Mount Auburn Hospital’s 84th Annual Thursday Morning Talks
| Hours: | From 10:45 am-12:00 pm |
| Ages: | Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $$ see below |
| Category: | Lectures/Discussions |
January 6, 2022
Randall Kennedy: “Shall We Overcome?”
Randall Kennedy is among the most incisive American commentators on race according to the New York Times and a Law Professor at Harvard Law School. His new book, Say It Loud, is a collection of provocative essays exploring the key social issues of our time - from George Floyd to antiracism to inequality and the Supreme Court.
January 13, 2022
Meghna Chakrabarti: “A Conversation with the Host of WBUR’s ‘On Point.’”
Meghna Chakrabarti is the Host and Editor of “On Point” and the former host of Radio Boston. This acclaimed show features in-depth interviews with extraordinary people, along with an analysis of broader issues that have an impact on Boston and beyond. She has won awards for her writing and her hard-news reporting.
January 20, 2022
Rosa Brooks: “Tangled up in Blue: Policing the American City”
Rosa Brooks is an American law professor, journalist, and commentator on foreign policy, U.S. politics and criminal justice. She is Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. Her book is an inside explosive groundbreaking investigation of American policing when she decided to become a cop for two years to help her understand how police officers make sense of their world, normally a blue wall of silence.
January 27, 2022
Susan Hackley: “Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War”
A Talk with Documentary Filmmaker Susan Hackley about her film that illuminates the impact of war on America’s children and families of service men and women. This landmark film premiered on public television in 2019, and features the voices of children whose parents served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
February 3, 2022
Tomiko Brown-Nagin: “Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality.”
Tomiko Brown-Nagin is an American lawyer, historian, and academic administrator. She is also the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, Professor of History at Harvard University, and Co-Director of the Program in Law and History. Her subject, Constance Baker Motley, was a key strategist of the civil rights movement, a state senator, and the first African American woman appointed to the federal judiciary.
February 10, 2022
Patricia Sullivan: “Robert Kennedy and the Racial Reckoning of the 1960s.”
University of South Carolina history professor Patricia Sullivan delivers a nuanced and deeply researched portrait of Robert Kennedy’s engagement with the civil rights movement as attorney general, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate.
February 17, 2022
Victoria Riskin: “Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir.”
Victoria Riskin is an American author, psychologist, award-winning television writer and producer, and human rights activist. Her book is a Hollywood love story and a dual biography of two of Hollywood’s most famous figures whose star-studded lives were lived at the center of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Written by their daughter, it is a warm, loving and evocative tale, and a brilliant piece of cinematic history.
February 24, 2022
John Shattuck: “The Hijacking of Rights in America and How to Reclaim Them for Everyone”
Former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor under President Clinton. John was our Ambassador to the Czech Republic and the fourth President of Central European University in Budapest, and earlier directed the Washington Office of the American Civil Liberties Union. Now a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, John’s new book Holding Together: The Hijacking of Rights in America and How to Reclaim Them for Everyone, will be published in April 2022.
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Patron: $125.00
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Benefactor: $500.00
The entire amount of your contribution is tax deductible, and 100% of the proceeds go to benefit the Mount Auburn Hospital.
If you prefer to donate by check, please make your check payable to Thursday Morning Talks, and mail to: Amy Tillotson, 31 Shepard Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
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One-time donation starts at $125
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www.mountauburnhospital.org/giving/mount-auburn-auxiliary/thursday-morning-talks/
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415 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, 02138 map
Phone: 6174923500
Links to the talks will be posted in January 2022. Subscribers who have donated in advance will be sent the link for each talk via email the week of each event.
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