Evening Monday 18 June 2012 (optional)

17.45

Lord Mayor’s Reception

 

Silver Gallery, Newcastle City Council

 

Welcome

Lord Mayor of Newcastle and Leader of Council

Responses

Mr. Wang Xiangwu, Director of Beijng Planning office of Philosophy and Social Science

Mr.Zheng Wen, Section Chief from Ministry of Culture and Trade

19:30

Dinner

 

SAGE Gateshead

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 2: Tuesday 19 June 2012, Newcastle University Business School

 

9:15

 

Registration and refreshments

 

9:30-11:00

 

Plenary theme: Social Renewal

 

 

 

 

Creative and Cultural Industries in Regionalism and Social Renewal:

 

Dr Paul Greenhalgh and Richard Clark – How well are the accommodation needs of firms in the digital sector addressed by the provision of workspace and premises in Newcastle and Gateshead

 

David Goodacre  – The Great North Festival

 

Colin Dilks – the Byker Redevelopment – Creatives, media and Social Renewal

 

 

 

 

 

11: 00- 11: 30

 

 

Coffee

 

11: 30-12: 50

 

 

 

Local, Regional and National Governments and Universities in Social Renewal and the Creative Clusters

 

 

 

Dr Nicola Headlam – The ‘Municipal Imagineering’ of the Greater Manchester City Region: A Cautionary Tale

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dan Brain, Communications Manager, Northern Film & Media

Dr Michelle Cooper, Investment Manager, Northstar Ventures (TBC)

Gayle Woodruffe, Production Service Manager, Northern Film & Media

Case study: Piloting public-VC investment structures for the creative industries in the English regions

 

12: 50- 13: 00

 

Round up

Gerard Corsane

13:00-14:00

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel sessions

 

 

 

 

14: 00- 15: 00

 

Parallel session 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breakout session 1: facilitator Dr Simon Philpott

 

Artefacts and mediums of Social Renewal: Arts, Popular Culture and Design

 

 

 

 

Liu Dake, Li Xiaolei and Wang Qijing  - A Comparative Analysis of Exhibition Industry between Beijing and Shanghai and Enlightenments to Beijing

 

 

 

 Jim Mawdsley, CEO of Generator and Dr. Adam Behr, Research Associate, University of Edinburgh- Live Music Exchange

 'The scene-ic route’: Towards a synthesis of theoretical and practical concerns in the development of music scenes in areas of low engagement

 

 

 

 

Yvette Hawkins - Visual Artist

 

 

Breakout session 2

Facilitator: Dr Xuefeng Wang

Cultural heritage as a driver of the creative economy

 

 

 

 

 

Li  Jiashan and Ning Xuejun – Industry promote cultural heritage? A case study in Impression Lijiang-show

 

 

 

 

Wang Haiwen  Li Jiashan - The Heritage and Development of Beijing Jingju: Protection or Marketization

 

 

 

 

Jon Ward - Cultural Labour in Kent: the working lives of  artists in Margate and Folkestone

 

 

 

15: 15 – 16: 30

Parallel session 2

 

 

 

 

 

Breakout session 3:

Facilitator: Panos Piperopoulos

Entrepreneurialism, creativity and passion

 

 

 

 

Helen Ross – Entrepreneurialism vs. Creativity

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Cowie – In-Migration, rural development and creative economies

 

 

 

 

Natalie Doonan – The Re-creative  City: Writing City and Citizen through Culture and Tourism

 

 

 

Breakout session 4:

Facilitator: Dr Andy Law

Reform within the culture industry in China: key challenges and issues

 

 

 

 

 

Li  Xiaomu - Cultural Bonded Area? China’s  Practice

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zhang Guosheng - On the International Competitiveness of Beijing Services Trade

 

 

 

 

Andy Law: Han and Tang nostalgia: the development and marketisation of Xi’an.

 

16:30-17:00

Round up of Forum

 

 

 Professor Eric Cross, Gerard Corsane, (to lead) with additional comments from Professor Mo O’Toole, Dr Joanne Berry.

                 

 

           

Day 2: Evening Tuesday June 2012 (optional)

18:30

Tour of Theatre Royal

 

Theatre Royal, Grey Street,

Newcastle upon Tyne

20:00

Farewell Drinks

 

To be confirmed