On Saturday, June 1, 2024, the Buckley Institute is delighted to welcome alumni for a panel on “Campus Intolerance: From Attacks on Free Speech to Antisemitism” at The Study (1157 Chapel St, New Haven, CT). The event, featuring Professor Carlos Eire and Professor Evan Morris, will begin with breakfast at 8:30am, followed by the panel at 9am.
Space is limited and registration is required. Email Isabelle Hargrove at
Isabelle@BuckleyInstitute.com or call her at 203-745-0571 to register.
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T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies and award-winning historian
Dr. Carlos Eire specializes in the social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe with a focus on the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and histories of popular piety, the supernatural, and death. His works include
War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship From Erasmus to Calvin (Cambridge University Press, 1986);
From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth Century Spain (Cambridge University Press, 1995);
A Very Brief History of Eternity (Princeton University Press, 2010);
Reformations: The Early Modern World (Yale University Press, 2016);
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2019); and
They Flew: A History of the Impossible (Yale University Press, 2023). His book,
Waiting for Snow in Havana (Free Press, 2003) won the National Book Award in Nonfiction. All of his books are banned in Cuba, where he has been proclaimed an enemy of the state – a distinction he regards as the highest of all honors.
Dr. Evan Morris is Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and of Biomedical Engineering at Yale School of Medicine as well as the Co-director for Imaging at the Yale PET Center. Morris specializes in using kinetic modeling and image processing to extract physiological information from dynamic PET images. His current projects include: modeling and texture analysis to image non-small cell lung cancer with tyrosine kinase inhibitor tracers, novel kinetic modeling to image dyskinesias in Parkinson’s, continued optimization of dopamine movies to study addiction and behavior, applying principles in functional connectivity and machine learning to analyze dopamine movies, imaging new targets in depression and alcoholism, using multimodal PET to understand the opioid system in alcoholism, and creating new parametric images to speed drug discovery. Morris and his group continue to refine mathematical and statistical aspects of their techniques for making "dopamine movies" of the brain. With their dopamine movies, Morris and colleague Kelly Cosgrove and their team discovered sex differences in brains of smokers smoking cigarettes (J Neurosci Dec 10, 2014).
