George Lipsitz, professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego, will examine the cultural and political implications of the globalization of communication technologies in the 40th annual Crosman Memorial Lecture at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder.
The lecture, titled "Don't Cry for Me Ike and Tina: Global Communication and the Eclipse of National Cultures," will be held on Tuesday, April 24, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Eaton Humanities room 150, followed by a reception from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the lobby. Both events are sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and are free and open to the public.
Lipsitz is the author of numerous books and articles on historical and contemporary cultural politics including "Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture," "Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940's" and "Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place." His most recent work, "The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics," won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award in 1998.
Lipsitz received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1979. He taught in the American Studies program at the University of Minnesota until 1990, when he joined the ethnic studies department at UC San Diego where he also directs the Thurgood Marshall Institute and the California Social Science History Project.
The Crosman Lecture Series honors Ralph L. Crosman, who served from 1921 to 1948 as a distinguished faculty member in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and was the school's first director. In 1952, a group of his former students, friends and colleagues organized the Crosman Memorial Fund, which enabled the school to establish the lecture series.