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CAMPUS SPEAKER SERIES
Complimentary
O L A F G R OT H
The Great Remobilization into the Cognitive Era of AI
Thursday, February 22 • 5:00PM
Berkeley professor, Dr. Olaf Groth identifies latest trends in AI development and shows how they collide
with other technological and economic forces to create a new operating logic for our societies. The
emerging Cognitive Era of AI is injecting cybernetics functions into our daily lives that connect dots
across digital, infrastructural, ecological, biological and psychological spheres to transform perception
into sense-making and automated action.
DA N H U DA K
Best Picture Oscar Talk
Sunday, March 10 • 1:00PM
Dan Hudak, film critic in print, radio, and television will discuss each Best Picture Oscar nominee with
respect to why each film was nominated with accompanying clips and critique. Dan’s lively lecture will
review the Academy’s voting habits along with background trivia about Oscar history, and conclude with
predictions that may be surprisingly accurate.
DAV I D B I EL LO
Climate Change
Thursday, March 14 • 5:00PM
David Biello, an award-winning environmental journalist since 1999, is currently the science curator for
TED Talks and the author of The Unnatural World. He spent years writing and editing for Scientific American as well as Aeon, Foreign Policy and The New York Times, among other publications. He also hosted
the PBS series Beyond the Light Switch and The Ethanol Effect.
SCOT T M . M O O R E
China’s Next Act
Thursday, March 21 • 5:00PM
Scott M. Moore addresses how climate change, emerging technologies, and the Covid-19 pandemic
are changing China’s relationship with the world. China has become indispensable to addressing these
increasingly pressing, shared global challenges. Yet sustainability and technology also are focal points
for intensified economic, geopolitical, and ideological competition with China.
R OS EM A R Y G I BSO N
China Rx
Thursday, April 4 • 5:00PM
Rosemary Gibson is an award-winning author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence
on China for Medicine which reveals the dramatic shift in where medicines are made and growing concerns about their quality. It highlights the centralization of the global supply of medicines in a single
country and implications in the event of a global pandemic, natural disaster, or geopolitical event.
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