Marty Baron
Suffolk University - Sargent Hall
Richard Blanco - As presidential inaugural poet, educator, and advocate, Richard Blanco has crisscrossed the nation inviting communities to connect to the heart of human experience and our shared identity as a country. In this new collection of poems, his first in over seven years, Blanco continues to invite a conversation with all Americans. Through an oracular yet intimate and accessible voice, he addresses the complexities and contradictions of our nationhood and the unresolved sociopolitical matters that affect us all.
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts
Denise Doxey, curator, Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts
After a long career as a psychiatrist Chaim M. Rosenberg turned his attention to research and write about the American industrial revolution that had its start with cotton textiles in early 19th century Massachusetts. His 2007 book "Goods for Sale" describes the products made, using water, steam and then electric power. His 2011 book describes the extraordinary "Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817". In his 2015 book "Yankee Colonies Across America" Rosenberg describe thes great migration that seeded New England ideas and enterprise across the nation. And his 2019 book will explore the International Harvester Company, once America's leader in farm equipment, tractors and trucks.
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Anna Oposa, Executive Director and “Chief Mermaid” of Save Philippine Seas and New England Aquarium Marine Conservation Action Fund Fellow
New England Aquarium
Lan Morgan, PEM Assistant Curator for Exhibitions and Research Pam Peterson, former Executive Director of the Marblehead Historical Society Philip C. Lowe, founder of the Furniture Institute of Massachusetts
Peabody Essex Museum
Wendy Soneson, Artist
Museum of Fine Arts
Melissa Venator, Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow in the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard Art Museums
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts
Greg Marinovich
Suffolk University - Sargent Hall
Helen Burnham is the Pamela and Peter Voss Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her primary area of expertise is in the art of nineteenth-century France, for which she received a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in 2007. Prior to joining the MFA in 2008, she was an assistant curator at the Musée d’art américain, Giverny, and a research assistant at the Frick Collection, New York. She participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program as a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow (2000). Dr. Burnham is the curator of Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris in collaboration with the Boston Public Library and on view at the Museum of Fine Arts from April 7 – August 4, 2019. She was the co-curator of Matisse in the Studio, at the MFA from April 9 – July 9, 2017 and at the Royal Academy in London from August 1 – November 12, 2017. The Wall Street Journal described the Boston installation as “nothing short of a revelation—and not just about Matisse. I can think of no other exhibition that has told us so much about what artists do and how they think.” At the MFA, Dr. Burnham has organized a number of exhibitions from the collection, including a major traveling show entitled Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan, which traveled to Japanese as well as North American venues and was seen by more than 500,000 visitors. Her smaller installations have included Millet and Rural France (2009) and Manet in Black (2012), and she was the host curator for Leonardo and the Idea of Beauty (2015), as well as Michelangelo Sacred and Profane: Masterpiece Drawings from the Casa Buonarroti (2013).
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
Meredith Fluke, program manager for the Center for Netherlandish Art
Museum of Fine Arts
Roberto Domínguez, Professor of International Relations at Suffolk University
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts
Shirley Leung
Suffolk University - Modern Theatre
Susan Bellows, Robert Stone, John Logsdon, Asif Siddiqi, and Callie Crossley
John F. Kennedy Library
Panelists will include Shannon Al-Wakeel, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Muslim Justice League, and Emiliano Falcon,Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Counsel at the ACLU of Massachusetts.
Old South Meeting House
Old South Meeting House
Angela Davis, through her activism and scholarship over many decades, has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world. Her work as an educator—both at the university level and in the larger public sphere—has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice. Professor Davis’ teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State University, Mills College, and UC Berkeley. She also has taught at UCLA, Vassar, the Claremont Colleges, and Stanford University. Most recently, she spent fifteen years at the University of California Santa Cruz, where she is now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness— an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program—and of Feminist Studies. Angela Davis is the author of nine books and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America. In recent years, a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. She also has conducted extensive research on numerous issues related to race, gender, and imprisonment. Her recent books include Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete?, about the abolition of the prison industrial complex, and a new edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. In 2012, she published a new collection of essays entitled The Meaning of Freedom. Angela Davis is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Internationally, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside, an abolitionist organization based in Queensland, Australia that works in solidarity with women in prison..
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
Museum of Fine Arts
Ari Daniel, Senior Digital Producer, NOVA; Senior Producer, Story Collider; Independent Science Reporter
Arsenal Center for the Arts
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