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Puppy Love

Dr. Gregory Berns
Wednesday 8:30–9:15 am

Walt Disney Room
Do you ever wonder what your dog is thinking? Does he really miss you when you’ve gone off to run errands? We
finally have some answers, thanks to Dr. Gregory Berns’ groundbreaking research using MRI technology. He will
talk about his decades long “Dog Project” and share the fascinating results with us. We know dogs have brains, but
through Bern’s creative scientific methods we can begin to find out more about what they are thinking.

Black and White
Danzy Senna and Mishna Wolff
Wednesday 8:30–9:15 am
Joan Didion Room

Mishna Wolff, author of I’m Down joins Danzy
Senna, author of Caucasia in conversation
about coming of age and racial identity. Both
authors approach this sensitive topic from their
own unique perspective and with a serious
sense of humor while giving voice to multiracial
identity by challenging our defined notions of

My Life in Middlemarch black and white.
Rebecca Mead “When a reader is
Wednesday 8:30–9:15 am grasped and held
Anne Rice Room by a book, reading
does not feel like
Rebecca Mead may have created a new genre
where memoir, literary criticism, and biography an escape from life
converge. With brilliance and respectful so much as it feels
confidence, Mead builds a beautifully crafted like an urgent,
book about the most important reading of her crucial dimension
youth—George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Mead will
be joined by Daisy Lewis to discuss how great of life itself.”
books can shape our identities and help us — Rebecca Mead
understand our own stories.
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