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Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Media

Manuel Castells

16 - 23 November 2011
Cambridge University

ISD is pleased to announce that Manuel Castells is to be the 2011 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media.

Manuel Castells is University Professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Prior to his appointment at USC he was Professor of Sociology and Professor of City Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, for 24 years.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He has received 14 honorary doctorates from universities across the world. He has published 25 books including his trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (Blackwell, 1996-2003), translated into 21 languages. 

Lecture 1 (16 November 2011)
Communication, Power and the State

Lecture 2 (17 November 2011)

Communication Technology and Social Movements

Lecture 3 (21 November 2011)

A Network Theory of Multidimensional Power

Symposium (23 November 2011)

Communication Power in the Network Society

The lectures and the symposium are free and open to the public, however, prior registration is required for the symposium, and can be accessed through the link above.