Evenings with an Author

Simone de Beauvoir’s lived experiences were instrumental to the development of her philosophy. Who was the woman behind The Second Sex?

How does one write one’s way out of a traumatic event? Does disaster inevitably resist narrative? Preti Taneja speaks on language, loss, and possibilities of resolution.

Bestselling author Mohsin Hamid speaks on new visions of society, the self, and others in the post-racial world of new novel The Last White Man.

Are we in a fourth wave of feminism? How can the current feminist movement be defined, if definition is possible at all? Given the current terrain, what does the future of feminism look like?

What can memoir do for global health? A personal perspective on chronic illness shows the importance of patient voices in the medical field and raises awareness for the international "superbug" crisis.

What is the relationship between migration and writing? When one’s life and legal status have been reduced to written files, what other possibilities for storytelling emerge?

Six women changed science, and were forgotten by history. Uncover the women written out of the Enlightenment with historian Nina Gelbart.

Celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips discusses changing our understanding of change and getting better at talking about getting better.

Three climate experts and activists convene to discuss the future of food on a planet in peril.