This program explores the powerful intersection between cutting-edge medical technology and the deeply human experience of illness, healing, and care. This program invites participants to look beyond data and devices, toward the values, ethics, and emotions that make health care meaningful. Through engaging presentations and real-world examples, attendees will consider how AI, wearables, and remote monitoring can serve, not overshadow, human dignity, empathy, and storytelling in medicine. With insights from…
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The true story of the speaker’s family from the Axis side of WWII in Latvia, occupied Poland, and Germany—a story that includes two German veterans and provides a perspective seldom heard in the U.S.
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This program is made possible by a NH Humanities grant, and presented in collaboration with the Atkinson Historical Society and hosted at the Kimball Library. It is free to the public and open… Read more 
Patrick Anderson focuses on contemporary film directors and screenwriters in the United States whose originality, independence and unconventional approaches to the medium have contributed to the evolution of the industry. The program enables a greater understanding of and appreciation for both the content and form of movies made outside the mainstream Hollywood system, and considers some of the key differences in theme, style and narrative format between these works and… 
This program explores the powerful intersection between cutting-edge medical technology and the deeply human experience of illness, healing, and care. This program invites participants to look beyond data and devices, toward the values, ethics, and emotions that make health care meaningful. Through engaging presentations and real-world examples, attendees will consider how AI, wearables, and remote monitoring can serve, not overshadow, human dignity, empathy, and storytelling in medicine. With insights from… 
Information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology have converged in ways that were not easily anticipated. As a result, new fields have emerged in response to the cluster of ethical problems generated by recent technologies. Herman Tavani examines a range of ethical issues – from privacy and autonomy to trust and dependency.…