Upcoming Lectures & Talks
5 upcoming lectures and talks from Binge Thinking, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →
Tue Oct 6 · 7:30pm
Sarah Miller, an assistant professor of sociology at Boston University, draws on two years inside a high school to argue that social media is “less of a villain and more of a pressure cooker” in teen bullying. She takes up active bystanders, inequality and whom the anti-bullying industry serves. Her book is The Tolerance Generation: Growing Up Online in the Anti-Bullying Era.
$32.95
Wed Oct 7 · 7pm
Vaughan Rees, director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, starts from the tobacco-science saying that “people smoke for the nicotine, but they die from the smoke.” He weighs how vapes might move adult smokers off cigarettes without drawing in teenagers, and what harm reduction has achieved elsewhere. The Chan School’s Zhu Center for Global Cancer Prevention co-sponsors.
$32.95
Tue Oct 13 · 7:30pm
Peter Federman, assistant professor of public policy at UMass Boston, looks at how COVID-19 shifted power from legislatures to governors, who issued more than 1,200 pandemic-related executive orders between February and June 2020. He asks why some states locked down hard while others barely did and whether the orders saved lives. His research on pandemic decision-making has appeared in Public Administration Review and Publius.
$32.95
Wed Oct 14 · 7:30pm
Stacy Andersen, a behavioral neuroscientist, co-directs the New England Centenarian Study at Boston University, the largest study of centenarians and their families in the world. She talks about what people who thrive past 100 are teaching researchers about healthspan; her work has found that centenarians’ cancer diagnoses came 17 years later than in a national database, and that their children had 46% lower odds of cognitive impairment.
$32.95
Thu Oct 15 · 7:30pm
Azeta Hatef, associate professor of journalism studies at Emerson College, looks at how the shows, news and characters people see shape the way they answer “Where are you really from?”, what on-screen representation does and does not do, and how media connects people to distant or ancestral homes. Her research centres on media and Afghanistan, including how U.S. news covers Afghan women and how Afghans appear in American pop culture.
$32.95
