Chomsky in Asia 2010

In response to years of invitations and anticipation, Professor Noam Chomsky has decided to pay a12-day visit to Mainland China and Taiwan, giving public lectures and receiving honorary doctorates from two prominent universities.  These events include his keynote for GLOW-in-Asia 8 at Beijing Language and Culture University, on August 12, 2010.

Title of Chomsky’s keynote speech

Poverty of stimulus: unfinished business

The other three events are, chronologically:

1. ✦August 9, visit Academia Sinica (Taipei), and give public lecture titled: Contours of world order: continuties and changes
   
   

2. ✦August 10, visit Tsinghua University (Taiwan), receive honorary doctorate, and give public lecture titled: Poverty of stimulus: unfinished business.
   
   

3. ✦August 13, visit Peking University (Beijing), receive honorary doctorate, and give public lecture titled: Contours of world order: continuities and changes
   

This will be Chomsky’s first visit to Mainland China and Taiwan.  He will be the most important western intellectual to visit these parts of the world ever since the visits by Bertrand Russell and John Dewey to Beijing some 90 years ago.  Thus it is not only an important event for linguists, but one for the entire academic, scholarly, and intellectual communities in these parts of the world.

To commemorate these events and as an aid to the public, a cross-campus organizing committee is publishing a special booklet to distribute to the audiences of Chomsky’s talks.  In addition, a special web site has been launched at

http://www.chomsky-in-asia.info/

with links to the talks, and more updates to follow.  Please visit the site for complete information and subsequent updates.