lectures

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Public Lectures

Steven Pinker is represented by the David Lavin Agency, Ltd.

• Jan. 16, 2008 Stellenbosch, South Africa: Keynote address, Conference on Linguistics and Culture, 3rd International Symposium on Intercultural Communication and Pragmatics (14-16 January 2008), “Indirect Speech as a Window into Social Relationships.”
• Feb. 11, 2008 Great Barrington, MA: Dowmel Lecture Series, 7:30PM, “The Stuff of Thought.”
• Mar. 7, 1008 Comments on Human Dignity and Bioethics report, President's Council on Bioethics, Arlington VA
• Mar. 12, 2008 London, UK: Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture, Save the Rhino Foundation, Royal Geographic Society.
  Mar. 28, University of Tromsø, Norway, Honorary Doctorate Lecture
• April 12, 2008 San Francisco: Festschrift for Michael Gazzaniga, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, "Ethics and the Ethical Brain"
  May 2, 2008 Manchester, NH: New England Evolutionary Psychology Society, keynote address, 5PM, “The Stuff of Thought.”
• May 13, 2008 Jerusalem: Hebrew University, Heller Lecture.
• May 15, 2008 Jerusalem: Hebrew University, Program in Computational Neuroscience.
  May 20-27 Amazon River cruise sponsored by the Center for Inquiry
• June 13, 2008 Halifax, Nova Scotia: Presidential Symposium, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, 9AM, “The Stuff of Thought.”

• Streaming video of "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature"
  Streaming video of "The Cognitive Revolution at Fifty Plus or Minus One: A Conversation with Jerome Bruner, Susan Carey, Noam Chomsky, and George Miller, introduced by Steven Pinker" Click here for the graphics, captions, and inauguration photos  of an exhibit in William James Hall at Harvard on the cognitive revolution.
• Streaming video of "The Blank Slate" at MIT
• Streaming video of "Pinker's Farewell" at MIT
• Streaming video of "Words and Rules" at Princeton
• Streaming video of "The Science of Gender and Science: Pinker vs. Spelke, A Debate" at Harvard