Past Events

Junior Fellow Zoë Hitzig, known for her research and writing on the political economy of AI, including a widely discussed op-ed reflecting on her decision to leave OpenAI, will examine how AI systems may reshape where knowledge resides and how decisions...

Join economist and current Junior Fellow Anna Russo for a Tea Talk titled "Waiting or Paying for Healthcare: Evidence from the Veterans Health Administration." These informal gatherings bring together scholars working at the intersection of history...

Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, the Harvard Library, the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, and the Peabody Museum at Harvard welcome Daniel E. Lieberman—paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, where he is the Edwin M...

Former Junior Fellow Hillary Chute —Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University and author or editor of several titles on comics—will serve as the interlocutor for an event with beloved New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast...

Senior Fellow Maria Tatar will be speaking at Harvard Bookstore about her new book, Arachnomania: Spiders and the Cultural Work They Do for Us, which explores the role of spiders in art and myth. She will be joined in conversation by Junior Fellow Charlie...

Former Junior Fellow Dr. Alex Lupsasca (2017 - 2020), of Vanderbilt University and OpenAI, will give some examples of what frontier models can now do in practice, focusing in particular on a novel theoretical-physics result that was very recently obtained...

Former Junior Fellow Tara Menon, currently an assistant professor of English at Harvard University, will be discussing her debut novel Under Water. The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

Former JF Tara Menon, currently an Assistant Professor of English at Harvard, will speak about her debut novel Under Water with colleague and writer Teju Cole.

Speaker: Douglas Stuart In conversation with Charlie Tyson About the Speakers Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author. His New York Times -bestselling debut novel Shuggie Bain won the 2020 Booker Prize and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American...

Speaker: Édouard Louis In Conversation with Tara K. Menon About the Speakers Édouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy , History of Violence , Who Killed My Father , A Woman’s Battles and Transformations , Change , Monique Escapes , and Collapse...