Lectures and Performances

Mind and Society Dialogue

Lydia Diamond

BRAIN, RACE AND THEATER

This special lecture will begin with a prelude by Lake Forest neuroscience major and award-winning pianist Yoan Ganev ’19

Departments of English and Theater, African American Studies Program, Office of Intercultural Relations and the Mojekwu Fund

Chicago Society for Neuroscience Reception

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

“Curving the Straight Line” is the theme for the TEDxLakeForestCollege 2017 event. The theme Curving the Straight Line is a figurative representation of people who think differently. The TED & TEDx mission statement, “Ideas worth spreading,” aligns with this theme through the shared aim of giving voices to individuals with outside-of-the-box concepts or imaginative ideas. With this theme, we hope to spark conversation among speakers and audience members while providing a wide array of possible topics to be presented. Curving the Straight Line will act as a platform for creative people to be heard loud and clear.

Many contemporary political issues are discussed as one-off, unprecedented, or unforeseen, ignoring a much longer evolution with roots reaching deep into the American past. Recorded October 11, 2017.

Noted author Rich Cohen presents a talk based on his new book, “The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse”

Rich Cohen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tough Jews; The Avengers; Monsters; Sweet and Low; When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead (with Jerry Weintraub); and The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones.

He is a cocreator of the HBO series Vinyl and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. Cohen has won the Great Lakes Book Award, the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award, and the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for outstanding coverage of music.

His stories have been included in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing. He lives in Connecticut.

George Lakey, 79, recently retired from Swarthmore College. While a professor there he wrote Viking Economics after interviewing economists and others in the Nordic countries. As a young adult he lived in Norway and worked there as well as in Denmark and Sweden. On returning to the U.S. he alternated academic positions with founding and leading social change organizations.

Lakey has led over 1500 social change workshops on five continents. Lakey is the recipient of FOR’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize and the national Giraffe Hero award for sticking his neck out for the common good.