Description
Our understanding of the multidimensional challenges set out in Our Common Agenda requires an engagement with popular culture. Popular culture matters to world politics; to how we experience, understand, and know the international. It can help us to understand complex global challenges from multiscalar and multigenerational perspectives. International Studies programmes increasingly recognise this as popular culture becomes present in our curricula, from being used to work through tricky concepts in seminars to appearing in full modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. This roundtable brings together people who use popular culture in their teaching or who teach world politics and popular culture to ask questions about their experiences in the classroom, in course design and in their own departments to understand what pedagogic opportunities popular culture offers international studies. Participants also draw on their pedagogic research on popular culture in international studies to consider new and innovative ways pop culture can be used in teaching.
