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CAREER HISTORY:
In 1999 Lisanne was awarded her PhD, ‘Art and Citizenship: Governmental Intersections’, which was a history of the discursive relations between culture and government from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Since then she has held Research and Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy, Princeton University, USA, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia, The Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Griffith University, Australia, and the Privatisation of Culture Project, New York University, USA. In addition to her academic research and teaching she has held positions on the management boards and committee’s of a number of different arts and cultural organisations and has undertaken commissioned research for a number of arts organisations and governments (see details in publications below).
Lisanne joined the School in 2005 and teaches a range of subjects (see below). Lisanne is Director of Research Development and as such is Chair of the School Research Committee and sits on the College of Arts, Humanities and Law Research Committee. In 2009/10 Lisanne is also the Programme Director for the campus-based Masters in Museum Studies. Since 2005 Lisanne has been a member of the editorial committee of the International Journal of Cultural Policy and is frequently used as a referee for a number of other journals in the cultural policy and heritage studies fields. She is a member of the AHRC's Peer Review College.
Lisanne has published on a wide range of cultural policy issues including art gallery and museum histories, monuments and public art, cultural heritage, creative industries, cultural development, and international cultural policy. She specialises in the history of cultural policy and politics from the 18th century to the present day in Anglophone countries. Lisanne’s overarching argument in her work generally is that cultural ‘pump-priming’ of any kind must be clear-eyed about not only its economic or cultural effects but more importantly about its social and political effects.
NEW AND ONGOING PROJECTS:
Lisanne is currently working on 'Museums and the Politics of Urban Redevelopment' which is a 3 year research project which will result in a singly authored monograph by the same title. The focus of the project are 'flagship' museum and heritage developments in urban precincts in cities which have not previously been seen as cultural centres, this project includes examples in Australia, the USA, Sth East Asia (West Kowloon and Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi) and the UK. In contrast to much that has been written about 'flagship' museums and 'cultural quarters', which tend to view museum and heritage developments as static monolithic entities, this project engages with the complexity of museum and heritage institutions and thus aims to provide a more sophisticated account of the relations between 'flagship' museum and heritage developments, urban precincts and city/ nation image making.
Recently Delivered Papers:
Gibson, L., 'Not a neutral zone: The political effects of assertions of intrinsic value', at Not Only...But Also: Capturing the Value of Culture, Media and Sport, DCMS, 26th June 2009. http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/about/CI/events/esrcseminar/intrinsic.aspx and
http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4797
Gibson, L., 'Cultural landscapes, cultural policy and the politics of identity', Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change 4th Annual Conference 2008: Culture and Citizenship, Oxford, 3-5th September, 2008.
Gibson, L., 'In defence of Instrumentality', The Fifth International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, Istanbul, Turkey, 20-24th August, 2008.
Gibson, L., 'Valuing Historic Environments: Concepts, Instrumentalisations and Effects', Museums and Instrumentality Research Network, International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University, 3rd December, 2007.
Gibson, L., 'Cultural landscapes and identity: is 'heritage' the answer?, Valuing Historic Environments Colloquium 3: Museumisation and Historic Environments, University of Leicester,6th July, 2007.
'Valuing the Historic Environments: Concepts, Instrumentalisations and Effects', (with John Pendlebury, EPSRC funded), University of Leicester, 2006-7, see http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/contactus/valhistenvir.html
‘Culture Circuits: An Examination of the International Movements and Influence of Ideas and Personnel Shaping Contemporary Cultural Policy’. Princeton University, 2004- 5
‘Cultural Policy and “The Independents” in Australia and Britain’, (with Tom O'Regan, ARC funded), University of Melbourne and Griffith University, 2002- 2004
‘Tropical Creative Cities’, University of Melbourne, 2003
‘Public Art and Heritage—History, Practice, Policy’, (ARC funded), University of Melbourne and Griffith University, 2001- 2003
‘Art for the People: Constructing Australian Identities’, Griffith University, 2000
'Festivals in the Asia-Pacific', (for UNESCO Asia-Pacific), Griffith University, 2000
'Criteria of Professionalisation for Visual Artists', (for the National Association of the Visual Arts), Griffith University, 1999
‘Art for the people: the Federal Art Project and artists unions during the New Deal’, New York University, 1998
TEACHING:
Lisanne runs the campus based Masters Module 4 which is a group project on 'Museums and Regeneration'. She also runs the campus based Masters special option on 'Museum Management: Politics and Policy', see http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/study/Management-Politics&Policy.html. Lisanne has written Units for the Masters in Interpretation, Representation and Heritage on cultural theory and cultural heritage. She is available to supervise PhD and Masters projects in fields related to her interests and expertise.
Anna Woodham, Museums and the Geography of School Visits
Chungju Lin, The economic function of National Museums in Taiwan
Geuntae Park, The role of museums in regional planning (Abu Dhabi and Korea)
Masters Supervision (selected)
'Prestige and/or Practice': The role museums play in culture-led regeneration developments
Re-constructing West Kowloon : a study exploring the interplay between culture-led regeneration projects and the local arts communities through case studies of Bilbao, Newcastle-Gateshead and an in-depth analysis of the West Kowloon Cultural District project in Hong Kong
PhD Examinations (internal and external, selected)
Nicole Porter, 2009, The promotion and production of contemporary landscape, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne
Konstantinos Arvantitis, 2007, Everyday Media for Everyady Meanings: Interpreting Archaeological Monuments in the Streets of a Greek City, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
Belinda Jane Nemec, 2006, The Grainger Museum in its Museological and Historical Contexts, Australian Centre, University of Melbourne
Gibson, L. and Pendlebury, J. (eds.), 2009, Valuing Historic Environments, Ashgate. http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754674245
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars to discuss frameworks of value in relation to the preservation of historic environments. Starting from the premise that heritage values are culturally and historically constructed, the book examines the effects of pluralist frameworks of value on how preservation is conceived. It questions the social and economic consequences of constructions of value and how to balance a responsive, democratic conception of heritage with the pressure to deliver on social and economic objectives. It also describes the practicalities of managing the uncertainty and fluidity of the widely varying conceptions of heritage.
Gibson, L. and Besley, J. 2004, Monumental Queensland: Signposts on a Cultural Landscape, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane.
http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book_details.php?id=0702234656
This book is the first Australian examination of outdoor cultural objects defined broadly. Monumental Queensland is relevant to an international audience due to the framework it develops for examining significance in public art and other outdoor cultural objects. Monumental Queensland discusses over 200 war memorials, monuments and other traditional statuary, as well as contemporary outdoor objects commissioned by government art funding programs and how, in contrast to more traditional histories, these ‘artistic’ endeavours can be understood in a continuum with other outdoor cultural objects such as ‘The Big Pineapple’, Rockhampton’s ‘Bulls’ and the monument to ‘Destructo the Cockroach’ in Cunnamulla. We argue that the cultural significance of such objects must be judged in relation to the ways in which they articulate local identities, rather than their ‘aesthetic’ significance or their significance in relation to (often) homogenous constructions of State or national identity. (See review at http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=0702234656)
Gibson, L. 2001, The Uses of Art: Constructing Australian Identities, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane.
http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book_details.php?id=0702232041
The book covers the 'pre-history' and history of cultural policy and programs in Australia commencing with mechanics institutes and concluding with popular music festivals. This book examines the ways in which cultural programs, whether articulated as mono-cultural or multi-cultural, high art or pop music, are centrally about the construction of different forms of identity, identity formations which are amenable to governmental calculation. (See review at http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=0702232041)
O’Regan, T., Gibson, L. and Jeffcutt, P. eds. 2004, ‘Creative Networks’, Media International Australia,112, August, 5-8. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/257
Gibson, L. and Stevenson, D. eds. 2004, ‘Urban Space and the Uses of Culture’, International Journal of Cultural Policy Studies, 10, 1, 1-4.
Gibson, L. and O’Regan, T. eds. 2002, ‘Culture: Development, Industry, Distribution’, Media International Australia, 102, February. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/177
Gibson, L., 2008, 'In Defense of Instrumentality', Cultural Trends, 17, 4.
Gibson, L. 2002, ‘Managing the People: Art Programs in the American Depression’, Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 31, 4, 279-292.
Gibson, L. 2002, ‘The Real Business of Life: Art and Citizenship during the Australian Post-War Reconstruction’, Cultural Studies Review (formerly UTS Review), 8, 1, 45-58. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/186
Gibson, L. 2002, ‘Creative Industries and Cultural Development: Still the Janus Face?’ Media International Australia, 102, February, 25-34. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/178
Gibson, L. 2001, ‘Cultural Development meets Rock and Roll (or what government can learn from pop music festivals)’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 7, 3, 479-492.
Gibson, L. 2001, ‘Governing Art and Identity’, Australian Humanities Review, September- November. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/133
Gibson, L. 1999, ‘The Arts as Industry’, Media International Australia, 90: February, 107-122. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/258
Gibson, L. 1997, ‘Art, Citizenship and Government: “Art for the People” in New Deal America and the 1940s in England and Australia’, Culture and Policy, 8, 3, 41-56. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/259
Book Chapters:
Gibson, L., 2009, 'Cultural Landscapes and Identity', in Valuing Historic Environments edited by Gibson, L. and Pendlebury, J., Ashgate.
Gibson, L. and Pendlebury, J., 2009, 'Valuing Historic Environments', in Valuing Historic Environments edited by Gibson, L. and Pendlebury, J., Ashgate.
Besley, J. and Gibson, L. 2004, ‘Pioneers and Public Art: The Use of History in Constructing Identity in Outdoor Cultural Objects’, Edquist, H. and Frichot, H., eds., LIMITS: The 21st annual conference of the society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, 32 -37. Leicester Research Archive: Item 2381/522
Gibson, L. 2002, ‘Creative Industries and Cultural Development: Still the Janus Face?’, Culturelink Special Issue 2001: Convergence, Creative Industries and Civil Society, The New Cultural Policy, 99-110.
Gibson, L. 2002, ‘Cultural Industries and Cultural Development: Still the Janus Face?’, ‘Cultural Sites, Cultural Theory, Cultural Policy, The Second International Conference on Cultural Policy Research Proceedings’, Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand.
Gibson, L. 2004, ‘Art, Government and War - Lessons From the Past’, Arts Hub News, 25 April, http://hdl.handle.net/2381/143
Gibson, L. 2003, ‘We are the Square State’, Courier Mail, Wed. 27 August, 17.
Gibson L. and Besley, J. 2003, ‘Heritage Drowns in Coffee’, Courier Mail, Sat. 5 July, 25.
Gibson, L. 2000, ‘Without Walls: Digitising arts organisations’, RealTime, February- March, p. 10
Gibson, L. 2000, ‘Without Walls: Cultural Organisations Beyond the Millennium’, FineArt Forum, vol. 14, no. 1.
Gibson, L. 2000, ‘Double Happiness: Youth and Cultural Development’, ART AsiaPacific, 27, p. 93.
Gibson, L. 1999, ‘Which Public? The Percent for Art Debate’, Media and Culture Review, 2.
Gibson, L. 1994, ‘Craig Walsh: Breathing Space’, Installations, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Gibson, L. 2004, ‘Mechanics, Gold and the Uses of Art’, Buildings, Books and Beyond: Mechanics’ Worldwide 2004, Prahran Mechanics Institute Press, Victoria. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/161
Gibson, L. 2004, Guest speaker, ‘Cultural Planning and the Creative Tropical City’, The Creative Tropical City, Charles Darwin Symposium Series 2004, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, June, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/131
Gibson, L. 2004, Keynote speaker, 'Port Phillip's Creative Class' at Recreating Urban Culture, Port Phillip City Council, Melbourne, March, 2004, http://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/understanding_gentrification.html#L2 and http://hdl.handle.net/2381/128
Gibson, L. 2003, Guest speaker, ‘Cultural policy and the built environment—Cultural Vitality for Who?’ at Beyond Cultural Policy—A Cultural Vitality Symposium, Port Phillip City Council, Melbourne, July 2003, http://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/conferencespapers_resourses.html and http://hdl.handle.net/2381/127
Gibson, L. 2000, ‘Cultural development meets Rock and Roll (or what government can learn from pop music festivals)’, Asia-Pacific Regional Centre of the Culturelink Network Newsletter, November 2000.
Hooper-Greenhill, E., Dodd, J., Gibson, L., and Jones, C., 2007, The Madonna of the Pinks: evaluation of the Education and Community Strategy for the Madonna of the Pinks 2004-2007, RCMG and the National Gallery.
Hooper-Greenhill, E., Dodd, J., Gibson, L., Phillips, M., Jones, C. and Sullivan, E., 2006, What did you learn at the museum today? Second study. Evaluation of the outcomes and impact of learning through implementation of the Education Programme Delivery Plan across nine regional hubs, RCMG and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
Dodd, J., Gibson, L., Jones, C., Pickford, C., Porter, G., 2005, Engaging Archives with Inspiring Learning for All: A report prepared for MLA North West, RCMG and MLA North West.
Gibson, L. 2004, The Governance of Heritage Significance and the Protection of Public Art, Queensland Government and University of Melbourne, http://www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/research/pdf/FinalReportGovOutdoorC ultHerit.pdf and http://hdl.handle.net/2381/130
Gibson, L. and Hunter, M. A. 2000, Creative Training at Griffith University, Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Griffith University, Brisbane.
Gibson, L. 1999, ‘Criteria of Professionalism’, Visual Arts Industry Guidelines Research Project, Smith, T., Winikoff, T., Callus, R., Throsby, D., Bond, T. and Simpson, S.
Gibson, L. 1999, Art and Citizenship- Governmental Intersections, Griffith University, Australia.
http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030226.085219/index.html
and
http://hdl.handle.net/2381/55
Gibson, L. 2004, ‘Review: Miller, Toby and Yudice, George: Cultural Policy’, Media International Australia, 112, August. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/271
Gibson, L. 2003, ‘Review: Gray, Clive: The Politics of the Arts In Britain’, Media International Australia, 109, November, 191. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/189
Gibson, L. 2003, ‘Review: Bennett, T. and Carter, D. (eds.): Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs’, Media International Australia, 107, May, 147-148. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/188
Gibson, L. 2001, ‘Review: Bennett, T., Emmison, M. and Frow, J.: Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures’, Media International Australia, 98, 182-183. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/187
Gibson, L. 1999, ‘Review: Cultural Organisations of the Future’, Media International Australia, 93, 165-166. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/260