Please join us for a free online discussion of Mariano Zarowsky’s From the Chilean Laboratory to World-Communication: Armand Mattelart’s Intellectual Journey, newly translated from its original Spanish and published as an open access book. The session will include simultaneous English-Spanish interpretation. * Armand Mattelart’s Intellectual Journey: An Online Discussion * 23 October 2025, 14:00 UTC (10 am EDT/11 am Buenos Aires/4 pm Paris): 60 minutes Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/94536961890 ## Discussants: * Mariano Zarowsky, Universidad de Buenos Aires * Peter Simonson, University of Colorado Boulder * Sarah Cordonnier, Université Lyon II * Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University * Janet Wasko, with Jeremy Swartz, University of Oregon ## Open access book https://www.mediastudies.press/from-the-chilean-laboratory-to-world-communic... ## More info https://www.mediastudies.press/zarowsky-discussion ## Description Join Mariano Zarowsky, Peter Simonson, Sarah Cordonnier, Silvio Waisbord, and Janet Wasko (with Jeremy Swartz) for a discussion of Zarowsky’s From the Chilean Laboratory to World-Communication: Armand Mattelart’s Intellectual Journey, recently translated into English by William Quinn and published as an open access book with a new Foreword by Simonson. This Zoom session, sponsored by mediastudies.press, marks the publication of the translation with a discussion of the work’s significance by the panelists. Zarowsky’s book follows Armand Mattelart’s intellectual trajectory through Cold War geopolitics and the rise of critical communication studies in Latin America and Europe. First published in Spanish, Zarowsky’s study traces Mattelart’s path from his early work in demography and law, through his political engagement in Salvador Allende’s Chile, to his later role in shaping debates in France and globally on media, cultural politics, and transnational communication. The book offers a rich account of Mattelart’s life and work, and the shifting political, institutional, and epistemological contexts that shaped his thinking and progressive activism. Along the way, it illuminates his distinctive style of research in relation to Anglophone political economy and other strands of critical research. In doing so, Zarowsky positions Mattelart as a theorist whose work emerged from—and continues to speak to—global struggles over culture, knowledge, and power and relations between the Global North and South. As the first English edition of Zarowsky’s landmark study, the book will appeal to scholars of critical communication studies, Latin American and transnational cultural theory, and those working on the history of the social sciences across global contexts. Mariano Zarowsky is a researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). His research intersects the history of intellectuals, communication studies, and political culture in Argentina and Latin America. He is the author of Allende en la Argentina: intelectuales, prensa y edición entre lo local y lo global (1970–1976) (2023), and Los estudios en comunicación en la Argentina: ideas, intelectuales, tradiciones político-culturales, 1956–1985 (2017). mediastudies.press (https://mediastudies.press) is a scholar-led, nonprofit, no-fee open access publisher in the media, film, and communication studies fields. Questions? Email press@mediastudies.press