Night of Ideas 2023 | Boston

33 Kirkland Street,Cambridge MA 02138

03 March, 2023

Description

Night of Ideas Night of Ideas, presented at Harvard University’s William James Hall, will gather researchers, authors, artists, and leading figures of our society to participate in conferences and conversations about our future. Our participants will come from all over the world to discuss questions of integration, mobility, and purpose. Join us to attend exciting conferences, workshops and artistic performances! Presented by: the Consulate General of France in Boston, the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University, the Harvard Faculty of Art and Sciences, Bunker Hill Community College, the International School of Boston and Villa Albertine. More Consciousness ? This year, we will explore the topic "More Consciousness ?". This theme focuses on the questions arising from our ever-changing world, which is caught up in the dynamics of progress but also in our increasing consumption, population, and emissions. We will closely examine the present with the intent to build a world with a sustainable and fair economy. At this Night of Ideas at Harvard, we will call for greater awareness on the various issues of our ever-changing world. Come hear from Esther Duflo, Nobel Prize in Economics 2019Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Prize in Economics 2019Barbara Cassin, Philosopher, member of the Académie FrançaiseJean-Luc Marion, Philosopher, member of the Académie Française James Katz, Director of Program and Feld Professor of Emerging Media at Boston UniversityPam Ellis, Artist in residence at Bunker Hill Community CollegeMathilde Radiguet, Visiting researcher in Seismology at MIT, current Fulbright ScholarMatthias Lambert, Researcher in Muscle Biology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical SchoolLéa Hirschfeld, Creator of the podcast “Décalés” and current resident at the Villa AlbertineCécile Ganne, ArtistAnne Plaisance, ArtistOur performers The Jack Soref Music TrioThe Harvard Veritones The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers (THUD)The Migration Tales (BU)The Flute Society at BerkleeSubscribe to our workshops Chat GPT, the Metaverse, and AI : How will they be Affecting Education ? by James Katz and Jean ArnaudMultiplied Visions in Painting : A Conversation with Two Artists by Cécile Ganne, Anne Plaisance and Victorien Coquery Understanding the Meaning of More by Victorien Coquery, Mathieu Beau and the students at ISBExploring Environmental Topics in Human Rights and Language Learning by Karen Turman and Cynthia Boyer How to do More Good ? Reflections on Effective Altruism by Nicolas Prevelakis and Zazie HumlWhat's for dinner ? by Stuart Reiter Our full program