Thomas Wright is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a senior fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. He is also a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a nonresident fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He is the author of “All Measures Short of War: The Contest For the 21st Century and the Future of American Power” which was published by Yale University Press in May 2017. His second book, "Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order," will be published by St Martin's Press in 2021. Wright also works on U.S. foreign policy, great power competition, the European Union, Brexit, and economic interdependence. Wright has a doctorate from Georgetown University, a Master of Philosophy from Cambridge University, and a bachelor's and master's from University College Dublin. He has also held a pre-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University. He was previously executive director of studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a lecturer at the University of Chicago's Harris School for Public Policy.
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Patricia Sullivan and Kenneth Mack
John F. Kennedy Library
Museum of Fine Arts
PANELISTS Eric Gradoia is the Director of Preservation at Historic Deerfield whose primary field of study is 17th-19th century New England vernacular architecture and building materials. He has served as adjunct faculty at Rogers Williams University, sits on the board for the Historic Eastfield Foundation, and is a registered assessor with the American Institute for Conservation. Oliver Gerrish is a Cambridge University-trained architectural historian based in the United Kingdom who specialises in preservation. Oliver is an author and lecturer on English architecture and has led several preservation initiatives with the Georgian Group, Derbyshire Historic Buildings, and Historic Decorations, a group he founded with Lady Caroline Percy. Though a Briton, Oliver’s family ancestry includes one Thomas Gerrish, a Son of Liberty and a participant during Boston’s Destruction of the Tea at the Boston Tea Party! ======================== MODERATED BY: Dorothy Clark is an independent architectural historian who has extensively researched “forgotten histories” and colonial New England buildings. Dorothy is a professor at Boston Architectural College, an editor for Historic New England’s magazine, and sits on the Board of Directors at the Loring-Greenough House.
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Julia Sweig and Ellen Fitzpatrick
John F. Kennedy Library
In this compelling talk, Dr. Gounder will examine the far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. She is getting a lot of questions from both American citizens and healthcare professionals on where we go from here.
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David Walker is an award-winning comic writer of The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History. He is also a celebrated scholar of African-American cinema and scribe for numerous titles for Marvel, DC Comics, Dynamite, and Dark Horse, including Luke Cage, Occupy Avengers, Cyborg, and Shaft. Justin Eisinger is the co-author of the New York Times best selling graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy, George Takei’s story of childhood internment during World War II. He is also the Editorial Director of Graphic Novels & Collections at IDW Publishing. Brian Hawkins is the co-author of Black Cotton, a comic set in an alternate reality where white people are an oppressed minority in America and a black police officer connected to a powerful family kills a white woman. This story makes clear allusions to the murder of George Floyd and others by police in American, grappling with an incredibly current history in a creative way.
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Poet: Kirun Kapur
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Dr. Catherine L. Mann is the Global Chief Economist at Citibank since February 2018 where she is responsible for thought leadership, research guidance of a global team of economists, and cross-fertilization of research across macroeconomics, fixed-income, and equities. Prior to this position, she was Chief Economist at the OECD, where she also was Director of the Economics Department and was Finance Deputy to the G20 (2014-2017). She spent 20-plus years in Washington, DC (1984-2006) where her positions included Senior Fellow at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics and Adviser to the Chief Economist at the World Bank. In research, Dr. Mann’s work has addressed the US trade deficit, international capital flows, and the dollar; and a global-markets perspective on information technology, services trade, and employment dynamics. Dr. Mann received her PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her undergraduate degree from Harvard University.
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Peter Coleman, Archon Fung, Reverend Irene Monroe, Amanda Ripley, Deb Roy, and Mo Elleithee
John F. Kennedy Library
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