speaking on Revolutionary Pacifism: structural violence at home and abroad
In addition to our amazing keynote speaker you can expect an evening of local music, deliciously sustainable food, and a chance to reconnect with three decades of our our peace and justice community.
Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Besides his work in linguistics, Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today. Chomsky continues to be an unapologetic critic of both American foreign policy and its ambitions for geopolitical hegemony and the neoliberal turn of global capitalism, which he identifies in terms of class warfare waged from above against the needs and interests of the great majority. (from the "International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest")
Noam Chomsky on the Occupy Movement :: Free and open to the public
Friday Jan. 13 :: 5:00pm
Rhodes College :: Bryant Campus Life Center
Rhodes College's new Communities in Conversation series will host a lecture by political theorist and writerNoam Chomsky on Jan. 13, 2012. Chomsky will discuss the Occupy Movement. The lecture is free and open to the public. Chomsky is famous for his innumerable publications, especially the book he co-wrote with Edward Herman titled Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. The book argues that the mainstream news agencies do not really search for truth so much as they articulate the agenda of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order. New this year at Rhodes, Communities in Conversation provides a forum for dialogue on a variety of topics across the humanities that address the big questions we face globally, regionally, nationally, and locally. Seeking to engage the broader Mid-South area in a set of discussions that highlight what the academy contributes to the key concerns of our times, Communities in Conversation will feature thinkers who are helping to shape the debate. Seeking to move beyond polemics towards new viewpoints that can reorient our understanding about these topically relevant concerns, these events are all free and open to the public. Noam Chomsky will be the first intellectual featured in a set of six conversations over the spring term. More info can be found on the Facebook event page and on the Rhodes College website. |
Exile: photographs by Alpha Newberry
Friday Jan. 13 :: 6:30-8:30pm
Joysmith Gallery :: 46 Huling Ave.
Join us for a reception on Friday evening, January 13, from 6:30 to 8:30pm at the Joy Smith Gallery to get a first look at the work of photojournalist Alpha Newberry. His new collection of images is an in-depth look at figures of civil disobedience in South Korea. Come visit the small fishing and farming village of Gangjeong, where construction of a naval base with implications for the global arms race has erupted into national controversy.
Gangjeong village, a small farming and fishing village, has reluctantly become the site of an epic battle for peace. "This protest counts as a critical struggle against a potentially devastating war in Asia, and against the deeply rooted institutional structures that are driving the world toward ever more conflict," says Prof. Noam Chomsky of the controversy. "The resistance is a grassroots movement that goes well beyond the issue of the island’smilitarization. Human rights, the environment and free speech are also at stake. Though small and remote, Gangjeong is an important battleground for all who believe in social justice worldwide."
The gallery is located at 46 Huling Avenue in downtown Memphis.
The exhibition will run Fridays from 5:30-9pm and Saturdays from 3-7pm for the weekend of January 13-14th, 20th-21st, and 27th-28th. You can learn more about Newberry's work at alphanewberry.com.
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