Global Justice and Human Rights

Speaker: 
Noam Chomsky
 
11 Apr 2006
 
8:00 PM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union

Noam Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. His published works include: Language and Mind; American Power and the New Mandarins; For Reasons of State; Peace in the Middle East?; Reflections on Language; The Political Economy of Human Rights, Vol. I and II (with E.S. Herman); Fateful Triangle; Knowledge of Language; 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; and World Orders, Old and New.He is on faculty in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He held the Ferrari P. Ward Professorship of Modern Languages and Linguistics, and was appointed Institute Professor. Part of the World Affairs Series.