MBL Falmouth Forum Announces New Season

WOODS HOLE, MA—The MBL Associates are pleased to announce the schedule for the 2014-2015 season of the MBL Falmouth Forum. Now in its 24^th year, the Falmouth Forum has provided audiences from the Cape Cod community with a wide range of intellectual and artistic experiences. Supported in part by the Falmouth Forum Endowment, the Falmouth Forum series is free and open to the public.

All of this season’s five Falmouth Forum presentations will be held on Friday evenings at 7:30 PM in the MBL’s Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole.

Justin Martin, author of three critically acclaimed biographies on Frederick Law Olmsted, Alan Greenspan, and Ralph Nader, will kick off the series on Friday, November 14, 2014 with a talk about his latest book Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians (Da Capo Press September, 2014).  The full series schedule is below. 

November 14, 2014
Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians
Justin Martin, author of three critically acclaimed biographies on Frederick Law Olmsted, Alan Greenspan, and Ralph Nader

January 16, 2015   
Poetry Reading
Rosanna Warren, Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

February 6, 2015 (HERMAN T. EPSTEIN MEMORIAL LECTURE)
The Piano in the 21st Century
Michael Mizrahi, concert pianist and teaching artist, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music

February 27, 2015
Out of the Blue: Nantucket and the Pacific World
Edward Melillo, Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Amherst College

March 13, 2015
The Economic Costs of Climate Change
Benjamin Jones, Faculty Director, Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, Northwestern University

An optional buffet dinner precedes each lecture at 6:00 pm at the MBL’s Swope Center, 5 North Street, Woods Hole. Tickets are $30 and must be purchased in advance at the MBL Communications Office, 127 Water Street, Woods Hole, or at Eight Cousins Bookstore, Main Street, Falmouth. Dinner tickets are available until they sell out or until 5:00 PM on the Tuesday prior to the event. For more information, contact the MBL Communications Office at (508) 289-7423 or comm@mbl.edu.

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The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is dedicated to scientific discovery and improving the human condition through research and education in biology, biomedicine, and environmental science. Founded in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1888, the MBL is a private, nonprofit institution and an affiliate of the University of Chicago.
 

The MBL Associates are a group of individuals and businesses that support the scientific mission of the MBL through their gifts to the Annual Fund. The Associates sponsor educational and research programs for the MBL and raise funds for special projects. In addition, they operate the MBL Gift Shop, located on Water Street in Woods Hole, the profits from which support scientific fellowships.