Reader, Come Home

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 6:30pm to 9:00pm

Open Mind Lecture
Reader, Come Home
Maryanne Wolf

From the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling PROUST AND THE SQUID, comes READER, COME HOME, a lively, erudite, and deeply thoughtful look at the future of the reading brain as we become increasingly dependent on screens and computers for how and what we think.

Written in a series of letters addressed to her readers, READER, COME HOME draws on neuroscience, literature, education, technology, and philosophy, and blends historical, literary, and scientific facts with down-to-earth examples and warm anecdotes. With luminous prose, Wolf illuminates complex ideas that culminate in her first comprehensive proposal for the development of a bi-literate reading brain – a brain that reads differently depending on the medium involved. As Wolf writes, “If we act wisely at these cultural, cognitive cross-roads, I believe…that we will forge ever more elaborated reading circuits.”

Maryanne Wolf was the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University, and the Director of the Center for Reading and Language Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development. Currently she is Visiting Professor at UCLA, where she will direct the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice. She is also affiliated with the Dyslexia Center in the UCSF Medical School and with Curious Learning: A Global Literacy Initiative, which she co-founded. The latter initiative aims to help nonliterate children in remote regions in Africa, India, Australia, and our own backyards to learn to read on tablets. She is the recipient of multiple research and teaching honors, including the Fulbright Fellowship, the American Psychological Association Teaching Award, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study for the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the NICHD Innovative Research Award, and the highest awards by the International Dyslexia Association and the Australian Learning Disabilities Association. She is the author of Proust and the Squid (Harper), Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press), and over 160 scientific publications. She lectures around the world, including multiple presentations on global literacy for disenfranchised children at the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Wednesday, November 14, 2018
6:30PM Check-in | 7:00 PM Program

Tamkin Auditorium, UCLA (see map)

Admission is free but reservations are required.

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