‘Cultural Labour: policy approaches to tackling the precarity in cultural freelancing’
Thursday, 9 November 2023
10:00 – 11:30 GMT
We are pleased to invite you to an online seminar on potential policy approaches to tackling the precarity in cultural freelancing. The issues of low income, the lack of good access to social security and the instability of jobs for cultural workers, especially freelancers, have become more prominent and acute in recent years. This international seminar will discuss key policy approaches to tackling those issues in the contexts of the UK and Japan. Presentations will be followed by comments by Sigrid Røyseng, a specialist on artists’ policy from Norway. The whole seminar will be simultaneously translated from English/Japanese to Japanese/English. This event is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, via the Fund for International Collaboration [Grant Ref: ES/W011891/1] and JSPS [grant number 20211707].
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Meet the Presenters
Sana Kim is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. Within the broader focus on the creative industries/economies, she is interested in cultural policy creative work and creative ecologies/ecosystems. Her PhD explored the impacts of the capital city relocation, that took place in Kazakhstan in 1997, on the subsequent creative development of Kazakhstan’s new (Astana) and the former (Almaty) capital cities. After completing her PhD, she worked on a collaborative EU project titled DISCE (Developing Inclusive & Sustainable Creative Economies), which was looking at improving the growth of creative economies across Europe.
Naoya Sano received his PhD from the Tokyo University of the Arts and M.Mus (RCM) from the Royal College of Music, London. He worked in film and music businesses, specialising publicity, promotion and international licensing and subsequently served for the British Council, the British Embassy Tokyo and UN, leading a number of marketing, fundraising and public diplomacy/national branding projects as well as a regional Arts Council for 25 years before taking up the current academic career. His research interests include arts management practices particularly arts marketing and project evaluation.
Rene Kobayashi received her PhD from the Graduate School of Intercultural Studie, Kobe University and MA in European Cultural Policy and Management from the University of Warwick. Her current research interests include the British community arts movement and international comparison of the Arts Council.
Sigrid Røyseng is Professor of Cultural Sociology at the Norwegian Academy of Music and Professor II of Arts Management at BI Norwegian Business School. She has published books and articles on cultural policy, cultural entrepreneurship, cultural leadership, and the role of artists in society. Røyseng is the chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Cultural Policy Research and she sits on the editorial boards of Poetics – Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts, International Journal of Cultural Policy and Norwegian Journal of Sociology. In 2023, she was appointed by the Norwegian Government to lead an expert group that will investigate and make recommendations on the policy of the Norwegian field of music. Røyseng is the chair of the Doctoral Committee and the head of the Executive program of Arts Management at Norwegian Academy of Music. Røyseng also teaches several Executive Master of Management programs in leadership at BI.
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