Zoom talk offers Victorians rare chance to engage with author Noam Chomsky
The university had an inside track when it came to booking the social critic and political activist, who is still active and engaged at 92, for its much-lauded Values for a New World series. Chomsky taught UVic linguistics professor Martha McGinnis when she was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-1990s, and he was one of the professors on the dissertation committee for her PhD. McGinnis remained in contact with the Manufacturing Consent author in the years following her graduation. When everything moved online amid the pandemic, it seemed like a good opportunit...
Source: timescolonist.com