Events

The Jefferson Scholars Foundation and the Shadwell Society present the 9th annual Shadwell Speaker Series featuring science evangelist Ainissa Ramirez. Join us in Foundation Hall at 6 p.m. for Ramirez’s talk, followed by Q&A and a reception at 7 p.m. Through captivating storytelling that draws on her award-winning book The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another (MIT Press, 2020), Ramirez will reveal the unexpected ways that technology has shaped the human experience.

Ainissa Ramirez is an award-winning scientist and science communicator, who is passionate about getting the general public excited about science. She has written for Forbes, Time, The Atlantic, Scientific American, American Scientist, and Science and has discussed science-related headlines on CBS, CNN, NPR, ESPN, and PBS. She speaks widely on the importance of making science fun and has served as an advisor to the American Film Institute, WGBH/NOVA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and several science museums.

The Jefferson Scholars Foundation invites you to join us in Foundation Hall on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. for a conversation between Charles L. Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Kenneth G. Elzinga, the Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia, followed by Q&A and refreshments at 7:30 p.m.

Governing America in a Global Era and The Center for the Study of the Age of Jefferson, in partnership with the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, invite you to join Annette Gordon-Reed in Foundation Hall for a talk on her New York Times bestselling book, On Juneteenth (Liveright Publishing, 2021). Annette Gordon-Reed is a Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School, and an award-winning author of six books. 

Join the Jefferson Scholars Foundation and GAGE for a roundtable discussion about the crisis in Ukraine. William Hitchcock, the Corcoran Professor of History at U.Va., will moderate a discussion between Dr. Mary Sarotte, the Kravis Professor of Historical Studies at Johns Hopkins, and Dr. Serhii Plokhy, the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard.