The Queen's-EdUHK Online Colloquium Series:
Creative Arts for the Public Good
In the first edition of the series, on November 19th in Kingston/November 20th in Hong Kong, the focus will be on: Health, Wellbeing, and Flourishing, Cultures of Care, the Welfare State, Public Value, and Imaginative Praxis
Speakers: Colleen Renihan; Allison Morehead; Naimul Karim (Queen’s University, Canada) and Leung Chi Hin Michael; Eric Feng; Pengnan Hu (The Education University of Hong Kong, HKSAR)
Moderator: Prof. Mette Hjort (RCCAPV, LCS, EdUHK)
More info & Sign-up:
https://forms.gle/WUAA1E9J3rFBkx7Y9
The Run-Down is as follows (90mins: 60mins + Q&A):
Queen's Speaker ONE: Colleen Renihan (Associate Professor & Queen’s National Scholar of Music Theatre): Accessible and Inclusive Music Theatre (working title) [10-minute presentation]
Paired with:
EduHK’s Speaker One: Leung Chi Hin, Michael (Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, core member of the Research Centre for Creative Arts and Public Value): The Music Futures Hub (working title) [10-minute presentation]
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Queen's Speaker TWO: Allison Morehead (Professor of Art History)
Paired with:
EdUHK’s Speaker Two: Eric Feng (core member of the Research Centre for Creative Arts and Public Value): Bringing Arts to the Caring Space: Designing Public Art at the Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Hospital [10-minute presentation]
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Queen's Speaker THREE: Naimul Karim (PhD Candidate, Cultural Studies)
Paired with:
EdUHK’s Speaker Three: Pengnan Hu (RGC-funded postdoctoral fellow; core member of the Research Centre for Creative Arts and Public Value, and with the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies): Short-form audio-visual narratives on TikTok: What’s Driving the Emphasis on Feel-Good Content? (working title) [10 minute presentation]
Speakers are encouraged to speak to the following questions:
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How does a given creative practice or envisaged creative intervention encourage (human) flourishing?
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What are the conditions under which a given creative practice creates public value, or contributes to a public good?
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Can we extrapolate policy-style lessons from a given creative practice, or from an envisaged creative intervention?
The Queen's-EdUHK Online Colloquium Series (2nd Edition):
Art & Environment:
Ecocriticism, Sustainability, and Climate Intervention
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March 19th, 2026 7:45 - 9:15 am HKSAR
March 18th, 2026 7:45 - 9:15 pm Kingston, Canada
Speakers: Adeline Johns-Putra; Tomasz Grusiecki; Weixian Pan (Queen’s University, Canada) and Bidisha Banerjee; Koji Matsunobu; Jessie Yu Wang (The Education University of Hong Kong, HKSAR)
Moderator: Prof. Julia Brook (Director and Associate Professor, DAN School of Drama and Music, Queen's University , Canada, Centre Fellow, RCCAPV)
More info & Sign-up:
https://forms.gle/hFKVspnEdjMcL46w7
The Run-Down is as follows (90mins: 60mins + Q&A):
7:45-8:05
Queen's Speaker ONE: Adeline Johns-Putra, Professor, Department of English Engaging with Climate Change: The Post-Speculative Turn in Climate Fiction [10-minute presentation]
Paired with:
EduHK’s Speaker ONE: Bidisha Banerjee, Associate Professor,Department of Literature and Cultural Studies Grieving for Refugees, Mourning the Planet: Art Practices as a Mode of more-than-human Solidarity and Relational Care[10-minute presentation]
8:05-8:25
Queen's Speaker TWO: Tomasz Grusiecki, Associate Professor and Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art, Department of Art History & Art Conservation Art History’s Ecologies: Forensics of Matter, Material Literacy, and the Environmental Turn
[10-minute presentation]
Paired with:
EdUHK’s Speaker TWO: Koji Matsunobu, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts: Listening to Bamboo: Eco-Pedagogy and Eco-Musicality [10-minute presentation]
8:25-8:45
Queen's Speaker THREE: Weixian Pan, Assistant Professor, Department of Film + Media Thinking Infrastructurally: Environmental Criticism and Inter-medial Histories[10-minute presentation]
Paired with:
EdUHK’s Speaker THERE: Jessie Yu Wang, PhD student, Department of Early Childhood Education The Role of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in the Student Creativity Development: A Systematic Review [10-minute presentation]
8:45-9:15
Q&A