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Monday 30th November 2015

Join us as we celebrate 15 Years of Global Media at LSE in style!

The Shaw Library will be the wonderful venue for our anniversary seminar, which will kick off with a keynote speaker and will be follow by an alumni panel. Our list of speakers for the panel includes LSE’s Director, Professor Craig Calhoun, Dr Raka Shome of the National University of Singapore, and several of our Global alumni.

The seminar will be followed by a very special gala dinner in LSE’s Senior Common Room. Dine in academic style with your fellow Media alumni along with the professors who taught you at LSE.

Shaw Library  

3-3.15pm             Introduction from Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of LSE

3.15-3.30pm       Welcome from Professor Terhi Rantanen, Programme Director, MSc Global Media &

                               Communications with USC

3.30-4.15pm        Keynote speaker Dr Raka Shome, Visiting Senior Fellow at the National

                               University of Singapore: "Critical reflections on 'dewesternizing'  media/communication

                               studies - and the limits of a 'comparative' perspective"

                               Chair: Dr Bingchun Meng, Programme Director, MSc Global Media & 

                               Communications with Fudan University

                               Discussant: Dr Wendy Willems, Programme Director, MSc Global Media &

                               Communications with UCT

4.15-4.30pm        Discussion and Q&A

4.30-4.45pm        Break 

4.45-5.45pm        Alumni panel: Hélène Barrot, Ariel Margalith, Jonas Schorr, Vivienne Xu and Joanna Zhang

                               Chaired by Dr Patricia Riley, USC Associate Professor and Director, MA in

                               Global Communications

5.45-6pm             Closing remarks

Senior Common Room  

6-7pm                    Drinks reception

7pm                        Dinner   

We do hope you will be able to join us for this once in a lifetime event. Please spread the word among your fellow Media alumni – and see you in London!  

LSE Media & Communications Department