When I served as the director of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, I started the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Lecture, the annual flagship event of the Center. For the last lecture that I organized – with a lot of help from many colleagues – we were fortunate to be able to host the historian Timothy Snyder in early 2017. He had just published his Facebook post “20 lessons from the 20th century” but not his book On tyranny yet, which was derived from that Facebook post.
I have dug up a couple of older videos on the internet. Some of them have to do with my current thinking about AI, this one and a few others are related to my research but not to AI and language and learning. The connection, as almost always, is language … broadly conceived
My inspiration for the title of my book chapter "ICALL and AI: Seven lessons from seventy years" I published in
Yijen Wang, Antonie Alm, & Gilbert Dizon (Eds.) (2025), Insights into AI and language teaching and learning. Castledown Publishers.
came from Snyder, T. (2017). On tyranny: Twenty lessons from the twentieth century. Tim Duggan Books.
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