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Fwd: FORUM ON PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS: THU 2 DEC, 5-7 PM, BARTOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Mon Nov 29 08:13:04 1999
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From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
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>From: David Thorburn <thorburn@MIT.EDU>
>Subject: FORUM ON PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS: THU 2 DEC, 5-7 PM, BARTOS THEATER
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>Dear Forum loyalists,
>
>I hope you will make time for our final Forum of the century where Alan
>Lightman, Steven Pinker and Gerald Early will discuss the role of the
>public intellectual in American life.
>
>All three are brilliant writers whose work appeals to a broad literate
>public as well as to scholars. The Forum will address such questions as
>the responsibility of intellectuals in today's specialized academic
>environment; the cultural importance of so-called "popular science" and of
>non-academic literary and cultural commentary; the role of "popular"
>writing on academic subjects in promotion and tenure cases.
>
>A novelist and scientist, Lightman is a former head of MIT's Program in
>Writing and Humanistic Studies; perhaps his most famous book is the novel,
>EINSTEIN'S DREAMS. Pinker is Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science at
>MIT and the author of THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT and HOW THE MIND WORKS, among
>other books. Early is one of America's leading literary intellectuals, a
>professor of American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, and
>the author of many studies of American culture, including the award-winning
>THE CULTURE OF BRUISING.
>
>Brief biographical sketches of our speakers are available on the web site:
>http://media-in-transition.mit.edu.
>
>See you Thursday!
>
>--David Thorburn
> Professor of Literature
> Director, MIT Communications Forum
>
