Welcome to “Live from the Buffett Reading Room” from Northwestern University’s Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. This channel gives listeners a front-row seat to events held in the Buffett Reading Room, where global leaders and pioneering scholars convene to investigate the world’s most pressing problems. From peace negotiations to reproductive rights to AI and geopolitics, these conversations showcase insights from the front lines of international research and policy. Subscribe to hear what happens when world-class thinkers gather to envision solutions to urgent global problems.
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Listen to the final panel of our spring 2026 Buffett Symposium, Brave New Futures. The discussion focused on the future of work and featured:
Suhani Jalota, founder of Myna Mahila and founder and leader of the Future of Work for Women Initiative at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
Olubayo Adekanmbi, CEO of Data Science Nigeria and co-founder of EqualyzAI
Moderator: Dean Karlan, Frederic Esser Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business, founder and former president of Innovations for Poverty Action, and former Chief Economist for USAID
Brave New Futures convened a visionary set of international thinkers to explore how human relationships, information ecosystems, labor, and the planet itself are being reshaped in this moment of uncertainty and possibility. From the power of art for action to the future of work and planetary survival, the symposium envisioned bold new visions for building more just and sustainable global futures. Learn more: https://buffett.northwestern.edu/events/brave-new-futures/spring-symposium.html
19 Jun 2026
Brave New Futures: Planetary Futures
Listen to the fourth panel of our spring 2026 Buffett Symposium, Brave New Futures. The discussion focused on planetary futures and featured:
Vanessa Nakate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Nakate), climate activist, founder of the Rise Up climate movement (https://www.unicef.org/goodwill-ambassadors/vanessa-nakate#:~:text=She%20founded%20Rise%20Up%20Movement%20to%20elevate%20the%20voices%20of%20African%20climate%20activists), and author of A Bigger Picture (https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-bigger-picture-vanessa-nakate)
David Wallace-Wells (https://www.nytimes.com/column/david-wallace-wells), writer for New York Times Opinion (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/david-wallace-wells), columnist for New York Times Magazine (https://www.nytimes.com/column/david-wallace-wells), and author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabitable-earth-by-david-wallace-wells/)
Moderator: Iza Ding (https://polisci.northwestern.edu/people/core-faculty/iza-ding.html), Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Brave New Futures convened a visionary set of international thinkers to explore how human relationships, information ecosystems, labor, and the planet itself are being reshaped in this moment of uncertainty and possibility. From the power of art for action to the future of work and planetary survival, the symposium envisioned bold new visions for building more just and sustainable global futures. Learn more: https://buffett.northwestern.edu/events/brave-new-futures/spring-symposium.html
18 Jun 2026
Brave New Futures: Arts of Social Change
Listen to the third panel of our spring 2026 Buffett Symposium, Brave New Futures. The discussion focused on the arts of social change and featured:
Bing Liu (https://www.instagram.com/bingliu89/?hl=en), filmmaker and director of the Emmy- and Oscar-nominated feature documentary Minding the Gap (https://www.mindingthegapfilm.com/) and the newly released feature film Preparation for the Next Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparation_for_the_Next_Life_(film))
Omar Offendum (https://www.instagram.com/offendum/), spoken word poet, rapper, and storyteller
Moderator: Ellen Harvey (https://www.ellenharvey.info/about/), conceptual artist whose recent work includes Utopia Machine (https://www.ellenharvey.info/utopia_machine/)
Brave New Futures convened a visionary set of international thinkers to explore how human relationships, information ecosystems, labor, and the planet itself are being reshaped in this moment of uncertainty and possibility. From the power of art for action to the future of work and planetary survival, the symposium envisioned bold new visions for building more just and sustainable global futures. Learn more: https://buffett.northwestern.edu/events/brave-new-futures/spring-symposium.html
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