roundtable: Re: Magna Carta Digest 2-2

roundtable: Re: Magna Carta Digest 2/2

Re: Magna Carta Digest 2/2

Majid Tehranian (majid@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu)
Thu, 19 Jan 1995 13:01:57 -1000 

Date: 	Thu, 19 Jan 1995 13:01:57 -1000
From: Majid Tehranian <majid@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Magna Carta Digest 2/2
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:57:43 -1000
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GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
& PROGRAM ON INFORMATION RESOURCES POLICY
==================================================================
SPRING 1995 PROGRAM: BLURRING BOUNDARIES

February 6           Rethinking Computers and Copyright

                        Roy N. Freed, Esq. 	 
                        Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer, Boston
                        Former President of Computer Law Association

March 6              Global Television and Cultural Autonomy

                        Anne Wells Branscomb, Esq.
                        Research Affiliate, PIRP, Harvard University
                        Scholar-in-Residence,
                        Annenberg Public Policy Center,
                        University of Pennsylvania

April 3              What Drives the Global Markets for Television?

                        George Gerbner
                        Dean Emeritus, Annenberg School for Communication,
                        University of Pennsylvania
                        Director, Cultural Indicators Project

April 24             Converging Technologies and Identities

                        Sherry Turkle
                        Professor, Program on Science, Technology, 
                          and Society
                        Massachusetts Institute of Technology
							
May 1                Information Flows: Key to Societal Evolution

                        Thomas P. Rona 
                        Former Deputy Director of Science & Technology, 
                        U. S.  President's Executive Office

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Time:		Selected Mondays, 12 - 2 pm 
Place:		Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge St., Seminar Room 3
Information:	Prof. Majid Tehranian, 617-495-4114; FAX: 617-495-3336
 
 
GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

SEMINAR SERIES, 1994-95
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
&
PROGRAM ON INFORMATION RESOURCES POLICY
33 Oxford St., Aiken 200, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel.: 617-495-4114; Fax: 617-495-3338

==================================================================

     Co-sponsored by the Center for International Affairs and the Program 
on Information Resources Policy at Harvard University, this seminar series 
explores the impact of global communications on international relations. 
It focuses particularly on the impact of communications and information 
technologies on the struggles for power, peace, security, development, 
and democracy in the new world dis/order. 

     Accelerating technological advances in telecommunications and their 
dissemination around the world are profoundly changing the nature of 
international relations. On the one hand, they are facilitating the 
transfers of science, technology, and information from the centers to 
the peripheries of power. On the other, they are imposing a new cultural 
hegemony through the soft power of global news, entertainment, and 
advertising. Globalizing the local and localizing the global are twin 
forces blurring traditional national boundaries.

     The conduct of foreign relations through traditional diplomatic 
channels has been undermined by information and communications resources 
available to the non-state actors. The emergence of a global civil 
society in the form of more than ten thousand nongovernmental 
organizations (NGOs) alongside intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), 
transnational global corporations (TGCs), and nearly two hundred 
state-actors has added to the complexity of the world system. 
Technologies such as audio and video recorders, faxes, computer 
communications, and direct broadcast satellites have already undermined 
such seemingly invincible dictatorships as those in Iran, the 
Philippines, the former Soviet Union, China, Eastern Europe, and South 
Africa. They are changing the economic infrastructure, competitiveness, 
trade relations, as well as internal and external politics of states. 
They also affect national security, including the deterrence and conduct 
of war, terrorism, civil war, the emergence of new weapons systems, 
command and control, intelligence collection, analysis, and 
dissemination. The Persian Gulf War provided a glimpse of what future 
wars might look like. The emergence of an international politics of 
cultural identity organized around religious, ethnic, or racial 
fetishisms suggests what the future issues might be.

     The seminar series takes place at brown bag lunches, 12-2 p.m., on 
selected Mondays in Room 3 at 1737 Cambridge St. The program is open to 
the public. Presentations begin promptly at 12:30 p.m., last for about 
30-40 minutes, and are followed by discussion until about 2 p.m.. 
Lecturers and participants in the past have included prominent scholars, 
government figures, and business executives in the fields of 
international relations and telecommunication. Majid Tehranian, Research 
Affiliate of the Program on Information Resources Policy and Senior 
Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, chairs the 
seminar 1994-95.  


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