Speaker Series
The Parlee Center regularly hosts outstanding citizen-scientists and experts on the intersection of science and society.
Upcoming Speakers
Recent Speakers
The Parlee Center for Science and the Common Good is proud to have hosted the following speakers in recent years.

Monday Mar 2nd, 2020
New Date - Surveillance Capitalism: Artificial Intelligence And The Black Community
Mutale Nkonde is an AI policy analyst and researcher based in New York City. She is founding executive director of AI for the People (AIFTP) a nonprofit organization that uses popular culture to educate black communities about the civil rights implications of the integration of AI systems into public life.

Wednesday Feb 26th, 2020
DATE CHANGE - Surveillance Capitalism: Artificial Intelligence And The Black Community
EVENT NOTICE: This event has been postponed to Monday, March 2 at 7:30pm in Olin Auditorium.
Mutale Nkonde is an AI policy analyst and researcher based in New York City. She is founding executive director of AI for the People (AIFTP) a nonprofit organization that uses popular culture to educate black communities about the civil rights implications of the integration of AI systems into public life.

Tuesday Feb 25th, 2020
Is She On the List? Understanding the Role of Women Campaign Funding Groups in State Level Politics

Wednesday Feb 5th, 2020
Shoshana Zuboff: Surveillance Capitalism

Wednesday Nov 6th, 2019
Exxon Mobil’s Role in Climate Change Denial

Wednesday Oct 23rd, 2019
The Impact of Climate Change on Appalacian Communities

Tuesday Oct 1st, 2019
For Everything There Was a Season: Retracing Craighead’s Footsteps

Wednesday Sep 11th, 2019
Finding the Good News on Energy and Environment

Wednesday Feb 27th, 2019
When We Hurt Migrants, We Hurt Americans
Journalist Claudia Kolker describes what she learned on the border about our child detention policies – and how they are damaging the American workers who must carry them out.

Tuesday Feb 12th, 2019
Risks of Brain Injury in High School and College Sports
SCIENCE AS A WAY OF UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD
A panel of experts will explore what we know, and don’t know, about the risks of brain injury in high school and college sports.

Monday Feb 4th, 2019
The Neurological Consequences of Brain Injury in Football
Dr. Ann McKee will speak about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease most commonly found in athletes participating in boxing, American football, ice hockey, other contact sports, and military service.

Monday Nov 5th, 2018
Requiem for a Running Back
Follow Director Rebecca Carpenter’s odyssey across America, as she learns about the brain disease that enveloped her father, Lew Carpenter, star running back and assistant coach of the legendary Green Bay Packers.

Sunday Nov 4th, 2018
Requiem for a Running Back
Follow Director Rebecca Carpenter’s odyssey across America, as she learns about the brain disease that enveloped her father, Lew Carpenter, star running back and assistant coach of the legendary Green Bay Packers.

Thursday Oct 18th, 2018
The Human Microbiome: The Role of Our Second Genome in Health and Disease

Wednesday Oct 10th, 2018
Challenges of Antibiotic Drug Development

Tuesday Oct 2nd, 2018
Clínica de Migrantes: A Screening & Talk

Monday Sep 10th, 2018
Healing Hurt People

Wednesday Apr 11th, 2018
Human Impact of the Opioid Crisis in Philadelphia

Thursday Mar 22nd, 2018
Kensington Blues by Jeffrey Stockbridge

Wednesday Mar 14th, 2018
The Origin Story of the Opioid Epidemic
Patrick Radden Keefe, staff writer at The New Yorker, explains the origin of the opioid epidemic, a story he first told in The Family that Built an Empire of Pain (The New Yorker, Oct. 30, 2017).
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