POSTHOC Salons LIVE w/ Susan MacTavish Best - Intimate Conversations on Topics of the Zeitgeist

Today’s salon, “Does God Need an R&D Department,” is cohosted by POSTHOC and Templeton World Charity Foundation. The co-interviewer today is TWCF president Andrew Serazin.

Our guest today is Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and author of The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices.

POSTHOC is a petri dish for ideas & thought-leaders. We host salons that connect people and spread ideas. We create unique and intimate experiences that stir the senses—a forum for the cross-pollination of ideas and conversations.

Instagram: @posthocpictura

Twitter: @PosthocSalons

LinkedIn: Posthoc

Facebook: @Posthocpictura

Matters of the Heart with Sandeep Jauhar

POSTHOC is a petri dish for ideas & thought-leaders. We host salons that connect people and spread ideas. We create unique and intimate experiences that stir the senses—a forum for the cross-pollination of ideas and conversations.

Instagram: @posthocpictura

Twitter: @PosthocSalons

LinkedIn: Posthoc

Facebook: @Posthocpictura

First it was a show at the Smithsonian, this year it's an auction at Sotheby's. Art created for Burning Man is on fire, and it's coming to NYC. And to celebrate that, Ana Roth and I are hosting a little shindig, a Burning Man inspired art salon at my loft in Soho. I'll be throwing out 5 questions to artist Fab 5 Freddy - NYC’s cultural curator and courier. 

POSTHOC is a petri dish for ideas & thought-leaders. We host salons that connect people and spread ideas. We create unique and intimate experiences that stir the senses—a forum for the cross-pollination of ideas and conversations.

Instagram: @posthocpictura

Twitter: @PosthocSalons

LinkedIn: Posthoc

Facebook: @Posthocpictura

Is happiness genetic? Are some corners of USA happier than others? After dark periods, does happiness taste better? Why do we get happier with age? Will we see an uptick in the business of happiness? So much to discuss. 

I'll be throwing out some questions to one of the world's foremost happiness experts, author and researcher, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., who is Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Sonja is the author of best-selling books The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want and The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, But Doesn’t, What Shouldn’t Make You Happy, But Does.

This salon is underwritten by a grant Posthoc received from Templeton World Charity Foundation. This is the first in a series of salons we'll be producing in 2021/22 around the topic of humans flourishing with TWCF's support.

POSTHOC is a petri dish for ideas & thought-leaders. We host salons that connect people and spread ideas. We create unique and intimate experiences that stir the senses—a forum for the cross-pollination of ideas and conversations.

Instagram: @posthocpictura

Twitter: @PosthocSalons

LinkedIn: Posthoc

Facebook: @Posthocpictura

POSTHOC SALON -  Susan MacTavish Best speaks w/ Olympic Hall of Fame Swimmer & Diabetes Patient Advocate Gary Hall Jr.  

Gary Hall, Jr. is a three-time Olympian and 10-time Olympic medalist. He held two world records in relay events throughout his career. Born in Cincinnati, Hall was introduced to swimming by his father, Gary Hall, Sr., who competed in three Olympic Games. At the Olympic Games Atlanta 1996, Hall won two individual silver medals and two team relay gold medals. His Olympic success continued at the Sydney 2000 Games, winning his first individual gold medal in the 50-meter freestyle, while also winning three more medals at the 2000 Games. He defended his 50 freestyle title at the Athens 2004 Games, as the oldest American male Olympic swimmer since 1924. Hall won the humanitarian award at the 2004 Golden Goggle Awards and has became a spokesman for diabetes after his own diagnosis.

POSTHOC is a petri dish for ideas & thought-leaders. We host salons that connect people and spread ideas. We create unique and intimate experiences that stir the senses—a forum for the cross-pollination of ideas and conversations.

Instagram: @posthocpictura

Twitter: @PosthocSalons

LinkedIn: Posthoc

Facebook: @Posthocpictura

Sue Stuart-Smith is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author of The Well Gardened Mind, a Sunday Times Bestseller, listed as one of the 37 best books of 2020 by The Times and gardening book of the year by The Sunday Times. It is available now in audiobook format as well.

POSTHOC is a petri dish for ideas & thought-leaders. We host salons that connect people and spread ideas. We create unique and intimate experiences that stir the senses—a forum for the cross-pollination of ideas and conversations.

Instagram: @posthocpictura

Twitter: @PosthocSalons

LinkedIn: Posthoc

Facebook: @Posthocpictura

What's your relationship with WORK like? Do you feel guilty if you don't "work hard enough"? What is hard enough? -- Susan MacTavish Best and Andrew Serazin speak to anthropologist James Suzman. His book WORK - A History of How We Spend Our Time has just come out in North America. He is also the author of Affluence Without Abundance. Since the 90's, he has lived and worked with every major Bushman group in southern Africa.  James is the founder of Anthropos, and has advised a range of Government, NGO and Commercial clients.

What is your relationship with uncertainty, risk and decision-making? Covid has certainly tested it! Susan MacTavish Best, Posthoc, cohosted with Andrew Serazin, Templeton World Charity Foundation, speak to Maria Konnikova- author, journalist and poker player. Maria Konnikova is the author most recently, of The Biggest Bluff, a New York Times bestseller and Editors’ Choice. Her previous books are the bestsellers The Confidence Game, winner of the 2016 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, an Anthony and Agatha Award finalist. Maria is a regularly contributing writer for the New Yorker, whose writing has won numerous awards, including the 2019 Excellence in Science Journalism Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. While researching The Biggest Bluff, Maria became an international poker champion and the winner of over $300,000 in tournament earnings—and inadvertently turned into a professional poker player. Maria’s writing has been featured in Best American Science and Nature Writing and has been translated into over twenty languages. Maria also hosts the podcast The Grift from Panoply Media, a show that explores con artists and the lives they ruin, and is currently a visiting fellow at NYU’s School of Journalism. Her podcasting work earned her a National Magazine Award nomination in 2019. She graduated from Harvard University and received her PhD in psychology from Columbia University.

Anne Case & Angus Deaton are two Princeton Economists. Their new book is called Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.

POSTHOC is a petri dish for ideas & thought-leaders. We host salons that connect people and spread ideas. We create unique and intimate experiences that stir the senses—a forum for the cross-pollination of ideas and conversations.  

Instagram: @posthocpictura 

Twitter: @PosthocSalons 

LinkedIn: Posthoc 

Facebook: @Posthocpictura

Susan MacTavish Best and Andrew Serazin speak to Professor Tom Oliver about his latest book The Self-Delusion. This salon is cohosted by Templeton World Charity Foundation and Posthoc. It is Part 1 in a series on Human Flourishing.

POSTHOC is a petri dish for ideas & thought-leaders. We host invite-only salons that connect people and spread ideas. We create unique and intimate experiences that stir the senses—a forum for the cross-pollination of ideas and conversations.

Instagram: @posthocpictura

Twitter: @PosthocSalons

LinkedIn: Posthoc

Facebook: @Posthocpictura