On Thursday, January 16, 2025, Communication and Media Studies, the Institute of Political Economy, and the Carleton Climate Commons are excited to welcome Professor Wayne Hope of the Auckland University of Technology for a talk based on his book "The Anthropocene, Global Capitalism and Global Futures: Times Out of Joint." Light refreshments will be provided.

About the Speaker
Professor Wayne Hope’s primary research focus concerns time, globality and capitalism. He has authored Time, Communication and Global Capitalism (Palgrave 2016) and The Anthropocene, Global Capitalism and Global Futures: Times out of joint (Palgrave 2024). Related research has appeared in The International Journal of Communication, Time and Society and Triple C: Capitalism, Communication and Critique. Professor Hope is joint editor of an online IAMCR journal entitled Political Economy of Communication. He is co-director of the Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) research centre at the Auckland University of Technology and comments regularly on media-politics in blogs, podcasts and the news media.