You are all warmly invited to attend Prof. Barrie Axford’s speech and roundtable ”What is global studies and do we need it?” at the Middle East Technical University on 29th April from 15.30 to 17.00 (in Mavi Salon). The event will be kindly chaired by Prof. Hüseyin Bağcı, Head of the METU Department of International Relations.
Barrie Axford is Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University and Director of the Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Culture. He has been Visiting Professor at The Universities of Genoa, California (Santa Barbara) and Stanford and a Visiting Fellow at the Warwick Centre for the Study of Globalizations and Regionalization. Currently he is an International Advisor to the Italian Ministry of Education (University Research). His research encompasses theories of globalization and globality; the field of media and politics and aspects of European unity. His books include “The Global System”, “Unity and Diversity in the New Europe”, “New Media and Politics”, “Cultures and/of Globalization” and “Theories of Globalization” At present he is working on a volume on communication, digital media and world society.
For a previous interview with Prof. Barrie Axford on his book ‘Theories of Globalizat
ion’, please click here.
