Manuel Castells Lecture: The Global Financial Crisis from 2008-2012 and Alternative Economic Cultures
Manuel Castells, university professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles will speak on "The financial crisis from 2008-2012 and the response from the grassroots: alternative economic cultures and social movements." Professor Castells will provide an analysis of the economic crisis, and then explore the relationship between social movements such as Occupy Wall Street and alternative cultures.
Professor Castells is also research professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona, and professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of 22 academic books and editor or co-author of 21 additional books, as well as over 100 articles in academic journals. He has received numerous awards including most recently the Holberg International Memorial Prize; the Guggenheim Fellowship; the C. Wright Mills Award from the American Society for the Study of Social Problems; the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association for his lifelong contribution to community and urban sociology; the Kevin Lynch Award of Urban Design from M.I.T; the Medal of Urbanism from the City of Madrid; the Eric Schelling Prize of Architectural Theory from the Eric Schelling Foundation, Germany; and the Compostela Award from the Compostela Association of Universities, Spain's National Prize of Sociology and Political Science.
Sponsored by the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy at The New School.
Location:
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue
Bio
Manuel Castells
Professor Castells is a research professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona, and professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of 22 academic books and editor or co-author of 21 additional books, as well as over 100 articles in academic journals. He has received numerous awards including most recently the Holberg International Memorial Prize; the Guggenheim Fellowship; the C. Wright Mills Award from the American Society for the Study of Social Problems; the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association for his lifelong contribution to community and urban sociology; the Kevin Lynch Award of Urban Design from M.I.T; the Medal of Urbanism from the City of Madrid; the Eric Schelling Prize of Architectural Theory from the Eric Schelling Foundation, Germany; and the Compostela Award from the Compostela Association of Universities, Spain’s National Prize of Sociology and Political Science.
David Scobey
David Scobey is the Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Professor of Community Partnerships and the inaugural Director of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Until 2005 he was Associate Professor of Architecture in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Director of the Arts of Citizenship Program at the University of Michigan. Scobey holds a doctorate from Yale's Program in American Studies; a historian of 19th-century U.S. cultural and urban history, he is the author of Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape (Temple University Press, 2002). As Director of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, Scobey is charged with coordinating Bates College's community-engagement initiatives and integrating them into the College's liberal-arts mission. Scobey brings to Bates a decade of work in the national effort for academic civic engagement. In 1997, he founded the University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship Program to foster the role of the arts, humanities, and design in civic life. He serves on the national advisory committees for Project Pericles and chairs the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. His interests and areas of expertise in academic civic and community engagement includes: civic engagement in the arts and humanities; civic engagement in liberal arts education; and current trends in the national movement for academic civic engagement.