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Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

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Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

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Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

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Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

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Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

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Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

UPCOMING EVENTS

Amitav Ghosh

2022-2023, Events

April 18, 2023 | Acclaimed author, public intellectual

Nicholas Christakis

2022-2023, Events

May 18, 2023 | Physician, Sociologist, Director of Yale’s Human Nature Lab

Alpin Hong

2022-2023, Events

May 25, 2023 | Classical pianist, music education advocate, inspirational speaker, paladin

Julian Aguon

September 21, 2023 | Indigenous human rights lawyer and writer

FEATURED PAST EVENTS

Robin Kimmerer

2022-2023, Greatest Hits, Speakers

February 7, 2023 | Botanist, author, enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation

Noam Chomsky

2022-2023, Greatest Hits, Speakers

October 27, 2022 | Linguist, philosopher, public intellectual

Maria Ressa

2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Speakers

July 15, 2022 | Co-Founder of Rappler.com and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Paul Farmer

2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Speakers

February 17, 2022 | Harvard physician, co-founder of Partners In Health

Joy Harjo

2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Speakers

October 23, 2021 | Writer and musician of the Mvskoke Nation; U.S. Poet Laureate

Kate Raworth

2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Speakers

October 7, 2021| Oxford economist and bestselling author of Doughnut Economics

Helen Zia

2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Speakers

April 12, 2021 | Author of Last Boat out of Shanghai and Asian American Dreams

Vivek Murthy

2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Speakers

January 6, 2021 | Co-Chair of Biden's Covid-19 Advisory Board and former Surgeon General

Eric Topol

2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Speakers

December 17, 2020 | Cardiologist, research scientist, and bestselling author

Alicia Garza

2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Speakers

September 24, 2020 | Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter and Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals

Michael Bennett

2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Speakers

June 17, 2020 | Defensive end with the New England Patriots and author of Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

Priyamvada Natarajan

2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Speakers

May 2, 2019 | Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale and the author of Mapping the Heavens

Sheena Iyengar

2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Speakers

March 14, 2019 | Social psychologist

David Cole

2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Speakers

February 28, 2019 | National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union

Janet Mock

2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Speakers

Fall 2018 Commencement | author, TV personality and one of the nation’s most important advocates for transgender rights

Eric Shinseki

2017-2018, Greatest Hits, Speakers

Spring 2018 Commencement | First Asian American 4-star general and former Secretary for Veteran's Affairs

Lonnie Bunch

2017-2018, Greatest Hits, Speakers

February 27, 2018 | Founding Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture

Ai-jen Poo

2016–2017, Greatest Hits, Speakers

March 22, 2017 | Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance, MacArthur fellow, author of The Age of Dignity (2015).

Sacha Pfeiffer

2016–2017, Greatest Hits, Speakers

February 17, 2017 | Pulitzer-prize winning reporter on the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, author of Betrayed: The Crisis in the Catholic Church (2003).

Angela Y. Davis

2015–2016, Greatest Hits, Speakers

April 8, 2016 | Scholar, author, activist

Mark Bittman

2015–2016, Greatest Hits, Speakers

February 18, 2016 | New York Times food writer, author of twenty books, including How to Cook Everything (1998).

Jose Antonio Vargas

2013–2015, Greatest Hits, Speakers

Fall 2013 Commencement | Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Founder and CEO, Define American

Van Jones

2011–2012, Greatest Hits, Speakers

March 19, 2012 | CNN commentator, White House green jobs advisor (2009), author of Rebuild the Dream (2012).

Joseph Stiglitz

2011–2012, Greatest Hits, Speakers

March 14, 2012 | Nobel laureate, University Professor of Economics at Columbia