The lectures take place in the Piper Auditorium at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, located at 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge. Here is the schedule to date:
October 18th - 3:00pm - Abigail Trafford
Abigail Trafford, author and columnist for the Washington Post spoke about the problems and opportunities of aging, about love and relationships in an age of longevity. Her latest book is My Time.
November 8th - 3:00 pm - Drs. Margaret Geller and Scott Kenyon Dr. Margaret Geller & Dr. Scott Kenyon, world-renowned astrophysicists at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory will speak about global warming from Venus to Pluto and climate change on Earth driven by human activity. Through lectures, interviews, films and television appearances Drs. Geller & Kenyon have taken audiences on journeys through the universe from the nascent solar system to the most distant young galaxies.
January 7 - 4:00pm - Dr. Howard Hiatt and Dr. Donald Berwick
Tough choices in health care will be the subject of a discussion between Dr. Hiatt and Dr. Berwick. Dr. Howard Hiatt, now Associate Chief of the Division of Global Health Equality at Brigham and Womens' Hospital, was Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health from 1972-1984. He is the author of Medical Lifeboat and A Measure of Malpractice. Dr. Donald Berwick is President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and one of then nation's leading authorities on the quality of medical care. He is a professor at both the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health and author of over 140 articles in scientific journals and co-author of several books.
February 7 - 3:00 pm - Professors Merle and Marshall Goldman
Professors Merle Goldman and Marshall Goldman will give us their insights into China and Russia as world powers. Noted scholars and authors who specialize in China and Russia respectively, both are frequent media commentators on events in those countries. They are both members of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Merle Goldman is Emerita Professor of History at Boston University and an associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard. Her most recent book is From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China.
Marshall Goldman, Emeritus Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics at Wellesley College, was Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a consultant to the State Department and the Ford Foundation. His latest book is Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia.
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These lecture/receptions are FREE for CAH members through the generous support of : Blue Cross Blue Shield MA, the Mt. Auburn Hospital, Privatus and HouseWorks.