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<p class="MsoTitle">On the future of parochialism: teaching media in
Tuen Mun</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;">Professor
Meaghan
Morris</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">An Adjunct
Professor of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at UTS, <b
style="">Meaghan Morris</b> is Chair Professor of Cultural
Studies and Co-ordinator of the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and
Development
Program at </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Lingnan</span></st1:PlaceName><span
lang="EN-GB" style=""> </span><st1:PlaceType><span lang="EN-GB"
style="">University</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span
lang="EN-GB" style="">, </span><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Hong
Kong</span></st1:place><span lang="EN-GB" style="">. She works on the
role of cinema,
the media, and popular culture in forming national and transnational
cultures
and her recent books include <i style="">Too Soon,
Too Late: History in Popular Culture</i> (</span><st1:City><st1:place><span
lang="EN-GB" style="">Bloomington</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
lang="EN-GB" style="">,1998) and </span><i style=""><span
class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Meaghan%20Morris"
datetime="2002-04-25T07:48">‘Race’ Panic and the
Memory of<span style=""> </span>Migration</ins></span></i>,
co-ed. <span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Meaghan%20Morris"
datetime="2002-04-25T07:49">with </ins></span><span class="msoIns"><ins
cite="mailto:Meaghan%20Morris" datetime="2002-04-25T07:48">Brett de
Bary (</ins></span>Hong
Kong University Press, 2001). <st1:place><i style="">Hong Kong</i></st1:place><i
style=""> Connections:
Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema</i>, co-ed. with Stephen
C.-K. Chan
and Siu-leung Li, is forthcoming from HKUP, and <i style="">New
Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society</i>, co-ed.
with Tony Bennett and Lawrence Grossberg, is in press with Blackwells.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chair: Katrina Schlunke (Writing and Contemporary
Cultures)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday October 14<sup>th</sup></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Building 3, Room 510</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:time minute="0" hour="16">4 – 6pm</st1:time></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All welcome.</p>
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