Day 2 of the Global Dialogues at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) featured powerful keynotes from Mark Taylor and Brea Heidelberg, tackling enduring inequalities in the cultural sector.

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Now underway: a powerful keynote conversation between Néstor García Canclini and Susan Oman, exploring what kinds of cultural policies we need in an age shaped by digital platforms.

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Feeling like a local in Lima when a Jehovah's Witness representative rings the doorbell of my Airbnb...we had a brief and pleasant conversation in (my) broken Spanish, but I'm not converting just yet.

Away writing for a weekend. Typewriter for collection purposes, not functional

Ordered!

Harmonising Cultural Leadership in Professional Orchestras This book interrogates the widespread yet ill-defined use of

My new book Harmonising Cultural Leadership in Professional Orchestras, out next week with Routledge, @tandfresearch.bsky.social .

It explores how orchestras, and cultural institutions more broadly, can lead with authenticity, purpose and public value.

More here: www.routledge.com/Harmonising-...

International Conference PUCP and the scientific journal Cultural Trends organize the 2025 edition of the International Conference

I’m looking forward to presenting at Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue — an extraordinary gathering of researchers rethinking the role of culture in sustainable futures.
🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe

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Ep 48 of Decoding Cultural Leadership: RESONATE participants on neurodivergence in classical music, inclusive performance design, and why culture matters more than policy.

Listen: samuelcairnduff.com/podcast

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Ep 47 of Decoding Cultural Leadership: Simon Hinton on transforming Merrigong Theatre Co. into Australia’s largest regional producing theatre, leading with community, and resisting echo chambers in polarised times.

Listen: samuelcairnduff.com/podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts

How the Bendigo writers’ festival’s code of conduct caused a walkout and claims of censorship The last-minute code of conduct and the backlash are the latest in a string of controversies ‘symptomatic of the current environment’ in the arts

On the Bendigo Writers Festival, I commented in The Guardian:
“Restricting speech and freedom of expression is the antithesis of what a cultural organisation in contemporary Australian society should be doing.”

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Bendigo Writers Festival: when risk management becomes censorship The unfortunate situation at Bendigo Writers Festival over the weekend is yet another example of cultural leadership failure.

My piece in @artshub.bsky.social today, on codes, censorship and crisis at Bendigo Literary Festival

www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...

Bookish in Bendigo have pulled out as Bendigo Writers Festival's bookseller - this principled move comes at great cost to them as an independent store. If you've been thinking of purchasing a book (esp. one by someone who's also pulled labour from BWF), consider going to them! +61 3 5406 0596

Bendigo Writers Festival: Culture, Codes, and Crisis The Bendigo Writers Festival crisis strips away any remaining illusions about the state of cultural leadership in Australia.

20+ writers walked out of Bendigo Writers Festival after a last-minute code of conduct bound them to contested definitions of antisemitism/Islamophobia.

Again, cultural institutions capitulating; weaponising risk management as pre-emptive censorship.

My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/samuelca...

Episode 1 — Cultural Practices, the Arts, and Democracy Cultural Trends Roundtable · Episode

Proud to launch the new Cultural Trends Roundtable podcast in my role as Social Media Editor at @ctjournal.bsky.social.

🎧 Ep 1 — Cultural Practices, the Arts & Democracy
Now on Spotify, Apple & YouTube coming soon.

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Cultural Trends Roundtable Podcast · samuelcairnduff · Cultural Trends Roundtable is a recorded discussion series from the international journal Cultural Trends, bringing together researchers, policymakers, and cultural practit...

🎙 New podcast from Cultural Trends — Cultural Trends Roundtable now streaming on Spotify.

Conversations with researchers, policymakers & cultural practitioners exploring the ideas shaping arts, culture & creative industries.

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Cultural Trends Volume 34, Issue 3 of Cultural Trends

Cultural Trends – Volume 34, Issue 3

From street art in Porto to artists’ working lives in South Korea, our new issue tackles big questions in cultural policy and practice.

Read the highlights: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccut20/3...
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@thesiswhisperer.bsky.social @drjd.bsky.socialHappy to say that after 5 x years devoted listening to @onthereg.bsky.social I've finally joined the @omnifocus.omnigroup.com family :) Looking forward to getting everything off multiple task managers...Thank you for your continued support & inspiration!

Action Point (n.): something to be avoided in a meeting at all costs, except when suggesting on behalf of a colleague with their camera off and mic muted.

8. Orchestras as Memory Machines: What Australia's musical institutions reveal about our past and our blind spots Memory isn't neutral. Neither are the institutions that preserve it.

Final post in The Orchestra Papers is live: how orchestras shape public memory — and what they forget. From repertoire to reconciliation, it’s all here.
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#orchestras #memory

Decoding Cultural Leadership Arts Podcast · Updated Weekly · Decoding Cultural Leadership is a podcast that explores the intersection between the arts, culture and society and interrogates what it means to be a cultural leader in...

Dr Samuel Cairnduff, lecturer & researcher at the University of Melbourne.

My focus is cultural leadership & I host @dclpod: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/d...,

Write on Substack: substack.com/@samuelcairn....

Consultancy, RESONATE, works with arts organisations on strategy, voice, and impact.

Samuel Cairnduff, PhD (@samuelcairnduff) Dame Cleo Laine’s passing marks the end of an extraordinary era in British cultural history. Reflecting on her legacy, the institution she built with John Dankworth, and my own brief encounters with t...

Remembering Dame Cleo Laine on the occasion of her passing, and reflecting on my experiences with the Dankworth family.

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Samuel Cairnduff, PhD (@samuelcairnduff) Hobart City Councillor Louise Elliot recently proposed that council meetings should abandon their Acknowledgment of Country, drawing what she sees as a parallel with the earlier removal of the Lord’s ...

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I’m thrilled to have had a paper accepted for the 2025 ADSA conference Manaakitanga – Performing Welcome, Care and Respect, this December in Wellington.

www.adsa.edu.au/next-confere...

New unstructured olive work jacket from @worktones just arrived - nice change from navy and black…😂