MACS @ QUT
Posted on | September 9, 2005 |
This afternoon we’re having MACS at QUT’s Creative Industries Precinct for the first time. The topic is how the Creative Industries paradigm relates to Media and Cultural Studies research and vice versa. We thought this was a pretty timely issue to be discussing given that QUT has just been granted the first ever humanities Centre of Excellence in Australia, something that will generate a lot of opportunities for young scholars in Brisbane. Yet such recognition from government also suggests that the CI model is managing to define itself in ways that meet with certain expectations about academic work which also seem important to discuss.
Before I came to Queensland I didn’t know much about CI, despite having written my PhD thesis on cultural studies. I tended to put it in the too hard basket, along with cultural policy debates I must admit, because the issues seemed a bit abstract as well as distant from the work I was interested in. Since finding out about the kinds of projects that can be done within the CI framework, however, I’m increasingly excited by its possibilities - which is precisely why we wanted to have an event with some younger speakers involved. Once the initial phase of conceptual distinction and polemic has passed, the true test of a paradigm’s possibilities is the work itself. Today I’m looking forward to hearing about a lot more of it.
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September 11th, 2005 @ 6:13 pm
so how’d it go?
September 12th, 2005 @ 1:48 pm
It went well Glen. I should write a report this week and I’ll give you a heads up when it comes through.
cheers
joshua