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Fall 2019 Events, cont.Speakers

Kwame Anthony Appiah-September 4The prominent philosopher and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor of philosophy and law at NYU, gave a talk, “Managing Our Many Identities,” that drew upon his book, The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity, examining the ways gender, class, country, race and culture intersect to form human identities that are ERWK�VROLG�DQG�ÀXLG��VHWWOHG�DQG�FRQWHVWHG�

Etgar Lefkovits-September 12After a casual group dinner, Etgar Lefkovits gave a talk, ³5HÀHFWLRQV�RI�D�)RUPHU�-HUXVDOHP�&RUUHVSRQGHQW´�and focused on recent events in Israel and the Middle (DVW��/HINRYLWV�ZDV�D�-HUXVDOHP�FRUUHVSRQGHQW�DW�WKH�Jerusalem Post DQG�DOVR�ZRUNHG�DW�WKH�-HUXVDOHP�bureau of the New York Times. He subsequently worked DV�,VUDHO�DQG�0LGGOH�(DVW�DQDO\VW�WR�WKH�86�&RQJUHVV�DQG�)RUHLJQ�$IIDLUV�'LUHFWRU�WR�,VUDHO¶V�0LQLVWHU�IRU�6RFLDO�(TXLW\��

Mordechai Raskas-December 4)ROORZLQJ�D�FDVXDO�JURXS�GLQQHU��WKH�<8�DOXPQXV�0RUGHFKDL�5DVNDV��&KLHI�0HGLFDO�,QIRUPDWLRQ�2I¿FHU��'LUHFWRU�RI�7HOHPHGLFLQH�DW�30�3HGLDWULFV��JDYH�D�talk about his work as a pediatric emergency medicine physician, the use of big data in healthcare, and the future of telemedicine (the practice of caring for patients UHPRWHO\�WKURXJK�WKH�XVH�RI�WHFKQRORJ\��

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“The Consequences of Growth: How Chi-na’s Economic Boom

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Leadership Sessions

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“Methylated arginine nucleoplasmin tail inter-acts with at least three

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Neda Shokrian

“The Medicalization of Childbirth in America:

Midwife to Doctor”

Shoshana Gofman

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Cultural Events

Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish-September 19We enjoyed a night of theater at the Off-Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (with English subtitles) that has ZRQ�UDYH�UHYLHZV�DQG�PXOWLSOH�DZDUGV�LQFOXGLQJ������'UDPD�'HVN�$ZDUG�IRU�%HVW�0XVLFDO�5HYLYDO�

Museum of Modern Art-November 17We enjoyed guided tours, which focused on the theme of the “Modern Woman,” at the Museum of Modern Art and then had WLPH�WR�H[SORUH�RQ�RXU�RZQ�WKH�0R0$¶V�LQFRPSDUDEOH�FROOHFWLRQ�RI�PRGHUQ�DQG�FRQWHPSRUDU\�DUW��

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