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Ed Yong
鈥淲hat Pandemics Teach Us鈥� | Gerson Family Lecture
January 29

Named 鈥渢he most important and impactful journalist" of 2020 by The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Yong was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

An engaging speaker, he is the author of I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us, a groundbreaking examination of the relationship between animals and microbes. An Immense World鈥攁 New York Times best seller which was longlisted for the PEN America 2023 Literary Award and made many best books of the year lists鈥攅xamines the sensory worlds of animals. A longtime science reporter for The Atlantic, Yong also has published in National Geographic, The New Yorker, Wired, Nature, New Scientist, and Scientific American.

Cosponsored by BC鈥檚 Park Street Corporation Speaker Series, the Asian American Studies Program, and Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society. Made possible by the Gerson Family Lecture Fund, established by John A. and Jean N. Gerson, P'14, and Jaclyn Gerson Rossiter 鈥�14.

Graham Ward聽
鈥淟oneliness: A Theological Appraisal鈥� |聽Annual Candlemas Lecture
聽February 5

Ward is the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Extraordinary Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at the University of Stellenbosch. Among his books are Cities of God, Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice, True Religion, Christ and Culture, The Politics of Discipleship, Unbelievable, and Unimaginable.

For the last decade he has been working on Ethical Life, a major four-volume systematic theology, which includes two already-published volumes, How the Light Gets In and Another Kind of Normal and the upcoming Salus.

Cosponsored by the Theology Department.

Javier Zamora
鈥淪olito: Home, Identity, and the Immigrant Experience鈥�
February 26

Memoirist and poet Zamora鈥檚 Solito is an account of his near-impossible journey and unexpected moments of kindness, love, and joy scattered across perilous boat trips, desert treks, arrests, and betrayals. Longlisted for the PEN America 2023 Literary Awards, Solito was a New York Times best seller and a 2023 American Book Award winner. His debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied, is rooted in the experiences of a nine-year-old boy navigating politics, racism, war, and the impact of a border crossing on his family.

Zamora has been a fellow at Stanford and Harvard among several others, and holds fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. His honors include the 2017 Narrative Prize, the 2016 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and the 2020 Pushcart Prize. Zamora has been published in Granta, the Kenyon Review, American Poetry, the New Republic, The New York Times, and Poetry, among other publications.

Cosponsored by the Park Street Corporation Speaker Series and Romance Languages and Literatures Department.

Arthur Frank
鈥淧olyphonic Suffering: Reading Shakespeare to Respond to Illness鈥�
March 12

A professor emeritus at the University of Calgary, Frank has written on illness experience, ethics, clinical care, and narrative, in books such as At the Will of the Body, The Wounded Storyteller, The Renewal of Generosity, Letting Stories Breathe, and King Lear: Shakespeare鈥檚 Dark Consolations.聽Since his 2013 retirement, he has taught at VID Specialized University in Oslo, been a visiting professor in the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and Francqui Fellow at the University of Ghent. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and winner of its medal in bioethics, he was recognized with a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Bioethics Society.

Cosponsored by the Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics. NOTE: Seating is limited; in-person attendance must be reserved in advance via Eventbrite. Those seeking Continuing Education credits and/or to watch the lecture remotely, register .听

Katherine McKittrick
鈥淎 Poetics of Declension鈥�
March 19

Professor of Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen鈥檚 University in Kingston, Canada, McKittrick researches in areas of Black studies, anti-colonial studies, and critical-creative methodologies. She has authored multiple articles and is a former editor at Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. Her books include Dear Science and Other Stories and Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. She also edited and contributed to Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis.

Recent and forthcoming projects include the limited-edition boxset Trick Not Telos, a collaboration with Liz Ikriko and Cristian Ord贸帽ez, and the tryptic honoring NourbeSe Philip, On the Declension of Beauty.

Cosponsored by the African and African Diaspora Studies Program.

John McNeill
鈥淭he Industrial Revolution as Global Environmental History鈥�
April 2

McNeill, who has taught history at Georgetown University since 1985, has received two Fulbright awards, a MacArthur grant, Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson Center fellowships, and has held several international visiting appointments. He has authored or co-authored eight books including The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History and Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-century World, the co-winner of prizes from the World History Association and the Forest History Society and runner-up for the BP Natural World Book Prize. His Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620鈥�1914 won the Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association.

His most recent books are The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene, 1945鈥�2015, The Webs of Humankind, and Sea & Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean.

Cosponsored by the History Department and the University Core Curriculum.

Fiction Days Presents Anne Berest
鈥淔amily Fictions: The Postcard, 骋补产谤颈毛濒别, and Writing True Novels鈥�
April 23

French writer Berest鈥檚 first novel in English, The Postcard, was a national best-seller that garnered book of the year honors from NPR, TIME, Library Journal, and Vogue, and a finalist for the Goncourt Prize in France. It was described as 鈥渟tunning鈥� by The New Yorker, as a 鈥減owerful literary work鈥� by The New York Times Book Review, and as 鈥渋ntimate, profound, essential鈥� by ELLE magazine.

Berest and her sister are co-authors of 骋补产谤颈毛濒别, a critically acclaimed, best-selling 鈥渢rue novel鈥� based on the life of her great-grandmother 骋补产谤颈毛濒别 Buffet-Picabia, wife of Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp鈥檚 lover and muse, a leader of the French Resistance, and an art critic.

Cosponsored by BC鈥檚 Fiction Days Series.