Participants: 2026

Dr. Yin Aphinyanaphongs is a Research Professor in the Department of Population Health and Medicine and the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science at NYU Langone School of Medicine. He also leads the Division of Applied AI Techologies (DAAIT) within the Department of Health Informatics in Medical Center Information Technology.  … read more »

Elizabeth Birkelund is the author of A Northern Light in Provence, published last year by Random House, The Runaway Wife, and The Dressmaker, with editions in the UK, Germany, and Russia and several film options. Prior to writing novels, Elizabeth was the personal finance columnist for Cosmopolitan magazine and a full-time freelance writer for national magazines including Glamour, Self, Victoria, Working Woman, and Institutional Investor.… read more »

Nadav Brandes is an Assistant Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where he is a core faculty member in the Center for Human Genetics and Genomics and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, with an affiliation at the Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing and Data Science.… read more »

Tanzeem Choudhury is the Chief of Health Innovation and the Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Integrated Health and Technology at Cornell Tech, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, and the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. Prof. Choudhury directs the People-Aware Computing group which creates wearables and multi-modal AI systems to better measure and intervene on health behaviors and symptoms.… read more »

Deborah R. Coen is a professor of history at Yale. Her research focuses on the modern physical and environmental sciences and on central European intellectual and cultural history. She also writes and teaches about feminism, disasters, and all things Viennese. She is the author, most recently, of Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale (2018).… read more »

Dr. John Crary is a Professor of Pathology, Neuroscience, and Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He directs the Neuropathology Brain Bank and leads major institutional efforts to integrate AI into pathology and laboratory medicine.… read more »

Brigid Doherty teaches in the Departments of German and Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, where she is also an associated faculty member in the School of Architecture and a member of the Executive Committees of the Programs in European Cultural Studies and Media + Modernity.… read more »

Gil Eyal is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Director of the Trust Collaboratory at INCITE. At Columbia, he also serves on the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Academic Freedom. He is the author of five books: The Crisis of Expertise (Polity 2019), The Autism Matrix (Polity 2010), The Disenchantment of the Orient (Stanford 2006), The Origins of Postcommunist Elites (Minnesota 2003), and Making Capitalism without Capitalists (Verso 1998).… read more »

Michael Frank’s essays, articles, book reviews, and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, The Yale Review, Salmagundi, and The TLS, among other publications, and his fiction has been presented at Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story. … read more »

Paul H. Fry, BA Berkeley, Ph D Harvard, began teaching at Yale in 1971. His primary fields are British Romanticism, the History of Criticism, Literary Theory and Literature and Painting. He is also a painter and has written art criticism for Art News. … read more »

A graduate of The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Yale University, Eric Lindstrom (he/him) is a Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He teaches courses across literary studies and publishes scholarship in the areas of Romantic and Modern Poetry, Literary Theory, Ordinary Language Philosophy, and on the novels of Jane Austen.… read more »

Joseph Luzzi (PhD Yale) is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College and the author of nine books, including the recent The Innocents of Florence: The Renaissance Rediscovery of Childhood (Norton, 2025) and Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance (Norton, 2022).… read more »

Farzad Mahootian is a Clinical Associate Professor of Global Liberal Studies at New York University. He has an interdisciplinary background (PhD Philosophy, Fordham; MS Chemistry, Georgetown). His research focuses on interactions between philosophy, science and society within the mythological imagination of technoscience and with guidance from process philosophy, biomimicry, artificial intelligence, and premodern sciences.… read more »

Honor Moore is a prizewinning poet and memoirist living and writing in New York City. A Termination (2024) an account of her pre-Roe abortion and how that act of resistance shaped and allowed who she became – was published by A Public Space and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and appeared on best of the year lists at Publisher’s Weekly and the Boston Globe; the audiobook will appear next month.… read more »

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is professor of history at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research and teaching focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of the United States in transatlantic perspective. She is the author of American Nietzsche (2012), The Ideas that Made America (2019), and American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction (2020), and she has received numerous awards for her writing, including the Morris D Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history.… read more »