The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation is delighted to invite you to a seminar with Helmut Anheier, Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy Director, Centre for Civil Society and Centre for Globalisation and Policy Research on the Global Cultural Futures project
RSVP: infocci@qut.edu.au by Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Abstract:
Global Cultural Futures (GCF) is a new international project to be launched in the framework of the Cultures and Globalization Series (Sage Publications). Envisioned as a versatile, information-rich and user-friendly website with various components, GCF is to take the place of the Series with the completion of its fifth volume in 2011 or 2012. The seminar will present the major contours of the project, which will involve CCI as a major partner, and then open the floor to debate.
Bio:
Helmut K. Anheier (Ph.D. Yale University, 1986) is incoming Dean (Director) of the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin; Professor of Sociology, Heidelberg University, and Academic Director of the Center for Social Investment and Professor of Sociology. From 2001 to 2009 he was Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. He founded and directed the Centre for Civil Society at LSE (1998-2002), the Center for Civil Society at UCLA (2001-2009), and the Center for Globalization and Policy Research (2004-2008), also at UCLA. Prior to this he was a Senior Research Associate and Project Co-director at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. Before embarking on an academic career, Dr. Anheier served as Social Affairs Officer to the United Nations.
Dr. Anheier’s work has focused on civil society, culture, organizational studies, policy analysis and comparative methodology. He is author of over 300 publications, including over thirty authored and edited books. He has won several national and international awards, including the 2006 PNP Best Book Award of the American Academy of Management. He is currently researching the intersection of globalization, civil society, and culture, and interested in methodological questions. Dr. Anheier serves on the board of several scholarly and philanthropic organizations.
