August 13, 2026
Recorded at BESI on March 30, 2026, this panel conversation brings together perspectives from the political economy of food systems, the legal frameworks governing emerging biomedical technologies, and bioethics in the humanities and fiction.
July 7, 2026
On April 9, 2026, MIT political scientist Kathy Thelen visited BESI to discuss the origins and implications of the new cloud business model powering the AI boom and how it differs from the traditional platform out of which it grew.
June 2, 2026
On May 1, 2026, BESI hosted historian Quinn Slobodian and journalist Ben Tarnoff for a talk on their new book "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed," which explores the machine that made the man — and the world he’s making next.
