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Snyder began to be recognized as a public intellectual, lecturing at universities and appearing at environmental conferences, including the historic United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, in 1972.

In recent years Mr. Eno has added to his portfolio the role of public intellectual, lecturing at museums and serving on the board of the Long Now Foundation, which is concerned with the next 10,000 years of human life.

His affectingly naive attitude to the past, however, is ridiculed by his fiancee and her patronising academic friend (Michael Sheen), a blood brother to the arrogant intellectual who lectures his date about Marshall McLuhan in the cinema queue in Annie Hall.

After graduating from the University of St . Petersburg(now St .Petersburg State University) in 1918, Bakhtin taught high school in western Russia before moving to Vitebsk (now Vitsyebsk, Belarus), a cultural centre of the region, where he and other intellectuals organized lectures, debates, and concerts.

His challenging ideas caught the attention of the intellectuals; he lectured all over China and abroad.

Throughout the summer, the monument will function as a kind of village festival, or inner-city intellectual Woodstock, with lectures, concerts, recitals and art programs on the stages and pavilions that Mr. Hirschhorn and a paid crew of workers chosen from the Forest Houses have built over the last several weeks.

And Coetzee's Phaedra isn't really Phaedra but an intellectual giving a lecture on female desire, on the relationships between men and gods".