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In the 1960s many social scientists saw \u201cmodernization\u201d as a process of cultural and political convergence driven by technology. Then people in Iran got cassette decks \u2013 and used them to listen to tapes of Ayatollah Khomeini. Now both critics and promoters of \u201cGlobalization\u201d may believe it is making the world ever more like the U.S. Yet how are American technology and culture in fact influencing the rest of the world?<\/p>\n
In How American is Globalization? Bill Marling looks at developments from film and television to food and gender; from the internet and ATMs to who actually owns some of the most prominent \u201cAmerican\u201d brands. His analysis combines history, cultural criticism, and economics, and yields an ironic answer \u2013 \u201cless than we think\u201d but \u201cmore than we know.\u201d Join us to learn why seeing logos for McDonalds and Burger King, KFC and Mister Donut outside a Tokyo train station is not very important \u2013 and what is.<\/p>\n
The Friday Lunch is a brown-bag event open to all.\u00a0 Cookies and some beverages are provided.<\/p>\n
The remainder of this e-mail reports what we know about the schedule for the rest of the semester. We will be sending out announcements each week. If you would prefer not to receive the announcements, please inform Dr. Andrew Lucker, Associate Director of the Center for Policy Studies, by e-mail (andrew.lucker@case.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n William H. Marling’s<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0first love was and is Modernism — his dissertation and first book were on the poet William Carlos Williams. Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Marcel Duchamp, Djuna Barnes, and e.e. cummings are other Modernists with whom he values for their play with words, technique, and vision. Looking back, he sees that most of his work has been concerned with the way that visual values, from painting to film, from material objects and popular culture, appear in literature. After his book on Williams, Bill Marling turned to detective novelists. He is also interested in Raymond Chandler, and did a book on him, and finally wrote\u00a0The American Roman Noir<\/em>, incorporating the films that grew from these novels. Most recently Bill Marling has written about the export of American popular culture and globalization:\u00a0How \u2018American\u2019 is Globalization?\u00a0<\/em>(2006). He is currently at work on a book about the import\/export of World Literature.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n April 4: Jerry Floersch PhD, LISW, Associate Professor in MSASS, “The Psychosocial and Sociocultural Dimensions of Prescribing Psychiatric Medication to Adolescents.”<\/p>\n April 11: David Matthiesen, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, will lead a discussion on \u201cEnergy and Alternative Energy Policy in Ohio.\u201d<\/p>\n April 18: Megan Whalen Turner fiction writer for young adults and author of,\u00a0Instead Of Three Wishes,<\/em>\u00a0The Thief,<\/em>\u00a0The Queen of Attolia<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The King of Attolia<\/em>; Anne Ursu is the author of the novels\u00a0Spilling Clarence<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Disapparation of James<\/em>, Joe White Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Chair, Department if Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, will discuss, “Moral Dilemmas in Politics and Fiction.”<\/p>\n The Friday Lunch discussions are held on the lower (ground) level of Visitors then can avoid walking up the hill to the first floor of Crawford by entering the building on the ground level, through the garage area under the building.\u00a0 The further door on the left in that garage will be left unlocked during the period before the Friday lunch.\u00a0 On occasion, parking will be unavailable because of other university events.<\/p>\n For more information about these and other Center for Policy Studies programs, please see\u00a0http:\/\/policy.case.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" William H. Marling, Ph.D. – Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University In the 1960s many social scientists saw \u201cmodernization\u201d as a process of cultural and political convergence driven by technology. Then people in Iran got cassette decks \u2013 and used them to listen to tapes of Ayatollah Khomeini. Now both critics and promoters of \u201cGlobalization\u201d may believe it is making the world ever more like the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAbout Our Guest<\/h3>\n
<\/div>\nFriday Lunch and Other Public Affairs Upcoming Topics and Speakers:<\/h3>\n
\nCrawford Hall.\u00a0 Visitors with mobility issues may find it easiest to take advantage of special arrangements we have made.\u00a0 On most Fridays, a few parking spaces in the V.I.P. lot in between Crawford Hall and Amasa Stone Chapel are held for participants in the lunch discussion.<\/p>\n
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\nFriday March 28, 2008
\n12:30-1:30 p.m.
\nCrawford Hall – Room 9
\nInamori Center
\nCase Western Reserve University
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