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Dean's Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky "Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours"

Dean's Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky "Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours"

Dean's Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky "Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours"

College of Arts and Humanities Friday, January 27, 2012 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dekelboum Concert Hall

Noam Chomsky will share his ideas aboutlanguage and politics in this second discussion for the Dean's Lecture Series.


"Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours"A talk on politics
Friday, January 27, 2012,7:00 PM
Dekelboum Concert Hall,Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
- Noam Chomsky


"Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive today,” wrote Paul Robinson in The New York Review of Books. The London Times named him one of the thousand “makers of the twentieth century.”


Come hear talks on two of the renowned scientist’s great passions: language (Thursday) and politics (Friday). Chomsky, a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,has written prolifically, taught courses, and lectured widely throughout the world. His ground-breaking research “into the nature of human language and communication” has“had an impact on everything from the way children are taught foreign languages to what it means when we say that we are human."


Chomsky has also earned a place in history as an activist, social critic, and unrelenting and compelling voice in the debate over American politics. Among his recent books areNew Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind,On Nature and Language, Hopes and Prospects, and Gaza in Crisis. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Science and a recipient of the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, the Helmholtz Medal, the Dorothy Eldridge Peacemaker Award, the Ben Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science, and others.

In collaboration with the Department of Linguistics


This event isFREE and OPEN to the public.

Add to Calendar 01/27/12 7:00 PM 01/27/12 9:00 PM America/New_York Dean's Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky "Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours"

Noam Chomsky will share his ideas aboutlanguage and politics in this second discussion for the Dean's Lecture Series.


"Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours"A talk on politics
Friday, January 27, 2012,7:00 PM
Dekelboum Concert Hall,Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
- Noam Chomsky


"Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive today,” wrote Paul Robinson in The New York Review of Books. The London Times named him one of the thousand “makers of the twentieth century.”


Come hear talks on two of the renowned scientist’s great passions: language (Thursday) and politics (Friday). Chomsky, a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,has written prolifically, taught courses, and lectured widely throughout the world. His ground-breaking research “into the nature of human language and communication” has“had an impact on everything from the way children are taught foreign languages to what it means when we say that we are human."


Chomsky has also earned a place in history as an activist, social critic, and unrelenting and compelling voice in the debate over American politics. Among his recent books areNew Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind,On Nature and Language, Hopes and Prospects, and Gaza in Crisis. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Science and a recipient of the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, the Helmholtz Medal, the Dorothy Eldridge Peacemaker Award, the Ben Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science, and others.

In collaboration with the Department of Linguistics


This event isFREE and OPEN to the public.

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center