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Society of Skeptics Upcoming Speakers

Below is a list of Society of Skeptics speakers for the 2023-2024 school year. All lectures will take place in the Chiang-Elghanayan Center for Innovation and Collaboration, beginning at 7 p.m. Look for the video recording of each lecture to be posted to Blair's website the following day.

Date	Speaker
September 12	Dr. Peter Caravella P'25, DaVinci Robotic Surgery
September 19	Rick DeFino '07, Vanguard Solar Services
September 26	Christopher Nixon Cox, Nixon Foundation
October 3	James Hinton '06, Electronic musician, producer, DJ
October 10	Dr. Brita Roy '98, Internal medicine and public health
October 17	Phil Plait, Astronomer and author
November 7	Annika Rollock '14, Director of Engineering at Aurelia Institute
November 14	Dr. John Francis, Planetwalk founder
January 16	Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
January 23	Chris Ayers '98, Partner, Seeger Wiess, LLP
February 20	Tom Balsley P'25, Founder, Thomas Balsley Associates
February 27	Yasameen Mohammadi '16, Senior Program Management, Kaizen Company
March 5	Alexander & Susan Prout
March 26	Virginia Brennan, Editor, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved; Associate Professor, Meharry Medical College
April 2	Andrew Solender, Axios News Congressional Reporter
April 9	Young Alumni Skeptics
April 16	Dr. Addrain Conyers '96, Associate Provost, Marist College; Editor, "Mass Incarcerations in the 21st Century"
April 18	Keeping Stories Alive Project, Holocaust Council, Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest
April 30	Katie Barnes, ESPN News and author

Recent Lectures

Keeping the Stories Alive Program Helps Blair Remember the Holocaust & Its Survivors

4/17/24

All are welcome to join the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Betty Schwartz, in a conversation moderated by Lisa Friedman in the forum of the Chiang-Elghanayan Center for Innovation and Collaboration this Thursday at 7 p.m. This event, graciously sponsored by the Alex “ARob” Roberts Forum on Holocaust Education, is part of an ongoing commitment to bringing impactful speakers to Blair on the subject of the Holocaust and is inspired by the legacy of Alexander Roberts ’18.

Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Dr. Addrain Conyers ’96 Makes Inaugural Appearance at Skeptics

4/12/24

Joining the hilltop for his first Skeptics appearance on Tuesday, April 16 is current Assistant Provost for Faculty Development and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Marist College in New York, Dr. Addrain Conyers ’96.

Society of Skeptics Upcoming Speakers

Society of Skeptics Upcoming Speakers