Culture in the Age of Global Communications
The 2004 Ralph Miliband lecture series on Culture in the Age of Global Communications includes the following speakers and lectures:
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Professor Henrietta L Moore, professor of social anthropology at LSE: Late Modern Connections: culture, media and globalisation
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Professor Manuel Castells, research professor of information society, Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Barcelona, and Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles: Politics and Power in the Network Society
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Professor Wang Hui, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, China: Problematising Asia: reflections on the re-emergence of the discourse of Asia
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Professor Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and professor of international relations at the American University in Washington DC, America: Islam Under Siege: from clash to dialogue of civilisations
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Professor Homi K Bhabha, Anne F Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University: A Global Measure: the ethics and aesthetics of immensity
The Ralph Miliband lecture series, which began in 2001 under the title Global Economic Governance, attracted large audiences from within LSE and beyond.