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Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Media

Manuel Castells

16 - 23 November 2011
Cambridge University

Mid-November saw noted sociologist Manuel Castells serve as the 2011 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media, speaking on Communication, Power and the State in the Network Society.

Manuel Castells is University Professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Prior to his appointment at USC he was Professor of Sociology and Professor of City Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, for 24 years.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He has received 14 honorary doctorates from universities across the world. He has published 25 books including his trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (Blackwell, 1996-2003), translated into 21 languages. 

For more information on Manuel Castells' lectures, please click here.

For more information on Manuel Castells' Symposium, please click here.

To view films of Manuel Castells' lectures, visit ISD's YouTube channel.

The Humanitas Chair in Media was made possible by the generous support of the Blavatnik Family Foundation.