Aug Stone

Wed. 11 Nov. 2026
6-8pm

Aug Stone is a writer, musician and publicist with a focus on the arts and music. His novel The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass was one of Vulture’s Best Comedy Books Of 2023. His other books are Off-License To Kill, Nick Cave's Bar, Sporting Moustaches, and Family Vacations. He was a founding member of the bands H Bird and The Soft Close-Ups. Aug's a Sagittarius Rising at 12 degrees, with Neptune sitting at 13 degrees Sag. That explains a lot.

augstone.com

Amy Sohn

DATE TBA
6-8pm

Amy Sohn will speak about her award-winning book, The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, & Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age, about eight women who were prosecuted under the federal Comstock law. They include Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Victoria Woodhull, and sexologist Ida C. Craddock. Ms. Sohn will discuss the childhood of Anthony Comstock, for whom the law was named, and some of the eccentric (and middle-aged) women he pursued under the law, two of whom took their lives rather than go to prison.

Amy Sohn is a New York Times-bestselling author who has written 12 fiction and non-fiction books, including the novels Prospect Park West and Motherland. Ms. Sohn's first non-fiction book, The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, & Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age, about eight women prosecuted under the federal Comstock law, won a First Amendment award from the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation. She has contributed articles on free speech history to FIRE, the First Amendment Encyclopedia, the Washington Post, and the Encyclopedia of the American Left. She is at work on a book about the 1950s for Henry Holt. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in Brooklyn.

Frinde Maher (’64)

Wed. 9 Dec. 2026
6-8pm

An evening in celebration of Frinde Maher’s Class Encounters, a memoir about a life at the intersection of privilege and activism. Her book captures the stresses, nuances, complex choices and serendipities of navigating different social worlds that, themselves, were being shaken by the multiple revolts of the 1960s.America has long underplayed social class, while amplifying it in practice. Maher explores her emerging voice and agency as she moves into the wider world to craft her own life—a life of change, self-discovery, and continuity. She reminds us how central “class encounters" are to the American experience. 

Andrew Montgomery

Wed. 27 Jan. 2027
6-8pm

Burns Supper

THUR. 28 Jan. 2027
6-8pm

A celebration of the life and legacy of Scotland's defining poet, Robert Burns, who elevated the Scots vernacular to poetry. 

There will be bagpipes, haggis, and readings of his poetry. With Signet guest speaker Andrew Montgomery as the master of ceremonies. 

Josh Pickar

Wed. 3 FEB. 2027
6-8pm

Josh Pickar's comedy combines his background as a attorney (U. Chicago Law School, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar) and clown (by way of Philippe Gaulier's storied Paris atelier). His one-man show Getting Off –– through which he explores stories of his experiences as a lawyer representing those on death row, including figures such as Dylann Roof –– was a standout at the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. A bit more about Josh in his own words.

David Thyrén and Eva Bojner Horwitz

WED. 21 APR. 2027
6-8pm

Film Screening and Director Q&A: Cliffe Notes

Tues. 3 Nov. 2026
6-8pm

Join us for a screening of the acclaimed and inspiring new documentary Cliffe Notes – crafted from archival footage and over 100 Zoom interviews with members of the Radcliffe Class of ’75 and directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Pamela Hogan (R’77), in collaboration with the leaders of the Radcliffe ’75 Oral History Project.  The film premiered in June 2025 at the 50th reunion of Class of ’75 and has been in demand ever since for intergenerational screenings at Radcliffe and Harvard Clubs around the country. 

This remarkable documentary captures a transformative moment in Harvard and Radcliffe’s history, as R’75 was the last class with the mandatory 4-to-1 male-to-female quota and entered Harvard when patriarchy still ruled every aspect of the university.  The film offers a rare and deeply personal glimpse of campus life in the early 1970s – from coping with the new co-ed housing to navigating unequal access to athletics and extracurriculars – all at a moment when female role models were near-absent on the faculty. 

Following the screening, we’ll have an engaging discussion with the film’s director, Pamela Hogan '77, and executive producer Alison Graham '75. The documentary is only available via a private screening, so this is a rare opportunity to see it – and to be part of the lively conversation it sparks.  

Joanna Weiss (’94)

Wed. 28 Oct. 2026
6-8pm

Joanna Weiss became editor of Harvard Magazine in April 2025. A 1994 graduate of Harvard College, where she served as the editorial chair of The Harvard Crimson, Joanna began her journalism career at The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and spent 16 years as a metro and political reporter, arts reporter, and op-ed columnist at The Boston Globe. She has created and run award-winning magazines for Northeastern University and the technology firm athenahealth. Joanna’s writing has appeared in Politico, Slate, The Atlantic, The Economist, Boston Magazine, and other publications, along with the books Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 Presidential Race (University of Rochester Press) and the upcoming Taylor Swift: Album by Album (Quarto Press). Her Boston Magazine article “For Those Moms About to Rock” has been optioned for film by 20th Century Studios.

www.joannaweiss.com

Aemilia Phillips (’16)

Wed. 21 Oct. 2026
6-8pm

Aemilia Phillips is a literary agent representing a range of writers, including a National Book Award nominee, PEN America finalist, Pulitzer winning journalist, and more.  A dual Mexican-American citizen with interests in narrative non-fiction, hybrid memoir, commercial fiction, and select poetry and self-help, she looks for diverse writing with an impactful story. She loves narrative-driven projects that  appear to be commercial, but that are also smart cultural critiques, and stories with just a touch of magic. Aemila began her publishing career at Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, which merged with DeFiore & Co. a decade later in 2026. She graduated from Harvard University, and completed the Columbia University Publishing Course. She lives in Manhattan, and is an avid New York sports fan.

defliterary.com/agents/aemilia-phillips

Lia Strasser

Wed. 14 Oct. 2026
6-8pm

Lia Strasser is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, painter, and cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker magazine. With a decade of experience as an art director in media and entertainment, she now works independently across editorial illustration, art direction and education.

liastrasser.com

Elf Lyons

Tue. 6 Oct. 2026
6-8pm

Elf Lyons is an award-winning performer — working in the realms of comedy, clowning, bouffon, stand-up, verbatim theatre and live art. With over ten years of experience as a professional comic, Elf tours internationally with her solo shows and directing and teaching artists of all creative disciplines. She loves making work that stretches the relationship between comedy, theatre and performance art. She has been lucky to work on creative projects with establishments including the Barbican, the British Library, the London Science Museum, the Royal Society of Literature and the City of London. She is the most programmed artist at the Soho Theatre, London and as of August 2026, the most well reviewed artist at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 

elflyons.com

Jorge Colombo

Tue. 29 Sep. 2026
6-9pm

Jorge Colombo has worked as an illustrator, as a photographer, and as graphic designer for over 40 years. He’s best known for the digital images he has been creating since 2009 (initially finger-painting on an iPhone; currently using an Apple Pencil and the Procreate app on an iPad Pro). Four 20x200.com print editions released in April 2009 led to his first cover for The New Yorker, the first magazine cover ever created on a smartphone. His images continue appearing in The New Yorker and other publications. A collection of one hundred NYC views, New York: Finger Paintings by Jorge Colombo, was published in 2011 by Chronicle Books, in collaboration with 20x200. 

thejorgecolombo.com

Emeline Atwood (’18)

Wed. 21 Sep. 2026
6-9pm

An evening in celebration of A Real Animal by Emeline Atwood ’18, a Signet alumna. The novel received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness; was selected as an American Booksellers Association Indie Next pick and 2026 Indies Introduce title; and has been longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2026 First Novel Prize. The book has been recommended by Vogue, People, Time, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Chicago Review of Books, among others. Atwood was named one of CULTURED Magazine’s 2026 Young Writers and one of Publishers Weekly’s 2026 Writers to Watch.

emelineatwood.com

Alice Sedgwick Wohl (’53)

Wed. 4 Nov. 2026
6-8pm

Alice was Radcliffe Class of 1953, where she studied art history and Italian literature. She worked for 25 years an an editor at the International Repertoire of the Literature of Art, which the Getty Trust took over in 1980, digitized, and renamed the Bibliography of the History of Art. After the Getty moved the office to Los Angeles, she became an independent scholar and translator of 16th and 17th century literature on art. Her translations include Ascanio Condivi’s Life of Michelangelo; Giovan Pietro Bellori’s Lives of the Modern Painters. Sculptors, and Architects; and Francisco de Hollanda’s On Antique Painting and Dialogues in Rome. She then wrote As It Turns Out, a book about Warhol and her sister Edie. She is currently working on a book about the relationship between Velázquez and Philip IV of Spain.

She will be speaking in part on the story of how Beat poet Gregory Corso lived for a time as a stowaway in a tent in the Eliot House suite of her brother Bobby, and how his time at Harvard shaped his trajectory.