Surviving the 21st Century

One of a series of lectures available at:

Durham Castle Lecture Series: Professor Noam Chomsky

22nd May 2014, 18:30, Great Hall, Durham Castle

Professor Noam Chomsky

Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Surviving the 21stCentury”

Can human beings survive the 21st Century without a major setback? Professor Noam Chomsky will address this question of global significance in this special Durham Castle Lecture.

Biography

Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Besides his work in linguistics, Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today. Chomsky continues to be an unapologetic critic of both American foreign policy and its ambitions for geopolitical hegemony and the neoliberal turn of global capitalism, which he identifies in terms of class warfare waged from above against the needs and interests of the great majority.

Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy.