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September 25, 2007

POPULAR CULTURE SCHOLAR VISITS GRINNELL COLLEGE

Grinnell College's Center for the Humanities will host a lecture by popular culture scholar Lawrence Grossberg on Oct. 4 at 4:15 p.m. in the Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 101, on the Grinnell College campus. Grossberg, who is a distinguished visiting professor at Grinnell this semester, will discuss "Bastards of Young: Is This Any Way to Make the Future?," taking an interdisciplinary look at social life, youth culture, media and politics, and a glimpse into the field of cultural studies that he has helped to pioneer.

Grossberg, who is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has published more than 100 articles and essays on popular music and youth culture, the philosophy and theory of culture and communication, and postmodernism. His most recent book is "Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics, and America's Future."

Grossberg is the second of four lecturers sponsored by Grinnell College's Center for the Humanities this semester on the topic of "thinking interdiciplinarity." The visiting professors spend three weeks each on the campus, teaching upper-level seminars and public lectures. To learn more about the program, go to http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/CentHumanities/. The Rosenfield Center is located at 1115 8th Ave. on the Grinnell College campus.