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This address examines select communication regimes deployed to frame, legitimate, contest, and transform the "New War" on terror into a war with Iraq and beyond.
In particular, globalization, deterrence, cosmopolitanism, and nationalism are considered in the post 9/11 contexts. The talk concludes with a discussion of the duties and dialectics of postwar civic cultures.
G.Thomas Goodnight has taught in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University since 1975. In the research field of argumentation his interests include foreign policy issues, rhetoric, criticism, and social theory. He earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kansas.
The author of many scholarly essays, Goodnight is at work on two book-length manuscripts, one on the theory of controversy and the other dealing with the relationship between controversy, memory, and critical imagination.
The initiative entitled ONEUSC represents the university's response to war in Iraq. Coordinated by Rabbi Susan Laemmle, Dean of Religious Life, it includes principles and programs that strengthen academic and community values, promoting open debate and civil discussion. See the ONEUSC Web site (http://www.usc.edu/oneusc) for more information on other scheduled events.
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