Whitewash: White subjectivity and Asian erasure in Hollywood 11/10/2018 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002 In a current book project, I theorize the popularly used concept of filmic “whitewashing,” differentiating it from White supremacy, White privilege, and Whiteness theory while noting its relationship to all three of these foundational concepts. The presentation, which is based
Small Data: Identifying Phenomena of Inquiry 27/09/2018 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002 Following the bombing of Manchester City Centre in 1996, interview accounts provided by people affected by the bomb were collected; these accounts constitute a corpus of recorded and transcribed talk as data. These “small data” document people’s iterations of areas for future
LIVE Baccarat Calculations: Macau Machine Gaming and the Production of the Post-Socialist Subject 13/09/2018 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002 Following Portugal’s return of Macau to the PRC in 1999, the local government liberalized the city’s 150-year-old casino monopoly concession. Macau is now the world’s most lucrative site of casino gaming. The majority of Macau’s
Influence of host community acculturation orientations and traditional Chinese value orientations: A study of Chinese Hongkongers’ perceptions toward and ethnic minority communication with South/Southeast Asian minorities 15/03/2018 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002
State Capitalism in Singapore and China 26/02/2018 (Monday) 11:00-12:00 E21-G002
Researching Public Relations in China: An Initial Investigation 08/02/2018 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002
Is there a Second Life online? Subjectivity and Gender Identity in the Virtual World 25/01/2018 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002
Theoretical questions in comparing media systems 30/11/2017 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-2001 Scholarly discussion of comparative media systems has been dominated by the work of Daniel Hallin and Paolo Mancini for more than a decade now. Their ideas have been used in a very wide variety of circumstances, but at the same time some
Bourdieu in context: His work and theoretical development. 23/11/2017 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002 In An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, Wacquant refers to Bourdieu "systemically developing ... a sociological method consisting essentially in a manner of posing problems, in a ... set of conceptual tools and procedures for constructing objects and for transferring knowledge
Kick the Dead Rabbit: Tuxedos, Movies, and Cosmopolitan Urban Imaginaries in Macao 09/11/2017 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002 This talk explores ways in which a cosmopolitan, urbane subject is on display in Macao’s gaming, tourism and leisure industries. Much like the fin-de-siècle flâneur studied by Walter Benjamin, the cosmopolitan tourist and gambler portrayed in