Speakers: 2007

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• 2007
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• 2007 Speakers
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• Emmanuel Akyeampong


• Kecia Ali


• Jay Allison


• Jonathan Bachrach


• Joan Brugge


• Erik Demaine


• Michael Gandolfi


• Edward Glaeser


• David Kang


• Nancy Kanwisher


• Martha Mason


• Ioannis Mialoulis


• Bisola Ojikutu


• Panos Panay


• Nader Tehrani


• John Warner

Loeb Harvard College Professor and Former Chair of the African Studies Committee, a leading social historian of Africa and President of the African Public Broadcasting Foundation, working to create a renaissance on the continent through outreach and education.

Author and Boston University Professor whose work focuses on Islamic religious texts, especially jurisprudence, and women in both classical and contemporary Muslim discourses.

Independent radio and television documentary maker, known to NPR listeners as the curator of the series, This I Believe.

Research scientist at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who has developed a number of arts applications, including “String Beings”, a 2007 collaboration with Martha Mason’s Snappy Dance Theater, musician Lucia Lin and Composer Michael Rodbach.

Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and research scientist working to identify and understand the mechanisms involved in cancer development

The MIT Esther and Harold E Edgerton Professor in Computer Science, and one of the founders of "origami mathematics' which has applications such as folding telescopes and understanding how proteins fold.

Internationally-renowned composer and teacher of composition whose latest work, "The Garden of Cosmic Speculation" - a seventy-minute orchestral composition inspired by Charles Jencks' Scotland landscape of earthworks and installations – represents for the composer a magnificent joining of physics and architecture.

Harvard Professor of Economics, whose work has focused on international disparities in social welfare systems and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission.

Professor at Dartmouth, Author, and an expert on the history and politics of China and North Korea.

A professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and an investigator at The McGovern Institute for Brain Research, who studies the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying human visual perception and cognition.

Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Snappy Dance Theater, a collaborative national and international touring dance company based in Boston. Mason’s innovative choreographic, performance and teaching career has spanned more than twenty years.

President and Director of the Museum of Science who is an innovative educator with a passion for both science and engineering.

Director of the Office of International Programs within the Division of AIDS at Harvard Medical School and Infectious Disease Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital who has dedicated her career to rectifying disparities in healthcare access for HIV-infected patients both domestically and abroad.

CEO and Founder of Sonicbids, a website that enables bands and music promoters to easily connect with each other. Sonicbids' current membership consists of 110,000 bands and 8,000 promoters from over 100 countries.

Internationally recognized Co-Principal of design firm Office dA and Professor of Architecture at MIT, whose work ranges from one-of-a-kind furniture to urban spaces.

President and Chief Technology Officer for The Warner-Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry and a pioneer in the use of innovative materials to reduce waste, pollution and energy consumption.