Meaghan Morris was celebrated at the Meaghan Morris Festival as a mentor, a cultural theorist, a much-loved colleague, a lecturer, a polemicist and a stirrer, a teacher, an internationalist, a translator and much else besides. Here, I want to add to that chorus by making a very specific case: that Meaghan Morris is the most significant and innovative living Australian cultural historian. This characterisation is, in part, rooted in my own investments in work at the intersections of cultural studies and cultural history but it is of much greater significance. An influential contemporary characterisation of cultural studies is that it was a boomer reaction to existing disciplinary constraints, a manifestation of anti-canonical impulses that choose instead to celebrate marginality while at the same time making an innovative case for the ways in which culture matters. It follows that if, today, academic disciplines in the social sciences and humanities have become highly flexible (rather than canonical) and maintained their institutional hegemony while simultaneously becoming irrelevant to much knowledge-work and that, today, margins and mainstreams seem like next-to-useless terms to describe cultural topographies or flows and that, today, culture matters nowhere so much as the rapacious industries of media cultures, then perhaps the moment of cultural studies seems of historical interest only.1

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Meaghan Morris：文化历史学家

Meaghan Morris在Meaghan Morris艺术节上以导师，文化理论家，深受喜爱的同事，讲师，辩论家和搅拌器，老师，国际主义者，翻译和其他许多人庆祝。在这里，我想通过一个非常具体的案例来补充这一合唱：Meaghan Morris是澳大利亚最重要，最有创意的现存文化历史学家。这种特征部分地源于我自己在文化研究和文化历史的交汇处对工作的投资，但它具有更大的意义。文化研究在当代具有影响力的特征是，它是对现有学科约束的一种迅速反应，反规范冲动的一种表现形式，而是选择去庆祝边缘化，同时又对文化的重要性提出了创新的论据。因此，如果今天，社会科学和人文学科的学科变得高度灵活（而非规范）并保持其制度霸权，同时又与许多知识工作无关，那么今天，边际和主流似乎是下一个……用来描述文化地形或流向的无用术语，到今天，文化的重要性已不如媒体文化的猖ra产业重要，那么也许文化研究的时刻似乎只具有历史意义。1