In Review

(Photo: Adam Fenster)

GUEST LECTURE: The Humanities Center welcomed Noam Chomsky, the Distinguished Visiting Humanist for the 2015–16 academic year, to campus in April. Chomsky, the Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics Emeritus at MIT, is widely considered the founder of the modern field of linguistics and a deeply influential public intellectual, having written and spoken on topics of power, force, exploitation, and the media for nearly 50 years.

For three days, Chomsky delivered talks—including a filled-to-capacity lecture on “Language, Creativity, and the Limits of Understanding,” in the Interfaith Chapel—met with faculty, graduates, and undergraduates (left) to discuss his linguistic and political works, and sat for Q&As and discussions at film screenings, including a sold-out screening of Requiem for the American Dream: Noam Chomsky and the Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power, at the Little Theatre in downtown Rochester.

For more on Chomsky’s visit, and on the Humanities Center’s Distinguished Visiting Humanist program, see http://www.sas. rochester.edu/humanities.