Celeste Condit, professor in the University of Georgia Department of Communication Studies, will deliver the 2012 Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Lecture in Communication Studies at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 16 in room 101 of the Becker Communication Studies Building.

Condit's lecture, "Changing Feelings for Governance and Globalization," will draw on her work in communication in government and social movements.

Condit serves the University of Georgia Department of Communication Studies as a distinguished research professor. She is currently exploring the relationship of biological and symbolic facets of human being in producing human experience and human social structures. She has recently studied public understanding of genetics and public communication about genetics, with emphasis in gene-environment interaction and "race."

For more information about Condit's work, visit her websites:

Condit's Attic, whichincludes unpublished papers and workshop notes related to a biosymbolic approach to understanding human interaction. Investigations of discourse that focus on emotion and on public understanding of genetics are included.

The Transilience Projecta website that includes a book-length manuscript describing an orientation to matter, which argues that matter arranged in fundamentally different ways—physical, biological, and symbolic—evinces fundamentally different capacities and properties. This model materialist perspective is then applied to questions of human society.

The Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Lectureship was established in honor of Professor Emeritus Sam Becker and is delivered annually by a prominent scholar in the field who has made important contributions to the advancement of communication research. Becker was on the Department of Communication Studies faculty from 1950 to 1993, serving as department chair from 1968 to 1982.

The Department of Communication Studies is part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the UI.