Special Guest: Robin Abrahams, author, research psychologist, Underground Railway Theater Board member, and particularly well known as the Boston Globe columnist – Miss Conduct.

Special guest: Elizabeth Kensinger, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and the Director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at Boston College. Her research interests center on the effects of emotion on memory and how we remember. While a graduate student at MIT, mentored by Dr. Suzanne Corkin, she had the opportunity to work with H.M.

Special Guest: Nehassaiu deGannes, poet and performer, whose original works often take memory as a central subject. Most recently her poetry collection “Undressing the River” won the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize and was published in 2011.

Scenes from a new play exploring aging and memory, Mag and Me, by Deborah Lake Fortson will be performed and responded to by a scientist who studies changes in memory as a function of age. How can artists help us understand what memory is and how it works?
Special Guests: Deborah Lake Fortson, playwright, and Dr. Ayanna Kim Thomas, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Tufts, whose research explores memory accuracy and information retrieval.

Short plays by MIT student playwrights
Special Guest: Playwright Alan Brody, Professor of Theater, MIT. Playwrights: Stephen Giandomenico, Sarah Gumlak, Christopher Smith, and Mark Velednitsky, all MIT students or graduates in the sciences.