"Anxious Generation" author Jonathan Haidt to present March 4 Compton Lecture
To the members of the MIT community:
I invite you to join me on Wednesday, March 4, as renowned social psychologist Jonathan Haidt delivers the Karl Taylor Compton Lecture.
Life After Babel: Democracy and Human Development in the Fractured, Lonely World that Technology Gave Us
Wednesday, March 4
4–5 p.m. ET
Huntington Hall (10-250)
Accessible seating, live captioning viewable from your personal device, and ASL interpreters will be available during the lecture. If you need any alternate accommodations, please contact ieoffice@mit.edu.
Since the first Compton Lecture in 1957, the series has highlighted leaders noted for their universality of thought and their influence on human values.
The Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU’s Stern School of Business, Jonathan Haidt is a leading voice for reforming society’s relationship with technology, as in his most recent book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. He also founded The Anxious Generation Movement, a nonprofit that promotes practical reforms, from policy and culture to individual action.
Author of The Happiness Hypothesis and The Righteous Mind and co-author with Greg Lukianoff of The Coddling of the American Mind, he is dedicated to helping people understand and learn from each other despite their differences.
His lecture will explore the impact of recent technologies on human development and encourage us to reimagine a more positive role for technology in humanity’s future.
If you would like to submit a question for Professor Haidt, please fill out this Qualtrics survey by 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, February 26.
I look forward to seeing many of you at the lecture.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth
President