What do pop cultures have to do with the US election, democracies and the climate crisis? What do we learn about pop and media cultures by engaging with fakes, click populism or AI? How should popular cultures be categorised if they are particularly considerate and attentive or if they are hurtful in doses - is there a morality or ethics of pop? These and other questions will be explored in the round table event ‘VER:ACHTSAMKEIT. Ethics of Pop Culture’ of the research centre ’C:POP. Transdisciplinary Research Centre for Popular Music Cultures and Creative Economies’ at Paderborn University. The transdisciplinary series of events with talks, lectures, discussions, performances and free formats will take place regularly on Tuesdays at 4.15 pm in lecture hall C1 at Paderborn University from 15 October. The events are free of charge and registration is not necessary.
The C:POP research centre was founded last year as part of the 20th anniversary of the ‘Popular Music and Media’ course at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and sees itself as a research and transfer centre between academic and non-academic fields such as journalism, marketing, the arts and cultural policy.
The series of events will kick off with the keynote speech ‘After Woke: pop culture and the progressive left after their moral bankruptcy on 7 October’ by renowned music journalist and author Jens Balzer (Die Zeit, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Rolling Stone) on Tuesday, 15 October. Other items on the programme include a lecture on digital hate speech and political or politicised misinformation in the 2024 US election campaign by Dominik Hammer (‘Institute for Strategic Dialogue Germany’, ISD), a panel discussion on the US election ‘Democracy between Pop and Populism’ with academics from Paderborn University and journalist Laura Ewert (Der Spiegel, taz, among others). Der Spiegel, taz, Die Zeit), the critical keynote speech ‘Overload vs. Overlord’ on the mindfulness economy by music researcher Laura Schwinger and the panel discussion ‘Pop culture & sustainability?’ with researchers from the ‘NachhaltigkeitsKulturOWL’ project and Mario Graute (Green Culture Anlaufstelle des Bundes). Interested parties can attend two events in Paderborn city centre - on 5 November at the gwlb on Marienplatz and the closing evening on 28 January 2025 at the Deelenhaus.
An overview of all ten public events in this series is available here.
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