April 4, 2003
Contact: Sarah Ray
802-443-5794
sray@middlebury.edu
Posted: April 08, 2003
Tuesday, April 15, 7
p.m.
Warner Hall Hemicycle, Middlebury College, College Street (Route 125)
Lecture
by Anne Keiser, author of Sir Edmund Hillary and the People of Everest
Anne
Keiser will give an illustrated talk about her new book, “Sir Edmund
Hillary and the People of Everest.” Keiser, a longtime friend of
Hillary, one of the first two men to reach the summit of the world’s
highest peak, will discuss Hillary’s humanitarian efforts on the
Sherpa people’s behalf, as well as his environmental work to preserve
the Himalayas’ grandeur. The talk will take place one month before
the 50th anniversary of Hillary’s historic conquest in May 1953.
Keiser is a member of the Middlebury College class of 1970.
Free
For
more information, contact Joy Bloser of the Middlebury College Mountain
Club at 802-443-6142 or jbloser@middlebury.edu.
Wednesday,
April 16, 4:30 p.m.
Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, College
Street (Route 125)
Lecture
by Steven Pinker on “Language Acquisition”
Steven
Pinker, a professor in the M.I.T. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
and author of a number of books, including “Language Acquisition,”
will give a talk by the same title. Newsweek has named Pinker to its list
of “One Hundred Americans for the Next Century” and Scientific
American has included Pinker’s book “The Language Instinct”
in its list of the “100 Best Science Books of the Century.”
Co-sponsored
by several Middlebury College organizations: the foreign language division,
the psychology department, the psychology club, the teacher education
program, and the program in neuroscience. Major support for this event
has been provided by the C.W. Starr Foundation.
Refreshments
will be served. Free
For
more information, contact Susan Perkins in the office of the Middlebury
College Dean of Faculty at 802-443-3112.
Thursday,
April 24, 4:30 p.m.
Conference Room, Middlebury College Rohatyn Center for International Affairs,
Hillcrest Road off College Street (Route 125)
Lecture
by Claire Kramsch on “Language and Culture Revisited”
Claire
Kramsch, director of the Berkeley Language Center, professor of German,
and professor of education at the University of California at Berkeley,
will speak on “Language and Culture
Revisited.” Kramsch is the author of numerous books, including “Language
and Culture.” She has received many awards and honors, including
the 1998 Goethe Medal, one of Germany’s most prestigious honors
in the field of culture, and a 1998 honorary doctorate from the Middlebury
College Language Schools. She is co-editor of the journal Applied Linguistics.
Sponsored
by the Middlebury College Foreign Language Division with major support
from the C.W. Starr Foundation.
Free
For
more information, contact Susan Perkins in the office of the Middlebury
College Dean of Faculty at 802-443-3112.