Paul Zak is a founder of neuroeconomics, a field that investigates the relationship between neurological activity and economic behavior.

Novelist Anne Enright opens her talk by expressing ambivalence about being characterized as an Irish writer and as a woman writer.

John E. Ebel, director of the Weston Observatory and a professor of geophysics, presents basic information about what an earthquake is and why quakes occur at particular locations.

Tessa Rajak, Horace W. Goldsmith Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies and Classics at Yale University, discusses the Septuagint, the Hebrew Bible’s earliest extant translation, compiled from numerous Greek translations made by Hellenistic Jews.

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former lieutenant governor of Maryland and oldest daughter of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy, is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Public Policy.

When asked by a publisher to write a book about the effect of the U.S. occupation on Iraqi women, Nadje Al-Ali says she wanted to provide a more nuanced picture than the stereotype of just another Muslim country oppressing its women.

Dahlia Wasfi, MD, was born in the United States to an Iraqi father and Jewish mother. Although she was educated in this country, she frequently visited extended family in Iraq, most recently during the spring of 2006 when she spent three months in Basra.

Novelist Anne Enright opens her talk by expressing ambivalence about being characterized as an Irish writer and as a woman writer.

The Neuroeconomics of Trust

Jeannette Walls grew up in poverty and went on to have a successful career as a magazine and television reporter.