Mount Auburn Hospital Auxiliary’s 81st annual Thursday Morning Talks Series will begin this month. The 2017 lecture series will feature experts who cover a wide variety of topics including: art, psychology, history, genealogy, and challenges to our democracy. WHEN: Every Thursday, January 5th – February 23th, 2017
10:15am: Bouillon reception
11:00am: Talk begins (with the exception of 1/26, which will begin at 10:30am)
January 5: Stephen Greenblatt, University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard, “Hidden Histories: Justice in Shakespeare’s Venice.”
January 12: Danielle Allen, Director, Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics and Professor in Harvard’s Department of Government and its Graduate School of Education, “The Past and Future of AmericanDemocracy. January 19: Jonathan Hansen, Intellectual Historian and Author, Senior lecturer on Social Studies and Faculty Associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, “Cuba from aDifferent Angle.”
January 26: Mahzarin Banaji, Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University Department of Psychology, “Hidden Biases of Good People.”
February 2: Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor, Harvard Law School, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, “Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of theImagination.”
February 9: Barry Bluestone, Professor, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, “The Economics and Politics of Inequality.”
February 16: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard, “Genealogy and Genetics.”
February 23: Matthew Teitlebaum, Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, “Anticipating the Future of Museums.”
Through a partnership with the Harvard Coop, books by some of the speakers will be available for sale and signing after each lecture. WHERE: Holy Trinity Armenian Church – Cultural Hall
145 Brattle Street (Sparks Street Entrance)
Cambridge, MA 02138
COST: Talks are open to the public by subscription or at a cost of $20.00 per lecture, and are available for purchase at the event.
