October 5, 2005
I SWEAR I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP
Chomsky, social critic, speaks in Valley next week (Tom Marshall, Daily Hampshire Gazette, 10/5/2005) (Registration required)
Noted linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky will deliver a doubleheader Oct. 11, holding forth on topics from both sides of his prolific career.Clearly, the lecture series is a conservative front. Posted by David Cohen at October 5, 2005 6:38 PMAt 3:30 p.m. he will speak at the University of Massachusetts, giving the linguistics department's annual Donald C. and Margaret H. Freeman Lecture on ''Biolinguistic Explorations: Design, Development, Evolution'' in the Student Union Ballroom.
And later that day, Chomsky will deliver the annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture at Hampshire College, speaking on ''Democracy Promotion, Past and Present: Rhetoric and Reality'' at 7:30 p.m. in the Robert Crown Center. . . .
But Chomsky's political critiques of U.S. foreign policy have drawn equal attention, particularly overseas. Australian journalist John Pilger told the Guardian in the United Kingdom that Chomsky ''strips away layers of propaganda not recognized as propaganda, brilliantly sifting through political discourse.'' . . .
Previous Eqbal Ahmad lecturers include U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Edward Said, Arundhati Roy and Seymour Hersh.
So I wondered about the: "the annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture"
"[Ahmad was] perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of the post-war world, especially in the dynamics between the West and the post-colonial states of Asia and Africa." — Edward Sa'id
Should we do to the colleges what Henry VIII did to the monasteries?
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at October 5, 2005 9:48 PMIdeas for future speakers: Janeane Garofalo, Jim the mechanic from "Taxi", Space Ghost.
Posted by: Robert Duquette at October 7, 2005 10:30 AMGores fifth column.
Posted by: Genecis at October 7, 2005 10:33 PM