The Katonah Museum of Art’s provocative, award-winning lecture series CrossTalk continues its third season on Thursday, November 17 with Serums and Theorems, featuring Dr. Joseph Sacco, author and pioneer in the field of palliative medicine and Douglas Rushkoff, bestselling author, producer and media theorist . Named Best Lecture Series by Westchester Magazine in 2010, CrossTalk is produced by the Katonah Museum of Art in partnership with the Katonah Village Library. Serums and Theorems begins with a wine reception at the Katonah Village Library at 6:30, followed by the program at 7pm. The Katonah Village Library is located on 26 Bedford Road (at the Parkway) in Katonah.
CrossTalk, which is sponsored by the Katonah office of Houlihan Lawrence, features two experts speaking on unrelated topics, with the collision of disparate subjects leading to unexpected insights and connections during the audience question-answer period that follows. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Reservations are strongly suggested. Proceeds from CrossTalk support children’s programming at the Museum and the Library. For more information and to purchase tickets, call (914) 232-9555, ext. 0 or visit www.katonahmuseum.org.
Dr. Joseph Sacco is the founder and director of the Palliative Medicine Consultation Service at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center and the medical director of the hospital’s inpatient hospice unit. He is the author of three books including Health Smart Hospital Handbook: Get in. Get Well. Go Home and Morphine, Ice Cream, Tears: Tales of a City Hospital, which explore unethical and unhealthy practices of hospitals today. He is also a contributor to Health Affairs, an occasional contributor to the New York Times “Cases” column in the Science Times and has appeared on NPR’s Brian Lehrer Show.
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Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures and institutions create, share and influence each other’s values. He has published ten bestselling books about media, society and change, including Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, and Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back. He lectures around the world, makes documentaries for Frontline - including The Merchants of Cool - and teaches at NYU and the New School University. He is best known as the originator of the terms “media virus”, “social currency”, and “digital natives”, as well as for applying open source principles to government, religion, and economics.
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