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Upcoming Events

Emily Knox: Book Banning in the 21st Century

The Happiness Lab Live with Dr. Laurie Santos and Ali Truwit

Chat and Chowder: “Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia”

Building Bridges & Big Ideas: Miguel Rosales

Arline Geronimus: Weathering, Then and Now

Piece by Piece: Crazy Quilting and Making Memory in 19th-Century Massachusetts

Poetry Days Presents: An Evening with Victoria Chang

Ethel Kennedy: The Extraordinary Life and Bold Legacy

Kate Crawford: Atlas of AI

Chat and Chowder: “Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women”

Declaring the Revolution: A Conversation with David Rubenstein

Reconcilable Differences: The Unlikely Political Alliance of John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt

Great Decisions: Nuclear Weapons

The Ocean Carbon Sink: Facts, Fictions, and Opportunities with Dr. Marina Lévy

Native American Heritage Month Celebration 2026

Noguchi and Japanese American Internment During World War II

Great Decisions: Ukraine

Recent Events

Restoring the Plants, Restoring the Practice

An Evening with Jeremy Frey

Chat and Chowder – A Daring Enterprise: A US-Egyptian Partnership and The Case for Soft Power

Pioneers of AI Live!

Crafting Reform: The Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery

Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration 2026

Curator Conversation: Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a Designer”

Into The Circle: A Conversation with Mark Charles

Great Decisions: Multilateral Institutions

Mark Peterson: The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

The Forest of the Sea: A Conversation with David Helvarg

Great Decisions: China and The Global Economic Order

Paul Revere, Silversmith: Assessing his Craft and Legacy

Above the Fray? Rethinking the Supreme Court Independence

Courage Can Save US: Ten Extraordinary Americans & the Fight for Our Future

Rasin ak Rèv: Roots and Dreams

Afrofuturism & Radical Imagination

Shine the Light, Fill the Well: Rising Up & Burning Out

What Does AI See When It Looks At The Stars? An Evening Hosted by Paul Sutter

Panel Discussion: Architectural Preservation and Modernity

Poetry Night – Where Science Speaks in Verse

Fandom is a Science

Step Into the Revolution: A Colonial Dance Night for Everyone

Rare Rebels™: The Human Side of Rare Disease

Facing the Falls: Film Screening & Conversation with Cara Yar Khan

PEM Presents: G-Hwaja: Korean Traditional Music & Beyond

Disability Pride Celebration 2026

The Future with Leadership Brainery Founders

Soul Speak

PEM Presents: Make, Move, Celebrate: Korean Masks

Mass Innovation Nights

Navy Band Northeast in Concert: Trident Brass Quintet & Crosswinds Woodwind Quintet

A Beautiful Resistance Live!

Young Washington: Advance Screening and Discussion

Pride Celebration 2026

Slay The Entire Month and Beyond!

An Irish Perspective on America250, with Amb. Geraldine Byrne Nason

Partners in Conservation: Protecting Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras with Fishing Communities in Brazil

Painting with Light: the Craft, Color, and Conservation of Stained Glass: an evening of demonstration and elucidation with master craftsman Victor Azer

Mill Talk: Work, Democracy, & Your Paycheck: What Paystubs Can Tell Us About American Democracy & American Capitalism

Women of the Tides: Stories of Labor, Sea, and Survival

The Revolutionary Work of Women Printers

BEFORE 1776: KING PHILIP’s WAR AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA

Blue Collar 101: Water, Sewer, and the Hidden Infrastructure of a City

Mill Talk: The Invention of Rum – A View from Massachusetts

MILL TALK: Fantrip! Enthusiast Outings on the Boston & Maine Railroad

Chat & Chowder: Basketball Empire

AI and the Future of Cancer Treatments: A Reno Family Foundation Symposium

Great Decisions: The Future of U.S. – European Relations

Mill Talk: AT&T’s Idea Factory – How Bell Labs Invented the Technology of the Future

BIRDING IS BOOMING: with young and old alike

Chat & Chowder with Suzy Hansen | From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan

Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren: Consequential Women in Consequential Times

Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration

Climate Action in Coastal Cities: A Conversation with Civic Leaders

Science & Spirituality: A Public Dialogue at the Museum of Science

Book Talk: Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution

THE END OF LONELINESS? AI AND THE FUTURE OF CONNECTION

The Air We Share

My GPS Journey: 3 Wrongs Made it Just Right-