Embracing the dialogic imagination: Investigating society, tourism and events
FREE
RegisterWednesday 20 July 2022 3 PM - 4:30 PM
William Angliss Institute
555 La Trobe Street
Melbourne, VIC 3000
Level 3 Building A, room A337
Snapshot
What You Learn
In this presentation, Can Seng will present Bakhtin’s dialogic imagination, and more importantly explains how it is a framework that can help us unpack and understand complexity and ambiguity in studying society, tourism and events. He will be introducing some concepts that sound complicated (but are not), including heteroglossia, polyphony, chronotopes and carnivalesque. He often uses those concepts without having to refer to them explicitly. He will refer to his three-decade long research career, and the projects he was and is working on, including the Eurovision Song Contest, destination branding and tourism development in Tasmania.
About the Speaker
Can Seng Ooi is a sociologist and anthropologist, and Professor of Cultural and Heritage Tourism at the University of Tasmania. His decades-long research career spans over three countries: Australia, Denmark and Singapore. He was Professor of International Business and Culture Industries at Copenhagen Business School before he moved to Australia in 2016. He is an "engaged scholar", meaning he aims to engage his scholarship with relevant stakeholders. His areas of research include place branding, tourism strategy, cultural development, art worlds and cross-cultural management. More information is available at www.cansengooi.com
