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Cory Doctorow: Coming soon to Los Angeles

Great scoop from Mack Reed at L.A. Voice — Cory Doctorow is coming to teach at the University of Southern California (Jeremy’s and my alma mater):

Novelist and BB blogger Cory Doctorow is joining USC’s Center on Public Diplomacy to teach a graduate course and deliver some guest lectures starting next fall.

All school pride aside, we here at Blogebrity hope this means a series of BoingBoing L.A. ubersummits are in the cards as well.

The press release:

Canadian Scholar Joins USC Center on Public Diplomacy
Technology editor Cory Doctorow is named first holder of the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy.

Canadian novelist and technology visionary Cory Doctorow will join the USC Center on Public Diplomacy as a visiting scholar beginning in September, the Canadian Fulbright Commission announced.

Doctorow, who edits the widely read culture and technology blog site Boing Boing, will be the first to hold the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy.

In his new role, Doctorow will collaborate with USC faculty and students, teach a graduate course in public diplomacy, and deliver guest lectures to the wider community.

I’m looking forward to being part of the academic discourse on the ways that technology can either liberate or control us,” Doctorow said.

While at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, the scholar will conduct leading-edge research, teach a graduate course in public diplomacy, collaborate with USC faculty and students, and deliver guest lectures to the wider community.

“In an era in which technology is changing the very rules by which people around the world learn about each other, it is critical that public diplomacy be current,” said Joshua S. Fouts, director of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. “Cory Doctorow will bring a valuable perspective to the discussion taking place here at USC.”

Doctorow’s chair is being co-sponsored by USC’s Integrated Media Systems Center.

“We are excited by this opportunity to work with such a visionary as Cory Doctorow as we continue our research on experiential media for education, journalism and entertainment,” said Adam Clayton Powell III, director of the Integrated Media Systems Center at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

Canada is increasingly recognized as being on the forefront of innovation and scholarly thought in the public diplomacy sphere. The partnership is designed to attract the country’s most prominent scholars to USC’s Center on Public Diplomacy, a global leader in studying how countries communicate about themselves to citizens of other countries.

A different notable Canadian will come to USC each year.

“The research agenda advanced by this new Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy is particularly important in the context of today�s increasingly complex international environment,” said Michael K. Hawes, executive director of the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program.

Supported by Foreign Affairs Canada and the United States Department of State, and a number of private sector partners, the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program promotes a deeper and more nuanced knowledge of Canada-US relations and builds mutual understanding between the two countries through high-level academic exchange. The Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chairs are designed to strengthen binational collaborative research on issues relevant to Canada, the United States and the relationship between the two countries. For more information, visit www.fulbright.ca.

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