{"id":765,"date":"2017-05-24T12:11:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T12:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christoslab.wordpress.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2021-12-14T13:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T13:09:53","slug":"noam-chomsky-at-the-university-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/noam-chomsky-at-the-university-of-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky at the University of Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago\u00a0we were honoured by the visit of Professor Noam Chomsky at the University of Reading, where he was invited by our School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences. During his presence here, Professor Chomsky gave three\u00a0talks on international politics and on linguistics, which can still be viewed online by clicking through the links below (via the UoR Facebook page):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theuniversityofreading\/videos\/1114423381997788\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Racing for the precipice: Is the human experiment doomed?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theuniversityofreading\/videos\/1115026661937460\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Generative linguistics in the 21st Century: The Evidence and the Rhetoric<\/a>\u00a0(including panel discussion)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theuniversityofreading\/videos\/1112342975539162\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">If you could ask Professor Noam Chomsky one question, what would it be?<\/a>\u00a0(Student-only event)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psycholinguisticslabreading.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Our Psycholingustics and Neurolinguistics lab<\/a> also had the opportunity to informally meet and chat with Professor Chomsky. This has been an excellent week for all of us, full of stimulating conversations and new ideas! Special thanks to my Reading colleagues, esp. Professor Jason Rothman and Ashika Mistry, who oversaw the organisation of all these events.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-768\" src=\"https:\/\/christoslab.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/18427010_10104839536182639_471552017_o.jpg\" alt=\"18427010_10104839536182639_471552017_o\" width=\"1184\" height=\"888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/18427010_10104839536182639_471552017_o.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/18427010_10104839536182639_471552017_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/18427010_10104839536182639_471552017_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/18427010_10104839536182639_471552017_o-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1184px) 100vw, 1184px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-771\" src=\"https:\/\/christoslab.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/chomsky_orig.jpg\" alt=\"chomsky_orig\" width=\"1066\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/chomsky_orig.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/chomsky_orig-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/chomsky_orig-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/chomsky_orig-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1066px) 100vw, 1066px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-769\" src=\"https:\/\/christoslab.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/chomsky.jpg\" alt=\"chomsky\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-770\" src=\"https:\/\/christoslab.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/chomsky_1_orig.jpg\" alt=\"chomsky_1_orig\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/chomsky_1_orig.jpg 720w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/chomsky_1_orig-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-773\" src=\"https:\/\/christoslab.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/chomsky2.jpg\" alt=\"chomsky2\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-774\" src=\"https:\/\/christoslab.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/speakers_orig.jpg\" alt=\"speakers_orig\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/speakers_orig.jpg 960w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/speakers_orig-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/speakers_orig-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago\u00a0we were honoured by the visit of Professor Noam Chomsky at the University of Reading, where he was invited by our School of Psychology and Clinical&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#99;&#104;&#114;&#105;&#115;&#116;&#111;&#115;&#45;&#108;&#97;&#98;&#47;&#110;&#111;&#97;&#109;&#45;&#99;&#104;&#111;&#109;&#115;&#107;&#121;&#45;&#97;&#116;&#45;&#116;&#104;&#101;&#45;&#117;&#110;&#105;&#118;&#101;&#114;&#115;&#105;&#116;&#121;&#45;&#111;&#102;&#45;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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