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If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk in 2012, mostly in connection with a new book, The Man Within My Head, here are a few dates and places to try:
| May 7 | Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture, Brown University, 6:00p.m. Providence. Rhode Island |
| May 14 | Conversation with Dr. James Doty, Director, Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Stanford University, 4:00p.m. Palo Alto, California |
| May 16 | Geographic Expeditions 30th Anniversary conversation with Don George, Lobero Theater, 7:00 p.m. Santa Barbara, California |
| May 17 | Live Talks L.A. conversation with Lisa Napoli, Fowler Museum, 7:30p.m. Los Angeles, California |
| May 21 | 1st annual H. Peter Stern lecture, World Monuments Fund, 6:30p.m. New York, New York |
| June 13-15 | Idea City Toronto, Ontario |
| August 31 – September 2 | Melbourne Writers Festival Melbourne, Australia |
| September 13 | Conversation with Taryn Simon, Getty Center Los Angeles, California |
| September 22 | Conversation with Salman Rushdie (by invitation only) Santa Barbara, California |
| November 10 | Singapore Writers Festival Singapore |
| January 10-13, 2013 | Key West Literary Seminar Key West, Florida |
| January 24-28 | Jaipur Writers’ Festival Jaipur, India |
| March 22-23 | Families in Global Transition annual conference Silver Spring, Maryland |
| April 2 | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| April 8-13 | Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman University Orange, California |
| April 11 | Conversation with Amy Wilentz on Creative Non-Fiction University of California, Irvine, California |
| April 15-19 | Golo Mann Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Claremont College, Claremony, California |
| April 20-21 | Los Angeles Festival of Books, Los Angeles, California |
| January 2015 | KeyWest Literary Seminar: “Literature and the Spirit” Key West, Florida |
Many more engagements are currently in the works.