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  • Michael F. Marmor Lecture in Ophthalmology and the Arts

    Below is a listing of past lecturers and titles for the Michael F. Marmor Lecture in Ophthalmology and the Arts. Launched in 2013, the Michael F. Marmor Lecture in Ophthalmology and the Arts takes place alternatively during the Opening Session or as its own symposia.

    2023

    SYM64
    Bach to the Future, Baroque Music in the 21st Century
    Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler, co-directors, Voices of Music

    2022

    SYM55
    The Doctor’s Son: Medicine in My Novels
    Scott Turow

    2021

    SYM06
    Self-Taught Art vs. the Mainstream
    Alice Yelen Gitter

    2020

    SYM28V
    Lyin’ to your Lyin’ Eyes
    Penn Jillette

    2019

    SYM19
    Blind Organists and the King of Instruments
    Bruce Lamott, PhD

    2018

    SYM40
    Photography: In Search of Wonder
    Howard Schatz

    2017

    SYM62
    One Man's Vision
    Henry Butler

    2016

    SYM11
    The Alchemy of Color in 19th Century Art
    Francesca Casadio, PhD

    2015

    SYM44
    Two World Visions: The Myopia of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan
    Edmund Morris

    2014

    SYM09
    Architecture, Ophthalmology and the Seeing of Space
    Mark Foster Gage

    2013

    SYM54
    Degas, New Orleans, and “Eyes Greatly in Need of Care"
    Richard Kendall