Who Still Needs Cultural Research?
ABSTRACT: In this lecture, I revisit the important threads of research innovation in Communication that has been enabled by Cultural Studies. In following Ien Ang’s provocation when she asked “Who Needs Cultural Research?” in 2005, I will trace the ways in which questions of “cultural intelligence” and “cultural impact” of media are vital today more than ever, especially around the post-ideological forms of inquiry in popular culture studies and the social movement implications of communicative practices at large.
This event is sponsored and hosted by the Cultural Research Centre, a new research incubator in Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore. To contact the Cultural Research Centre, please email: culturalresearch@nus.edu.sg
Speaker:
Prof. John Nyuget Erni
Hong Kong Baptist University
John Nguyet Erni is Fung Hon Chu Endowed Chair Professor of Humanics and Head of the Department of Humanities & Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. A former recipient of the Gustafson, Rockefeller, Lincoln and Annenberg research fellowships, and other awards and grants, Erni is the author or editor of 10 books. In 2017-18, he was elected President of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.
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11 Computing Dr, Singapore 117416
National University of Singapore