Agenda

Taking the Measure of Culture:
A Meeting at Princeton University, June 7– June 8, 2002

Supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and hosted by the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies

Friday, June 7, 2002

9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. - Introductions and discussion of meeting goals and agenda (Stanley N. Katz, Joan Shigekawa, Paul DiMaggio, and Steven Tepper). 

10:15 a.m. to 12:00 noon - Session 1 - Mature Research Fields in the Arts: Economic Impact and Schooling Effects

Ellen Winner, Boston College - Research on Arts Education: What Kinds of Effects Should We Expect to Find?

Bruce Seaman, Georgia State University -Economic Impact Studies:  Established Methods and New Frontiers?

Provocateurs: Jeff Smith, Rutgers University; Tom Bradshaw, National Endowment for the Arts.

12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. - Lunch

1:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. - Session 2 - Research on Communities

Mario Small, Princeton University - Immigrant Communities and Social Capital

Claude Fischer, University of California, Berkeley  - Technology and Community Change

Provocateurs:  Maria Rosario Jackson, Urban Institute; Mark Stern, University of Pennsylvania.

3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. - Session 3 -  Perspective from the Natural Sciences

Henry Horn, Princeton University --  Community Ecology and the Evolutionary Perspective: Some Unsettled and Unsettling Questions

Provocateur: Randy Mason, University of Maryland.

Saturday, June 8, 2002

9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.  - Session 4 -- Methodological Frontiers

Blair Wheaton, University of Toronto - Space Meets Time: Modeling the Trickle-Down Effects of Contextual Adversity on Individuals Over Time (...and the Trick-up Effects on Communities).

Provocateur: Arthur Brooks, Syracuse University

Bruce Western, Princeton University - Crime, Communities, and Bayesian Research.

Provocateur:  Liz Strom, Rutgers University

11:15 a.m. to 12: 15 - Session 5 - Robust Institutions

Ann Swidler, University of California, Berkeley - Robust Institutions: Lessons and Questions for the Study of Communities

Provocateur: Kelly Barsdate, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies  

12:15 p.m.  to 1:00 p.m. --  Lunch

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.  -Discussion:  Implications for defining program goals and supporting research to inform grantmaking.

Initiators: Michael Moore, Lila Wallace Reader’s-Digest Fund; Heidi Rettig, Knight Foundation; Cathy Wichterman, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

3:00 p.m. - Adjourn