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Tour | !!!CANCELLED!!! 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many !!!CANCELLED!!!


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations more for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center less
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10:00 am
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Slide Lecture | !!!CANCELLED!!! From Afar: Photographing Distant Cultures, Abandoned Sites and Icebergs !!!CANCELLED!!!


When you travel, creating successful photographs of distant cultures takes personal vision, technique more & planning. Whether your destination is Mexico or Mongolia, your photographs should express a sense of place, capture the essence of the people & tell a story. Anyone can take a typical tourist shot but learning to feel comfortable in exotic locations, and getting close to people will give you a better photo, if you know how. Arlene Collins will show and discuss her own photographs from around the world featuring projects such as Greenland's melting icebergs, Chernobyl and the abandoned city of Pripyat, concentration camps, portraits of Kushti wrestlers and brick kiln workers in Pakistan, and from Ethiopia a Bull Jumping Ceremony. less
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10:00 am
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Workshop | !!!CANCELLED!!! Zumba Fit Workshop !!!CANCELLED!!!


A fitness dance party with upbeat Latin music of Salsa, Merengue, Hip Hop and more! Enthusiastic Instruction more creates a fun community of dancers who learn new dance steps each week. Bring your friends! less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:45 am
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Jazz | !!!CANCELLED!!! Dixieland Jazz With The Gotham Jazzmen !!!CANCELLED!!!


The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier more on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; David Hofstra on bass; and Ernie Lumer on clarinet. less
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12:00 pm
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Film | !!!CANCELLED!!! Joker (2019): Two Time Oscar Winning Psychological Thriller !!!CANCELLED!!!


In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He more then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: the Joker. 122 min. Director: Todd Phillips. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz. At the 92nd Academy Awards, the film earned a leading 11 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, winning Best Actor for Phoenix and Best Original Score for Hildur Gu?nadottir. less
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | !!!CANCELLED!!! Bach at Noon !!!CANCELLED!!!


The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Johann Sebastian Bach was more a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. "The term 'baroque' has been widely used since the 19th century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750... Many famous composers from the first part of the baroque period came from Italy and have a link with Venice, including Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. Monteverdi was born in Cremona, but moved to Venice where he was 'maestro di capella' at the San Marco basilica. Vivaldi was born in Venice and was one of the greatest baroque composers. It is thanks to these strong musical traditions of Venice that we have today's music. Without Venetian church music and Monteverdi's advances with polyphony, the great traditions of choral music in England, France, and Germany would never have developed. Without the operas written by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi, not only would the later styles of opera never have been invented. There would be no basis for the American Musical or the German and Viennese Operetta, the Spanish Zarzuela, and even rock, pop, and contemporary music as we know it." The Venice Insider Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 10, 2019 to May 20, 2020. less
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12:20 pm
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Gallery Talk | CANCELLED***American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection: Exhibition Tour***CANCELLED


***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*** Everyone has a story to tell--a life lived, witness to and participant more in events both private and shared. Such moments are captured by American folk and self-taught artists in powerful visual narratives that offer firsthand testimony to chapters in the unfolding story of America from its inception to the present. American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection showcases more than seventy stellar works of folk and self-taught art from the museum's premier collection. Beautiful, diverse, and truthful, the art illuminates the thoughts and experiences of individuals with an immediacy that is palpable and unique to these expressions. The artworks are organized into four sections--Founders, Travelers, Philosophers, and Seekers--that respond to such themes as nationhood, freedom, community, imagination, opportunity, and legacy. Evocative visual juxtapositions and accessible contextual information further reveal the vital role that folk art plays as a witness to history, carrier of cultural heritage, and a reflection of the world at large through the eyes, heart, and mind of the artist. less
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | CANCELLED***Lunchtime Meditation***CANCELLED


***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*** Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your more center in the midst of bustling city life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world. less
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Film | !!!CANCELLED!!! Pride & Prejudice (2005): Four Time Oscar Nominated Romance Based On Jane Austen's Novel !!!CANCELLED!!!


Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly more finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome his or her own pride and prejudice? 129 min. Director: Joe Wright. Starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn. Pride & Prejudice earned four nominations at the 78th Academy Award for Best Actress, Best Original Score, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. less
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | !!!CANCELLED!!! Women Playwrights From The Caffe Cino !!!CANCELLED!!!


Caffe Cino, at 31 Cornelia Street, was not originally conceived as a theatrical venue but Joe Cino's more West Village Caffe between 1958 and 1968 quickly became a venue for early works from John Guare, Lanford Wilson and Sam Shephard among many others. Experimental work that functioned outside of Broadway's commercial interests and legal restrictions was presented there and came to be known as Off Off Broadway. The Caffe offered very early roles for Bernadette Peters and Al Pacino. Caffe Cino actress Magie Dominic will share documentation and stories about the landmark space and present the first program devoted to the woman playwrights who produced their work at the Caffe. In 2018 the Caffe Cino was listed on The National Register of Historic Places and in 2019 The Landmarks Preservation Commission of New York granted The Caffe Cino Landmark Status. less
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | !!!CANCELLED!!! Unapproved Roads: The Divide Between Northern Ireland and the Republic !!!CANCELLED!!!


A remarkably candid exhibition of eight 24" x 20" hand-printed photographs that captures the geographical more divide between Northern Ireland and the Republic. Stephen McGinn, son of a retired customs officer who patrolled the unapproved roads, returned to Northern Ireland in 2019 to document the Armagh borderland of his childhood. He did so without agenda of persuasion or nostalgia, but simply as he found it: empty and dormant, enduringly ordinary in spite of its extraordinary history and precarious position in the fractured Brexit landscape. Stephen McGinn was born and raised in Ireland and moved to London at age 19 to pursue a career in photography. Now based in Brooklyn, McGinn works primarily in still life and beauty. less
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | CANCELLED***The Shifting Border: An Adjustable Legal Construct***CANCELLED


***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*** We tend to think of a border as a static line, but recent bordering more techniques have broken away from the map, as governments have developed legal tools to limit the rights of migrants before and after they enter a country's territory. The consequent detachment of state power from any fixed geographical marker has created a new paradigm: the shifting border, an adjustable legal construct untethered in space. With author Ayelet Shacher. less
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | CANCELLED***Intertechnology, ca. 1800: Science and Morals in Japan***CANCELLED


***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*** This talk examines the meanings attached to the use of copperplate more and woodblock illustrations in scientific and moral treatises in Japan ca. 1800, with a focus on the work of the artisan and scientific popularizer Shiba Kokan (1747-1818). less
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | CANCELLED***Queer/Feminist/Indigenous Approaches to Climate Crisis: From the Caribbean to the Pacific***CANCELLED


***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*** This panel places in conversation scholar/activists situated in more the Caribbean and the Pacific to highlight the interrconnections between these two regions through a queer, feminist, and Indigenous studies lens. From the ongoing fight against the settler state in Hawai'i, to the struggle against an extractivist, tourism-centric model of development in the Caribbean, the panel foregrounds how queer/feminist/Indigenous scholars, activists, and artists make connections between the politics of food, land, water, and sovereignty, and offer a vision for a more livable, mutually dependent future. With: Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua, Political Science, University of Hawai?i Manoa Angelique V. Nixon, Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Social & Cultural Analysis less
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6:00 pm
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Film | CANCELLED***Men Don't Cry (2017): Ceaseless Battlegrounds***CANCELLED


***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*** An empty Serbian hotel becomes one more battleground in the ceaseless more Yugoslav Wars. Nearly 20 years after the official end of hostilities, many former combatants have still never truly escaped. Director: Alen Drljevic Stars: Boris Isakovic, Leon Lucev, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic 98 min. In Bosnian with English subtitles. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's director Alen Drljevic, film scholar Dijana Jelaca, and professor Tanya Domi. less
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6:15 pm
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Screening | !!!CANCELLED!!! Alumni Film Festival !!!CANCELLED!!!


This series will share the recent work of thirty alumni from the past 28 years. With pieces ranging from more short form narrative, documentary, abstraction, environmental, music videos, installations and more, this festival highlights the dynamic scope of video work emerging from our department and highlights our global alumni community and commitment to new directions the moving image. less
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6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | !!!CANCELLED!!! Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century !!!CANCELLED!!!


For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers more and editors, they helped chronicle modernity as it was experienced by Sephardic Jews across the Ottoman Empire. The wars of the twentieth century, however, redrew the borders around them, in the process transforming the Levys from Ottomans to Greeks. With author Sarah Abrevaya Stein. less
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | !!!CANCELLED!!! Janis: Her Life and Music !!!CANCELLED!!!


Holly George-Warren's Janis: Her Life and Music has been called "the definitive portrait of one of pop more culture's most misunderstood martyrs" (NPR). This intensely intimate biography of Janis Joplin reconsiders her as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel that she was. George-Warren, whose books include The Road to Woodstock, had unprecedented access to Joplin's family, friends, bandmates, and long-lost interviews for the new book. less
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | !!!CANCELLED!!! Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth !!!CANCELLED!!!


Dana-Ain Davis's new book is a prescient investigation into the high rates of premature birth among black more women. Davis finds that this problem is not explained by economic factors but rather by ideas about race and reproduction that are deeply rooted in the era of slavery. A study that aims to undo dangerous misconceptions that have life-or-death consequences, the book calls for an end to medical racism. less
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | CANCELLED***Modernism in Beirut: The Politics of Postwar Abstraction***CANCELLED


***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*** Professor Robyn Creswell will situate Beiruti modernism within a more wider landscape of Cold War politics, aesthetic abstraction, and Arab intellectual history. less
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6:30 pm
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Master Class | !!!CANCELLED!!! Percussionist Praised By The New York Times !!!CANCELLED!!!


Jonathan Singer (Improvisation and Harmony Part IIi). Percussionist Jonathan Singer has been praised more for his "superb four-mallet technique" (New York Times) and described as an "artistic assault on the sensory order of nitrous oxide." His solo appearances include performances with the Detroit Symphony and Grammy-winning Nighthawks. As the leader of the Brooklyn-based novelty band, Xylopholks, Singer has performed across the United States, India, Japan, Brazil, and Canada and on the stages of Alice Tully Hall, City Center, 92nd Y, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. less
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Performance | !!!CANCELLED!!! Colonial Currents: Black Women, Water, Trauma and Baptism !!!CANCELLED!!!


Artist Alexis Alleyne-Caputo screens her film essay and performs an excerpt from Colonial Currents: Black more Women, Water, Trauma and Baptism from the Afro Diaries project. Alleyne-Caputo is an anthropologist, artist and researcher and has created interdisciplinary bodies of work by, for and about women of color, which addresses identity constructs, cultural differences and myriad issues and concerns that create conflict and inequality in society. less
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | !!!CANCELLED!!! Dance Works-in-Progress !!!CANCELLED!!!


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all more stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists' process. Featuring: nathanial phillips, sophie tibilettie, elsa hernan Emily Climer + Katie Skinner Lindsay Bowman less
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Talk | !!!CANCELLED!!! Photographer Talk: Award-Winning Work !!!CANCELLED!!!


A recipient of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Award in 2015, portraitist, model and fashion photographer more Michael Bailey Gates (BFA 2015 Photography) is a frequent contributor to publications such as I-D, The New York Times, Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, GQ and Vice. less
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Master Class | !!!CANCELLED!!! Violin Master Class With The Instrumentalist Of The Year !!!CANCELLED!!!


Violinist Augustin Hadelich has firmly established himself as one of the great violinists of today at more the age of 34. Named "2018 Instrumentalist of the Year" by Musical America, he has performed with every major orchestra in the U.S., many on numerous occasions, as well as an ever-growing number of orchestras in the UK, Europe, and Asia. International highlights of the 2018/2019 season include his debut with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra Munich and engagements with Belgian National Orchestra, Danish National Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orquesta Nacional de Espana, and the symphony orchestras of Bournemouth, City of Birmingham, New Zealand, Sao Paulo, and Singapore. less
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Discussion | !!!CANCELLED!!! Women's Werk !!!CANCELLED!!!


Building upon the success of last year's discussion on the gig economy, this event focuses on 'next step' more practices to help propel your project forward. Topics covered in this informal talk and meet-and-greet with experts Kelly Ridgway, Alexis Henry and DJ Bembona will include sharing resources, financial literacy and developing your own personal support system. Wear your brand tee, swap swag, and network with like-minded women 'werkin' it' just like you. less
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Classical Music | !!!CANCELLED!!! Works By J.S. Bach And More !!!CANCELLED!!!


Jocelyn Stewart, harpsichord; guest artist Barbara Rearick, mezzo-soprano; Linda Chesis, flute; Mark more Delpriora, lute. Program Frescobaldi (1583-1643) Toccata terza, Primo libro di toccate Couperin (1668-1733) Suite in D Minor 17th-Century Traditional English lute songs J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825 J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Sonata in B Minor for Flute and Harpsichord, BWV 1030 Jocelyn Stewart has had a varied career as soloist and chamber and orchestral performer. She has performed on the premier early music series Music Before 1800 and as soloist and in ensembles at Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and Miller Theater. less
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Book Club | !!!CANCELLED!!! Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration !!!CANCELLED!!!


Nicole Fleetwood and Elizabeth Hinton discuss Fleetwood's new book, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass more Incarceration, about how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. The book is based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author's own family experiences with the penal system. Nicole R. Fleetwood is professor of American studies and art history at Rutgers University. Her work on art and mass incarceration has been featured at the Aperture Foundation, the Zimmerli Museum of Art, the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, and the Cleveland Public Library, and her exhibitions have been praised by the Nation, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Village Voice. She is the author of On Racial Icons and of Troubling Vision, which won the Lora Romero Prize from the American Studies Association. Elizabeth Hinton is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the social sciences in the department of history and the department of African and African American studies at Harvard University. She is the author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, which has received numerous awards, including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize from the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and was named to the New York Times's 100 notable books of 2016. less
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Author Reading | !!!CANCELLED!!! My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing !!!CANCELLED!!!


Is love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space more and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a bewildering but powerful relationship with his birth mother. A meteorite Dodge orders on eBay becomes a mysterious catalyst for a reckoning with the vital forces of matter, the nature of consciousness, and the bafflements of belonging. less
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Author Reading | !!!CANCELLED!!! Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier !!!CANCELLED!!!


Already nearly a decade into her career as a sommelier, before the age of thirty, Victoria James is a more powerhouse. Leading a team at Cote, James is setting an example for her industry with a zero-tolerance harassment policy, and has some of the country's current youngest sommeliers working for her. less
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Poetry Reading | CANCELLED***3 Poets Read***CANCELLED


***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*** With: francine j. harris, Shayla Lawson & Jana Prikryl
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Workshop | CANCELLED***Introduction to Meditation***CANCELLED


***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*** This is an introductory meditation classes were featured in New more York Magazine's top picks (4 stars). Each session is intended to stand alone, attendence at previous sessions is not required. Room is set up with both meditation floor mats and traditional western chairs with back support. No special clothing or equipment is necessary. less
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Lecture | CANCELLED***The Refugee-Diplomat: Venice, England and the Reformation***CANCELLED


***THIS EVENT HAD BEEN CANCELLED*** The establishment of permanent embassies in fifteenth-century Italy more has traditionally been regarded as the moment of transition between medieval and modern diplomacy. This talk proposes an alternative history of early modern diplomacy, centered not on states and their official representatives but around the figure of "the refugee-diplomat." Through a trove of diplomatic and mercantile letters, inquisitorial records, literary texts, and marginalia, the talk recovers the agency of religious refugees in international affairs, revealing their impact on the emergence of early modern diplomatic culture and practice. Speaker Diego Pirillo is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. less
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Talk | CANCELLED***TV Writing Today***CANCELLED


***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*** Timothy Greenberg is Creator and Writer of the hit Netflix series more Living with Yourself starring Paul Rudd, and was Executive Producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He's won two Emmy and two Peabody Awards. Join him for a discussion and Q&A about his career, his approach to writing, and the television industry today. Participants are advised to come prepared by watching Living with Yourself. Moderated by Jonathan Grupper. less
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Poetry Reading | !!!CANCELLED!!! Dunce: Award-Winning Poetry !!!CANCELLED!!!


Poet and essayist Mary Ruefle is the author of books including Dunce, which was long-listed for the National more Book Award in Poetry, The Most Of It, Madness, Rack, Honey and A Little White Shadow. She was Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa and in 2019 was named poet laureate of Vermont. less
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Author Reading | !!!CANCELLED!!! Constellations: Reflections from Life !!!CANCELLED!!!


How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood? How do more you tell that story when you are not just a woman but a woman in Ireland? In these powerful essays, Sinead Gleeson does those very things. Throughout this wide-ranging collection she also turns her restless eye outwards delving into work, art and our very ways of seeing, taking us on a journey that is both uniquely personal and yet universal in its resonance. Reading and conversation, with reception to follow. less
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