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SUMMARY:Dan Buettner
DESCRIPTION:  \nBuy Tickets \nMain Stage\nAll Tickets $19\ninclusive of ticket fee \n \nSchedule\nAt 3:30 pm\, an informal Q&A will be held for OCC Students\, Faculty\, and staff. Registration with an OCC email address is required for this session. \nThe 6:00 pm event is open to the public. The 6:00 pm event will also be livestreamed. Registration for the free livestream is open online until 4:00pm. For Livestream details and support\, please visit our Virtual Events Information Page. \nAbout Dan Buettner\nDan Buettner is an explorer\, National Geographic Fellow\, award-winning journalist and producer\, and New York Times bestselling author. He discovered the five places in the world – dubbed blue zones hotspots – where people live the longest\, healthiest lives. His articles about these places in The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic are two of the most popular for both publications. \nBuettner now works in partnership with municipal governments\, large employers\, and health insurance companies to implement Blue Zones Projects in communities\, workplaces\, and universities. Blue Zones Projects are well-being initiatives that apply lessons from the Blue Zones to entire communities by focusing on changes to the local environment\, public policy\, and social networks. The program has dramatically improved the health of more than 5 million Americans to date. \nIn his new book The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer\, Buettner returns to Sardinia\, Italy; Ikaria\, Greece; Okinawa\, Japan; Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula; and Loma Linda\, California to check in on the super-agers living in the blue zones and interprets the not-so-secret sauce of purpose\, faith\, community\, down-time\, natural movement\, and plant-based eating that has powered as many as 10 additional years of healthy living in these regions. And Buettner reveals an all-new Blue Zone—the first man-made Blue Zone yet explored. \nBuettner also holds three Guinness World Records in distance cycling. \nThe cost of tickets for this program has been generously underwritten by the sponsors of the Blauvelt Speaker Series.  \nThe Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. This year’s 2024-2025 additional sponsors include Carluccio\, Leone\, Dimon\, Doyle & Sacks\, LLC\, Arlene and Frank Dupignac\, Jr.\, Georgian Court University\, Kean Ocean\, Stella and Marshall Kern\, Kiwanis of Greater Toms River\, Leone & Daughters\, New Jersey Natural Gas\, and OCVTS. \nShare This:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T180000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Stephanie Ramos
DESCRIPTION:  \nBuy Tickets \nMain Stage\nTickets Free\,\nAdvanced Registration Required \n \nSchedule\nThe 6:00 pm event is open to the public. The 6:00 pm event will also be livestreamed. Registration for the free livestream is open online until 4:00pm the day of the event. For Livestream details and support\, please visit our Virtual Events Information Page. \nAbout Stephanie Ramos\nStephanie Ramos is a correspondent for ABC News based in NYC. She has been front and center on every major news story and has covered everything from the White House\, the COVID pandemic\, the contentious Alabama Senate race\, the tragic Parkland shooting\, Hurricane Irma\, the 2016 election\, and the Charlottesville protests. She reports across all ABC News platforms\, including GMA\, World News Tonight\, ABC News Live\, Nightline\, and 20/20. She also regularly fills in as an anchor for Weekend GMA\, ABC News Live\, and Nightline. Ramos started with ABC as a multi-platform reporter based in Washington\, D.C.\, and served as a Pentagon reporter as well. \nPrior to ABC\, Ramos reported for local stations in Kansas City\, MO; Topeka\, KS; and Columbia\, SC where she established herself as a tenacious reporter covering important issues such as immigration\, politics\, and crime. \nRamos is a U.S. Army Reserve Major with years of service experience that has been valuable to ABC’s reporting and understanding of conflicts around the world. In 2008 she was a 1st Lieutenant in Iraq\, receiving multiple medals for her honorable service including the Meritorious Service Medal. When she returned\, she and her husband produced the award-winning special\, To Baghdad & Back\, using footage she captured on a small handheld camcorder throughout her tour. \nThe cost of tickets for this program has been generously underwritten by the sponsors of the Blauvelt Speaker Series.  \nThe Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. This year’s 2024-2025 additional sponsors include Carluccio\, Leone\, Dimon\, Doyle & Sacks\, LLC\, Arlene and Frank Dupignac\, Jr.\, Georgian Court University\, Kean Ocean\, Stella and Marshall Kern\, Kiwanis of Greater Toms River\, Leone & Daughters\, New Jersey Natural Gas\, and OCVTS. \nShare This:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T110000
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SUMMARY:Emiliana Simon-Thomas
DESCRIPTION:  \nBuy Tickets \nMain Stage\nTickets Free\,\nAdvanced Registration Required \n \nSchedule\nThe 11:00 am event is open to the public. The 11:00 am event will also be livestreamed. \nAt 12:30 pm\, an informal Q&A will be held for OCC Students\, Faculty\, and staff. Registration with an OCC email address is required for this session. \nAbout Emiliana Simon-Thomas\nEmiliana Simon-Thomas\, PhD is the Science Director at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center (GGSC). She runs the GGSC’s campus research fellowship programs and directs key initiatives like Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude and Person-Activity Fit for Online Happiness Practices. She also co-teaches both the Science of Happiness and the Science of Happiness at Work Professional Certificate Series courses. \nAlongside her academic and popular publications Emiliana co-edited the transdisciplinary Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science\, and serves as the executive director of the UC Berkeley-UCSF-Harvard branch of the NIH funded Science of Emotional Well-being Network. Emiliana also advises organizations – from a climate\, product\, and policy perspective – on why and how to promote well-being. Sharing practical strategies that can be implemented across multiple contexts and settings\, Emiliana offers actionable insights that can measurably improve three key drivers of happiness: social connection\, positive emotion\, and resilience to stress. \nAn international expert voice on the foundations and advantages of prosocial states and behaviors and research-backed approaches to strengthening emotional well-being\, Emiliana’s work leverages scientific insights to help people live better lives individually\, in relationships with others\, within organizations and communities\, and society-wide. \nThe cost of tickets for this program has been generously underwritten by the sponsors of the Blauvelt Speaker Series.  \nThe Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. This year’s 2024-2025 additional sponsors include Carluccio\, Leone\, Dimon\, Doyle & Sacks\, LLC\, Arlene and Frank Dupignac\, Jr.\, Georgian Court University\, Kean Ocean\, Stella and Marshall Kern\, Kiwanis of Greater Toms River\, Leone & Daughters\, New Jersey Natural Gas\, and OCVTS. \nShare This:
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SUMMARY:Viet Thanh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:  \nBuy Tickets \nMain Stage\nTickets Free\,\nAdvanced Registration Required \n \nSchedule\nThe 11:00 am event is open to the public. The 11:00 am event will also be livestreamed. \nAt 12:30 pm\, an informal Q&A will be held for OCC Students\, Faculty\, and staff. Registration with an OCC email address is required for this session. \nAbout Viet Thanh Nguyen\nViet Thanh Nguyen’s writing is bold\, elegant\, and fiercely honest. His remarkable debut novel\, The Sympathizer\, won the Pulitzer Prize\, was a Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner\, and made the finalist list for the PEN/Faulkner award. \nViet and his family came to the United States as refugees during the Vietnam War in 1975. As he grew up in America\, he began to notice that most movies and books about  the war focused on Americans while the Vietnamese were silenced and erased. He was inspired by this lack of representation to write about the war from a Vietnamese perspective\, globally reimagining what we thought we knew about the conflict. The New York Times says that his novel\, The Sympathizer\, “fills a void…giving voice to the previously voiceless while it compels the rest of us to look at the events of forty years ago in a new light.” His voice is refreshing and powerful as he urges readers to examine the legacy of that tumultuous time and its aftermath from a new perspective. The audacious novel has also been described by The Guardian as having a “Whitman- like multiplicity” as it “reads like the absolute opposite of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.” The Committed\, the long-awaited follow-up to The Sympathizer\, was published in 2021 and has been called “a masterwork” and “revelatory.” \nViet’s book Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War was a finalist for the National Book Award. Author Ari Kelman praises Nothing Ever Dies saying it\, “provides the fullest and best explanation of how the Vietnam War has become so deeply inscribed into national memory.” His collection of short stories\, The Refugees\, explores questions of immigration\, identity\, love\, and family. In 2018\, Viet called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences\, and the result is The Displaced\, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines\, with proceeds to support the International Rescue Committee. \nViet was the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant. The MacArthur foundation noted that Viet’s work “not only offers insight into the experiences of refugees past and present\, but also poses profound questions about how we might more accurately and conscientiously portray victims and adversaries of other wars.” Along with teaching at the University of Southern California\, he works as a cultural critic-at-large for The Los Angeles Times. Viet lives in LA with his wife and two children. \nThis event is in collaboration with the Visiting Writers Reading Series. \nThe cost of tickets for this program has been generously underwritten by the sponsors of the Blauvelt Speaker Series.  \nThe Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. This year’s 2024-2025 additional sponsors include Carluccio\, Leone\, Dimon\, Doyle & Sacks\, LLC\, Arlene and Frank Dupignac\, Jr.\, Georgian Court University\, Kean Ocean\, Stella and Marshall Kern\, Kiwanis of Greater Toms River\, Leone & Daughters\, New Jersey Natural Gas\, and OCVTS. \nShare This:
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SUMMARY:David Hogg
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets \nGateway Lecture Hall (Building 101)\nand Livestream\nTickets Free\,\nAdvanced Registration Required \n \nAbout David Hogg\nThrust into the world of activism by the largest school shooting in American history\, Parkland survivor David Hogg has become one of the most compelling voices of his generation. His call to “get over politics and get something done” challenges Americans to stand up\, speak out and work to elect morally just leaders\, regardless of party affiliation. Passionate in his advocacy to end gun violence\, David’s mission of increasing voter participation\, civic engagement and activism embraces a range of issues. \nOn February 14\, 2018\, David’s life changed forever. As a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland\, Florida\, he lost friends\, classmates and teachers. A total of 17 people were killed when a lone teen gunman sprayed bullets from a high-powered military assault rifle. David’s eloquent responses to America’s largest school shooting immediately placed him in the national and international media spotlight. \nCommitted to becoming an agent for change\, he resolved that no other young person should have to experience the tragic impact of gun violence. He joined with friends from high school to co-found March For Our Lives\, now one of the world’s largest youth-led movements. Five weeks after the shooting\, March For Our Lives mobilized one of the biggest demonstrations in the nation’s history. Speaking before an estimated 800\,000 protestors in Washington\, D.C.\, David declared\, “The sun shines on a new day—and it is ours!” Since then\, David’s activism has taken him around the country\, meeting with impacted families and diverse communities to deepen his knowledge of gun safety and the politics of ending gun violence. With his younger sister\, Lauren\, also a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School\, he co-wrote #NeverAgain\, a New York Times bestseller. David and Lauren also contributed to the best-selling book\, Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement\, a compilation of writing from the founders of March For Our Lives. \nIn 2019\, David headed to Harvard University and graduated in the spring of 2023. He recently co-founded Leaders We Deserve\, a grassroots political organization dedicated to electing young progressives to Congress and State Legislatures across the country. “We will help defeat the far-right agenda and advance a progressive vision for our collective future\,” David says. \nA prolific voice on social media with more than a million followers\, David uses his platform to promote civic engagement\, activism and voting. As a speaker\, he informs\, challenges and energizes\, empowering his generation to resist apathy and become catalysts for positive social change. “People call us snowflakes\,” he once tweeted. “What happens when snowflakes vote? That’s called an avalanche.” \n  \nThe sponsors of the Blauvelt Speaker Series have generously underwritten the cost of tickets for this program.  \nThe Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. This year’s 2024-2025 additional sponsors include Carluccio\, Leone\, Dimon\, Doyle\, Gutman & Petro\, LLC\, Arlene and Frank Dupignac\, Jr.\, Georgian Court University\, Kean Ocean\, Stella and Marshall Kern\, Kiwanis of Greater Toms River\, Leone & Daughters\, and New Jersey Natural Gas. \nShare This:
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SUMMARY:Tiki Barber
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets \nGateway Lecture Hall (Building 101)\nIn-person tickets $19\nLivestream Free\nAdvanced Registration Required \n \n  \nUpdate as of May 16\nThis event has moved to the Gateway Lecture Hall and will remain General Admission (no assigned seats). Ticket holders have been emailed updated tickets. The in-person engagement is sold out.  \nIf livestream viewing is interrupted due to technical difficulties\, a recording of the event will be emailed to Livestream registrants within two business days following the event\, and will be viewable for 48 hours once received. \nAbout Tiki Barber\nTiki Barber is a national media personality\, serving as a color analyst for the NFL on CBS. He is also the afternoon drive co-host of Evan and Tiki on WFAN in New York. Barber co-hosted Tiki and Tierney for over ten years at both CBS Sports Radio and WFAN. He was a correspondent for NBC’s The Today Show\, as well as an analyst on NBC’s Football Night in America. During Barber’s NBC tenure\, he contributed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2010 Winter Olympics. Over the years\, Tiki has appeared on a variety of entertainment-related shows. \nDuring his 10-year NFL career with the New York Giants\, Barber was a three-time Pro Bowler and a First-Team All-Pro. His 10\,449 yards leaves him as the team’s all-time leading rusher and a member of the organization’s Ring of Honor. \nBarber’s 2005 season with 2\,390 yards from scrimmage ranks fourth all-time in NFL history\, as does his five career 200-yard rushing games. \nTiki ranks 6th all-time in receptions by a running back with 586 and is one of three players in NFL history to accumulate 10\,000 rushing yards and 5\,000 receiving yards. \nThe sponsors of the Blauvelt Speaker Series have generously underwritten the cost of tickets for this program.  \nThe Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. This year’s 2024-2025 additional sponsors include Carluccio\, Leone\, Dimon\, Doyle\, Gutman & Petro\, LLC\, Arlene and Frank Dupignac\, Jr.\, Georgian Court University\, Kean Ocean\, Stella and Marshall Kern\, Kiwanis of Greater Toms River\, Leone & Daughters\, New Jersey Natural Gas\, and OCVTS. \nShare This:
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SUMMARY:Maureen Dowd
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets \n  \nMain Stage (Building 11A)\nIn-person tickets $20\nLivestream Free\, Advanced Registration Required \n \n  \nIf livestream viewing is interrupted due to technical difficulties\, a recording of the event will be emailed to Livestream registrants within two business days following the event\, and will be viewable for 48 hours once received. \nAbout Maureen Dowd\nMaureen Dowd is a columnist for The New York Times Opinion Pages and a feature writer for The Times’s Styles and Arts & Leisure sections. Ms. Dowd won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999\, in the commentary category\, for her “unsparing columns on the hypocrisies involved in the Lewinsky affair and the effort to impeach President Clinton.” Ms. Dowd was appointed a columnist for the Op-Ed page of The New York Times in January 1995 and has covered ten presidential campaigns. She served as White House correspondent during the first Bush and the Clinton administrations\, gaining a wide following of admirers and imitators for her witty\, incisive\, and acerbic portraits of the powerful. \nMs. Dowd joined The Times as a metropolitan reporter in October 1983. She began her career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for The Washington Star\, later becoming a sports columnist\, metropolitan reporter\, and feature writer. When The Star closed in 1981\, she went to Time magazine. \nA 1992 Pulitzer Prize finalist in national reporting for her coverage of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings\, Ms. Dowd received the Breakthrough Award from Women\, Men and Media at Columbia University in 1991 and a Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications in 1994. She was named one of Glamour’s Women of the Year for 1996 and won the Damon Runyon Award in 2000 for outstanding contributions to journalism. In 2017\, she received the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. In 2024\, she received the Excellence in Journalism Award from the American News Women’s Club. She has written three best-selling books — Bushworld\, Are Men Necessary? and most recently The Year of Voting Dangerously — plus Good Cop\, a short story about her dad\, a police officer in the U.S. Senate. Her latest book\, Notorious\, a captivating collection of her most compelling celebrity profiles\, was released in March 2025. \nBorn in Washington\, D.C.\, she received a B.A. degree in English literature from Catholic University in Washington\, D.C. in 1973 and honorary doctorates from Manhattanville College in Purchase\, N.Y.\, and the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. In 2012\, she received an honorary doctorate from National University of Ireland\, Galway. She received her master’s degree in English literature from Columbia University in 2023. \nThe sponsors of the Blauvelt Speaker Series have generously underwritten the cost of tickets for this program.  \nThe Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. This year’s 2025-2026 additional sponsors include Carluccio\, Leone\, Dimon\, Doyle\, Gutman & Petro\, LLC\, Arlene and Frank Dupignac\, Jr.\, and Novins\, York\, Jacobus & Dooley\, P.A.\n \nShare This:
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SUMMARY:Admiral James Stavridis
DESCRIPTION:  \nGet Tickets \nMain Stage (Building 11A)\nIn-person tickets $20\nLivestream Free\, Advanced Registration Required \n \n  \nIf livestream viewing is interrupted due to technical difficulties\, a recording of the event will be emailed to Livestream registrants within two business days following the event\, and will be viewable for 48 hours once received. \nAbout Admiral James Stavridis\nA Florida native\, Jim Stavridis attended the US Naval Academy at Annapolis\, and spent 37 years in the Navy\, rising to the rank of 4-star Admiral. Among his many commands were four years as the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO\, where he oversaw operations in Afghanistan\, Libya\, Syria\, the Balkans\, and counter piracy off the coast of Africa. He also commanded US Southern Command in Miami\, charged with military operations through Latin America for nearly three years. He was the longest-serving Combatant Commander in recent US history. Following his military career\, he served for five years as the 12th Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. \nIn the course of his career in the Navy\, he served as senior military assistant to the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Defense. He led the Navy’s premier operational think tank for innovation\, Deep Blue\, immediately after the 9/11 attacks. Admiral Stavridis was promoted directly from 1-star rank to 3- star rank in 2004. \nHe won the Battenberg Cup for commanding the top ship in the Atlantic Fleet and the Navy League John Paul Jones Award for Inspirational leadership\, along with more than 50 US and international medals and decorations\, including 28 from foreign nations. He also commanded a Destroyer Squadron and a Carrier Strike Group\, both in combat. \nIn 2016\, he was vetted for Vice President by Secretary Hillary Clinton\, and subsequently invited to Trump Tower to discuss a cabinet position with President Donald Trump. \nHe earned a PhD from The Fletcher School at Tufts\, winning the Gullion prize as outstanding student in his class in 1983\, as well as academic honors from the National and Naval War Colleges as a distinguished student. He speaks Spanish and French. \nAdmiral Stavridis has published thirteen books on leadership\, character\, risk\, the oceans\, maritime affairs\, and Latin America\, as well as hundreds of articles in leading journals. An active user of social networks\, he has tens of thousands of connections. His TED talk on 21st century security in 2012 has close to one million views. He tweeted the end of combat operations in the Libyan NATO intervention. Two of his most popular books are the novel 2034: A Novel of the Next World War which was a New York Times bestseller and is being published in 22 languages; and To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and The Crucible of Decision. His most recent book\, The Admiral’s Bookshelf\, highlights twenty-five essential leadership lessons drawn from classic works of literature. \nAdmiral Stavridis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and Chief International Security Analyst for NBC News. \nHe is happily married to Laura\, and they have two daughters – one working at Google and the other a Nurse Practitioner and former naval officer\, both married to physicians. \nThe sponsors of the Blauvelt Speaker Series have generously underwritten the cost of tickets for this program.  \nThe Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. This year’s 2025-2026 additional sponsors include Carluccio\, Leone\, Dimon\, Doyle\, Gutman & Petro\, LLC\, Arlene and Frank Dupignac\, Jr.\, and Novins\, York\, Jacobus & Dooley\, P.A. \nShare This:
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SUMMARY:Basil Camu
DESCRIPTION:  \nGet Tickets \nMain Stage (Building 11A)\nIn-person tickets Free\nLivestream Free\, Advanced Registration Required \n \n  \nIf livestream viewing is interrupted due to technical difficulties\, a recording of the event will be emailed to Livestream registrants within two business days following the event\, and will be viewable for 48 hours once received. \nAbout Basil Camu\nWhen you ask Basil what he thinks about himself\, he’ll tell you he is incredibly lucky. He\nhas family he loves dearly\, friends and colleagues who inspire him\, and every day he gets to care for trees\, soil\, and flowers. He pursues his purpose and passions as the co-founder of Leaf & Limb\, a tree care company in Raleigh\, NC\, and Project Pando\, a non-profit that aims to connect people to trees. He is a Treecologist\, ISA Board Certified Master Arborist\, Duke graduate\, Wizard of Things\, and author of the book From Wasteland to Wonder – Easy Ways We Can Help Heal Earth in the Sub/Urban Landscape. His work has been featured in the New York Times\, Seattle Times\, Forbes\, Gardenista\, The Joe Gardener Show\, and a number of other publications and podcasts. When he’s not having fun at work\, he likes to pull invasive plants from his pocket forests\, contemplate on his front porch\, and go hiking with his family. \nThe sponsors of the Blauvelt Speaker Series have generously underwritten the cost of tickets for this program.  \nThe Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. This year’s 2025-2026 additional sponsors include Carluccio\, Leone\, Dimon\, Doyle\, Gutman & Petro\, LLC\, Arlene and Frank Dupignac\, Jr.\, and Novins\, York\, Jacobus & Dooley\, P.A. \nShare This:
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SUMMARY:Margaret Atwood
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nGet Tickets \n\nMain Stage (Building 11A)\nIn-person tickets $20\nLivestream Free\, Advanced Registration Required \n \n  \nIf livestream viewing is interrupted due to technical difficulties\, a recording of the event will be emailed to Livestream registrants within two business days following the event\, and will be viewable for 48 hours once received. \nAbout Margaret Atwood\n\n\nMargaret Atwood has long been a literary titan\, and her words continue to resonate with every generation. Her landmark novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) was adapted into a fifteen-time Emmy Award-winning television series\, and its sequel\, The Testaments\, won the 2019 Booker Prize. Her latest memoir\, Book of Lives\, recounts the life of one of the greatest storytellers of our time\, unveiling both the workings of a once-in-a-generation imagination and the connections between real life and art. In talks\, Atwood reveals hidden truths in our societies\, inspiring us to speak out against injustice and preparing us for the battle ahead. Today\, her sharp eye and characteristic wit are more crucial—and prescient—than ever. \n\n\n\n\n“Every totalitarian government on the planet has always taken a very great interest in women’s reproductive rights\,” says Margaret Atwood: a disquieting insight at any time\, but particularly in today’s portentous political landscape. Just as it did when it was first published\, the story of The Handmaid’s Tale—a future where women are treated as property of the state\, run by an authoritarian regime—is unearthing chilling patterns to an uneasy public. The book’s long-awaited sequel The Testaments performed so well it broke the record for best first-day sales of any Penguin Random House title that year. \n“With dry\, ironic wit\, a poetic sensibility and more than a hint of the Gothic\, she has uncompromisingly observed the psychology of people in her society.” The New York Times \nWith her work already producing two blockbuster television adaptations—first The Handmaid’s Tale\, then Alias Grace—Atwood’s vision is reaching a wider audience than ever before. To date\, The Handmaid’s Tale has received 15 awards\, including Best Drama\, and Atwood herself received a standing ovation at the show. Meanwhile\, Atwood’s Giller-winning\, Booker-shortlisted murder mystery Alias Grace was adapted into a Netflix original miniseries\, which was notably written\, produced\, and directed by women. \nHer most recent memoir\, Book of Lives\, unfolds the story of her life: from her nomadic childhood in the forests of northern Quebec to the seminal moments that sparked the books that have shaped our literary landscape. Along the way\, with her signature wit and storytelling skill\, she introduces us to a larger-than-life cast of characters and offers a peek into the workings of one of our generation’s greatest imaginations. \nIn her latest short story collection\, Old Babes in the Wood\, she explores the depth of human experience with her signature wit and insight: touching on mother-daughter relationships\, the afterlife\, what it looks like to grow old together\, and much more. NPR says\, “Old Babes in the Wood is touching\, smart\, funny\, and unique in equal measure. A dazzling mixture of stories that explore what it means to be human while also showcasing Atwood’s gifted imagination and great sense of humor.” \nBut before Atwood was a novelist\, and before her work became the subject of award-winning TV\, she was a poet. She’s released her first poetry collection in over a decade: Dearly. By turns “moving\, playful\, and wise\,” the poems gathered in Dearly explore bodies and minds in transition\, while observing the objects and rituals that ground us in the present moment. The Washington Post calls it “hauntingly beautiful\, with reflections on life and death\, time and chance\, and nature and zombies.” \nAtwood is the author of more than fifty volumes of poetry\, children’s literature\, fiction\, and non-fiction. To date\, Atwood’s body of work has been published in more than 40 languages\, including Farsi\, Japanese\, Turkish\, Finnish\, Korean\, Icelandic and Estonian. She has also won many international literary awards\, including the prestigious Booker Prize\, Arthur C. Clarke Award\, Governor General’s Award\, the PEN Pinter Prize\, the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was presented with the Companion of Honor award—given for achievements in the arts\, literature\, science\, and politics—by Queen Elizabeth\, making Atwood the third Canadian to receive the honor. Atwood is a founder of the Writers’ Trust of Canada and a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is also a popular personality on Twitter\, with over two million followers. \n\n\nThe Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. \nAdditional sponsors for 2025-2026 include The Law Firm of Carluccio\, Leone\, Dimon\, Doyle\, Gutman & Petro\, LLC\, Arlene and Frank Dupignac\, Jr.\, Leone & Daughters Realty Management Corp.\, Kean Ocean\, Stella and Marshall Kern\, The Matus Law Group\, New Jersey Natural Gas\, Novins\, York\, Jacobus & Dooley\, P.A.\, Ocean County Vocational Technical School\, and Rotem Dental Care. \nShare This:
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