[Air-L] COVID-19 Seminar #6: Professor Ien Ang, Western Sydney University

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*COVID-19 Seminar #6: Professor Ien Ang, Western Sydney University *
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Please join us seminar #6 in the COVID-19 seminar series, co-hosted by
the Alfred
Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation
<https://www.deakin.edu.au/adi> (ADI) and the Science and Society Network
<https://scienceandsocietynetwork.deakin.edu.au/> (SSN).

*Date/time: *Tuesday 2nd June, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard
Time, GMT+10)

*Title:*
Beyond the Crisis: Transitioning to a Better World?

*Abstract:*
As time passes it has become increasingly clear that the COVID-19 crisis is
not just a short-term public health emergency. Instead, the situation we
are in lays bare a broader and deeper organic crisis permeating all levels
of society, both nationally and globally. For some, this organic crisis has
resulted in a hope for a more just, peaceful and humane future, a humankind
living in harmony among each other and with the planet. However, how could
we work towards a transition to such a better world? In this talk, I will
reflect on a number of political and intellectual barriers to such a
desirable future, from the erosive role of human passions to the escalating
new cold war between China and the West. To have a chance of a better
world, we need to maintain a critical cosmopolitan horizon against the
grain of self-interested closures and exclusions.

*About the speaker:*
Ien Ang is Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies at the Institute for
Culture and Society, Western Sydney, of which she was the director until
the end of 2014. She is internationally recognised for her wide-ranging
work focusing on the formation of audiences and publics; the politics of
identity and difference; migration, nation and multiculturalism; and
Australia – Asia relations in a global context. Her latest books are the
co-authored Chinatown Unbound: Trans-Asian Urbanism in the Age of China
(2019) and the co-edited Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?
(2016).

*Watch the seminar:*
Seminar will be available to stream on YouTube live. Access using the live
link:  <https://youtu.be/eJsN8Ym85y4>https://youtu.be/S-p5_K9LsLI

Date/time: Tuesday 2nd June, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard
Time, GMT+10)

Q&A with the speaker to follow. To send questions/participate in the chat,
you'll need to sign-in using a YouTube account
<https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-comment-on-youtube?r=AU&IR=T>.

If you have any questions, please send to ssn-info at deakin.edu.au
<ssn-info at deakin.edu.au>

The talk will also be recorded and available on the SSN Youtube Channel
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVYFQV_UFX9CLreqpNzanVA>.

Did you miss our last seminar? Watch it here!
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtH1AbnJ7AFApbhh29fL5kqjNFdD_0eID>