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Globalization, New Technology and Postmodernity
A One -Day Workshop with award-winning author
Professor Douglas Kellner (UCLA)
University of Leicester Management Centre.
Thursday July 13th 2000
10am - 4pm
Programme
10.00 am Arrival, Coffee
10.30 am Prof Douglas Kellner Globalization, New Technology and
Postmodernity
11.30 am Prof Stephen Linstead
Globalization Globalization, Multiculturalism and Other Fictions: The New
Colonialism for the New Millennium?
12.30 pm LUNCH
1.30 pm Open Dialogue
Doug Kellner will respond to any questions and talk on any aspects of
globalization, critical theory or postmodernism. Questions, requests may be
submitted in advance or may be submitted from the floor.
Doctoral students and early career academics are particularly invited to ask
Doug to discuss aspects of their work - please submit a 500 word summary of
your research project with registration to facilitate this.
3.00 pm Coffee
3.30 pm Summary session
4.00 pm Close
Biodata
Professor Douglas Kellner is currently George F. Kneller Philosophy of
Education Chair in the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information
Studies. Born in 1943, he gained his PhD from Columbia University in 1972,
and has studied at the universities of Copenhagen, Tubingen and Paris. From
1973-1997 he taught at the University of Texas at Austin before moving to
Los Angeles. His many honours include Woodrow Wilson Felow, Fulbright
Fellow(Finland), Who's Who in Amerucan Universities, Who's Who in the
South-West, the Dictionary of American Scholars, a Taiwan National Science
Foundation Professorship and a Bonnier Professorship(Sweden) He has
published extensively on cultural studies, politics, critical theory and
postmodernism including Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization
and Cultural Studies. Co-edited with Ann Cvetkovich. 1996; Baudrillard: A
Critical Reader. (1994); Postmodernism/Jameson /Critique, (1989); Critical
Theory, Marxism and Modernity (1989); Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to
Post-Modernism and Beyond. (1989); Critical Theory and Society: A Reader.
Co-edited with Stephen Eric Bronner, (1989); Postmodern Theory: Critical
Interrogations. Co-authored with Steve Best; (1991); The Postmodern Turn.
Co-authored with Steven Best - winner of the Michael Harrington Best Book of
1998 award from the American Political Science Association..He is currently
part way through a six-volume project editing and publishing the
uncollected/unpublished works of Herbert Marcuse.
He has published widely in journals including Telos, Praxis, New German
Critique, Theory and Society, Theory Culture and Society, Socialist Review,
Diacritics, New Political Science, Televisions, Mass Media/Adult Education,
Man and World, and Jump Cut.
Professor Stephen Linstead is currently Associate Director (Research) and
Research Professor of Management at Sunderland Business School. He holds
degrees in English Literature from Keele and Leeds Universities, and in
Management from Sheffield Hallam University where he took his PhD in 1984.
He has held posts at institutions including Lancaster University, Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology and the University of Wollongong, New
South Wales. He has published on cross-cultural issues in Asia and Europe,
and on Aboriginal issues in Australia. He is the current chair of the
Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, and co-redinated a Standing
Working Group of the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS), and a
Special Interest group of the British Academy of Management, on The
Philosophy of Organization. His recent and forthcoming books include Sex,
Work and Sex Work with Jo Brewis (Routledge 2000); The Aesthetics of
Organization ed. with Heather Höpfl (Sage 2000); The Language of
Organization edited with Bob Westwood (Sage 2000 - in press) and Postmodern
Organization Theory ed. (Sage 2001 in press).
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