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LIBERTY EQUALITY FASHION examines how politics, economics, and identity merged during the French Revolution and heralded a new feminism that is the antecedent to current, popular modes of self-expression and self-empowerment.
Fareed Zakaria, best-selling author & host of CNN’s flagship international affairs show Fareed Zakaria GPS, will discuss his latest book, AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present with Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology at Harvard and author of twelve books.
We know that food can be either medicine or toxin; so how do we recognize “junk” food and make better eating choices?
Consider the state of singlehood: Lots of health research indicates that people who live alone, have higher health risks and are generally unhappier. Well, not so, according to Bella DePaulo, author of a new book, “Single At Heart”.
This forum accompanies two men, Mark Erelli, a musician and Andrew Leland, a writer, on their separate journeys from the world of sightedness to one of blindness.
In 1980, Biologist and physician, Dr.LewisThomas spoke at the Harvard College commencement in Cambridge, MA on The Uncertainty Of Science.
Simone Stolzoff, journalist and author of The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work considers the changing nature of work.
Jeff Goodell's latest book, The Heat will Kill You First looks at the impact that rising temperatures will have on our lives and on our planet. Flannigan has been studying fire and weather/climate interactions including the potential impact of climatic change and lightning-ignited forest fires for over 40 years.
Suicide rates are rising at an alarming rate in America and the populations most at risk are no longer white middle-aged men, they are increasingly young people and minorities. What societal ills might be fueling this tragic trend?
What can be done to break our toxic addiction to plastic, and to terminate its lethal global legacy?
What was Cambridge like back when it was called Newtowne and even before that? A new history book, ostensibly for kids, aims to paint a more multi-dimensional view of the area charting its cultural influences and history starting back 10,000 years ago, when indigenous people farmed, fished and built communities there.
At a time when interest and investment in the humanities is plummeting, and enrolment in STEM subjects is flourishing, we consider the human consequences of such a shift in direction.
More than 300 new independent bookstores have sprouted up across the country and as the number of stores has grown, another interesting development has accompanied this trend – the bookselling business has become much more diverse.
This forum challenges the notion that happiness should be life’s primary pursuit – arguing we might be better served by living well within our means, acknowledging some difficult truths and concentrating on leading a meaningful life instead. Embracing the “good-enough” life might be preferable to hankering for the perfect one, and we might just stumble across happiness in the process.
Art provides a powerful expression for resistance both in word and image, and Peter Sacks uses both to great effect in his latest works. Sacks, an expatriate of South Africa is currently presenting his first solo museum exhibition at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.
Cardiologist Sian Harding explores the latest scientific developments and mysteries of the heart including the latest cardiac health discoveries as well as the relationship between the emotions and heart function.
Author David Sloss shares his careful analysis of how Chinese and Russian agents weaponize Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media platforms for the sole purpose of subverting the liberal international order, both in America and Europe.
In 2005, the late historian David McCullough, two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award visited Cambridge Forum. Speaking at the First Parish in Cambridge not far from the Common used by the Continental Army as a place for drill and encampment during the Revolutionary War, McCullough underscored the tumult and uncertainty … Continue reading Remembering David McCullough →
Psilocybin mushrooms may be making a comeback within the medical community who have conducted clinical trials showing remarkable success in treating patients with severe depression, anxiety and PTSD.
Brian Owens, an award-winning science journalist for Nature and the New Scientist, has investigated the causes, treatments, and controversy surrounding Lyme disease, an insidious but often overlooked disease.
Research into olfaction, the science of what happens between the nose and the brain, has intensified in the past couple of years due to the huge number of people who lost their sense of smell due to COVID. Luckily, this condition, anosmia, is usually temporary.
Benjamin Zander, renowned conductor of the Boston Philharmonic orchestra and Boston Youth Philharmonic orchestra, and co-author of The Art of Possibility. Zander will discuss the everyday miracles that can happen despite catastrophe.
Journalist Chris Hedges has been teaching classes in drama, literature, philosophy and history in a program offered by Rutgers University to inmates in the New Jersey prison system.
Kristin Du Mez traces how a militant ideal of white Christian manhood has come to pervade evangelical popular culture in America.
Did you know that people who engage in spiritual practices tend to live longer, happier lives? What’s more you don’t have to be “religious” to avail yourself of the multiple benefits – many of these rituals work on the mind regardless of belief. Psychologist David DeSteno discusses some fascinating findings from his latest book How … Continue reading HOW GOD WORKS: THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE BENEFITS OF RELIGION →
Bob Moses, a veteran of the civil rights struggle, draws an analogy between the early voter registration drives in Mississippi during the 1960's and an innovative school curriculum called The Algebra Project. The vote gave poor people access to political power; quantitative reasoning, Moses argues, enables students to have access to today's economic arrangements
Filmmaker and co-executive producer of the PBS television series, I'll Make Me A World: A Century of African-American Arts, Sam Pollard talks about his dedication to chronicling the Black experience in America.
Historian Cassandra Pybus traces the lives and adventures of the runaway slaves who absorbed the dreams of liberty from their masters during the American Revolution and fled to the British to find freedom. Where did these hopeful and courageous idealists go? And what kind of lives did they make for themselves?
A'Lelia Bundles, Emmy-winning NBC news producer and journalist shares stories from her best-selling book about her great-great grandmother, Madame C.J. Walker, one of the first black women entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
As the latest Covid variants continue to reveal themselves, COVID-19 has proved to be the biggest global public health and economic challenge in history. Although it has posed the same threat across the globe, countries have responded very differently and some are faring better than others.