Arizona State is excited to announce that Deborah Tannen, author of the classic book The Argument Culture,  will be delivering this year’s Meyerson Lecture.  The lecture will be online Thursday evening March 31st at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET.  Register here and a blurb about the lecture is below.

The Argument Culture: Why We Must Heed Its Message Now

The 5th Annual Bruce E. Meyerson Lecture features bestselling author Deborah Tannen, University Professor & Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Though her book “The Argument Culture” was written over 20 years ago, its message is more important today than ever before.

Professor Tannen’s talk, “The Argument Culture: Why We Must Heed Its Message Now,” will show how the increasingly adversarial nature of the press, politics and law work together to threaten democratic institutions – and how we can move from debate to dialogue.

For more information about the lecture go here.