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Europe faces severe crisis after crisis: Anemic economic growth, the rise of anti-European sentiment, right and left-wing populism, the Euro and Greek crises, massive immigration, the refugee crisis along with the rise…

Writer and producer of the 2016 hit song “Shut up and Dance,” Ryan McMahon ’08 will expose all sides of the ever-changing music industry, from writing and producing songs to recording contracts to music streaming servic…

Achill Schürmann, professor of mathematics, will discuss how polyhedras—beautiful geometric constructions pondered since ancient times by both mathematicians and philosophers—have turned over time into powerful computat…

Kevin Breel, author of “Boy Meets Depression,” openly and honestly shares real life experiences, including his own, to expose issues around mental health and provide a look inside the life and mind of a struggling young…

Jay Bellissimo P’20, general manager and chief revenue office for of IBM Watson & Cloud Platform, will explore state-of-the-art developments in AI, including illustrations/case studies of how the cognitive potential of…

Drawing from his most recent book, Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust, Evgeny Finkel, assistant professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, will focus o…

The great 16th-century poet Hindi Surdas, a great devotee of Krishna, is said to have been blind. John “Jack” Stratton Hawley, professor of religion at Barnard College, Columbia University, wonders and explains how the…

Choking air pollution. Poisoned soil. Ghost cities. Yawning income gaps. The problems with China's breakneck economic growth are well documented. But what is less known is how the confluence of money and unchecked power…

With all the talk about “fake news” and new questions arising about what to trust, Lori Kozlowski '00 will present an in-depth analysis of how the news business works, delve into journalism’s role in society, and consid…

Built into the DNA of the U.S. and other western societies is the conviction that freedom of choice is good, and more choice is always better than less. But Barry Schwartz, emeritus professor of psychology at Swarthmore…