20th Killian Award Lecture (1992) - Noam Chomsky, ...
20th Killian Award Lecture (1992) - Noam Chomsky, "Language: The Cognitive ...
Professor Noam Chomsky delivers the 20th annual James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award and Lecture, titled "Language: the Cognitive Revolutions," on April 8, 1992. The Killian Award was established in 1971 to recognize extraordinary professional ...
Noam Chomsky on the Responsibility of Intellectuals: Redux
Noam Chomsky on the Responsibility of Intellectuals: Redux
September 22, 2011 - MIT Wong Auditorium - In 1967, as the Vietnam War escalated, Noam Chomsky penned The Responsibility of Intellectuals, a stunning rebuke to scientists and scholars for their subservience to political power. Today we face a similar array of crises, ...
Noam Chomsky on Gaza in Crisis
Noam Chomsky on Gaza in Crisis
Noam Chomsky addresses the ongoing crisis in Gaza followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. Joining Chomsky is Nancy Murray, the director of education at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts. She is the author of Rights Matter: the Story of the Bill of ...
Noam Chomsky Addresses the Gaza Crisis
Noam Chomsky Addresses the Gaza Crisis
Noam Chomsky addresses the crisis in Gaza followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. The public event will be on Tuesday, January 13, at 4p, in the Wong Auditorium, MIT Bldg E51.
James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award--Noam Chomsky
James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award--Noam Chomsky
Since its inception, the James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award has celebrated numerous extraordinary MIT faculty. Yet the rare feat of being "the most cited living author" as highlighted by Professor J. Kim Vandiver of the 1991-92 Killian Award recipient, ...
The Idea of Universality in Linguistics and Human Rights
Noam Chomsky & Elizabeth Spelke: The Idea of Universality in Linguistics ...
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT; Elizabeth S. Spelke, Professor of Psychology Co-Director, Mind, Brain, and Behavior Inter-faculty Initiative, Harvard University. If humans have a common, in-born capacity for language, and for such complex behaviors as morality, ...
Chomsky on Gaza
Chomsky on Gaza
01/13/2009 4:00 PM WongNoam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: While he admits to no surprise about events in Gaza, Noam Chomsky does consider "the latest U.S."Israeli attack on helpless Palestinians" a step beyond terrorism and aggression. He says "some new term is needed for the ...
Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East
Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT Description: U.S. actions in Iraq get a thorough thrashing in this final chapter of the Reconstructing Iraq series. First, Yosef Jabareen sprints through editorial page cartoons from Arab print media, which represent the U.S. as immoral, abusive, greedy ...
The New War Against Terror
The New War Against Terror
10/18/2001 Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITAbout the Speaker(s): Noam Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. A brief sampling of his prolific work includes: The Logical Structure of ...
Institutions vs. People: Will the Species Self"Destruct?
Institutions vs. People: Will the Species Self"Destruct?
04/10/2001 Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITAbout the Speaker(s): ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Noam Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. A brief sampling of his prolific work ...
The Current Crisis in the Middle East
The Current Crisis in the Middle East
09/21/2006 7:00 PM 32-123Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: True to form, Noam Chomsky makes a sweeping and copiously detailed indictment of U.S. Middle East policy, brooking no contrary or alternate views. His history-filled lecture (interrupted by occasional applause) focuses ...
The Biology of the Language Faculty: Its Perfection, Past ...
The Biology of the Language Faculty: Its Perfection, Past and Future
10/19/2007 2:00 PM Wong AuditoriumNoam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: Noam Chomsky, around whose work much of the Syntax series revolves, gives listeners a glimpse into the evolution of his own thinking, with an emphasis on areas of linguistics where ...
Gaza in Crisis
Gaza in Crisis
01/21/2011 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumNoam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT; Nancy Murray, Co"founder and President, Gaza Mental Health FoundationDescription: Two speakers steeped in the ongoing crisis of the Middle East describe abominable conditions for Palestinians living inside Gaza, which ...
The Militarization of Science and Space
The Militarization of Science and Space
02/15/2004 1:00 PM KresgeNoam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: Chomsky launches a savage, two-pronged assault on national economic policies and efforts at "global dominationEUR.By now the stakes are so high that issues of survival arise," says Chomsky. The basic principle ...
Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of ...
Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli ...
02/22/2010 4:30 PM 66"110Victor Kattan, Fellow, University of London; Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: Given the volume of writing on the Arab"Israeli conflict, "you might think that everything has been said," says Noam Chomsky. But Victor Kattan's ...
Revisiting Port Huron
Revisiting Port Huron
April 11, 2012The Port Huron Statement, this year celebrating its 50th anniversary, was the manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society and a foundational text of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s. Tom Hayden, the statement’s primary author, joins Noam Chomsky, ...
Structure Dependence, the Rational Learner, and Putnam's ...
Structure Dependence, the Rational Learner, and Putnam's "Sane Person"
10/19/2007 1:20 PM Wong AuditoriumHoward Lasnik, PhD '72, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland; Juan Uriagereka, Professor, University of MarylandDescription: Young children say many surprising and funny things _ funny, ...
Vietnam Remembered
Vietnam Remembered
In this bitter commemoration of the end of the Vietnam War, the speakers dispel any comforting notion that Americans have absorbed lessons from that bloody time, much less sought the truth.
Pinker's Farewell
Pinker's Farewell
09/25/2003 5:00 PM BartosSteven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology; Harvard University; ; Jay Keyser, Peter de Florez Emeritus Professor of Linguistics Description: In this personal and reflective event, Pinker looks back at twenty plus years at MIT and shares his deep ...
Keynote Panel: The Golden Age -- A Look at the Original ...
Keynote Panel: The Golden Age -- A Look at the Original Roots of ...
2 ?Moderator: Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University * Emilio Bizzi, MIT Institute Professor; Founding Member, McGovern Institute for Brain Research * Sydney Brenner, Senior Distinguished ...