ARTS & SOCIETY (MA)
Exploring arts & society: institutions and beyond
This course is an introduction to the institutions, agencies, corporate interests and legal frameworks that comprise the contemporary arts sector at the national, international and transnational levels, and the specific discourse that composes this sector. Attention is given to both the formal and the informal art world, and the specific forms of textual and archival practices in which they engage. Theoretical readings on institutionality, governmentality and globalization inform the study of various institutional stakeholders: museums, performing arts companies, festival organizers, ministries of culture, policy makers, intellectual property organizations and grant foundations.
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DUTCH STUDIES (MA)
Writing as entrepreneurship
This course approaches Dutch literature from the perspective of writing as entrepreneurship in national and international contexts. It examines how writers operate in an (international) market, how they present themselves and how they deal with clients, subsidy providers, international projects/festivals, among other things. Questions such as the following are asked: What significance and influence do these kinds of financial and practical issues have on what a writer produces and on the way in which his/her work reaches the (reading) public?
