NOAM CHOMSKY
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Monday night, April 10 at 7 at the Englert Theater
Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual
history, contemporary issues, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy.
His works on contemporary issues, international affairs, and U.S. foreign policy
include: American Power and the New Mandarins; At War with Asia; For Reasons
of State; Peace in the Middle East?; The Political Economy of Human Rights,
Vol. I and II (with E.S. Herman); Towards a New Cold War; Radical Priorities;
Fateful Triangle; Turning the Tide; Pirates and Emperors; On Power and Ideology;
Language and Problems of Knowledge; The Culture of Terrorism; Manufacturing
Consent (with E.S. Herman); Necessary Illusions; Deterring Democracy;
Year 501; Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War and US Political Culture;
World Orders, Old and New; Powers and Prospects; The Common Good; Profit
Over People; The New Military Humanism; Rogue States; A New Generation Draws
the Line; 9-11; and Understanding Power. His works on linguistics
include: Aspects of the Theory of Syntax; Sound Pattern of English
(with Morris Halle); Language and Mind; Reflections on Language; The Minimalist
Program; New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind; Syntactic Structures;
Rules and Representations;. Lectures on Government and Binding; and Knowledge
of Language.
Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. His undergraduate and graduate years were spent at the University
of Pennsylvania where he received his PhD in linguistics in 1955. During the
years 1951 to 1955, Chomsky was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society
of Fellows. Chomsky joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1955 and in 1961 was appointed full professor in the Department of Modern
Languages and Linguistics (now the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.)
From 1966 to 1976 he held the Ferrari P. Ward Professorship of Modern Languages
and Linguistics. In 1976 he was appointed Institute Professor.
During the years 1958 to 1959 Chomsky was in residence
at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, NJ. In the spring of 1969
he delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford; in January 1970 he delivered
the Bertrand Russell Memorial Lecture at Cambridge University; in 1972, the
Nehru Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, and in 1977, the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden,
among many others.