Mount Auburn Hospital Auxiliary’s 80th annual Thursday Morning Talks Series will begin this week. The 2016 lecture series will feature speakers who will cover a wide variety of topics including: art, journalism, national security, and challenges to our democracy.
Speakers will include Eric Lander, President and Founding Director of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Stephen Kurkjian, author and former investigative reporter for the Boston Globe; Ethan Lasser, Associate Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums, and more.
The Talk Series will be every Thursday, Jan. 7 to Feb. 25, 2016 (weather permitting) at the Holy Trinity Armenian Church, 145 Brattle Street (at the Sparks Street Entrance), Cambridge, MA 02138.
Tickets are open to the public and cost $20.00 per lecture, available for purchase at the event.
Bouillon reception at 10:15 a.m and lectures start at 11 a.m.
Upcoming talks include:
Jan. 7 Eric Lander
President and Founding Director of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, The Human Genome and Beyond
Jan. 14, Jeannie Suk
Professor, Harvard Law School, Regulating Sex on Campus
Jan. 21 Jeffrey Burns
Chief of Critical Care Medicine and Executive Chair of International Health Services, Boston Children’s Hospital, OpenPediatrics.org: Harnessing the Power of the Internet to Improve the Care of Children Worldwide
Jan. 28 Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Activist, Author, and Politician, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
Feb. 4 Stephen Kurkjian
Author and former investigative reporter for the Boston Globe, The Gardner Museum Heist: Boston’s Last, Best Kept Secret
Feb. 11 Gish Jen
Author, East Meets West: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self
Feb. 18 Ethan Lasser
Associate Curator of American Art for the Harvard Art Museums, From the Philosophy Chamber; Harvard’s Lost Collection
Feb. 25 Phillip Weinstein
Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College, Dark Twins: Faulkner and Race
Through a partnership with the Harvard Coop, books by all of the speakers will be available for sale and signing after each lecture.
For more information please email thursdaymorningtalks@gmail.com