Events
On Fatigue and Recovery
16 May 2020
3pm – 4pm
Zoom Webinar
Prof. Ian Alden Russell, Dept. of Cultural and Religious Studies
Ian Alden Russell is a contemporary art curator, educator and cultural brand strategist and currently teaches in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Tel: (852) 3943 7107
Email: arts@cuhk.edu.hk
Free and open to the public, this series of webinars will present research by a diverse group of scholars from the Faculty of Arts at CUHK. Each speaker will bring refreshing and historical perspectives on our contemporary moment, either directly or through reflection. Together, these public events will speak for the value and relevance of humanities scholarship at a time when we face profound global challenges. Lectures will be about 30 minutes in length, followed by a question and answer session with the audience.
http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/web/en-gb/aboutus/ events/534-public-online-lectures-arts-andhumanities- in-the-face-of-global-challenges
‘You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.’ – Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable (1954). Many of us are overwhelmed and exhausted by the struggles and changes taking place in our world. In this talk, we will explore some thoughts about collective fatigue and how we respond to the pressures and stresses of social change. In particular, we will look at how technology and social media has accelerated change and increased the pressure to perform for one another. We will conclude with a hopeful call for sustainable ways we can care for ourselves and one another.
Moderator: Prof. Frank Vigneron, Dept. of Fine Arts
