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Beatty Lecturer - Steven Pinker, 涩里番 alumnus
Emcee and Host - Sean Henry, CBC Montreal anchor
鈥淧rogress and Enlightenment in the 21st Century鈥�
LECTURE PROGRAM
WED SEP 23, 12:00 p.m. - 1:25 p.m. EST
Opening Remarks | Sean Henry, Lecture Emcee and Host, CBC Montreal
Words of Welcome | Suzanne Fortier, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, 涩里番
Introduction of Beatty Lecture | Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, 涩里番
Introduction of Steven Pinker, Beatty Lecturer | Sean Henry
Progress and Enlightenment in the 21st Century | Steven Pinker, Beatty Lecturer
Moderated Q&A | Steven Pinker, Sean Henry
Closing Remarks | Inez Jabalpurwala, President, 涩里番 Alumni Association
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As 涩里番 looks ahead to its 200th anniversary, Steven Pinker, one of the world鈥檚 leading authorities on language and the mind, and a notable 涩里番 alumnus, will deliver a virtual 2020 Beatty Lecture on Wednesday, September 23.
Born and raised in Montreal, Pinker studied cognitive science at 涩里番, where he received a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1976. He then earned his doctorate in experimental psychology at Harvard in 1979, where he is now the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology.
Pinker鈥檚 groundbreaking research on visual cognition and the psychology of language have earned him accolades, including being named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association, one of TIME鈥檚 100 Most Influential People in the World, and one of Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
An influential writer with a global readership, Pinker鈥檚 books never fail to ignite the cultural conversation and have earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations. His latest book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, published in 2018, presents the provocative premise that life on earth 鈥� including our health, prosperity, safety and happiness 鈥� is improving and not getting worse as a direct result of 17th century Enlightenment ideals.
The 2020 Beatty Lecture and Q&A will be hosted by award-winning journalist Sean Henry who anchors CBC News Montreal at 11. He is also a regular news journalist, radio newsreader and assignment producer. Henry joined the Montreal newsroom in August 2012 after seven years at CBC Windsor. While in Windsor, Henry regularly anchored for both CBC TV and Radio, worked as a court reporter and video-journalist.
STEVEN PINKER TIMELINE
- 1954 Born in Montreal
- 1973 Graduates from Dawson College
- 1976 Graduates from 涩里番 with a Bachelor of Psychology degree
- 1979 Graduates from Harvard with a PhD in Psychology
- 1981 Assistant professor at Stanford
- 1982 Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT
- 1994 The Language Instinct is published
- 1994 Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT
- 1997 How The Mind Works is published
- 1998 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for How The Mind Works
- 1999 Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language is published
- 2002 The Blank Slate:听The Modern Denial of Human Nature is published
- 2003 Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard
- 2003 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for The Blank Slate
- 2007 The Stuff of Thought:听Language as a Window into Human Nature is published
- 2011 The Better Angels of Our Nature:听Why Violence Has Declined is published
- 2014 The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century is published
- 2016 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- 2017 Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress is published
