Speakers:
All Years
2011
Elliot Davis
Museum Curator
John Moors Cabot Chair of the Art of the Americas Department at the Museum of Fine Arts; spearheaded the planning and installation of the museum’s new wing which offers a broader definition of “American” art by including more than 5,000 works from North, Central, and South America.
2011
Joan Fitzgerald
Urban Policy Expert
Director of the Law, Policy, and Society Program at Northeastern University, author of the recently-released book Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development , and one of the country’s leading authorities on environmentally effective urban policies
2011
Eric Giler
Entrepreneur
CEO of WiTricity, serial entrepreneur in telecommunications fields, and author of multiple patents, currently working to commercialize the recently developed technology enabling wireless electricity
2011
John Halamka
Physician and Medical IT Expert
Clinician, author, researcher, and CIO of Caregroup Health System and Harvard Medical School, focusing on the use of technology for patient records and related issues of confidentiality, standards, and scalability
2011
Lawrence Lessig
Legal Scholar and Ethicist
Acclaimed expert in constitutional law, cyberlaw, and intellectual property, and director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, focusing on questions of governance and corruption
2011
Daniel Lieberman
Evolutionary Biologist
Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and an expert and advocate of barefoot running, Lieberman explores how the human body grows, develops and functions.
2011
Andrew Lippman
Digital Communications Expert
Head of MIT Media Lab's Viral Communications program and codirector of the Communications Futures program, and a prolific writer on the future of information and its commercial and social impact
2011
Bridget Terry Long
Education Economist
Professor of Education and Economics at Harvard and a leading expert in financial aid issues, college access, enrollment gender gaps, and institutional admissions policies
2011
Jeannie Suk
Professor of Law
Harvard Law School expert on privacy and domestic violence law, and intellectual property law as it relates to literature, performing arts, and fashion
2009
Charles Derber
Sociologist and Author
Charles Derber thinks of himself as a writer who studies the "big picture" of American culture and global capitalism. His recent books focus on globalization, terrorism, the culture of hegemony, and the power of multinational corporations. He has also written extensively on the crisis of individualism that defines American life, showing how our problems of community are organically tied to economic and political forces.