Why Most Humans Talk in Two or More Ways - John McWhorter

Registration is free and open to the public. Registration opens on January 6th, 2025 at 9:00 AM. Register at this link.

John McWhorter is a linguist, Associate Professor at Columbia University, and New York Times Columnist. He has authored over twenty books including The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, Losing the Race and Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English. Click here to learn more.

In "Why Most Humans Talk in Two or More Ways" (co-sponsored by The Baha’i Chair for World Peace), McWhorter challenges the idea that people speak uniformly in all situations and explains the misconceptions it creates. This is a large public talk aimed at a general audience.