Micah J. Wonjoon Kessel, Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, and Radiolab’s Molly Webster
Museum of Science
Angela E. Oh came to prominence in 1992 after the civil unrest that followed the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers charged with the beating of Rodney King. As a second generation Korean American born in Los Angeles, trained as a criminal defense lawyer, active in civil rights and civil liberties organizing, Oh found that her experiences gave insight into the causes of what was recorded as the worst civil disaster of the century. In speaking out, her clarity about the political, economic, social, and institutional failures that contributed to the implosion of 1992 resonated with communities across the region. Over 2000 small family owned businesses owned by ethnic Koreans were destroyed and Oh challenged the mainstream media narrative that the crisis in Los Angeles was due to Korean and African American conflict.
Boston Public Library - Abbey Room
Sneha Revanur, Alexandra Raphling, Vidya Bharadwaj, Sumanth Ratna, Damilola Awofisayo, and Raksha Govind.
Museum of Science
As founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), recognized as the world’s top think tank for science and technology policy, Robert Atkinson leads a prolific team of policy analysts and fellows that is successfully shaping the debate and setting the agenda on a host of critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy. He is an internationally recognized scholar and a widely published author whom The New Republic has named one of the “three most important thinkers about innovation,” Washingtonian Magazine has called a “tech titan,” Government Technology Magazine has judged to be one of the 25 top “doers, dreamers and drivers of information technology,” and the Wharton Business School has given the “Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award.”
Virtual
On May 26, 2020, Philonise O’Neil Floyd learned that four police officers in Minneapolis murdered his older brother after a store clerk alleged that he had passed a counterfeit $20 bill. The world saw named officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds; however, the people of the Earth did more than watch and mourn. Across the United States and internationally, George Floyd’s death sparked a worldwide outpour of protests against police brutality, especially toward Black people.
Virtual
Mara Hvistendahl, Dana Priest, Tim Weiner, and Tim Naftali
Virtual
Michael Dobbs and Evan Thomas
Virtual
Tom Nichols and Heather Cox Richardson
Virtual
Dr. Kwok Pui Lan | “Political Theology in Asia Pacific”
Boston University Photonics Colloquium Room
Robert Griffin, Gabriel R. Sanchez, and Tova Wang
Virtual
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