Manuel Castells to deliver Birley Lecture

The distinguished sociologist and leading scholar, will talk on Universities and Cities in a World of Global Networks.

Manuel Castells, distinguished sociologist and leading scholar of communication and the information age, will deliver the 18th Birley Lecture on Wednesday 17 March. The lecture - Universities and Cities in a World of Global Networks - starts at 6.30pm in the Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre. Tea and coffee will be served from 6pm and a buffet reception will follow the lecture. All are welcome.


Castells holds the Wallis Annenberg chair of communication technology and society at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is also research professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona and professor emeritus of sociology and of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He has lectured at more than 300 academic institutions in 43 countries.

 

Author and co-author of some 35 books including the landmark trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Castells is also the subject of a recently published three-volume publication in the Sage Series: Masters in Modern Social Thought, co-edited by Frank Webster professor of sociology at City.

 

Castells’ lecture will draw on his current research, which focuses on the comparative analysis of network societies and on the relationship between globalisation and cultural identity.

After the Lecture, Professor Castells will be awarded an honorary degree by the University, which will be conferred upon him by the vice-chancellor, Professor David Rhind.

 

The Birley lecture commemorates Sir Robert Birley, the first head of Social Sciences at City.


For further information or to confirm your attendance please contact Janice Whitehill.

Date of Article:  15/03/2004