[csaa-forum] Meaghan Morris Seminar @ UTS

[Raya Massie]

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On the future of parochialism: teaching media in Tuen Mun

 

Professor Meaghan Morris

 

 

Parochialism gets a bad press in most discussions of globalisation, 
cross-cultural relations, "border-crossing" and cosmopolitan ideals. At 
the same time it is a mood and mode of life endemic to many cultural 
formations, not least those inhabited by the cultural avant-gardes of 
major cities. This paper will reflect on my experience of teaching film 
and media in an undergraduate liberal arts program in the far Western 
New Territories of the Hong Kong SAR (Tuen Mun), where cultural horizons 
are located in ways that can be hard for a Sydney parochial to 
grasp--not least because various post-media "futures" are also fully 
present in the classroom. I will use this discussion to consider the 
role of media studies in institutions of education, and how greatly this 
may vary with the social geography of globalisation.

 

An Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at 
UTS, Meaghan Morris is Chair Professor of Cultural Studies and 
Co-ordinator of the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Program 
at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She works on the role of cinema, the 
media, and popular culture in forming national and transnational 
cultures and her recent books include Too Soon, Too Late: History in 
Popular Culture (Bloomington,1998) and 'Race' Panic and the Memory of  
Migration, co-ed. with Brett de Bary (Hong Kong University Press, 2001). 
Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema, 
co-ed. with Stephen C.-K. Chan and Siu-leung Li, is forthcoming from 
HKUP, and New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society, 
co-ed. with Tony Bennett and Lawrence Grossberg, is in press with 
Blackwells.

 

Chair: Katrina Schlunke (Writing and Contemporary Cultures)

 

Thursday October 14th

Building 3, Room 510

4 - 6pm

 

All welcome.



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