Free public lecture focuses on US President and September 11

An American cultural studies authority will give a free public lecture titled “September 11, Globalization and the Bush Catastrophe” in the foyer of Mayne Hall at The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus on Friday July 5, starting at 5.30pm.

Professor Doug Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture.

His lecture is being co-sponsored by the University’s School of Education and Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies.

Professor Kellner has just published a book on the 2000 US Presidential Election - Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and the Theft of an Election, as well as The Postmodern Adventure. Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium (co-authored with Steve Best).

Forthcoming books include Media Spectacle and September 11, Terror War, and the New Barbarism.

His previous books include Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film, co-authored with Michael Ryan, Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations (with Steven Best), Television and the Crisis of Democracy, The Persian Gulf TV War, Media Culture, and The Postmodern Turn (with Steven Best).

Members of the public are welcome to attend the free lecture, which will be followed by light refreshments.

For more details on Professor Kellner, visit: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/kellner.html

Media: for more information, contact Ros Capeness (telephone 07 3365 7343, email: ros.capeness@mailbox.uq.edu.au).