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Featured Lectures

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Ayad Akhtar

Ayad Akhtar

Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Playwright, Novelist and Screenwriter

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Michelle Alexander

Michelle Alexander

Author, Legal Scholar, Social Justice Advocate

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Richard Aslin, Ph.D.

Richard Aslin, Ph.D.

Developmental Psychologist and Researcher

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Nicole Austin-Hillery (DC 1989)

Nicole Austin-Hillery (DC 1989)

Executive Director of the US Program, Human Rights Watch

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James Balog

James Balog

Photographer, Filmmaker, Climate Change Researcher

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Emery Brown

Emery N. Brown

Statistician, Anesthesiologist, Neuroscientist

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Michelene Chi

Michelene "Micki" T.H. Chi

Cognitive and Educational Learning Scientist

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Brittney Cooper

Brittney Cooper

Black feminist, intersectional scholar and author of "Eloquent Rage"

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Daniel Correa

Daniel Correa

Science and Technology Policy Specialist

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Kumar Garg

Kumar Garg

Vice President of Partnerships, Schmidt Futures

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Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni

Author, Poet, Essayist and Activist

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Louis Gomez

Louis Gomez

Professor of Education and of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

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Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton

Turing Award Winner, Cognitive Psychologist, Computer Scientist

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Anya Kamenetz

Anya Kamenetz

Journalist and Education Specialist

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Ibram Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi

Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research

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Arthur Levine

Arthur Levine

Thought Leader in Education

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Abgail Marsh, Ph.D.

Abgail Marsh, Ph.D.

Psychologist, Neuroscientist

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Soledad O'Brien

Soledad O'Brien

Broadcast journalist, producer, philanthropist

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Sam Quinones

Sam Quinones

Journalist, Storyteller, Opiate Epidemic Specialist

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Justin Reich

Justin Reich

Director, Teaching Systems Lab and Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Geraldine Richmond

Geraldine Richmond

Chemist, Advocate for Science Literacy and Inclusion

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Daniela Rus

Daniela Rus

Robotocist, Computer and Data Scientist, Researcher, Educator

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Mariela Shaker

Mariela Shaker

Violinist, Refugee Activist

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Lucy Shapiro

Lucy Shapiro

Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Developmental Biology, Stanford University

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Margaret Stewart

Margaret Gould Stewart

Vice President for Product Design, Facebook

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Terry Williams

Terry Tempest Williams

Author, Educator, Activist, Conservationist

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Helen Zia

Helen Zia

Author, Activist and Journalist

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Co-Sponsored Lectures

Stephen Greenblatt

Shakespeare's First Folio and Second Chance

Tuesday, November 30

Co-sponsored by the English Department, CMU Libraries, the Humanities Center, the Center for Arts and Society, the School of Drama, the Department of History and the Frick Museum

Brittany Broski

Activities Board Presents: A Conversation with Brittany Broski

Tuesday, November 7

Co-sponsored by the Activities Board

Amanda Nguyen

Journey of Resilience:
Amanda Nguyen's Work in the Fight Against Asian Hate and Sexual Assault

Tuesday, April 4

Co-sponsored by the the Office for Institutional Equity and Title IX, It's On Us Grant, Graduate Student Assembly, Student Senate, Collaboratory Against Hate, and the Center for Student Diversity & Inclusion as a part of their MOSAIC Conference on Intersectionality

Zia Mohajerjasbi, Saim Saddiq and Luo Yi An

CMU International Film Festival:
Nightly Q&A discussion with the filmmaker and expert panelists

March 16 - April 2

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center and the CMU International Film Festival

Edward Eigen, Rania Ghosn, Margarita Jover, Sylvia Lavin, Fadi Masoud, and Neyran Turan

Architecture's Ecological Restructuring
A workshop-style symposium

Saturday, March 25

Co-sponsored by the CMU School of Architecture, the Sustainability Initiative, the 2022-23 Sylvia and David Steiner Speaker Series, University Advancement, the College of Fine Arts, Master of Science in Sustainable Design Program, and the Center for the Arts in Society

Dan Bouk and Tammy Hepps

Data, Democracy, and the Census
History and Genealogy in Conversation

Thursday, February 23

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Arts in Society and the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry

Adam Winkler, J.D.

Connell Professor of Law
University of California Los Angeles School of Law

Are Corporations People?

Monday, March 21, 2022 at 5 p.m. ET

Co-sponsored with the CMU Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the CMU Pre-law Program.

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Peter Highnam, Ph.D. (MCS 1986, SCS 1991)

A Conversation with Peter Highnam, Ph.D.
Deputy Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Wednedsay, February 2, 2022

Co-sponsored with the Institute for Politics and Strategy

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Natalia Molina

We Can't be Illegal if We're Essential: The Reckoning Wrought by Covid-19

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Arts in Society and the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry

Chief Carmen Best

A Conversation on Diversity and Inclusion with Chief Carmen Best

Friday, February 12, 2021

Co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics and Strategy

Watch the Conversation with Chief Best

Attorney Ben Crump and Michelle Williams

AB Presents: A Conversation about Anti-Racism with Attorney Ben Crump and Michelle Williams

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Co-sponsored by AB Lectures

WATCH THE CRUMP & WILLIAMS CONVERSATION

William Frey

How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Co-sponsored by the College of Fine Arts, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy

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Naomi Oreskes 

Why Trust Science?

February 20, 2020

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program
CMU Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society

Jaime Grant

Making Way: Actionable Steps for All-Gender Inclusion

February 13, 2020

Health Services
Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion
Office of Title IX Initiatives
CMQ+
Chatham University

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Liz Ogbu

Do No Harm: The Role of Design(ers) in Complicated Times

February 3, 2020

School of Architecture
School of Design

Dominic "D-trix" Sandoval

An Evening with Dominic "D-trix" Sandoval: Performance and Interview

January 23, 2020

Asian Students Association
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Kathryn Anthony

Defined by Design: The Surprising Power of Hidden Gender, Age, and Body Bias in Everyday Products and Places

September 16, 2019

School of Architecture
School of Design

Anna Clark

The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

September 11, 2019

Department of History
Humanities Center
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
A.W. Mellon Foundation

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Settler Colonialism as Genocide

September 7, 2019

Center for Arts and Society

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment

September 6, 2019

Department of History

Sir David Spiegelhalter

Communicating Statistics in an Age of Fragmented Media and Contested Science

April 22, 2019

Department of Statistics & Data Science

Paul Brockman

Doctors Without Borders and the Myanmar Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh

April 4, 2019

Department of Modern Languages

Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens

Margaret Morrison Distinguished Lecture
Medical Bondage and the Birth of American Gynecology

March 28, 2019

Department of History and CAUSE

Edda Fields Black

Orchestral Debut
Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: Requiem for Rice

February 13, 2019

Department of History

Katherine Baicker

Whither US Health Care?

November 16, 2018

Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy

Hon. Max Baer and Hon. Maureen Lally-Green

A Forum
Gerrymandering and the Constitution

November 5, 2018

Pre-Law Program

Hugh Dubberly

HCI: Software, Services, and Products

November 2, 2018

Human Computer Interaction Institute

Alan Mallach

The Divided City

October 30, 2018

Remaking Cities Institute

Ellen Weintraub

Money, Politics and the Weaponization of the First Amendment

October 29, 2018

Pre-Law Program

Anthony DiGioia

Vision, Passion and Teamwork: Transforming Healthcare the CMU Way

October 12, 2018

Division of Student Affairs

Rea Dol, Anderson Soulouque, Paul Namphy

Growing Hope: Grassroots Activism in Haiti

October 11, 2018

ProSeed Grant
Department of Modern Languages

Cass Sunstein

Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media

September 27, 2018

Program for Deliberative Democracy
Center for Ethics and Public Policy
Pre-Law Program