Justin O'Connor no Ciclo de Palestras do DEC

Justin O'Connor, Professor na University of South Australia, estará presencialmente no Anfiteatro IV (5º piso da FLUC), com uma comunicação intitulada "Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good". Este encontro acontece no âmbito dos Eixos do Conhecimento Interdisciplinar do CEIS20.

A sessão será ministrada em inglês e tem entrada livre.

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Justin O’Connor is a Professor of Cultural Economy at the University of South Australia and has been visiting Chair in the School of Cultural Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University, among other academic and research assignments in Australia, Europe and Asia. His career spans research, teaching and consultancy worldwide, having recently been engaged as a member of UNESCO’s International ‘Expert Facility’.

He has been a pioneer in the field of creative industries: as Director of Manchester Institute for Popular Culture at Manchester Metropolitan University and as the first chair of Manchester’s Creative Industries Development Service (CIDS), the UK’s first dedicated local economic development agency for the creative industries. He has also established himself as a leading voice in the critique of that dominant cultural and urban agenda. His upcoming book “Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good” is the pretext for his talk in Coimbra at the Post-Graduate Programme in Arts Management and Sustainability. We will have a conversation around a renewed, foundational approach to culture, taking culture out of ‘industrial’ policy and placing it at the heart of public services, with health, education, welfare and essential infrastructure. We will be debating what such a transformative cultural policy might look like, and whether there is hope in the idea of culture as a ‘global public good’ (Mondiacult, 2022).