John Durham Peters will be visiting McGill from March 5th to March 15th, 2007. He  is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (Chicago, 1999) and Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition (Chicago, 2005), is a co-editor of Canonic Texts in Media Research (Cambridge, 2003), and Mass Communication and American Social Thought (Boulder, 2004), and is the author of over 50 articles and book chapters.