Kaiser Kuo, a journalist, technology trend-watcher and member of the popular Chinese rock band Tang Dynasty, will give the next lecture in the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His speech, "Shouting Across the Chasm: Chinese and American Netizens Clash in Cyberspace," is also the Lewis E. Harris Lecture in Public Policy. It will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.

Born in the U. S. to Chinese parents, Kuo lives in China and identifies equally as American and Chinese. Formerly director of digital strategy for the Beijing office of a global advertising agency, Kuo has worked as a technology and business writer for publications such as Time, TimeAsia, China Economic Review, and the South China Morning Post, and currently serves as an adviser for Youku.com, a leading video sharing company in China. He also co-founded China's most famous rock band, Tang Dynasty, and continues to be active in the Chinese music scene. Using the Internet as a starting point, Kuo in his lecture will delve into a number of issues at the heart of disagreements between American and Chinese citizens.

Andrew Wedeman, associate professor of political science and chair of Asian studies at UNL, will give a pre-talk to the lecture at 6:30 p.m. in the Lied Center's Steinhart Room.

All Thompson Forum lectures are free and open to the public, however all events are ticketed. Tickets are free and guarantee a reserved seat. Those interested may reserve Thompson Forum tickets for fall-semester lectures by contacting the Lied Center at (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231. Tickets may also be picked up in person, or ordered by downloading a form at the Thompson Forum Web site. For many lectures, tickets are available at the door, but requesting tickets in advance is recommended.

Thompson Forum lectures will be available live on the Web at unl.edu, Lincoln Time Warner Cable Channel 21, NETSAT 104, UNL campus Channel 8 and UNL's KRNU radio (90.3 FM). Live satellite broadcasts and follow-up discussion will be available in Scottsbluff, North Platte, Kearney, Wayne, Columbus and Omaha.

For 21 years, the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues has brought a diversity of opinions on international and public policy issues to UNL and the citizens of Nebraska, in order to promote understanding and to encourage debate. The forum features forceful speakers who are committed to the issues they address, and seeks balance over the range of programs rather than in each presentation. The forum does not endorse the views of the individual speakers, nor limit their freedom to express their points of view. The Thompson Forum is a cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation, the Lied Center and UNL. In 1990, the series was named in honor of E.N. "Jack" Thompson (1913-2002,) a 1933 graduate of the University of Nebraska, who served as president of the Cooper Foundation from 1964 to 1990 and as its chairman from 1990 until his death.

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