Off-Air Series presents The Chicago Manual: More than a Century of Style November 8, 2011

Chicago Public Media (WBEZ 91.5 FM) continues its Off-Air Series with The Chicago Manual: More than a Century of Style at the International House at University of Chicago, 1414 East 59th Street, on Tuesday, November 8 at 7:00pm.
The 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style recently debuted in a society reliant on the immediate fulfillment of communication needs. Instant broadcasts are possible with a text, tweet, or tap of a mouse, without gaining approval from traditional editing practices. However, The Manual continues to guide the written word by adapting to this publishing evolution and Off-Air’s November event hosts a panel of language experts to further explore the progression.
WBEZ's Alison Cuddy will moderate the panel discussion with Anita Samen, Managing Editor books division, University of Chicago Press; Carol Saller, Senior Manuscript Editor, University of Chicago Press and editor of the Chicago Style Q+A; Jason Riggle, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Chicago Language Modeling Lab; and Ben Zimmer, Former writer of the New York Times Magazine’s “On Language” column and Executive Producer of Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com.
Tickets are $15 general admission, $12 WBEZ members, and $10 students and are available at www.wbez.org/off-air.