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FORUM ON 'PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS': THURS FEB 18 4-6 PM BARTOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Tue Feb 9 11:21:54 1999
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:21:45 -0500
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From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
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>Dear Communications Forum subscribers:
>
>I'm very pleased to invite you to an especially exciting event to be held at
>our usual place and time on Thursday, Feb. 18, 1999.
>
>"Beyond the Ivory Tower: Academia in the Age of Popular Media"
>
>A panel discussion on the role of intellectuals in the media age.
>
>Speakers:
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>Stephen Jay Gould, Lester Thurow, William Calvin, Alan Lightman
>
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>
>Professional priorities of academics have changed
>over time from pure teaching to pure research and are currently in
>transition once again as the demand for popular knowledge increases
>along with radical changes in communications technology. On the one hand
>tenure decisions often disparage popular works, while on the other hand
>popular publications and media attention are often considered the hallmark
>of a notable academic career by the world at large. How are these
>conflicting aspirations met and what can we learn from the experiences of
>notable public intellectuals?
>
>
>STEPHEN JAY GOULD is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and
>Professor of Geology at Harvard and the Curator for Invertebrate
>Paleontology in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. His many books
>include THE PANDA'S THUMB, THE MISMEASURE OF MAN, WONDERFUL LIFE, BULLY FOR
>BRONTOSAURUS and DINOSAUR IN A HAYSTACK.
>
>LESTER THUROW is Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and
>Economics in the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Among his books: THE
>ZERO SUM SOCIETY, HEAD TO HEAD: THE COMING ECONOMIC BATTLE AMONG JAPAN,
>EUROPE AND AMERICA and THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM.
>
>WILLIAM CALVIN is a theoretical neurophysiologist at the University of
>Washington in Seattle and the author of both popular and learned books,
>including THE CEREBRAL CODE, HOW BRAINS THINK, and, with the neurosurgeon
>George A. Ojemann, CONVERSATIONS WITH NEIL'S BRAIN.
>
>ALAN LIGHTMAN is John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities in the Program in
>Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT. His publications include two novels,
>EINSTEIN'S DREAMS and GOOD BENITO, collections of essays and stories, and
>such books on science as ANCIENT LIGHT: OUR CHANGING VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE
>and (with R. Brawer) ORIGINS: THE LIVES AND WORLDS OF MODERN COSMOLOGISTS.
>
