Marc Raboy will speak about Marconi at Carleton University in Ottawa for the Dante Alighieri Society on May 25th at 6:30 pm. The lecture is in room 252 in the MacOdrum Library. More information is available here.
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CBC Ideas re-broadcasts Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
CBC Ideas with Paul Kennedy is re-broadcasting the episode Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World. Listen here.
Marc Raboy to speak at Ryerson and McMaster
Marc Raboy will speak at Ryerson University on Thursday March 23rd, at 7 pm. The event, organized by Prof. Jeremy Shtern, is sponsored by The Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD), the Ryerson School of Creative Industries and The Global Communication Governance Lab. Venue: Rogers Communications Centre, room 204 …
Busy week in Toronto for RBC Taylor Prize finalists
RBC Taylor finalists Max Eisen, Matti Friedman, Ross King, Marc Raboy, and Diane Schoemperlen will have five days of activities in Toronto in early March, leading up to the Prize award on Monday, March 6. On Thursday, March 2, at 7 pm, the five finalists will appear in a round-table discussion moderated by the Globe …
Marc Raboy speaks at Atwater Library
Marc Raboy focussed on Marconi’s many local connections during a lunchtime talk at Montreal’s Atwater Library. One of the highlights – not included in his book! – was the story of McGill University’s unsuccessful efforts to prevent Marconi from erecting a radio transmitter on top of Mount Royal because it feared the signal would interfere …
Marconi honoured by Association of American Publishers
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World was one of two books awarded Honorable Mention in the category of Biography and Autobiography, by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. The Association’s annual PROSE awards honour the year’s best professional and scholarly books, journals and electronic publications in 53 categories. …
Marc Raboy interviewed on San Francisco radio KGO
CBC Ideas broadcasts Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World was the topic of the November 10th edition of CBC’s Ideas. Marc Raboy took Ideas producer David Gutnik on a tour of Marconi’s various influences in the city of Montreal. The full episode — and more — is available for streaming here.
Marconi Society awards ceremony
I will be speaking at the Marconi Society‘s annual awards event in Palo Alto, California, November 1. See their blog post about the book.
Marc Raboy to speak next week at London School of Economics and Political Science
Marc Raboy will be speaking about his new book at LSE’s Department of Media and Communications on Tuesday, October 11th at 6:30.The name of the talk is The Man Who Networked the World: Guglielmo Marconi and the invention of modern communication. For more details, please visit the LSE event page. #LSERaboy