David Throsby inaugurates the Paolo Fresco Lectures
As one can imagine, the implications of globalization don't reverberate just on the socio-economical context: the effects of free markets and worldwide exponential increase in relationships are more and more evident also in the cultural field. So much so that one of the most perceived risks of globalization is the hegemony of a standardizing trend which would eliminate local cultural diversities.
But what are the current cultural policies' trends in connection with the phenomenon of globalization? Do the national policies for the management of culture do enough in order to preserve local highlights, not just from an economic point of view? What future challenges lie ahead for cultural policies?
All of this will be discussed at Bocconi University on October 30th, with a special guest: David Throsby, distinguished professor at Macquarie University and an international point of reference for his work in the field of management of the arts, who will intervene as guest speaker at the first of the Paolo Fresco Lectures organized by the Center for Art, Science, Knowledge (ASK).
The initiative, dedicated by ASK to its president Paolo Fresco, comes after the recent donation of 100 thousand euros made by Fresco in favor of ASK. "Paolo Fresco became president of ASK in 2005 because he feels the importance of bringing a managerial component in the field of art and, at the same time, he perceives the value of introducing a cultural opening in the field of management", says Stefano Baia Curioni, vice president of ASK: "With the Paolo Fresco Lectures, ASK means to pay homage to Paolo Fresco and to thank him for his latest donation".
"David Throsby, the first speaker, is probably the most known and important economist of culture worldwide, the author of among the main texts of reference for the discipline", says Baia Curioni. "In the last years, he has mainly focused on the theme of cultural policies, publishing an important book on the theme for Cambridge University", the professor explains.
The three events scheduled as Paolo Fresco Lectures will host the world's leading exponents of the economical and sociological sciences dedicated to culture and cultural policies. On Tuesday, October 30th, at 6 pm, rector Andrea Sironi will intervene together with Paolo Fresco to open the Paolo Fresco Lectures; the other two meetings will be dedicated to the analysis of the relationship existing between culture and urban policies and between culture and social development.