Location: Lindquist Hall, Room 100.

Professor Emeritus Dr. Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto — world renown anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and scholar of popular and political culture — is giving a public lecture at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24 in 100 Lindquist Hall on “Dangerous Rhetoric: How Putin and Trump Strategize Discourse.”

Aside from being a prolific speaker and author of more than 30 academic books, Danesi tackles the most difficult issues of political discourse in intricate ways.

Some of his books include “Signs of Crime: Introduction to Forensic Semiotics” (2013); “Made Men: Mafia Culture and the Power of Symbols and Ritual” (2013); “The Semiotics of Emoji” (2020); “The Art of the Lie: How the Manipulation of Language Affects our Minds” (2020); “Comedic Nightmare: The Trump Effect on American Comedy” (2023); and “Pseudology: The Science of Lying” (2024).