Speaker Series Spring 2026
February 12, 7-8.30, 1-190: “Should Minors Have Access to Gender-Affirming Care?”, with James Cantor (Toronto Sexuality Centre) and Amy Tishelman (Boston College). Please register here.
March 10, 7-8.30. Kathleen Stock (author of Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted Death) and Jessica Flanigan (Richmond) on assisted dying. Postponed until Fall 2026.
April 6, 7-8.30. The Covid lab leak theory and scientific integrity: an evening with Alina Chan.
Speaker series Fall 2025
October 14, 7-8.30, 2-190: “Do Universities Need Radical Reform?”, with Danielle Allen (Harvard) and Brandon Warmke (U. Florida).
September 25, 7-8.30, 2-190: “Should Monogamous Marriage be the Social Ideal?”, with Diana Fleischman (U. New Mexico) and Brad Wilcox (U. Virginia).
Spring 2024
February 26, 7-8.30, 1-190: “Can We Trust Medical Science?”, with Vinay Prasad, author of Ending Medical Reversal and Malignant, and MIT’s Peko Hosoi (MECHE).
April 4, 7-8.30, 2-190: “Israel/Palestine: What Next?”, with Hussein Ibish (Arab Gulf States Institute), Shanie Reichman (Israel Policy Forum), Nadya Hajj (Wellesley), and Shai Feldman (Brandeis).
April 8, 7-8.30, 32-155: “Did Elites Eat the Social Justice Movement?”, with Freddie deBoer, author of How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement, and MIT’s Edward Schiappa (CMS/W).
Fall 2023
October 24, 7-8.30, “Climate Change: ‘Existential Threat’ or ‘Bump in the Road’?” with Steven Koonin, former Caltech provost and author of Unsettled, and MIT’s Kerry Emanuel (EAPS).
November 9, 7-8.30, “Has Feminism Made Progress?” with Mary Harrington, author of Feminism Against Progress, and MIT’s Anne McCants (History).