(re)Imagine is a series of invited talks and conversations on curiosity, empathy, trust, and what it would take to reform the old or build a new future for humanity and the planet. More concretely, we will discuss policy-making, institutional robustness, education, and the health of civic society.
Recent events and the pandemic have increased our aperture for uncertainty. Uncertainty could also mean possibilities. While we try to find the balance between the urge to go back to an old familiar normal, or aspirations to create a new normal, we continue to ask which aspects of being human should drive this new episode in our lives, our communities, and our world.
Speakers
04.22 | 10:30am EDT
Novelist, essayist, physicist, and educator. Formerly John Burchard Professor of the Humanities at MIT
04.28 | 10:30am EDT
300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University
05.06 | 11:00am EDT
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology; Founding Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
05.13 | 10:30am EDT
Vice President for Open Learning at MIT, which includes the Office of Digital Learning, the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative and the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab. He is also the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
05.25 | 10:30am EDT
Kevin Esvelt is director of the Sculpting Evolution group at MIT
05.27 | 10:30am EDT
Professor and the inaugural Director of York University’s. Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. Former President, Médecins Sans Frontières
06.29 | 10:30am EDT
Executive Director, Project Drawdown
