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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- INAUGURAL LECTURE for the FORUM at UCLA for the Study of Print and Electronic Culture Geoffrey Nunberg will speak on "The Technologies of Reputation." Thursday June 3, 1999 8 p.m. Royce Hall Room 306 Geoffrey Nunberg is currently employed as a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and also holds the title of Consulting Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. Editor of a collection of provocative essays entitled The Future of the Book (University of California Press, 1996), Professor Nunberg has written and spoken widely on the place of the book in the age of electronic reproduction. His other works include The Pragmatics of Reference and The Linguistics of Punctuation as well as numerous articles and essays including a contribution to Future Libraries (University of California Press, 1994). Dr. Nunberg has published on language issues for a number of general magazines such as the Atlantic and he serves as chair of the usage panel of the American Heritage Dictionary. He has taught at UCLA, Stanford and the University of Rome and recently returned from a Fulbright in Italy. In addition to his scholarly lectures he is well known for his regular language feature on the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air." The lecture is jointly sponsored by the Department of Information Studies The Friends of English at UCLA & The Young Research Library Department of Special Collections