Presentations & Speeches

Upcoming

November 2011
Gail Dexter Lord, Co-President, Lord Cultural Resources, presented a keynote on "Effective city-branding strategies: How to design and position premium cities in a time of cultural change" and Laure Confavreux Colliex, Executive Vice President, Lord Cultural Resources and Lordculture, was a panelist for "Identity, Culture and Premium Branding" at PremiumFest Forum, the inaugural international festival on premium products and services in Madrid, Spain, November 3-4, 2011.

October 2011
Barry and Gail Lord, Tom Finkelpearl, Deborah Fisher and Ernesto Pujol engaged in a stimulating conversation on cultural change, based on the book Artists, Patrons and the Public: Why Culture Changes by Gail and Barry Lord on October 27, 2011 at MagnanMetz Gallery in New York.
Host Dara Metz, Director, MagnanMetz Gallery, welcomed guests and Amy Kaufman, Managing Director US, Lord Cultural Resources, introduced speakers and moderated conversation.



Video: This is part 1 of 7. To see all seven parts, please visit LordCultural on You Tube.

Recent

Spring 2011
Barry Lord contributed his thoughts on "Cultural Change and Canada’s Museum" in the Spring 2011 edition of au courant, the newsletter of the Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums.
Click here for English. Click here for French.

April 8, 2011
Barry Lord spoke on Cultural Tourism, Cultural Change and Museum Planning in India at Casuarina, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road in New Delhi, India on April 8, 2011. The event was organized by DRONAH and School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal. For the presentation please click here.

April 6, 2011
On April 6, 2011, Barry Lord and Batul Mehta presented to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on the requirements for a world-class museum in Patna. Read the coverage by Indian press.

February 20, 2011
Gail Lord was a keynote speaker at the Japan Museum Management Academy (JMMA) conference, which took place at the National Tokyo Museum on February 20, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan. For the presentation, click here.

November 13, 2010
Gail Lord presented “How Culture Changes”, the keynote presentation for the forum "Contemporary Heritage and the Landscape in a Sustainable World" at the first FLORENS2010: International Week on Cultural Heritage and Landscape in Florence, Italy on November 13. For presentation, click here.

November 8, 2010
Gail Lord was a speaker on “From Cultural Resources to Cultural Capital” at the “Museum Economy and Development Forum” at the International Council of Museums conference “Museums for Social Harmony” in Shanghai, November 8. For speech, click here and for presentation, click here.

October 27, 2010
Barry Lord and Gail Dexter Lord discussed their new book Artists, Patrons and the Public: Why Culture Changes at the Art Gallery of Mississauga on Wednesday, October 27, at 7 pm.

September 28-29, 2010
Barry Lord was Keynote Speaker at the Opening Ceremony of at the First International Conference of Museums in the Arab World at Balamand University, Lebanon on September 28-29. Barry presented “Cultural Change and Museums in the Arab World”. For the speech, click here.  For the presentation, click here.

September 24-25, 2010
Gail and Barry Lord, Co-Presidents of Lord Cultural Resources, led an International workshop titled “New Resources for Culture”organized by Bologna Arts Managers (BAM) at the National Gallery of Bologna, Italy on September 24-25, 2010.

June 1-2, 2010
Cultural Change and Museum Management, Planning and Design, presented by Barry Lord and Lordcultura Senior Consultant Angela Gonzalez de Vallejo at the University of Las Laguna in Tenerife on the Canary Islands.

May 27, 2010
'The Future of Culture in Toronto: A conversation between Rita Davies, executive director, City of Toronto, and Gail Dexter Lord and Barry Lord', Book Launch: Artists, Patrons and the Public: Why Culture Changes, May 27, 8 pm, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada

May 25, 2010
"Beyond Boundaries in a Globalized World" Double session at the American Association of Museums Conference, May 25, 2-5 pm, Los Angeles Convention Centre, Los Angeles, USA

May 20, 2010
'Museums and Cultural Change', Anatolia Civilisations Research Centre, Istanbul, Turkey.

May 17, 2010
'City Museums and Cultural Change', City Museums and City Development Conference, COMOS, Vienna, Austria.

March 5, May 19, 2010
'Cultural Change and Public Gardens', Longwood Graduate Program Annual Symposiums, Pennsylvania USA.