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Transforming Creativity Research Group

The Creative Calling: Vocation, Career, and Enterprise  Event

George Morgan
Time:
16:00 - 17:30
Date:
30 October 2019
Venue:
Winchester School of Art, Lecture Theatre A

Event details

Transforming Creativity Research Group and MA Global Media Management present: 'The Creative Calling: Vocation, Career, and Enterprise', Dr George Morgan (Western Sydney University)

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George Morgan is Associate Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. His recent research deals with creative skills and in particular the obstacles encountered by young people from disadvantaged/ minority backgrounds in building creative careers.His book The Creativity Hoax: Precarious Work and the New Economy (Anthem Press), co-authored with Pariece Nelligan, was published in 2018.

Morgan writes: 'Creativity has now become a buzzword for western economic renewal. In our book The Creativity Hoax, (Anthem, 2018) Pariece Nelligan and I argue that the idea of the creative or cultural economy contains an implicit promise that work will become more fulfilling and that the worker can realistically aspire to make a living and a career from their artistic calling. This seminar will explore some of the contemporary myths of new capitalism and the way they provide symbolic bridges between the youthful non-conformist origins of creativity and the highly neo-liberal circumstances of the market for creative skills.'

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