European Humanities University and Contemporary Art Centre
present a series of public lectures by distinguished scholars in Visual and Cultural Studies


Thursday 29 April, 18.00, CAC Reading Room
Scott Lash “Capitalist Power and the Social Imaginary”

Scott Lash is a professor of sociology and cultural studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His books include The End of Organized Capitalism (with John Urry, 1987), Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity (co-edited, 1987), Sociology of Postmodernism (1990), Modernity and Identity (co-edited, 1992), Economies of Signs and Space (with John Urry, 1994), Reflexive Modernization (with Beck and Giddens, 1994), Global Modernities (co-edited, 1995), Risk, Environment and Modernity (co-edited, 1995), Detraditionalization (co-edited, 1996), Time and Value (co-edited, 1998) and Another Modernity, A Different Rationality (1999). He has also has been an editor of Theory, Culture and Society - the journal and the book series - since 1989. His books have been translated into ten languages.



Saturday 1 May, 18.00, CAC Reading Room
Janet Wolff “The question of a sociological poetics: metaphors, models and theory”


This series is sponsored by HESP OSI and held in the framework of HESP Challenge seminar Visual Studies of Immedia: Exporing the Postmodern Immediacy of mass media (EHU, Laboratory of Visual and Cultural Studies)
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