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—Roundtable Dispatch—
Are there Aliens in the Universe and Why do we want to Know?
November 18, 2025
November 18, 2025, by invitation only, the Harvard Faculty Club will seat 102 faculty and grad-students and guests to consider presentations from MIT’...
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Cambridge & Boston graduate students and faculty are primarily invited to be our guests at dinner & discussion roundtables on science, faith & philosophy. Presentations and the exchanging of ideas and experiences over dinner at the Harvard Faculty Club or at the Samberg Center at MIT are critically integral to bringing grads and profs to the table. 19 coordinator teams around the country host roundtables, making invitations to grads and faculty at 41 of the nations top 77 colleges and universities and additional institutions.
Roundtable Chairs
- Anne McCantsHistory, MIT
- Mark RamseyerHarvard Law
- Peter MartelliHealth Admin., Suffolk
- Danny YamashiroChaplain, MIT
- Nathan BarcziChaplain, MIT
Roundtable Founder
Dave ThomPast Events
—Past Event—
U. MN. Philosophy of Biology Professor Alan C. Love, '95 MIT
December 01, 2023
December 2023, a Diálogos Dinner sponsored by The Octet Collaborative at MIT featured Alan C. Love, Director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. Listen here to his presentation. Click on "more info" and skip ahead in the link to 14:45. You’ll hear why Alan hosts dialogue in Minnesota and why we host dialogue in Cambridge. Alan Love left the flora and fauna of San Diego for the wilds of Cambridge and MIT in 1991. Over a course of four years, as an MIT undergrad ministry Chaplain, I partnered with then-student Alan Love in weekly hospitality-driven leadership and faith discussions among Alan’s many fraternity brothers. It was an early iteration of what was to become a career-defining practice for both of us: hosting discussions of faith and topics of academic and personal interest with plenty to disagree about while simultaneously absorbing all kinds of intellectual, relational, and spiritual lessons.
—Past Event—
Nov 28 2023 our Science and the Origin of Life Roundtable featured Chemistry Professors James Tour, Rice University and Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow
November 28, 2023
“The central conundrum about the origin of life - that, as an accidental event, it seems so very improbable - is not one that science has yet resolved. Claiming credit prematurely - claiming, in effect, that current science holds all the answers - may stunt the growth of the new ideas that a resolution may require.” -Fitness of the Cosmos for Life, Cambridge University Press, 2007, from the Forward: The improbability of Life by George Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Research Professor, Harvard University -What did faculty say about this Roundtable? And how are these evenings conducted at The Harvard Faculty Club? Click again to read more!
—Past Event—
In Our Genes or In Our Genesis? Where do you look for clues to the mysteries of life and the universe?
December 08, 2022
Philosopher and Theologian William Lane Craig and Harvard Biology Professor David Haig