Stern Lecture Series

Walter Isaacson | October 6

Acclaimed historian, journalist, and biographer Walter Isaacson recounts with signature insight the gripping medical revolution led by Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna. Isaacson expertly examines the minds and lives of political, cultural, and medical icons and how their legacies can provide insight in modern times.

At the Aronoff Center for the Arts. Tickets are $5 and will go on sale Tuesday, August 16.

About the Mary S. Stern Lecture Series

About the Lecture Series

The late Mary S. Stern endowed an annual lecture series for the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library through The Library Foundation, opens a new window to support bringing internationally renowned thought leaders to our community. The Stern Lecture selection committee was formed in 2018 to select and invite lecturers who can honor Stern’s legacy by advancing the Library’s mission to connect our community with a world of ideas and information. The committee is committed to making the topic and speaker accessible to the community physically and financially.

The views and opinions expressed by the Mary S. Stern lecturer are solely those of the lecturer and do not represent those of the Library Foundation, the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library, staff, and partner organizations.

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About Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson is a Professor of History at Tulane and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg, a financial services firm based in New York City. He is the past CEO of the Aspen Institute, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow, and has been the chairman of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine. Isaacson’s most recent biography, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, opens a new window (2021) offers a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.