Scroll through to discover the conferences, panels, symposiums, and other speaking engagements which members of our team have organised.
ArtForTomorrow Conference 2024 | Cultural Leadership Roundtable
As their academic partner we are delighted to offer a preferential rate to attend the conference in Venice in June 2024.
If you’d like to join us in Venice, please register for the reduced rate ticket for the full programme of events; including networking opportunities with senior arts and culture actors from around the world, lunches and dinner, and a seat at our roundtable discussion on Cultural Leadership. Together we will also visit the Venice Biennale, with a special focus this year on the outstanding number of pavilions which our EMCL partners and alumni network are involved in this year!
Register directly under the reduced rate at using the discount code “AFT-MU-20” for an additional 20% discount.
MACCH Conference 2024 | Circularity in Arts and Heritage: Practice, Policy and Research
With this one-day event, held at the Jan van Eyck Academy, we brought researchers, arts and heritage professionals, and designers together in examining what circularity means for the arts and heritage fields. Circularity has become a key concept and practice in production cycles and in both urban and rural development plans, with programs on re-use, regeneration, and recycling abound. But how do arts and heritage practices relate to the ambition to make the metabolism of our society circular? And what does circularity even mean in the context of the arts and heritage domains?
MACCH Conference 2023 | Provenance, Restitution and Return
This year’s conference by the Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH), held at the end of TEFAF Maastricht, is titled ‘Provenance, Restitution and Return’. Some of the themes that were discussed include provenance research and the restitution and return of looted artworks, as well as the development of legislative principles for looted art.
MACCH Conference 2019 | Bridging the Gap. Theory and Practice in the Conservation of Contemporary Art
Themed ‘Bridging the Gap’ this years MACCH conference, hosted in partnership with the Bonnefanten museum and the EU funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA), takes a look at research on conservation and the implementation of research in the practices of conservators as well as how problems faced by conservators are addressed by researchers and research projects. The conference aims at strengthening the exchange between theory and practice in the conservation of contemporary art.
MACCH Conference 2018 | Crossing Borders in Arts and Heritage
MACCH’s annual, transdisciplinary conference, hosted together with Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, was themed ‘Crossing Borders in Arts & Heritage’. The conference aimed to explore the challenges encountered when arts and heritage cross geographical borders today or which persist because of past cross-border movements.
MACCH Conference 2017 | Participatory Practices in Arts and Heritage
The Maastricht Centre of Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH) held its annual conference in March, with this years’ theme being ‘Participatory Practices in Arts and Heritage’. The event was organised in collaboration with the research centre Autonomy and the Public Sphere in the Arts, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, and the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. The conference aimed to offer a critical space to scrutinise participatory practices in arts and heritage and their economic and legal frameworks.
Deloitte Art & Finance Conference | 2016
On Thursday April 24th, 2016, Professor Rachel Pownall was part of the 9th Art & Finance Conference hosted in Amsterdam by Deloitte Luxembourg. This year’s conference was organised together with the Van Gogh museum and focused on Fine Art collectors’ needs and how they can add value to their art collections. Professor Pownall was invited to share her expertise during a panel discussion on the last subject. Together with, amongst others, the CEO of Athena Art Finance Group and the vice president of Falcon Fine Art ltd., she talked about how collectors can turn their fine art collection into a working asset. This is also known as art secured lending, where artworks are used as collateral for a loan. Other topics discussed at the conference ranged from collection visibility, to safe-guarding and transferring.
The complete programme of the conference can be found here
Everyone Is An Artist | 2016
Maastricht Conference on the Cultural Creative Industries held a conference named ‘Everyone is an Artist’ after the book by Joseph Beuys – one of the keynote speakers of the conference. The conference was organised by Made2Measure and The Artist and The Others with the help of Maastricht University, Provincie Limburg, Centre Ceramique, and Forza Fashion House.
FMA Conference on Finance and Investment in Creative Ventures | 2016
In the past decade, the creative sector has generated a lot of attention from policy makers. Especially at the city level, a thriving creative sector is perceived to be the ultimate urban development tool. It is expected to do many things, from enhancing quality of life to increasing the attractiveness of the local business climate. Creativity drives innovation and hence a creative city should form an interesting place of residence for businesses in general.
Due to its innovative and often sustainable features, creative ventures form an interesting opportunity for investors. However, measuring the return on investment of a creative venture can be challenging. Whether it is because the product is hard to understand (for example for high-tech or disruptive products) or because a regular business plan cannot be supplied due to important intangible, symbolic returns (for ventures more at the cultural side), financing creative ventures is a special niche in start-up and venture finance.
The conference strives to present high quality new and unpublished research on finance and investment in the creative or cultural sector – and related topics such as crowdfunding, venture finance, innovation and sustainability. Furthermore, it aims to bring together young scholars working on these topics.
For the full programme see CV2016_A5Program
Consortium in Research on Emotional Finance | 2015
This event was organised by Rachel in collaboration with the Financial Management Association (FMA) and was held in New York in May 2015. The event centred around the theme ‘Emotional Finance’. The programme consisted of two sessions, one discussing several papers and the other hosting a panel, and a closing keynote. Three papers around the topic ‘Behavioural Finance’ were discussed, followed by a panel discussion on ‘New Frontiers in Portfolio Management’. The keynote address titled ‘Agency Costs: Imagined and Real’ was given by Martin Fridson of Fridson Advisors.
For the full programme, please click here
Maastricht Symposium on the Creative Economy | 2015
The Maastricht Symposium on the Creative Economy, which took place on 21 September 2015, was the first official meeting of minds in light of the Made2Measure (M2M) research project. M2M is commissioned by the Municipality of Maastricht and conducted under supervision of MACCH Steering Committee Member Prof. Dr. Rachel Pownall at Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics. The long-term goal of the project is to develop ways to measure both the economic and social return in the creative industries.
The conclusions drawn during the symposium are two-fold. At first, policy-makers, but also people working in the creative field, need to realise that networks are what makes a creative hub. For policy-makers this means facilitating physical spaces in which people from different disciplines can come together in an informal way and connect with each other over their work and passions. For people employed in the creative sector, this means that they need to find others within the same discipline to develop and strengthen their skill-set, but also find those who have completely different skills which can complement theirs. For the Made2Measure team here lies a challenge to map the complete creative industry in the region, and to determine its magnitude. This is necessary to explore the full potential and to determine its growth or its decline over the coming years. In order to measure the impact of the local creative industries on the city, M2M also needs to consider the second conclusion drawn during the symposium, namely the need for alternative valuation methods.
For the full programme: Maastricht Symposium on the Creative Economy – Programme
Art Market Symposium Luxembourg | 2014
The 8th Art Markets Symposium was the first one not hosted in conjunction with an art fair. It was held in Luxembourg as a collaboration between Maastricht University, TIAS Business School and Deloitte Luxembourg. This year’s symposium discussed all things related to ‘Understanding Art Value’. At the end of two sessions discussing different research papers, participants got the chance to visit the Luxembourg Freeport.
For the full programme, please click here
Art Market Symposium Maastricht | 2013
The 7th Art Markets Symposium returned to Maastricht and took place during TEFAF 2013. It was again hosted in collaboration with Maastricht University and Deloitte Luxembourg. The programme was centred around the theme ‘Art & Emotions’ with papers like ‘Inside the head of a collector: Emotions at Work’ by Shirley Mueller.
For the full programme, please click here
Art Market Symposium Basel | 2012
The 6th Art Markets Symposium was again hosted in collaboration with Maastricht University and Deloitte Luxembourg, this time during Art Basel in Basel. This year, the symposium lasted one day which was filled with prominent figures in the art finance / art economics field. Six papers were presented, all discussed by fellow researchers and participants.
For the full programme, please click here
Art Market Symposium Miami | 2011
The 2011 Art Markets Symposium was organised in collaboration with Maastricht University and Deloitte Luxembourg and was hosted simultaneously with Art Basel in Miami. Maastricht University took care of the programme for the first day, which was focused on academics, and Deloitte accounted for the second day which had a broader subject and mainly consisted of panel sessions with experts.
For the full programme, please click here
Art Market Symposium Paris | 2010
The 2010 Art Markets Symposium was organised in collaboration with Maastricht University and FIAC Paris. The programme consisted of one intensive day of discussing seven papers in the art markets field, again with a finance view. After the symposium, participants were welcome to visit FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain) Paris.
For the full programme, please click here
Art Market Symposium London | 2009
The 2009 symposium was organised by Rachel in collaboration with FRIEZE Art Fair in London, Deloitte and Maastricht University. The symposium consisted of two academic sessions spread out over two days and a panel session following the academic programme. After the symposium, participants were able to visit the FRIEZE Art Fair.
For the full programme, please click here
Art Market Symposium Maastricht | 2008
The Art Market Symposium in 2008 was again hosted in collaboration with TEFAF and Maastricht University. The programme consisted of four days, starting with a welcome reception. The first day of the panel sessions was especially focused on academics and gave researchers the opportunity to present their papers in the field. Topics were of course related to the art market, but were very diverse nonetheless. While Rachel presented her paper on ‘Emotional Assets’, Iain Robertson from Sotheby’s institute discussed his research on the ‘Technical and Structural Elements of the Art Market’. The second day was devoted to TEFAF, with the presentation of the TEFAF report, or ‘A Survey of Europe in A Global Context’. Of course, all participants were also invited to visit the fair on the final day.
For the full programme, please click here
Art Market Symposium Maastricht | 2007
The first Art Market Symposium was hosted in collaboration with TEFAF and Maastricht University. It was a four day programme consisting of a welcome reception, two full days of panel sessions and one day visiting the TEFAF. Papers discussed were all related to the arts and finance, ranging from art investment funds to the dynamics of art prices.
For the full programme, please click here