Satellite Seminars Alpha Upsilon Lamba Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Society presents How does popular culture shape and reflect who we are? You are invited to attend one or all of the following satellite seminars.

Born to Buy: Advertising and the New Consumer -- November 8 at 7:30 p.m. - Q&A to follow.
Presenter: Dr. Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Harvard University for 17 years in the Department of Economics and served on the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies. Schor's latest book, Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture, is both an account of marketing to children from inside the agencies and firms and an assessment of how these activities are affecting children.

Jesus in America: Personal Savior and Cultural Hero -- November 15 at 7:30 p.m. - Q&A to follow.
Presenter: Dr. Richard Wightman Fox is Professor of History at the University of Southern California, where he specializes in American cultural and intellectual history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is author of several books, including his latest, Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession. He also co-edited an important cultural studies reader, The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History.

All sessions will be held in the North Instructional Center in rooms 532/534 at the Muncie Campus of Ivy Tech Community College at 4301 S. Cowan Road, Muncie, IN 47302.

For information contact: Karen Berrier, co-chair, at (765) 289-2291, ext. 394 or e-mail kberrier@ivytech.edu - For additional info to go www.ptk.org.

Refreshments served one-half hour prior to broadcast.

Published: October 20th, 2005

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