Schedule:

12:00 p.m
Dock Street Theatre - $30
Charan ranganath with david adams
Why we remember
Professor Charan Ranganath, neuroscientist and psychologist, discusses groundbreaking new research that radically reframes how we think about memory and reveals the powerful role it plays in our lives, from recalling faces and names to learning, decision-making, and healing. “Not only will every reader remember better afterward, they’ll also never forget this life-changing book,Siddhartha Mukherjee. Professor Ranganath, who plays in punk bands when not studying the mind, will be in conversation with Dr. David Adams, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Surgery music.

2:00 p.m
Dock Street Theatre - $30
Michele Norris With Kerri Forrest
Our Hidden Conversations
From Michele Norris, award-winning journalist and the first African-American female host for NPR, is a profound project on race that began with a simple note on a card, “Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send." Over half a million people submitted their responses to what we now know as The Race Card Project. Her resulting book, Our Hidden Conversations, was a New York Times bestseller. Norris discusses her transformative national project on race and identity - a unique, moving compilation of personal stories, essays, and photographs providing a window into real-life experiences of race in the United States.  

4:00 p.m
Dock Street Theatre - $30
Claire Messud With Georgina Godwin
This Strange Eventful History
Longlisted For The Booker Prize 2024
One of Oprah's most anticipated books of 2024, Claire Messud’s seventh novel traces three generations of an itinerant French family with roots in colonial Algeria. “One of those rare novels that a reader doesn’t merely read but lives through with the characters - Yiyun Li. Inspired by her the displacement of her own ancestors, the novel charts the odyssey of a family torn apart by war, politics, and religion. She discusses the joys and pitfalls that come from fictionalizing one’s own relatives with Monocle journalist and broadcaster Georgina Godwin.   

6:00 p.m
Dock Street Theatre - $30
James Shapiro With Dominic Dromgoole
The Playbook
World-famous Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro joins us to discuss his vivid and stirring account of a 1930s culture war over the role of theater in American society. He recounts the 1935 foundation and 1938 demise of the Federal Theatre Project which toured groundbreaking productions across America, until it was finally destroyed by the head of the newly formed Un-American Activities Committee in 1939. He discusses the contemporary relevance of the radical project with Dominic Dromgoole, Former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, who staged Hamlet in every country of the world.