Daily Briefing - Tuesday, November 9, 2010

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Kevin Gallagher on China/Latin America, Sylvia Tiwon on Obama in Indonesia, and Sean Wilentz on Obama and the election.

Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of International Economics at Boston University, and senior researcher at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. He specializes in global economic and development policy, with an emphasis on Latin America. His new book, with Roberto Porzecanski, is The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization.

Sylvia Tiwon is a Professor in the South and Southeast Asian Studies Department at UC Berkeley. She is on the advisory board of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures and on the editorial board of the journal Critical Asian Studies. Her work includes the book, Breaking the Spell: Colonialism and Literary Renaissance in Indonesia.

Sean Wilentz is a professor at Princeton University and is currently a Times Foundation Fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic and his books include The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln and The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008. His latest book is Bob Dylan in America.

Special announcement:

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 7pm

HAMMER Conversation

And the Winner is...the Television Networks!

with Eason Jordan and Toby Miller moderated by Ian Masters

Billy Wilder Theater

With a large portion of the money that politicians raise for campaigns going to the television networks, do the media monopolies have any incentive to fix a system from which they benefit so profitably? Former CNN chief news executive and president of newsgathering and international networks, Eason Jordan joins us to provide a perspective on the choice between social responsibility and the corporate bottom line. Leading media and culture scholar Toby Miller also joins us to examine the medium from which most voters get their political information.

HAMMER FORUM - This ongoing series of timely, thought-provoking dialogues addresses current social and political issues. Hammer Forum is moderated by Ian Masters, journalist, author, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and host of the radio program Background Briefing, Sundays at 11AM, and The Daily Briefing, Monday through Thursday at 5PM, on KPFK 90.7 FM.

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