Upcoming Talks, Interviews & Events
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New!

"The Truth about Money" returns to NPR affiliate station, KZYX, on Friday, December 2, at 9 AM - 10 AM, Pacific Time, with a special edition show about the business of college football, starting with Penn State.

Our guest will be Henry Giroux.

Giroux holds the Global TV Network chair in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Canada.

Professor Giroux's books include the recently-released "Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability?" and "The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex."

Giroux recently wrote, "There is a lot of talk about the culture of silence as if it is simply an offshoot of the need to protect the wealth and power of those in control of Penn State's football empire, but the fact of the matter is the real issue is that higher education has been corrupted by big money, big sports, corporate power, and the search for profits for some time, except that in the age of unabashed free market fundamentalism, it has gotten worse.

He continued, "The issue here is not simply about a morally depraved culture of silence, it is about a university surrendering its mission as a democratic public sphere where students learn to think critically, hold power accountable, and connect knowledge and social relations to the social costs they enact. A university needs real leadership for this type of task, not managerial clones who confuse education with training and engaged research with Pentagon and corporate handouts.

Giroux summed up by saying, "Penn State is now a managerial model of corporate influence and power and the arrogance and bad faith this model breeds is evident in the ways in which everyone acted in the face of this crisis, from Paterno to its ethically challenged president, Graham Spanier. What the public should be asking about this crisis is not what has happened to Penn State but how have so many universities arrived at a similar place in time and history when they are just like any other mega factory and slick shopping mall, divorced from any viable notion of learning and, as we see with Penn State University, any viable sense of ethical and moral responsibility."

Henry Armand Giroux was born September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Armand and Alice Giroux.

Giroux received his Doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon in 1977. He then became professor of education at Boston University from 1977 to 1983. In 1983, he became professor of education and renowned scholar in residence at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where he also served as Director at the Center for Education and Cultural Studies.

He moved to Penn State University, where he took up the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Penn State University from 1992 to May 2004. He also served as the Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies.

Giroux moved to McMaster University in May 2004, where he currently holds the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies.

He is an important part of The Public Intellectuals Project: Critical Education for a Global Democracy. This project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Our show airs at 88.1, 90.5, and 91.5 FM in northern California. We also stream to a national audience, live from the web, at www.kzyx.org

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Recent Past Talks, Interviews & Events
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MAKING MEANING OF 9/11:
LOCAL IMPACTS, GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS

Manhattan Campus, St. John’s University
September 16 – 17, 2011

Friday, September 16, 2011 @ 9AM

“Coming of Age in a Post-9/11 World: Youth, the Crisis of the Social, and the Politics of Disposability”   Henry Giroux

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“Disposable Subjects in a Disposable Society: Youth at the Limits of the Social”

When:   Tuesday, April 5, 2011
                5:30-8:30pm
Where:  Student Center
                2250 N. Sheffield
                Room 120 AB
Free and Open to the Public

The Department of Educational Policy Studies and Research
DePaul University
Lincoln Park Campus
Student Center
2250 N. Sheffield
Room 314AB Chicago, IL 60614
    

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Keynote Speaker: Engaging Hearts and Minds: Equity, Social Justice, and Global Citizenship in Action
“Youth in a Suspect Society”
Centennal College
March 8, 2011

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“Disposable Youth in the Age of Casino Capitalism”
Hosted by the Faculty of Social Work, the Faculty of Education and the SIRG
January 18, 2011

Date: January 18, 2011
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Location: Faculty of Social Work Auditorium,
Kitchener Campus, 120 Duke St. West, Kitchener
Cost: FREE

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Joint PhD in Educational Studies presents:
Dr. Henry Giroux, Keynote Speaker

"Changing Society Through Scholarship"

Monday, July 5th 2010 from 4pm - 6pm.
Alphies, Brock University,
St. Catharines, Ontario   

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April 8, 2010 at 7 p.m.,
Roosevelt Auditorium, Eastern Michigan University

"Educator To Address Today's "War On Youth" And Its Effect On Society"

Giroux, the third and final recipient of Eastern Michigan University’s 2010 John W. Porter Distinguished Chair in Urban Education, will discuss problems facing youth and their effects on society, Thursday, April 8, 7 p.m., Roosevelt Auditorium.

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“America’s Urban Infrastructure: Confronting Her Challenges, Embracing Her Opportunities”
Danforth University Center #276
November 19-20, 2009

Thursday, November 19, 2009
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.  Luncheon Speaker (Umrath Lounge)

“No Bailouts for Youth:  Coming of Age in an Era of Disposability”

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Radio Interview:
Tuesday, August 04, 2009 at 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
Interview on "The Gary Null Show - WNYE" with Gary Null
WNYE (91.5 FM) in NYC - Progressive Radio Network (PRN)
To Listen Live: http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/hosts_cms/1-18.php

The Gary Null Show offers no nonsense investigative coverage of the most important issues of our time—health and healing, science, political and cultural affairs, the environment, corporatism, and spirituality. The program combines provocative interviews, controversial commentary and listener call-ins with the goal to motivate listeners to make fundamental changes in their lives and for the health of society.

The “Conversations with Great Mind” series, features important visionaries and thought leaders of the twenty-first century. Some recent guests have included Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, Erwin Laszlo, Elisabeth Sahtouris, Rupert Sheldrake, Theodore Roszak and Francis Lappe.

Gary can also be heard live on WNYE (91.5 FM) in NYC on Monday thru Friday at Noon, on WPFW (89.3 FM) in Washington DC on Mondays and Tuesdays at 3:00 PM, and in Los Angeles on KPFK (90.7 FM) from Midnight to 5:30 AM on the “Something’s Happening with Roy in Hollywood” show.

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Radio Interview:
Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 10:15 AM ET
Interview on "This is Hell!" with Chuck Mertz
WNUR 89.3 FM ~ Chicago
To Listen Live: http://www.wnur.org
Show archived and podcast at: http://www.thisishell.net
Discussion topic: TruthOut article, "Commodifying Kids: The
Forgotten Crisis."

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The Robert A. Gordon Lecture Series | 09
Humber North Campus
Henry Giroux: "Beyond Bailouts: Youth in a Suspect Society"

In this talk, Dr. Giroux will argue that youth today are
under assault insofar as they face a punishing
market-driven society that treats them largely as
commodities. Poor youth of colour, Dr. Giroux will argue,
are particularly susceptible to the emergence of a youth
crime complex that increasingly subjects them to crude
forms of disciplinary control.

Thursday March 26
12:00-1:30 pm
North Campus
Room: 7th Semester

Everyone Welcome!

This lecture will also be simulcast on Humber TV, Humber Radio (96.9 fm), and Humber Media Services (mediaservices.humber.ca)

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Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 7:05pm ET
Interview on "The Journey Home" with Diego Mulligan
KSFR-101.1FM ~ Santa Fe Public Radio
To Listen Live: http://www.ksfr.org/
Comment/Contact: journeyhome@ksfr.org
Discussion topic: Against the Terror of Neoliberalism

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The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy
Inaugural Launch: March 13-14, 2008 Programme

Friday, March 14:

10:00-11:30 Public Address: Dr. Henry Giroux
Youth and the Politics of Disposability:
Critical Education in the New Gilded Age
Stewart Biology Bldg. S 1/3
1205 Dr. Penfield
McGill University

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Ideas Broadcast time: Weekdays at 9:05 p.m. (9:30 NT) on CBC Radio One Ideas is a program about contemporary thought. It explores social issues, culture and the arts, geopolitics, history, biography, science and technology, and the humanities.

~ Airing on CBC Radio One - Thursday, March 13 at 9:05 p.m.~
THE SUSPECT SOCIETY, Part 1 of 2 CD
The Surveillance Society. The New Authoritarianism. The Age of Paranoid Politics. These terms, and many others, have been used to describe how the political ground has been shifting under us, particularly since 9/11. Terrorism and national security have become obsessive anxieties. Fear and suspicion have become the order of the day. A world-wide initiative has developed that combines a growing machinery of surveillance, assaults on civil liberties and increasing censorship. We are living in what IDEAS producer Mary O’Connell calls “the suspect society.”
Part 2 airs March 20.

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/suspect-society/index.html

~ Airing on CBC Radio One - Thursday, March 20 at 9:05 p.m~
THE SUSPECT SOCIETY, Part 2 CD
The Surveillance Society. The New Authoritarianism. The Age of Paranoid Politics. These terms, and many others, have been used to describe how the political ground has been shifting under us, particularly since 9/11. Terrorism and national security have become obsessive anxieties. Fear and suspicion have become the order of the day. A world-wide initiative has developed that combines a growing machinery of surveillance, assaults on civil liberties and increasing censorship. We are living in what IDEAS producer Mary O’Connell calls “the suspect society.” Conclusion.

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/suspect-society/index.html

To listen tune to CBC Radio / Ideas /

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THE HUMAN CONDITION SERIES - Terror 2008
2nd Annual International Multidisciplinary Conference
May 2-3, 2008
Laurentian University @ Georgian College
Barrie, Ontario

Keynote Speakers 2008

Registration is now open: http://www.eplyevents.com/humancondition

The Human Condition Series is an ongoing series of international, multidisciplinary conferences that seek to address the current state of the human condition. It aims to bring together people from a variety of disciplines to assess a singular topic from artistic, cinematic, literary, ethical, social, political, philosophical, psychological and religious perspectives. We encourage you to share innovative ideas and new ways of thinking and acting. Submissions will be considered on any related theme and we especially welcome papers, reports, works-in-progress, workshops and sessions. This year’s theme is Terror.