Peter Barber, Head of Map Collections, British Library
Boston Public Library - Abbey Room
Eric Alm, PhD, Karl Van Tassell Career Development Associate Professor of Bioengineering at MIT, Associate Member of the Broad Institute, and Co-Director of the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics; and Tim Spector, MD, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London, Honorable Consultant Physician at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital, and author of The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat
Cahners Theater, Blue Wing, Level II at Museum of Science
Emily Zilber, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts John Hawley, curatorial research fellow, European Paintings Mariana Garcia-Bulle, research assistant, Art of the Americas
Museum of Fine Arts
M. T. Anderson, National Book Award winner
Boston Public Library - Abbey Room
Jonathan Payne, PhD, associate professor of geological sciences, Stanford University; and Sarah Holt, Producer, Director and Writer of Mass Extinction for Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Tangled Bank Studios, and NOVA/PBS
Cahners Theater, Blue Wing, Level II at Museum of Science
David Ferry
Boston College - Devlin 101
Old South Meeting House
Charles S. Grob, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine and Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; Matthew W. Johnson, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Stephen Ross, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the Dual Diagnosis Training Unit and the Opioid Overdose Prevention Program at Bellevue Hospital Center, and Director of the NYU Psychedelic Research Group Introduction by Mark J. Plotkin, PhD, ethnobotanist; Founder and President of The Amazon Conservation Team; and author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice and Medicine Quest
Cahners Theater, Blue Wing, Level II at Museum of Science
Peter Blood and Annie Patterson
First Parish Church in Cambridge
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Boston College - Gasson 100
Emily Jendzejec (Pastoral Minister for Young Adults at the Paulist Center) Christopher Raiche (former Buddhist monk, Values in Action Intern at the Humanist Community at Harvard University) Chris Stedman (Executive Director of Yale University Humanist Community and author of Faitheist) Moderator: Rev. Amy Fisher (Suffolk University Chaplain)
Main Function Room, Sargent Hall
Jane Kamensky, Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of History at Brown University
Boston Public Library - Abbey Room
James Howard Kunstler
Boston College - Gasson 100
Ely Kahn Co-founder and VP of Business Development, Sqrrl Ryan Maness Visiting Fellow in Political Science – Security and Resilience Studies Northeastern University
Suffolk University C. Walsh Theatre
Ely Kahn (Co-founder and VP of Business Development, Sqrrl) Ryan Maness (Visiting Fellow in Political Science, Security and Resilience Studies, Northeastern University)
Suffolk University C. Walsh Theatre
Dr. Charles Innis, Director of Animal Health, New England Aquarium
New England Aquarium
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