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Photo Credit: Eric Sucar THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM Speaker: Sonja Dümpelmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich) Moderator: Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University About the Event Why do we plant and often protect trees in cities? Throughout history, humans...

Panelists: David Elmer , Emily Greenwood , and Jie Li Moderator: Robin Kelsey About the Event Since its release in July, Christopher Nolan’s IMAX film The Odyssey has made as big a splash as any film in recent memory, drawing large crowds to theaters and...

Photo Credit: Ahmed Gaber Speaker: Álvaro Enrigue About the Speakers Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recent novels include Now I Surrender and You Dreamed of Empires . His work has appeared in The New York Times , the London...

Photo Credit: Kate Joyce / SFI THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM Speaker: Kyle Harper, University of Oklahoma About the Speakers Kyle Harper is the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, Professor of Classics and Letters, Senior Advisor to the...

Speaker: Douglas Stuart About the Speakers Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author. His New York Times -bestselling debut novel Shuggie Bain won prizes including the 2020 Booker Prize and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and...

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event A Conversation with Clinicians Julie Holland, Liam Modlin, and Franklin King About the Event Psychedelics are not like most other mental health interventions. They expose assumptions about...

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event Speakers: Shayla Love, Jane C. Hu, Rachel Nuwer, and Josh Hardman About the Event Mainstream media once framed psychedelics as dangerous, deviant, or socially corrosive. But now, in the...

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event Speakers: Emily Witt ( The New Yorker) & Michelle Lhooq ( Rave New World) About the Event The rave, like every era of psychedelic counterculture, has long presented a hopeful vision of...

Urban Conversations Speaker: Garnette Cadogan In conversation with Teju Cole How might walking and writing as an intertwined practice—of attunement, recognition, acknowledgement—make possible an “intimate urbanism”? We’ll explore the promise and...

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event Speakers: David Yaden, Johns Hopkins and Nicolas Langlitz, The New School About the Event As psychedelics approach mainstream medicine, the question of what they mean for our culture has...