Has technology replaced religion as the central focus of our lives?

Do we rely more on our devices than our communities for our news and our political opinions?

How do these and other stressors affect our mental health?

Stuyvesant Alumni from all class years are invited to join us for a lively discussion of these questions and ideas on how to manage our modern-day environment, in our upcoming virtual book talk with Greg M. Epstein ’95, author of Tech Agnostic, and Doris Iarovici, MD ’83, author of Coping on Campus, on January 15, 2025 at 7:00 pm EST. The discussion will be moderated by Neeraj Singh, MD ’01.

A Q&A will follow the discussion.

We are glad to extend this book talk opportunity to Stuyvesant alumni, students, and friends. The event will be held on Wednesday, January 15 at 7PM (ET) via Zoom. (Zoom Link to be provided upon RSVP.)

Please note, this event requires a ticket. Your registration confirmation will serve as your ticket.

• SHSAA Members: $5
• General Alumni and Guests: $10*
• Event Ticket + SHSAA Membership: $25
• Stuyvesant Students & Faculty/Staff: FREE

Your registration confirmation email will serve as your ticket(s).

Current Stuyvesant students and faculty/staff can join this event for free. Please select the appropriate ticket above (under “General Alumni and Guests”) or email us at [email protected] for details on how to attend.

*If you are experiencing financial hardship but still want to attend, please email [email protected] and we will make accommodations.

Greg M. Epstein ’95 serves as Humanist Chaplain at Harvard & MIT, where he advises students, faculty, and staff members on ethical and existential concerns from a humanist perspective. He was TechCrunch’s first “ethicist in residence” and has been called “a symbol of the transition in how Americans relate to organized religion” (The Conversation). He is the author of the New York Times-bestselling book, Good Without God, and has also written for MIT Technology Review, CNN.com, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and Newsweek. His latest book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why it Desperately Needs a Reformation will be published as the lead title for The MIT Press’s Fall 2024 catalog, via their distribution partnership with Penguin Random House. It has been named an October Must-Read by the Next Big Idea Club.

Doris Iarovici, MD ’83 is a psychiatrist and writer who has been writing creatively since childhood. Her latest non-fiction book is “Coping on Campus: Mental Health and the University Student,” from Johns Hopkins University Press in 2024. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, WBUR/Cognescenti, and elsewhere. Her Modern Love essay, “On a Serpentine Road, with the Top Down,” originally published in the New York Times, was made into a 2021 television episode on the “Modern Love” Amazon Prime series. Her fiction includes the short story collection, “Minus One,” and the award-winning, “American Dreaming and Other Stories.” A graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Medicine, she currently treats students at Harvard University’s Counseling and Mental Health Services.

Moderator:

Neeraj Singh, MD ’01 is a neurologist and epileptologist with Northwell Health. Based in Queens, Dr. Singh helps to direct epilepsy services in Forest Hills and Rego Park, and conducts clinical research in epilepsy, stroke, dementia, and other neurological disorders in Queens and Long Island. He also advocates with legislators for medical research funding and improved patient access to healthcare.

If you have any questions about this event, please reach out to [email protected].