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For Immediate Release:	September 21, 1998
Contact: Brien Hallett, Matsunaga Institute for Peace, 956-7427

Additional speakers for TV series on globalization announced The complete lineup of programs and speakers for the University of Hawai'i public affairs series on globalization has been announced by the University of Hawai'i's College of Social Sciences and the Matsunaga Institute for Peace.   Sept. 22: Peter Manicas, sociology professor, "The Demise of Local Culture." Sept. 29: Rebecca Knuth, library and information studies assistant professor, "The Globalization of Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance." Oct.. 6: Fred Riggs, political science professor, "Globalization." Oct. 13: Panel on Hawaii and Globalization. Oct. 20: Randall Larsen, communications and information sciences, "The Arrow, the Hunter, and the Transnational Media Conglomerate: Suggestions for a New Social Theory of Media Globalization." Oct. 27: Song Chang Zoo, political science, "Response of Korean Entrepreneurs to Globalization." and Richard Salvador, political science, "Indigenous Peoples and Globalization." Nov. 10: Morris Fetherman, decision sciences. Nov. 17: Su Hui-I, sociology, "Globalization of Health Care." Nov. 24: Jon Goldberg-Hiller, political science assistant professor, "New Collective Responses to Globalization." Dec. 1: Anthony Marsella, psychology professor, "Global-Community Psychology." Dec. 8: Ralph Summy, Matsunaga Institute for Peace director, "The Politics of Globalization: Implications for Democracy."   Programs are broadcast statewide on public access channels on Tuesdays until Dec. 8 (except Election Day, November 3). Air time is 7:00-8:30 p.m. on Channel 55 on Oahu, Channel 12 on Maui, Channel 13 in Kona, and Channel 4 in Hilo. The program is shown Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. on Channel 10 on Kaua'i.   The series brings together faculty and students from different disciplines within the university to debate and discuss the complex issues growing out of globalization from historical, political, social, and psychological perspectives. Each program begins with a 15-minute presentation, followed by discussion, debate, and criticism. The weekly globalization series began in August. Programs that have already been broadcast featured Jerry Bentley, history professor, "Historical Globalization"; Majid Tehranian, communications professor, "Communications and Globalization"; Deane Neubauer, political science professor, "Growing Effects of Income Inequalities"; and Andrew Arno, communications associate professor, "The Resurgence of Local Culture."

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