Boston Speakers Series

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6 upcoming lectures and talks from Boston Speakers Series, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →

Tue Oct 27 – Wed Oct 28 · 8pm

Boston Speakers Series: Boris Johnson

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Tue Oct 27 / Wed Oct 28 · 8pm

Boris Johnson, the Conservative leader who as UK Prime Minister from 2019 to 2022 took Britain out of the European Union and through the pandemic, gives a firsthand account of global politics and Ukraine. He was earlier Foreign Secretary and Mayor of London, and published a memoir, Unleashed, in 2024. The Boston Speakers Series is sold by subscription only; tickets to single lectures are not offered.

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Tue Nov 17 – Wed Nov 18 · 8pm

Boston Speakers Series: Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Tue Nov 17 / Wed Nov 18 · 8pm

Doris Kearns Goodwin won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History for No Ordinary Time, her book on Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, and wrote Team of Rivals on Lincoln and his cabinet. The presidential historian, who lives in Concord, has also written on Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedys and comments often on current events. The series is sold only by subscription to all seven lectures.

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Tue Jan 26 – Wed Jan 27 · 8pm

Boston Speakers Series: Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Tue Jan 26 / Wed Jan 27 · 8pm

Andrew Ross Sorkin, a New York Times journalist, founded the paper's DealBook and is an anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box. He wrote Too Big to Fail, on the 2008 financial crisis, and 1929: The Inside Story of the Greatest Crash, and co-created the television series Billions. The series is sold only by subscription to all seven lectures; single tickets are not offered.

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Tue Feb 9 – Wed Feb 10 · 8pm

Boston Speakers Series: Charles F. Bolden Jr.

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Tue Feb 9 / Wed Feb 10 · 8pm

Charles F. Bolden Jr. ran NASA from 2009 to 2017 under President Obama, only the second astronaut to lead the agency. A retired Marine Corps major general, he flew more than 100 combat missions in Vietnam and later four Space Shuttle missions, two as commander, piloting the flight that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope. The series is sold only by subscription to all seven lectures.

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Tue Mar 16 – Wed Mar 17 · 8pm

Boston Speakers Series: Nicholas Burns

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Tue Mar 16 / Wed Mar 17 · 8pm

Nicholas Burns was U.S. ambassador to China from 2021 to 2025, the last post in 35 years of public service under six presidents of both parties. He was ambassador to NATO at the time of 9/11, and earlier to Greece, and led negotiations over the nuclear programs of India and Iran. The series is sold only by subscription to all seven lectures.

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Apr 7/27 · 8pm

Boston Speakers Series: Lynsey Addario

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Wed Apr 7 / Tue Apr 27 · 8pm

Lynsey Addario has photographed war and humanitarian crises for more than 25 years, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan and Ukraine, and her pictures run on the front page of the New York Times. Twice kidnapped on assignment, she has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes and wrote the memoir It's What I Do. The series is sold only by subscription to all seven lectures.

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