International and Asia-based media and cultural studies; gender and sexual politics related to media and visual culture; youth popular culture studies in transnational contexts; critical public health studies; the cultural politics of race/ethnicity; human rights philosophy and politics.
To respond to the COVID-19 crisis, Erni engages in 2 important initiatives: Video for “Combating COVID-19: Hindsight 20/20?” (“抗疫之中 後見之明?”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRAYltmRoSc The Cultural Politics of COVID-19: A special issue of Cultural Studies. Edited by John Nguyet Erni & Ted Striphas. […]
On 7-9 November 2019, the JAM symposium brought overseas and local speakers from diverse institutions together to discuss conditions of migration through photographic exhibition, installation, documentation, musical theatre, the architectures of walls, etc. The […]
In this video, Professor John Nguyet Erni talks about the importance of humanics research for our society, sharing about his own research focus on youth culture and ethnic minorities.
Prof. Erni hosted an international symposium at the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing of Hong Kong Baptist University, entitled “Feeling Ethnic: Visuality, Emotions, and Minority Culture,” on 15-17 October 2014.
In June 2014, the book Understanding South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong, by John Erni and Lisa Leung came out.