Global Screen Industries
Michael Curtin
Wednesday, 10 Oct 2007 at 6:00 pm – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
Michael Curtin is a professor of media and cultural studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the UW Global Studies Program, a federally funded National Resource Center for International Studies. He is the author of Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics and coeditor of Making and Selling Culture and The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.Cosponsored By:
- College of Engineering
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Deere & Company
- Rockwell Collins
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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