Events SIG: Panel discussion – Critical Event Studies in the UK and Australia: lost in translation or one voice?’

Date: Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Time: 2pm-3pm
Location: CAUTHE 2017 conference – University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
Venue: St David 2 (G02a)

Open Panel Discussion (everyone is welcome to attend the discussion!)

Organised by the Event Studies SIG of CAUTHE (with call for contributions to IJEFM Special Issue)

Chair: Associate Professor Leonie Lockstone-Binney

Panellist’s topic

  • What is critical thinking in the context of event studies? What are critical studies? Has the study of events and its related research reached a stage of criticality?
  • A review, comparison and discussion of Event related studies in the UK and in Australia (with insights from these and other CAUTHE member countries invited).

The Panel

  • Associate Professor Jane Ali-Knight, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
  • Associate Professor Kirsten Holmes, Curtin University, Australia
  • Dr Judith Mair, University of Queensland, Australia
  • Dr Martin Robertson, Bournemouth University, UK

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