Edward T. Hall, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, will deliver the Charles Seeger lecture at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Oakland, California on Saturday afternoon, November 10, 1990. His lecture will be entitled "Improvisation, Play, and Culture.”

Hall, author of The Silent Language; The Hidden Dimension; Beyond Culture; and The Dance of Life, is a pioneer in the anthropological study of non-verbal communication. Hall’s recent publications—Hidden Differences: Doing Business with the Japanese and Understanding Cultural Differences: Germans, French and Americans—deal with the practical consequences of intercultural communication