Upcoming Lectures & Talks
4 upcoming lectures and talks from The Wilbur, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →
Thu Nov 12 · 7:30pm
Alex O'Connor, the British YouTuber who built his following as CosmicSkeptic and now hosts the Within Reason podcast, gives an evening of discussion and audience questions on God, religion, consciousness and related subjects. O'Connor studied philosophy and theology at Oxford, and his podcast features long-form conversations with philosophers, theologians and scientists. The Wilbur has posted little description beyond that outline.
Thu Nov 19 · 7:30pm
Phoebe Judge, host of the podcast Criminal, which tells stories about people “who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle,” turns the format on herself in a new stage show. She tells stories about her own eccentric, unpredictable family in Chicago, the secrets she discovered growing up, and how they shaped her work as a journalist and true-crime host.
Sun Apr 11 · 7:00pm
Casey Sherman tells the story of Helltown, his true-crime book about Tony Costa, the Cape Cod serial killer behind the disappearance of several women from Provincetown in the late 1960s, a case that drew in Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer. Sherman's 19 books include Hunting Whitey, Boston Strong and A Murder in Hollywood. Proceeds go to Miles for Military, which flies junior enlisted service members home.
$30–$55
May 11/13 · 7:30pm
Tue May 11 / Thu May 13 · 7:30pm
Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, gives two different lectures. Tuesday's An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies – Part III reviews what films such as Frozen, The Matrix and My Cousin Vinny got right and wrong about science, plus the physics of dragons in Game of Thrones. Thursday's Hope for Civilization draws on his book Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization.
