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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 

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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:

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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:

  1. How does a given creative practice or envisaged creative intervention encourage (human) flourishing?

  2. What are the conditions under which a given creative practice creates public value, or contributes to a public good?

  3. Can we extrapolate policy-style lessons from a given creative practice, or from an envisaged creative intervention?

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