International Summer School 2010
Faculty

Regular Faculty


  • Prof. Arjo Klamer
    Arjo Klamer is Professor of Cultural Economics at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Before that he taught at various universities in the US. He is often invited to guest lecture at universities in the Netherlands and abroad, as well as for business groups, government organizations, and the general public. His research focuses on the relationship between culture and the economy. One of his major research topics is the value of culture. He has conducted a research project on behalf of the European Parliament on the financing of art and culture throughout Europe.

  • Prof. Isidoro Mazza
    Isidoro Mazza studied economics at the University of Catania and at the University of Maryland at College Park. After graduate studies at the University of Amsterdam, he joined the University of Catania where he is professor of public finance. His main research interests include public economics, game theory, economics of the arts and culture, and urban economics.

  • Anna Mignosa
    Anna Mignosa studied Economics at the University of Catania. After graduating, she joined a research collaborative in cultural economics at the same university. She earned her PhD at the Faculty of History and Arts, Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Since 2002 she has been a research fellow at the Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods of the University of Catania. She also teaches Cultural Economics at the Science of Cultural Heritage master's degree program organized by the University of Catania in Syracuse. She is a 2007 Canon Foundation Fellow.



  • Lyudmilla Petrova
    Lyudmilla Petrova received an MA in Cultural Economics and Cultural Entrepreneurships at the Faculty of History and Arts at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam in 2005, where she has recently been a PhD researcher. She teaches a creativity and economy course in the master's program of Cultural Economics and Cultural Entrepreneurship at the same department. She has worked on various international research teams; among them a project commissioned by the European Parliament on the financing of art and culture within the EU. Her research interests include the economics of arts and culture, international perspectives of cultural policies, financing the arts, and interdisciplinary aspects of creativity.

  • Ruud Welten
    Ruud Welten studied jazz at the Conservatory in Rotterdam and philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is an assistant professor in philosophy at the University of Tilburg. He is also professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at University of Applied Sciences at Deventer. His work focuses on contemporary French phenomenology, on which he has published many articles in several books in German, English, French and Dutch. He has translated Levinas and Sartre and has written a stage play about Sartre and Camus.

Guest Speakers


  • Jetske Homan
    Jetske Homan van der Heide is a senior director at Christie's, Amsterdam. She studied art history in Groningen where she specialized in the Modern era. After working at the 'Collection of State', conducting the very successful exhibition 'Rijksaankopen 1984', Jetske joined Christie's in 1987, where she set up the Modern Art Department. Enjoying market leadership for the Netherlands ever since, Jetske initiated the Belgian Art Sales in Amsterdam as well as the equally successful CoBrA auctions. Among the many highlights of her career: a world auction record (€486,444) for a work on paper by Piet Mondriaan, consigning several works by Marlene Dumas for Christie's New York saleroom, and bringing in Picasso's Homme è la pipe assis et amour, which fetched £4,264,000 for London. With the sale of a Jan Toorop portrait for €818,400 Jetske achieved the highest auction price ever for a twentieth century work of art sold in the Netherlands. At Christie's, as well as on the international art market, Jetske is regarded the leading expert on Dutch and Belgian pre-war art.

  • Melle Daamen
    Since October 2001 Melle Daamen (1959) has been general executive director of the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, one of the most important theatres in the Netherlands. Prior to that he was founding director of the Mondriaan Foundation, a cultural fund for visual art, design and museological activities, with a budget of approx. €20 million per year. Daamen has been active in the cultural field as a management consultant, (temporary) manager of the Amsterdam Uit Buro (theatre and concert tickets and marketing office), and board member and commissioner of several cultural organisations. In June 2007 Daamen was appointed by HM the Queen as one of the nine members of the Counsel for Arts and Culture, advising the National Government on policy matters. Daamen is currently president of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.