Speaking Engagements
Peter Whybrow’s writings and ideas:
Wide media coverage in the United States and Europe.
Print: USA: New York Times, New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Chronicle of Higher Education, Wall Street Journal; USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, Chicago Herald Tribune, San Francisco Examiner, Seattle Times, Detroit News, Dallas Times Herald, TIME Magazine, Philadelphia Magazine, Working Woman, Psychology Today, Travel & Health, Mirabella Magazine, Vogue Magazine; Elle, Women’s Day, Self, Shape. UK & Europe: London Times, Times Higher Education Supplement, The Guardian; The Independent, Daily Telegraph, Observer, Literary Review, L’Espresso, Die Gazette & various European newspapers and magazines.
TV, Radio, Film: National Public Radio, Market Place and Day to Day and many local stations; CNN; NBC, Good Morning America: Fox News, Fox Forum: WNET Boston The Mind Series, Depression: E-Entertainment TV, Vivien Leigh: KCET, Los Angeles, Life & Times: The Odyssey Channel: The Discovery Channel: The Discovery Health Channel: ABC Radio Network; various TV and radio talk shows: Tech Nation, Voices in the family, Charlie Rose, Milt Rosenberg Show, Brian Lehrer, Dennis Prager: “Between the Lines” : Tavis Smiley Show: and numerous syndicated radio shows across the US and Britain including the BBC and BBC4.
Selected Documentaries: This Emotional Life (examines whether Americans can be happier); Portrait in Blue: (about Vincent Van Gogh); “Why Dogs Smile & Elephants Cry” (Emotion in animals): Edens Lost and Found (Urban renewal in the US); Twilight Becomes Night (Erosion of community in Brooklyn, NY); What Would Jesus Buy? (consumerism in US culture).
Major Invited Speaking Engagements 2008-2010
The Getty Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Trust, Oxford University, Library of Congress, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco: Institute of Contemporary Art, London: London School of Design: Cosmos Club, Washington: Oregon Health Sciences University: University of Dresden, Germany: University of Pisa, Italy: University of North Carolina: Emory University: Anderson Business School Alumni, UCLA: Northwestern Business School: Tennenbaum Capital Partners: LA Times Book Festival: Pop!Tech, Camden, Maine: South by SouthWest Festival., Mayflower Action Group.
Topics have included:
Addictive consumerism
Markets, Madness and Meltdown
Have We Created an Addictive Culture?
Lessons from the Great American Experiment
The Paradox of Prosperity: When More is Not Enough
The Importance of Community in a Technology Driven World
Beyond the Limits: Chronobiology in a Technology Driven World
Vincent Van Gogh, Creativity and Manic-Depressive illness
Emotion and its Complaints
The Biology of Creativity
