{"69295":{"#nid":"69295","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Celebrating the Lotus Revolution in the Middle East","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts (IAC) and the School of History, Technology and Society (HTS) are holding an event celebrating the \u0022Lotus Revolution\u0022 in parts of the Middle East. The keynote speaker is James Harkin. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChaired by\u0026nbsp;IAC Dean Jacqueline J. Royster, the presentation also includes\u0026nbsp;Laura Bier, Assistant Professor, HTS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJames Harkin is a writer and social critic who writes regularly for\u0026nbsp;the Guardian and the Financial Times and has also written for the London Review of Books and The Economist.\u0026nbsp;Educated at St. Malachy\u0027s College Belfast, King\u0027s College London, and Hertford College Oxford, Harking was a\u0026nbsp;lecturer in social and political theory and political economy at the University of Oxford. He is an\u0026nbsp;analyst of global social, political and technological trends (or \u0027futurologist\u0027) and has worked at\u0026nbsp;think-tanks including The Intelligence Factory in New York, and Demos in London, as well as other in continental Europe.\u0026nbsp;He has also served as Director of Talks at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHarkin was the associate producer of Adam Curtis\u0027s three-part series, \u0022The Trap: What happened to our dream of freedom?,\u0022 which aired on BBC2 in March 2007. His book based on his columns for the Guardian, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Big-Ideas-Essential-Latest-Thinking\/dp\/1843547104\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;q\u0022\u003EBig Ideas: The Essential Guide To The Latest Thinking\u003C\/a\u003E, was published in February 2008, and has been translated into Polish, Spanish and Korean. His new book is \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cyburbia-Dangerous-Idea-Thats-Changing\/dp\/1408701146\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1227711421\u0026amp;sr=8-5\u0022\u003ECyburbia: The dangerous idea that\u0027s changing how we live and who we are\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Currently, he is researching a new book looking at the influence of game theory and cybernetics on contemporary Western politics and culture, and the relationships between them. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn event celebrating\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;\u0022Lotus Revolution\u0022 in parts of the Middle East.\u0026nbsp;Keynote\u0026nbsp;address is by human rights\u0026nbsp;speaker, James Harkin.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"IAC\/HTS celebrate the Middle East\u0027s \u0022Lotus Revolution\u0022 with human rights speaker James Harkin"}],"uid":"27385","created_gmt":"2011-08-12 17:31:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:55:22","author":"Carol Silvers","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-09-14T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-09-14T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-09-14T19:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-09-14 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-09-14 23:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-09-14 23:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"69708":{"id":"69708","type":"image","title":"James Harkin","body":null,"created":"1449177264","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:24","changed":"1475894611","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:31","alt":"James Harkin","file":{"fid":"192825","name":"james_harkin_2_200x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/james_harkin_2_200x300_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/james_harkin_2_200x300_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":35919,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/james_harkin_2_200x300_0.jpg?itok=-5TWpuCf"}},"69709":{"id":"69709","type":"image","title":"Cyburbia by James Harkins","body":null,"created":"1449177264","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:24","changed":"1475894611","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:31","alt":"Cyburbia by James Harkins","file":{"fid":"192826","name":"harkins_cyburbia_cover_200x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/harkins_cyburbia_cover_200x300_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/harkins_cyburbia_cover_200x300_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":83056,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/harkins_cyburbia_cover_200x300_0.jpg?itok=x8EiYTFd"}}},"media_ids":["69708","69709"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/jamesharkin","title":"James Harkin\u0027s profile on the Guardian"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4806","name":"human rights"},{"id":"13992","name":"James Harkin"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Krige, Kranzberg Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, School of History, Technology and Society\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;404-894-7765\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:john.krige@hts.gatech.ed\u0022\u003Ejohn.krige@hts.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}