HAA SPEAKERS BUREAU PROGRAM CATALOGUE
2012-2013
http://www.clubsandsigs.harvard.edu/article.html?aid=116
- AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature & Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy;
Director at the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights
at the Harvard Kennedy School
Possible topics: On Human Rights, the Humanities, and Becoming Humane; Pedagogy and
Privilege: Teaching for Social Change; Heeding the Call of Service; Our Bondage, Our Freedom:
The Long History of Slavery and Abolition; The Politics of Poetics: American Protest Literature from
Tom Paine to Tupac; Was the Obama Campaign a Social Movement?; The Myths and Meanings of
Barack Obama; Spin and Spectacle: The Changing Role of Media in Politics; Protest Nation:
American Radical Traditions and the Problem of Democracy; Beyond Tolerance: Culture, Stigma,
and the Struggle for LGBT Equality
Matthew B. Platt, Assistant Professor of Government
Possible topics: Changes in Black Leadership/Representation; Black Politics
Werner Sollors, Henry B. And Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature; Professor of AfroAmerican Studies
Possible topics: Afro-American Studies: African American Intellectuals in Europe between the Two
World Wars; The True American Exception: Opposition to Interracial Marriage? History: Dedicated to
a Proposition: 'All Men Are Created Equal' in American Culture; Foreign Affair: Notes toward a
Cultural History of the American Occupation of Germany after World War II; Can Rabbits Have
Interracial Sex? The Strange Fate of Garth Williams' The Rabbits' Wedding; A New Look at the
Concept of Immigrant Generations Literature: The Rise of Ethnic Modernism in the US, 1910-1950;
The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: Crossing Linguistic Boundaries in American
Culture; From Arabian Nights to Hans Christian Andersen's play Mulatto: On an Anthology of
Interracial Literature
John Stauffer, Professor of English and the History of American Civilization
Possible topics: Frederick Douglass's America; Mark Twain's America; Lincoln's America; Slavery
and the Meaning of America; The Origins of an Integrated America; John Brown and the Coming of
the Civil War; GIANTS; The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln; The Battle
Hymn of the Republic: A Biography; America's Holy War
- ART, ARCHITECTURE, and MUSIC –
Peter Burgard, Professor of German; Faculty Associate of the Minda de Gunzberg Center for
European Studies
Possible topics: Caravaggio and the Contingencies of Faith: The Incredulity of St. Thomas;
Decoration and Decorum: Vienna 1683 - 1914; Caravaggio and the Baroque; Baroque and the
Nonunity of the Visual Arts: From Bernini to Asam
Thomas Forrest Kelly, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music
Possible topics: Classical Music; Opera
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Robert Levin, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Music
Possible topics: Who Cares If Classical Music Dies?; Mozart and Swing Jazz: The Same
Language?; The Current State of the Performing Arts at Harvard
Jack Megan, Director, Office for the Arts at Harvard
Possible topics: The Burgeoning Undergraduate Arts Scene at Harvard; The Unique Environment
of Undergraduate Arts at Harvard and Their Importance in a Liberal Arts Environment
Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative
Literature
Possible topic: Contemporary Theater and the Arts; Theater and Philosophy: From Plato to the
Present
Carl Sapers, Adjunct Professor of Studies in Professional Practice in Architecture
Possible topic: Observations on Professional Life in America
Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African
American Studies
Possible topics: Music and Memory; Performing Identity; A New African Community in North
America: A Musical Portrait of the Ethiopian Diaspora; Mulatu Astatke and the Genesis of Ethio-Jazz
- ASTRONOMY Alyssa Goodman, Professor of Astronomy; Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution
Possible topics: How to Make New Stars; Bringing the Night Sky Closer: Discoveries in the Data
Deluge; The Art of Numbers: Data Visualization for the 21st Century (alternative title, "Seeing
Science")
Jonathan Grindlay, Robert Treat Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy
Possible topics: The High Energy Universe: Black Holes and Collapsed Objects, as Observed With
the NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Operated from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics; The Historical Sky: Digital Access to Harvard's Unique Half-Million Images of the Sky
Over the Past Century; Developing Future Space Telescopes to Observe Gamma-Ray Bursts from
the Very First Stars as Probes of the Early Universe; Developing a Small Student-built X-ray Camera
for a Big NASA Mission to An Asteroid
Robert Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science
Possible topic: Dark Energy, Exploding Stars, and the Accelerating Universe
David Layzer, Donald H. Menzel Research Professor of Astrophysics, Emeritus
Possible topic: Freedom and Determinism: A New Scientific Perspective
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- BUSINESS Michael Beer, Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus
Possible topics: Recession Lesson: Principled Leadership for Rebuilding a Stronger Corporate
America; Silent Killers: What Stands in the Way of Building Great Companies?: What Leaders Must
Do, Be and Know to Lead a Journey to High Commitment and High Performance: Developing
Learning and Change Systems to Achieve Continuous Improvements in the Quality of Leadership
and Management; The New Rules of Corporate Governance
George Cabot Lodge, Jaime and Josephina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration,
Emeritus, Harvard Business School
Possible topic: The Importance of Ideological Consciousness
- EAST ASIAN STUDIES Theodore C. Bestor, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Social Anthropology
Possible topics: Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World; The Americanization of Sushi;
How Sushi Went Global; Re-inventing Tokyo (all talks are with slides)
Peter Bol, Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Possible topics: Rediscovering the Past in China Today (with slides); Learning to Love the
Traditional Chinese Garden (with slides)
James Cheng, Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library
Possible topic: East Asian Studies, Programs, and the Harvard-Yenching Library
Robert Murowchick, Associate of East Asia Archaeology in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology; Director, International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History,
Boston University
Possible topics: From the Ground Up: New Surprises in the Archaeology of Ancient China; From
Geomancy to Geophysics: The Peabody Museum-Chinese Institute of Archaeology Field Program on
Shang Civilization; Making the Past Serve the Present: Politics, Nationalism, and Archaeology; Let
Silent Sentinels Speak: The Archaeology of Terra-Cotta Armies in China
James L. Watson, Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology
Possible topics: The Global Soybean: American Producers, East Asian Consumers and the Biotech
Revolution; Chinese Diaspora Formation: The Man Lineage in Hong Kong, Europe, and Beyond;
Across the River: A Cultural History of the Hong Kong Border, 1898-2005; Meat: A Cultural
Biography (in China); other topics depending on club interests
- ECONOMICS George Cabot Lodge, Jaime and Josephina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration,
Emeritus
Possible topic: The Importance of Ideological Consciousness
James L. Watson, Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology
Possible topics: The Global Soybean: American Producers, East Asian Consumers and the Biotech
Revolution; Chinese Diaspora Formation: The Man Lineage in Hong Kong, Europe, and Beyond;
Across the River: A Cultural History of the Hong Kong Border, 1898-2005; Meat: A Cultural
Biography (in China); other topics depending on club interests
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- EDUCATION Catherine Marie Cook Ayoub, Associate Professor of Education; Associate Professor of Psychology
in the Department of Psychiatry, MGH
Possible topics: Childhood Trauma and Violence Prevention; Intervention with Young Children;
Children in Court
Roland Fryer, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics
Possible topics: The Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard University; Education, and the
Achievement Gap; Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children
Ilona Holland, Lecturer on Education in the Technology, Innovation, and Education Program at the
Graduate School of Education
Possible topic: Evaluation for Informed Decision Making
Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature & Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy;
Director at the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights
at the Harvard Kennedy School
Possible topics: Teaching the Humanities to Non-Traditional Students; Human Rights and the
Humanities; Pedagogy of the Privileged
Paul Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government; Director of the Program on
Education Policy and Governance; Editor-in-Chief of Education Next
Possible topics: Education Policy and Governance; School Reform; School Choice Vouchers; High
Stakes Testing; Accountability; No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Legislation; The Perilous State of
Education and What Can Be Done About It; Charter Schools; How Virtual Education can Transform
Our High Schools
- ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE –
Peter Ashton, Charles Bullard Research Professor of Forestry
Possible topics: Tropical Forests; Research Towards Policy Reform for Maintaining Tropical Forests
Aaron Bernstein M.D., M.P.H., Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment,
Harvard Medical School; Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of
Public Health; Physician in Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston
Possible topics: Climate Change and Health, Biodiversity and Health, Climate Change and
Children's Health, Global Environmental Change and Human Health
John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering in the School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health (School
of Public Health); Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health
Possible topics: The Future of Water; Water Management in a Changing World; The New Harvard
Water Program
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- HARVARD UNIVERSITY William R. Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
Possible topic: Admissions and Financial Aid at Harvard College
Roland Fryer, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics
Possible topic: The Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard University
Haden Guest, Director of the Harvard Film Archive, Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies
Possible Topics: The History of Film Production and Film Studies at Harvard; A Critical History of
Postwar American Avante-Garde Cinema, An Illustrated Lecture
Richard M. Hunt, Former University Marshal, Senior Lecturer on Social Studies
Possible topic: Harvard on the World Stage
Craig Lambert, Deputy Editor, Harvard Magazine
Possible Topic: How Harvard Changed Comedy: from the National Lampoon to Saturday Night
Live, Animal House, David Letterman, The Simpsons, and Beyond
Robert Levin, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Music
Possible topic: The Current State of the Performing Arts at Harvard
Jack Megan, Director, Office for the Arts at Harvard
Possible topics: The Burgeoning Undergraduate Arts Scene at Harvard; The Unique Environment
of Undergraduate Arts at Harvard and Their Importance in a Liberal Arts Environment
Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature & Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy;
Director at the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights
at the Harvard Kennedy School
Possible topics: Improving Undergraduate Education and Advising; Teaching the Values of Public
Service and Social Justice; House Life in Harvard College
John Rosenberg, Editor, Harvard Magazine
Possible topics: Ear to the Ground: The Life of the University Community as Reflected Bimonthly
--and Daily, Online-- in Harvard Magazine; Harvard University: Perspectives on the Campus and
Schools Today
Stuart Shieber, James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science;
Director, Office for Scholarly Communication, SEAS
Possible topic: Open Access to Scholarship
- HEALTH AND WELLNESS Catherine Marie Cook Ayoub, Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry,
MGH; Associate Professor of Education
Possible topics: Childhood Trauma and Violence Prevention; Intervention with Young Children;
Children in Court
Aaron Bernstein M.D., M.P.H., Acting Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global
Environment, Harvard Medical School; Instructor in Pediatrics,
Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health; Physician in Medicine, Children's
Hospital Boston
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Possible topics: Climate Change and Health, Biodiversity and Health, Climate Change and
Children's Health, Global Environmental Change and Human Health
Jeremy Greene, Assistant Professor of the History of Science; Instructor in Medicine
Possible topics: Drugs and the Definition of Disease; Consumerism and Medicine; Pharmaceuticals
and the Production of Medical Knowledge; The Science and Politics of Generic Drugs; History of
Global Health; Pharmaceuticals and Global Health
Gene Heyman, Lecturer on Psychology
Possible topic: Addiction, Disease, and Choice: Resolving a Scientific and Conceptual Muddle
Dariush Mozaffarian, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of
Public Health
Possible topic: Improving Healthcare Crises with Omega-3s; New Advances in Our Understanding
of the Cardioprotective Diet; Trans fatty acids, cardiometabolic health, and public policy; Fats and
Cardiovascular Disease
Douglas H. Powell, Clinical Instructor in Psychology
Possible topic: Coping Strategies for Optimal Aging, Normal and Optimal Aging
- HISTORY –
Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor; Director, Collection of Historical Scientific
Instruments
Possible topics: Einstein’s Clock; The H-Bomb Dilemma (film and talk)
Jeremy Greene, Assistant Professor of the History of Science; Instructor in Medicine
Possible topics: Drugs and the Definition of Disease; Pharmaceuticals and the Production of
Medical Knowledge; History of Global Health
Roger Owen, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History
Possible topics: The Modern Middle East; The Arab Spring; The Ups and Downs of Arab Unity; The
Rise and Fall of the Era of Arab Republican Presidents for Life
Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature & Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy;
Director at the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights
at the Harvard Kennedy School
Possible topics: Abraham Lincoln and the Problem of Race; Slavery and Abolition, Then and Now;
The Long Civil Rights Movement; The American Radical Tradition; Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Human
Rights; Human Rights and Social Movements
Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative
Literature
Possible topic: Theater and Philosophy: From Plato to the Present
Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature; Professor of AfroAmerican Studies
Possible topics: Dedicated to a Proposition: 'All Men Are Created Equal' in American Culture;
Foreign Affair: Notes toward a Cultural History of the American Occupation of Germany after World
War II; A New Look at the Concept of Immigrant Generations
John Stauffer, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies
Possible topics: Frederick Douglass's America; Mark Twain's America; Lincoln's America; John
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Brown and the Coming of the Civil War; Slavery and the Meaning of America; The Origins of an
Integrated America; The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography; America's Holy War
Richard Tuck, Professor of Government
Possible topics: History of Political Theory; Modern Political Theory; Slavery; Democracy; AngloAmerican Universities
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Theodore C. Bestor, Professor of Anthropology; Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Social
Anthropology
Possible topics: Japanese Food Culture; The Tsukiji Fish Market; The Global Fishing Industry and
Environmental Issues; Markets and Culture; Globalization and Culture; Re-inventing Tokyo (Note:
all talks are with slides.)
Marshall Goldman, Senior Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian Studies
Possible topics: The Piratization of Russia: Is Putin the Solution?; Putin and the Rebirth of the
Russian Economy; Putin, Petroleum, Power and Patronage: The Dog Barks But the Caravan Moves
On; Strange Bedfellows: Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama
Donna Hicks, Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Topic: Dignity: The Essential Role it Plays in Resolving Conflict (lecture based on publication)
Richard M. Hunt, Former University Marshal, Senior Lecturer on Social Studies
Possible topics: The New Germany in the New Europe; Nazi Germany: Lessons from the Past for
the Present
George Cabot Lodge, Jaime and Josephina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration,
Emeritus
Possible topic: The Importance of Ideological Consciousness
Gautam Mukunda, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
Possible topic: Disruptive Innovation in War
Michael Rosen, Professor of Government; Affiliate of the Department of Philosophy
Possible topics: 19th and 20th century European philosophy and in contemporary Anglo-American
political philosophy. Dignity: Its History and Meaning (based on publication)
Carol R. Saivetz, Executive Director of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies; Associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Center; Associate, Davis Center for
Russian Studies; Lecturer, Department of Government
Possible topics: Politics of Caspian Oil; Russian Policy toward Central Asia, Afghanistan, and the
War on Terrorism; Russian Affairs; US-Russian Relations; Russian Foreign Policy; US-Russian Policy
in Middle East, Specifically Russian Policy toward Iran and Iraq; International Relations of the Middle
East; Russia and the Arab Spring
- LITERATURE Verena Andermatt Conley, Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance
Languages and Literatures; Co-Master of Kirkland House
Possible topics: French literature today; Postwar literature; Transformations of Space in
Contemporary culture; The question of the banlieue; Criss-crossing the Mediterranean: Literary and
cultural exchanges between France and North Africa
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Peter Burgard, Professor of German and Faculty Associate of the Minda de Gunzberg Center for
European Studies
Possible topics: Caravaggio and the Contingencies of Faith: The Incredulity of St. Thomas;
Decoration and Decorum: Vienna 1683 - 1914
Stephen Burt, Associate Professor of English
Possible topics: Sonnets; Contemporary Poets; Science Fiction
Karl Guthke, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture
Possible topics: Global vs. Humanistic Education: Goethe and the English-Speaking World; The
Culture of Last Words in Life and Literature; Are We Alone? Extraterrestrials from Galileo to H. G.
Wells
James Kugel, Harry Starr Professor of Classical, Modern Jewish & Hebrew Literature; Professor of
Comparative Literature
Possible topics: The Hebrew Bible; History of Biblical Exegesis; Literary Criticism; The Bible and
Its Interpreters
Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature & Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy;
Director at the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights
at the Harvard Kennedy School
Possible topics: The Worlds of James Baldwin; Stories of Slavery and Freedom; Literary
Abolitionism and the Struggle for Equality; Slave Narratives and the Problem of Representation;
Black History as American History
Catherine McKenna, Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures
Possible topics: The Celtic Languages in an English-Speaking World; Autonomy and Resurgence in
Wales; Gods and Heroes of the Celts; European Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages; The Holy Wells of
Ireland; Saint Brigid of Ireland and New Age Spirituality
Elisa New, Professor of English
Possible topic: Jacob’s Cane; Moby Dick in the Era of BP; Hawthorne and the Pillory in the Age of
the Huffington Post; Whitman: Life on the Streets
Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative
Literature
Possible topics: World literature and Travel
Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature; Professor of AfroAmerican Studies
Possible topics: The Rise of Ethnic Modernism in the U.S., 1910-1950; The Multilingual Anthology
of American Literature: Crossing Linguistic Boundaries in American Culture; From Arabian Nights to
Hans Christian Andersen's play Mulatto: On An Anthology of Interracial Literature
Linda Schlossberg, Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Possible topics: Selling Jane Austen; Fiction and Gender; Identity Politics and the Study of
Literature, Fiction Writing
John Stauffer, Professor of English and of African and African-American Studies
Possible topics: Frederick Douglass's America; Mark Twain's America; Lincoln's America; John
Brown and the Coming of the Civil War; Slavery and the Meaning of America; The Origins of an
Integrated America
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Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Chair of the Program
in Folklore and Mythology
Possible topics: Touching Magic: The Power of Stories in Childhood; Alice in Wonderland
Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin; Director, Dumbarton Oaks
Research Library and Collection
Possible topics: The Not-So-Medieval World of Manuscripts; The Brothers Grimm and Medieval
Fairy Tales
- PSYCHOLOGY Catherine Marie Cook Ayoub, Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry,
MGH; Associate Professor of Education
Possible topics: Childhood Trauma and Violence Prevention; Intervention with Young Children;
Children in Court
Gene Heyman, Lecturer on Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Possible topic: Addiction, Disease, and Choice: Resolving a Scientific and Conceptual Muddle
Donna Hicks, Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Topic: Dignity: The Essential Role it Plays in Resolving Conflict (lecture based on publication)
Richard J. McNally, Professor of Psychology
Possible topic: What is Mental Illness? (based on publication)
Gautam Mukunda, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
Possible topics: When Leaders Really Matter; Understanding the impact of individual leaders And
Victories of the Weak
Douglas H. Powell, Clinical Instructor in Psychology
Possible topics: Coping Strategies for Optimal Aging, Normal and Optimal Aging; The Aging Mind
and Body: What’s New
Linda Schlossberg, Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Possible topic: Body Image Issues and Eating Disorders: Historical and Contemporary Perspective
- PUBLIC POLICY Jeremy Greene, Assistant Professor of the History of Science; Instructor in Medicine
Possible topic: The Science and Politics of Generic Drugs
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, John F. Kennedy
School of Government
Possible topics: Our Uncertain Future: The Science and Politics of Global Environment; Cultural
Differences in Attitudes towards Technological Risk; Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in
Europe and the US, a Comparative Study of the Politics of Biotechnology; The Imagined Earth:
Reflections on the Human Place in Nature; Science and Public Reason (based on publication)
Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature & Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy;
Director at the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights
at the Harvard Kennedy School
Possible topics: Was the Obama Campaign a Social Movement?; LGBT Politics, Policy, and
Advocacy; The Meaning and Power of Presidential Speechmaking; The Role of Media in Politics; The
Problem of Human Rights Policy
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Matthew B. Platt, Assistant Professor of Government
Possible topics: Congressional behavior; Agenda setting; The Connection Between Citizen Activism
and Policymaking; Changes in Black Leadership/Representation; Black politics
- RELIGION Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures
Possible topics: Pluralism, Intolerance and the Quran: Challenges in Contemporary Islam; Religion
and Politics in Contemporary Muslim Societies: The Rise of Anti-western Movements in the Islamic
World; Islamist Groups in the Muslim World; Islam in America: Understanding Islam and the Role of
Religion in Muslim Societies: Going Beyond the Headlines
Ann Braude, Senior Lecturer on American Religious History and Director of the Women's Studies in
Religion Program, Divinity School
Possible topics: Religion and the Modern Women’s Movement
Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature & Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy;
Director at the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights
at the Harvard Kennedy School
Possible topic: Black Church Burnings and the Crucible of Race
- SCIENCE and MEDICINE –
Peter Bol, Center for Geographic Analysis, Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and
Civilizations and Harvard College Professor
Possible topics: Rediscovering the Past in China Today (with PowerPoint); Learning to Love the
Traditional Chinese Garden (with PowerPoint)
Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor; Director, Collection of Historical Scientific
Instruments
Possible topics: Einstein’s Clock; The H-Bomb Dilemma (film and talk)
Jeremy Greene, Assistant Professor of the History of Science; Instructor in Medicine
Possible topics: Drugs and the Definition of Disease; Consumerism and Medicine; Pharmaceuticals
and the Production of Medical Knowledge; The Science and Politics of Generic Drugs; History of
Global Health; Pharmaceuticals and Global Health
Alyssa Goodman, Professor of Astronomy
Possible topics: How to Make New Stars; Bringing the Night Sky Closer: Discoveries in the Data
Deluge; The Art of Numbers: Data Visualization for the 21st Century (alternative title, "Seeing
Science")
J. Woodland Hastings, Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences, Emeritus
Possible topic: BIOLUMINESCENCE: Living Lights, Lights for Living (based on publication)
David Layzer, Donald H. Menzel Research Professor of Astrophysics
Possible topic: Freedom and Determinism: A New Scientific Perspective
Clifford Lo, Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition;
Associate of Eliot House
Possible topics: Healthy Eating and Nutrition; Global Health and Nutrition; Obesity; Osteoporosis;
Vitamin D; Calcium; Vitamins and Minerals; Medical Education; Infant Nutrition; Short Bowel
Syndrome; Pediatric Gastrointestinal Problems
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Douglas H. Powell, Clinical Instructor in Psychology
Possible topics: Coping Strategies for Optimal Aging; Normal and Optimal Aging; Aging, Anxiety
and Cognition
Robert Sackstein, Professor, Harvard Medical School; Attending Physician, Hematopoietic Stem
Cell Transplantation Program, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Possible topics: Stem Cells: The Science We Must All Know; Reversing Degenerative Disease: The
Promise of Stem Cell Therapeutics; Understanding Cancer Metastasis
- TECHNOLOGY Peter Bol, Center for Geographic Analysis, Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and
Civilizations and Harvard College Professor
Possible topics: Bringing Geography Back to Harvard: How New Technologies of Geography Are
Changing the Way We Understand the World and Ourselves (with PowerPoint)
Ilona Holland, Lecturer, Graduate School of Education
Possible topic: Evaluation for Informed Decision Making
Stuart Shieber, James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science;
Director, Office for Scholarly Communication, SEAS
Possible topics: Technology and Society (as Director of the Center for Research on Computation
and Society; Open Access to Scholarship (as Director of the Office for Scholarly Communication)
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School/ Harvard Kennedy School of
Government; Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences;
Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Possible topics: The Future of the Internet; Cyberlaw; "Network Neutrality"; Internet Filtering by
National Governments
- RECENT AND FORTHCOMING BOOKS Asani, Ali. Infidel of Love: Exploring Muslim Understandings of Islam, Harvard University Press,
2012
Hastings, J. Woodland. BIOLUMINESCENCE: Living Lights, Lights for Living, Harvard University
Press 2013
Hicks, Donna. Dignity:The Essential Role it Plays in Resolving Conflict, Yale University Press, 2011
Jasanoff, Sheila. Science and Public Reason, Routledge-Earthscan, 2012
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. The Indispensable Zinn, New Press , 2012
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. Stonewall's Children: Life, Loss, and Love after Liberation, 2011
McNally, Richard. What Is Mental Illness? Harvard University Press, 2011
Owen, Roger. The Rise and Fall of Arab President for Life, Harvard University Press, 2012
Powell, Douglas. The Aging Intellect, Routledge, 2011
Rosen, Michael. Dignity: Its History and Meaning, Harvard University Press, 2012
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