The corporate culture of the Sea World marine parks and the impact of global telecommunications systems will be discussed in separate lectures at the University of Colorado at 葫芦娃视频 on Oct. 28 and 29. Both are free and open to the public.
Dan Schiller, professor of communications at the University of California-San Diego, will lecture on "Transnational Telecommunications and the Global Reorganization of Production" on Oct. 28 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel.
Susan G. Davis, also a professor of communication at UC-San Diego, will lecture on "Spectacular Nature" on Oct. 29 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel.
Davis's 1996 book, "Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience," was described by Harvard Professor Stephen Jay Gould as "a landmark of social criticism and a telling dissection of a central contradiction in a world dedicated to profit and also, supposedly, to public knowledge and compassion." Historian Richard White called the book "a remarkably interesting, entertaining, and ultimately disturbing book about how corporations organize our relations with the natural world."
Schiller is the author of the 1996 book "Theorizing Communication," which the former dean of the Annenberg School of Communications described as "a breathtaking historical tour-de-force and creative synthesis of ideas that frame the key socio-political debates of our time." Schiller is a historian in the field of communication studies. His lecture grows out of his current research on the globalization of communication, culture and the economy.
The lectures are sponsored by the Program in American Studies, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities.