Cultural Responsibility of Management

The text presents the concept of cultural responsibility of management which suggests that decisions taken by the managers result in consequences understandable in the study of culture. The basic premise is to treat culture as an attribute of the human race and to believe that culture is a system and that a change of one component will change the whole system. Another important assumption is that to manage means to change (the world). The manager is treated here as a demiurge. From this follow conclusions of postulational quality, especially for the area of teaching related to management studies.

Public or Private? The Artistic Institution Management in Poland

The article is devoted to the management of public artistic institutions in Poland in the context of a cycle of debates under the shared title: CULTURE AGAINST THE WALL – ABOUT CULTURE & WITH CULTURE. They were organised by the Culture Institute of the Jagiellonian University during the academic year 2013/14. The debates were organised in cooperation with the Foundation for Modjeska and the “Dziennik Polski” newspaper. The topic was concentrated around the privatisation of culture institutions and its consequences – looking for the balance between the mission and economy, the position of the artists, the way of employment, and different types of contracts.

The author tries to show the main problems of the functioning of public artistic institutions in Poland (taking into consideration the Baumol’s cost disease), the difficulties in cooperation between the public administration and private companies as well as the lack of models of good practices in the area of cultural policy system in our country. The  public-private partnership is too often understood in Poland as a public-social partnership. The public-private partnership is not known (act of law of Dec 2008). To underline the differences between Poland and other European countries, the author shows a few ways of supporting private entities in France, Germany or Czech Republic. There is a lack of such models in Poland.

Cultural heritage as a common resource. The role of collaboration between stakeholders in the management of cultural heritage

Currently, a particularly important issue in the context of cultural heritage management is the question of sustainable development, in which cultural heritage objects are analyzed in terms of their economic, social and cultural values. The most accepted perspective in the current discussions focuses on the formulation and implementation of cultural policies, while, on the other hand, much less space is given to local communities, their needs and expectations in relation to available resources of cultural heritage. In this text I will discuss the issue of functioning of various objects of cultural heritage within local communities and the management of those objects at the local level. A particular emphasis will be placed on the issue of multiplicity of cultural heritage stakeholders and the interactions between them.

This article discusses a few aspects of the conception of one image found in the Lithuanian folklore and religious sculpture of the turn of 19th and 20th century. The author points out possible influences of the official Catholic Church liturgy, teaching, official religious art, devotional literature, sermons, chants on folklore and folk religious art. This article explores direct influences and the syncretism of these ideas in the peasant culture.

Memory and Identity. Tangible cultural heritage from the UNESCO World Heritage List in Romania (a short presentation)

In recent years the Romanian cultural heritage has been gaining more and more interest from European scholars. It is understandable, since the turn of the 20th and 21th century is regarded as the moment of the explosion of interest in the subject of heritage and collective memory. Romania, which in the time of Communist regime was a “stronghold” on the border of the East and West, can still boast unknown and unresearched monuments, which provide a lot of new information on Byzantine and post-Byzantine culture, as well as on the cultures of ethnic and religious minorities living in this country.
This article presents the characteristics of cultural heritage management in Romania, as well as the most important institutions dealing with this. Tangible cultural heritage listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites are presented, e.g. the painted orthodox churches and monasteries of Bukovina, the wooden churches of Maramure, the Dacian Fortresses of the Orăştie Mountains, and the fortified churches in Transylvania. The discourse around these monuments in the Romanian culture is also briefly commented on. It revolves around the ancient settlement myth referring to the Dacian heritage, the orthodox faith understood as fidelity to original Christianity and, gradually, the multicultural heritage of other ethnicities so strongly inhabiting the Romanian territory. It shows that Romania, just like other European countries, has the need to present its history through tangible heritage and emphasizing the Dacian-Roman and Orthodox identity, as well as the need to create new narrative and new post-communist countenance, with a clearly  emphasized aspect of a multicultural country inhabited by various ethnicities and religions.

Between National History and European Heritage. Some Reflections on the Gdańsk Shipyards and the European Heritage Label

In the context of increasing interest in a common European heritage or European lieux de mémoire, this paper presents some reflections on the Europeanization of national lieux de mémoire, as exemplified by the Gdańsk Shipyards and the „European Heritage Label” initiative.

Furthermore, the article investigates the process of institutional invention of European heritage in the context of the gradual expansion of the European Union and a strong need to forge a new representation of the past on the Old Continent. The paper also refers to the concept of heritage, its political use and perspectives in which the concept of a political myth/mythology is applicable.