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New York attracts world's best minds to its shores: they come here to interact with each other at conferences and seminars, and while they are here they are often invited to give a talk, a lecture, to be a part of a public discussion. We at Club Free Time give you an opportunity to be a part of it: to watch how those best minds in the world work! Don't miss the opportunities that only New York City (NYC) provides!
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In New York City, you can talk with and listen to the best minds in the world without spending a dime! Just take a look at free talks, lectures, discussion, seminars, conferences listed on this page below!
Book Club | Discuss Jane Austen's Classic Novel, Persuasion, in the Park
This immersive BookClub event features Persuasion, along with beloved characters from the book. Hosted ... more >> by Sarah Rose Kearns, Jane Austin Society of North America – New York Metropolitan. Sign up in advance (in person) to receive a free copy of Sense and Sensibility while supply lasts.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Aug 25
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
12:30 pm
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Discussion | Exploring How Sesame Street Helped Kids Navigate the Aftermath of 9/11 (In Person AND Online!)
In conversation with 9/11 Memorial & Museum President and CEO Beth Hillman, Sesame Workshop’s Senior ... more >> Vice President of Global Education Dr. Rosemarie Truglio, television producer Carol-Lynn Parente, and actor and retired FDNY Captain Bill Walsh reflect on Sesame Street’s response to 9/11 and Sesame Workshop’s long history of helping young children and their families navigate tough topics. In the season of Sesame Street that followed the 9/11 attacks, show makers built upon their decades of experience writing for a preschool-aged audience to help children and families manage fear, cope with grief, and understand the importance of tolerance.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Aug 25
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Club | Mystery Novel Discussion in a Fifth Ave Mansion
You are invited to discuss The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict. To miss this would be a crime. About ... more >> the book: London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second-class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Aug 25
6:00 pm
free, RSVP required
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Shares His New Novel, Villa Coco (+ Signing)
A conversation with author Andrew Sean Greer, to celebrate his book, a witty yet insightful meditation ... more >> on what you give and take and becoming who you've always wanted to be. The conversation will be followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Aug 26
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Quiet Reading Meet Up
Bring a book or check one out of the library to read to yourself for one hour. After that, spend an hour ... more >> socializing with those around you!
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Aug 26
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Civil War Historian Shares His New Book, Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
A lecture and conversation with Matthew Pinsker, who serves as Director of the House Divided Project, ... more >> a popular educational initiative on nineteenth-century US history. He is the author of three books, including most recently, Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln, which The Wall Street Journal has labeled a "landmark book" and which New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie has called "extraordinarily relevant to our political moment." Matt appears regularly on TV channels such as C-SPAN, PBS, and History. Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln offers an eye-opening portrait of Abraham Lincoln behind the scenes. With an array of newly discovered and previously overlooked private documents, Matthew Pinsker helps readers understand the career-long party politician whose brilliant coalition-building during the Civil War set the foundation for emancipation and Union victory.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Aug 26
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
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Book Club | Discuss a Nonfiction Book about the Nature of Consciousness
Discuss A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness by Michael Pollan! Book Synopsis: When it comes ... more >> to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: it feels like something to be us. Yet the fact that we have subjective experience of the world remains one of nature’s greatest mysteries. In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives—scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual, and psychedelic—to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Aug 27
4:30 pm
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4:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Architect Celebrates His New Book, Shingle Style Houses: The Evolution of an Inventive Architecture (+ Signing)
A conversation with John R. DaSilva to share his new book, a comprehensive survey of historical and modern ... more >> American shingle-style homes. He will be joined in conversation with Thomas A. Kligerman, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Aug 27
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Exploring the New Seafood Anthology, Eating the Whole Fish
Annie Chen and Zoe Lee discuss their new book. About the book: A seafood anthology on coastal culture, ... more >> ocean health, and whole fish cooking. From BEAM Studio, in collaboration with nonprofit Eating with the Ecosystem, Eating the Whole Fish is a 200-page exploration of sustainable seafood systems through recipes, interviews, photography, essays, and cultural stories.
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Thu, Aug 27
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Talk | FAQ NYC Live: Historian Discuses NYC Riot History
A live podcast recording with Christina Greer, Katie Honan, and Harry Siegel, and special guest Asad ... more >> Dandia!. This live taping digs into seminal moments in New York City that speak to the past, present, and future of America at 250, along with special guest and Brooklyn Borough Historian Asad Dandia. At this event, FAQ NYC hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan, and Harry Siegel will talk with Asad about riots and much more.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Aug 27
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | New York Times Journalist Shares Her Book on Crime in Guilded Age NYC (In Person AND Online!)
A book talk on The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum with author Margalit Fox. About the book: The Talented Mrs. ... more >> Mandelbaum paints a vivid portrait of Gilded Age New York--a city teeming with nefarious rogues, capitalist power brokers, and Tammany Hall bigwigs, all straddling the line between underworld enterprise and "legitimate" commerce. Combining deep historical research with the narrative flair for which she is celebrated, Margalit Fox tells the true story of a once-famous heroine whose life exemplifies America's cherished rags-to-riches narrative while simultaneously upending it entirely.
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Sun, Aug 30
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Media Lawyer Shares His New Book on the 2020 Presidential Election
A reading and conversation with Ian Rosenberg, author of Terrible Stuff Damaging Everybody, with Grady ... more >> Hendrix. Book synopsis: The definitive story of Dominion v. Fox, the battle over election lies that changed the future of democracy. Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network is the watershed media case of the century. After an onslaught of attacks by several Fox News hosts and guests insisting that Dominion's voting machines were rigged to steal the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump, the previously little-known voting technology company decided to fight back. Terrible Stuff Damaging Everybody provides expert analysis of this history-making lawsuit, and what it means for our country today.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Sep 1
8:00 pm
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8:00 pm
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Discussion | Person Place Thing: Live Podcast Recording with NYC Ballet Conductor Guest
Experience the public radio interview program created and hosted by Randy Cohen. Built around the idea ... more >> that people are especially engaging when they speak about something they care about, each episode explores one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to the guest. This episode's guest is David Lamarche, who has been working as a conductor in the dance field for over forty years. As a guest, he has conducted for New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, The Joffrey Ballet, Houston Ballet, L'Opera di Roma, and Het National Ballet. The orchestras he has directed include the Houston Symphony, the Lyric Opera Orchestra of Chicago, Orchestra of St. Luke's, The Paris Opera Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Moscow Radio Orchestra, and the Orchestre Lamoreux. Mr. LaMarche is currently in his twenty-sixth year as a conductor on the staff of American Ballet Theatre. Doors open at 5:00 pm.
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Wed, Sep 2
5:20 pm
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5:20 pm
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Book Discussion | New York Times-Bestselling Children's Author Shares His Latest Book
A conversation with Stephen Savage to celebrate his new book, Wide Load on the Road: A Big Red Truck's ... more >> Journey, the illustrated story of a big truck perserving to finish a big job. He will be in conversation with Steven Guarnaccia, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Sep 2
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Quiet Reading Meet Up
Bring a book or check one out of the library to read to yourself for one hour. After that, spend an hour ... more >> socializing with those around you!
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Sep 2
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Pulitzer Prize FInalist/Journalist Discusses His Book, The Only Plane in the Sky
Just nine days before the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Garrett M. Graff revisits that harrowing ... more >> morning, honoring its dark legacy while exploring how those hours permanently reshaped our national identity, America's innocence, and generations to come. The Only Plane in the Sky reconstructs the harrowing events of 9/11 minute-by-minute through the voices of those who lived it—passengers, air traffic controllers, first responders, military leaders, and government officials—creating an immersive oral history of a single shattering day. These first-hand accounts paint the picture of a country realizing it was under attack, and the title reflects the haunting moment when all civilian aircraft were grounded, leaving Air Force One as the only plane left in the sky. Just nine days before the 25th anniversary of the attacks, Graff revisits that harrowing morning, honoring its dark legacy while exploring how those hours permanently reshaped our national identity, America's innocence, and generations to come.
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Wed, Sep 2
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Documentary Storytelling through Fine Art Photography: Capturing the Nation of Georgia
A visual journey through Georgia, presented through the black-and-white photography of Georgian photographer ... more >> Zakaria Chelidze. Through a curated selection of images, Zakaria captures the country's landscapes, traditions, and everyday life, revealing the beauty and emotion of Georgia through the timeless language of monochrome photography. He'll share the stories behind some of his most memorable photographs and discuss how photography has shaped the way he sees people, places, and culture. Zakaria will also reflect on his personal journey as a photographer, from discovering his artistic voice to creating images that celebrate emotion, heritage, and human connection. Whether you're an experienced photographer or simply drawn to powerful visual storytelling, this presentation offers a look into the creative process behind meaningful documentary and fine art photography.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Sep 3
4:30 pm
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4:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Launch: All Our Evenings by Ruthvika Rao
From the author of the acclaimed novel, The Fertile Earth, comes a powerful tale of desire, friendship, ... more >> and rivalry between three inseparable friends over the course of an unforgettable summer. Ruthvika Rao is from Hyderabad, India. Her debut novel, The Fertile Earth, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Chautauqua Prize, the Crossword Book Award, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and the University of Toronto. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Michigan.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Sep 3
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | "Erudite, Elegant & Stubbornly Experimental" (New York Times) Writer Shares Her New Short Story Collection
Diane Williams has been called one of the great masters of the American short story: her tiny, coruscating ... more >> tales are among the most tender, funny, peculiar, and searching works in all of contemporary literature. I Liked Rex is Williams’s newest collection, which explores sex, love, marriage, and all that comes after; it is a book about living, but more importantly, about how to be alive. In these stories, a woman sees her soon-to-be ex-husband on the street, walking patiently at the end of a line of geese; a mother implores a total stranger to watch over her small child at the beach; a guest arrives at an orgy uninvited, and takes a nap beneath a dusty carpet; a woman reflects on her life with a man who used to belong to another, but is hers now—though can anyone really possess anyone else, truly?
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Sep 8
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Launch: The Chinese Lady by Bo Wang
An immersive debut historical novel immortalizes the life of the first Chinese woman to be brought to ... more >> the United States in the 1800s.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Sep 8
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | National Book Award- & Pushcart Prize-Winning Author Shares Her Latest Work, Dèy (In Person AND Online!)
The author Edwidge Danticat introduces her new novel of family, grief, and the meaning of home. Edwidge ... more >> Danticat discusses with author Nicole Dennis-Benn Dèy and the questions that drive its narrative: Can love or family protect us from harm? Do you choose home, or does home choose you? What will conquer your heart—optimism or fear? Dèy explores what happens in the aftermath of random violence to a person’s understanding of their place in this world. Moving from Haiti to Brooklyn to Miami, it follows Magnolia, who was caught seeking shelter inside a shopping mall restaurant during an outbreak of gunfire. Given a second chance at life, she begins to see with fresh eyes the labyrinth of her past and the complex joys and traumas within her own family, from the extraordinary bond with her daughter to the nearly broken relationship with her father.
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Tue, Sep 8
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Person Place Thing: Live Podcast Recording with Ballet Choreographer
Experience the public radio interview program created and hosted by Randy Cohen. Built around the idea ... more >> that people are especially engaging when they speak about something they care about, each episode explores one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to the guest. This episode's guest is choreographer Lauren Lovette, a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet. In addition to the Taylor Company and NYC Ballet, her work has been commissioned and performed worldwide with a full-length Romeo + Juliet at Leipzig Ballet, and regionally at American Ballet Theatre, Vail International Dance Festival, American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, Nevada Ballet Theatre, Oregon Ballet, Colorado Ballet, and showcased in a self-produced evening, "Why It Matters." Doors open at 5:00 pm.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Sep 9
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Book Discussion | French & History Scholar Discusses Writing Colonial History
Emmanuelle Saada, in conversation with Youssef Ben Ismail, John Tachiang Ma, and Gregory Mann, moderated ... more >> by Madeleine Dobie. Colonial legacies dominate many contemporary political debates around the world. How do historians contribute to these debates and to the understanding of colonial situations, past and present? Starting with the observation that modern history is, in part, a product of colonial projects, Emmanuelle Saada's new book, Histoires et colonisations: Des recits de la conquete aux heritages post-coloniaux revisits major historiographical debates and controversies of the past two hundred years by testing them against a wide range of colonial situations, spanning five continents and five centuries. She explores how historians have forged their concept of colonization from very diverse historical situations, including the U.S., Israel, and Ireland. Her book shows how engagement with colonial contexts has transformed historians' methods and writing practices. Please review the venue's access requirements.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Sep 9
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Quiet Reading Meet Up
Bring a book or check one out of the library to read to yourself for one hour. After that, spend an hour ... more >> socializing with those around you!
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Sep 9
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Launch: Panorama-Style Photo Book, Chronicle
Editha Mesina presents photographic work of family life, tracing an intimate geography that stretches ... more >> from Quezon City, Philippines, her birthplace, to her home in New York. These views meditate on the vernacular and combine references to protests supporting Philippine human rights with nods to the medium of photography. Constructed in panorama format, the photographs are individual frames stitched together, assemblages of space and time. Mesina repurposes the panorama format's known representations of grand vistas to express the reflections of a mother, activist, and photographer. As an immigrant artist, she explores concepts of belonging, diasporic identity, and memory in these quotidian moments. A government-issued Photo ID must be provided upon entry. Guests under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
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Wed, Sep 9
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Experts (Art Historians, Educators, & More) Discuss the Legacy of Pinnocchio
A panel discussion featuring experts in the fields of cultural and pediatric history, on the occasion ... more >> of the 200th anniversary of Carlo Collodi (1826-1890), author of he Adventures of Pinocchio (1883). Panelists:
Larry Wolff, NYU on Education and the History of Childhood
Perri Klass, NYU on The Pediatric Pinocchio: Child Mortality and Immortality
David Forgacs, NYU on Visualizations of the Character of Pinocchio
Giulia Silvia Ghia, art historian (Councilor for Culture, Education and Youth Policies for the City of Rome)
Carlo Lorenzini, better known by his pen name Carlo Collodi, was born in 1826 in Florence and has remained one of the most read and beloved authors of childhood literature thanks to his fantasy novel.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Sep 9
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The New Yorker-Contributing Journalist Shares Her New Book, Seasons of Fury (In Person AND Online!)
An award-winning journalist examines the U.S. government’s broken compact with its Muslim citizens. ... more >> In this sweeping narrative history, Rozina Ali demonstrates how the War on Terror, conceived in the wake of the September 11 attacks, only accelerated long-standing conflicts between American law enforcement and Muslim communities around the country. Ali follows four Muslim families across eight decades to narrate a range of experiences shaped by relentless suspicion and prejudice. From the surveillance of Arab activists that began in the 1960s and laws in the 1990s that broadened the definition of terrorism, to mass detention in the 2000s and the rise of think tanks and nonprofits that sowed panic about the threat of Islam itself, Seasons of Fury reveals the history of policies that have warped the American perception of Muslim communities—and disillusioned generations of Muslims who sought the promise of the American dream.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Sep 9
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Historian/Journalist Discusses His Book, Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity
David Conrad-Pérez shares his book detailing the story of what happened when a tragic fire in Greenwich ... more >> Village threw Adolph Ochs, the ambitious new publisher of the New York Times, and Rose Schneiderman, a defiant young labor organizer, against each other in a momentous conflict. Following the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire―the worst disaster New York City had ever experienced up to that point―a significant feud emerged between New York’s wealthy elite and labor rights’ activists over who should organize the city's response: a nascent charity sector led by the city's wealthiest bankers or the reform-focused unions of Lower Manhattan. Fire in the Heart of the City is an absorbing portrait of an extraordinary moment in the formation of modern American charity, casting new light on its profoundly dangerous and misunderstood legacy.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Sep 9
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Discussions, Panel Conversations, & Artistic Presentations Celebrating Nobel Prize Laureate
An evening of conversations, performances, and international perspectives celebrating e Elfriede Jelinek ... more >> on the occasion of her 80th birthday. Bringing together leading scholars and artists from Austria, Japan, Poland, and the United States, the program explores the role of theater as a space for democratic dialogue, artistic resistance, and feminist intervention. This "Jelinek Day" examines Elfriede Jelinek's enduring relevance in today's global debates on democracy, gender, and the performing arts. Centered on the theme Theater & Democracy, the event highlights how contemporary theater can challenge authoritarian and patriarchal structures while creating new forms of artistic and political engagement. The evening features keynote discussions, panel conversations, and artistic presentations exploring Jelinek's work in dialogue with international theater practices. Additional sessions examine gender and democracy on stage, women shaping democratic structures through performance, and the relationship between comedy and subversion in contemporary theater.
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Thu, Sep 10
5:00 pm
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5:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Literary Fiction Novel Book Launch
Michaela is the story of the Murphys, who meet on a playground in Upper Manhattan, court at Coney Island, ... more >> and bring four children into the world. It’s a great life until catastrophe strikes, and the surviving Murphy kids find church, family and one another inadequate for coming to terms with the loss.
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Thu, Sep 10
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Former Journalist Discusses His New Family Memoir, Ausländer: One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile
A conversation with Michael Moritz, celebrated investor, philanthropist, and author of the newly released ... more >> memoir. When sorting through family papers after his mother's death, Moritz uncovered the stories of relatives murdered during the Holocaust and embarked on a journey to understand the legacy of displacement that shaped his family for generations. In Ausländer, he traces his parents' escape from Nazi Germany, their lives as refugees in Britain, and his own enduring sense of being an outsider, even after achieving extraordinary success in Silicon Valley. Moritz will be in conversation with Meredith Kopit Levien, President and Chief Executive Officer of The New York Times Company, for a discussion about family, memory, identity, and the lessons history continues to hold for our present moment.
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Thu, Sep 10
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Death Cafe Discussion Group
An informal, group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. The purpose of ... more >> Death Cafe is "to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives." This is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, Sep 12
3:30 pm
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3:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Journalist Shares His New Book, Wake Me, Shake Me: New York City, the '60s & the Pop-Rock Youthquake
Mitchell Cohen in conversation with author and musician Richard Barone! Book Synopsis: New York City ... more >> in the 1960s was a musical melting pot in which Folk, R&B, Rock and Roll, Blues, Girl Groups and Brill Building Pop produced a wealth of great artists and records. This book tells their story.
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Sun, Sep 13
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Talk | Award Ceremony & Lecture with HBCU Library Alliance Director
This event recognizes librarians and library professionals who have made significant contributions to ... more >> the well-being of underserved communities through innovative, inclusive, and impactful library services. This year's honoree is Tracie D. Hall, Executive Director, of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance and former executive director of the American Library Association, the first Black woman to lead it in its 150-year history. The program includes an award presentation by Joy L. Bivins, Director, Schomburg Center, and a conversation with Hall and Dorothy Berry, archivist and author of The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities. A reception will follow.
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Mon, Sep 14
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Jewelry Historian Shares Her New Book, Jewelry Creators (+ Signing)
To mark New York Fashion Week, Beth Bernstein celebrates her book, a stunning illustrated book that highlights ... more >> the relationships at the core of the gemstone and jewelry industry. She will be joined on stage by Corina Madilian/Single Stone, Martin and Mark Klein/Julius Klein, Kim and Nicole Carosella/Sorellina, Jade Trau and Monica Rich Kosann. A Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation.
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Mon, Sep 14
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Read & Discuss Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Readers lead a lively discussion and thoughtful socializing! Book Synopsis: In immersive prose, Rachel ... more >> Khong weaves a tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home. Real Americans is a social novel that asks: Are we destined, or made, and if so, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?
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Tue, Sep 15
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Reading & Analyzing Contemporary Chicano Poetry
Read exciting work poets that spans themes of identity, language, and family. Please note that contemporary ... more >> poetry deals frankly with contemporary issues and all works discussed are artistic expressions selected for an adult audience.
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Tue, Sep 15
2:30 pm
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2:30 pm
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Book Club | Read & Discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's Nebula Award-WInning Fantasy Novel
Book Discussion: A Wizard of Earthsea. Book Synopsis: Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but ... more >> in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. With stories as perennial and universally beloved as The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings--but also unlike anything but themselves--Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea novels are some of the most acclaimed and awarded works in literature. They have received accolades such as the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, the Nebula Award, and many more honors, commemorating their enduring place in the hearts and minds of readers and the literary world alike.
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Tue, Sep 15
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | New York Times -Featured Writer Shares Her Debut Novel, When She Was Ours
Anna Nordberg will be in conversation with Nicola Kraus, discussing Nordberg's new book. When She Was ... more >> Ours follows Thea Erickson, a renowned surgeon, who is filled with both joy and grief as her family gathers at their home on a summer night in 1995. Her elder daughter Phoebe is getting married, but even the happiness of the day feels bittersweet, as Thea grapples with a terminal cancer diagnosis. She worries she won’t be around to support her younger daughter Astra, who’s still in college, but even Thea cannot foresee what is to come―a terrible accident the night of the wedding that changes Astra’s life forever. In a last-ditch effort to protect her family, Thea arranges a secret meeting with an old family friend and extracts a promise that will reverberate long after she’s gone.
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Tue, Sep 15
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Discover the Significance of Sanskrit Art Motifs in a Landmark Museum
Gautama V. Vajracharya, a Sanskritist and scholar of South Asian art and culture, leads a novel approach ... more >> to uncovering the hidden significance in the image. Listen as Vajracharya draws on Sanskrit, Pali, and Newari sources to examine the salanbhanjika, including one that elucidates its association with the well-known art motif of an aggressive beast trampling an elephant. The salanbhanjika, or a young woman standing atop a human figure and beneath a flowering tree, is a major subject in Nepalese art. Persisting in popularity long after it became obsolete in India, the interpretation of this representation has been the subject of ongoing scholarly debate.
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Tue, Sep 15
6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | What Else Could It Mean: Exhibition Discussion on Visual Art, Architecture, & Public Space Design
A live conversation with James Wines, SITE’s founder, Phillip Denny, editor, and Suzan Wines, executive ... more >> director of SITE. Together, they will discuss the concept behind the book’s design and development, and key motivations behind projects that span visual art, architecture, landscape, and public space design, all rooted in a creative response to their surrounding contexts. Through rare archival photos, drawings, and essays, the book traces SITE’s transformative contributions to art, architecture, urbanism, and public space, providing a multifaceted portrait of a creative practice that has shaped the landscape of contemporary architecture and design. This richly illustrated book invites people to explore Wines’ iconoclastic critiques and creative redefinitions of art, architecture, and urbanism. What Else Could It Mean? is a forward-thinking call to action to address the challenges of our time with wit and imagination. The book offers an in-depth look at over five decades of James’ and SITE’s groundbreaking work in art, architecture, and environmental design.
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Tue, Sep 15
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Bestselling Author/Musician Rita Indiana Shares Her New Supernatural Noir Book (+ Live Music)
The acclaimed musical artist and author discusses her new novel, Asmodeus, newly translated by Achy Obejas. ... more >> She will be in conversation with fellow writer and artist Gerardo Sámano Córdova, and also perform "Rimas de Asmodeo" from the book with special musical guest, Yasser Tejada. Synopsis: Asmodeus, a millennia-old demon, has inhabited Rudy, a once-legendary Dominican rock star, for decades. But in 1992, the demon’s powers begin to fade. What follows is a desperate weeklong odyssey as Asmodeus ricochets through the bodies of the inhabitants of Santo Domingo’s underworld: from Guinea, a young metalhead plotting a warehouse heist, to Mireya, the daughter of a former torturer, to other souls caught in his chaotic orbit. Each possession reveals another layer of a city still reeling from the Balaguer dictatorship. And each new host engenders a surprising tenderness in the demon.
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Tue, Sep 15
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Postcolonial & Cinema Scholar Discusses the Transnational Origins of Filmmaking
An illustrated talk by Michael Allan. Michael Allan draws on his new book, Cinema Before the World: The ... more >> Global Routes of the Lumiere Brothers, to talk about the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusing on a case study in world cinema--the 1896-1897 voyage of one of the Lumiere Brothers camera operators, Alexandre Promio, across North Africa and the Middle East. The book shows how the sites in these early films are not simply backdrops, but integral to film form and its global history. The talk will be accompanied by rare moving footage shot in North Africa and the Middle East, including Palestine. Please review the venue's access requirements.
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Tue, Sep 15
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Urban & Architectural Historian Shares His New Book about Major Architectural Influence J. Max Bond, Jr.
The book launch of Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People's Architect, by Brian D. Goldstein. Following ... more >> a presentation about the book, Brian will be in conversation with Mabel O. Wilson, author and professor of architecture, planning, and preservation. Together they will delve into the life and practice of one of the field's true inspirations whose work and mentorship influenced a generation of architects and urban planners. J. Max Bond, Jr., was a Black architect of international renown whose best-known works include the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. A brief audience Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation.
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Tue, Sep 15
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Lecture | Award-Winning Art Photographer Reframes the Evolution of Black Photographic Practice
Dr. Willis explores the history and legacy of Black photography through images that reveal how Black ... more >> photographers have shaped self-representation and cultural memory from the nineteenth century to today. Drawing on her landmark publication, Reflections in Black, she shows how photographers transformed the camera from a tool linked to distortion and exclusion into an instrument of self-definition, resistance, and creative expression. Featuring artists such as J.P. Ball, James VanDerZee, Gordon Parks, Roy DeCarava, Carrie Mae Weems, and Ming Smith, the talk traces the evolution of Black photographic practice across portraiture, documentary, photojournalism, and contemporary art. Dr. Willis is a photographer, curator, NYU professor, and director of the Center for Black Visual Culture.
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Tue, Sep 15
7:00 pm
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Discussion | Person Place Thing: Live Podcast Recording with Alvin Ailey Choreographer
Experience the public radio interview program created and hosted by Randy Cohen. Built around the idea ... more >> that people are especially engaging when they speak about something they care about, each episode explores one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to the guest. This episode's guest is choreographer Robert Battle. A frequent choreographer and artist in residence at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater since 1999, he set many of his works on the Ailey Company and Ailey II. In July 2011, he was personally selected by Judith Jamison to become Artistic Director of Ailey. In spring 2025, he was invited to be a Resident Choreographer for the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Doors open at 5:00 pm.
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Wed, Sep 16
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Launch-- Telenovela: A Reader (with Researchers, Editors, & Contributors)
Celebrating the release of Telenovela: A Reader, featuring a panel conversation with the publication’s ... more >> co-editors Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Mariano López Seoane. Telenovela: A Reader brings together artworks, archival documents, and multidisciplinary essays that examine telenovelas through the lenses of art history, sociology, anthropology, comparative literature, performance studies, and visual studies. Expanding on the themes explored in the exhibition, the publication considers the telenovela as a cultural form that has shaped collective imaginaries across Latin America and its diasporas. The program will feature a panel conversation with the publication’s co-editors Aimé Iglesias Lukin, director and chief curator of Art at Americas Society, and Mariano López Seoane, director of the Graduate Program and ISLAA fellow in Latin American Art at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, as well as the publication authors. Together, they will discuss the publication’s central themes, research, and the broader questions raised by Telenovela.
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Wed, Sep 16
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Historian Discusses Dogs in the Visual Arts
A lecture from Thomas Laqueur. Long before the phrase man’s best friend became common parlance, dogs ... more >> were already standing beside us in art as in life. In The Dog’s Gaze, the historian Thomas W. Laqueur invites readers to explore why they feature more than any other animal in the ways in which we picture ourselves and our stories. Please review the venue's access requirements.
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Wed, Sep 16
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Book Discussion | Quiet Reading Meet Up
Bring a book or check one out of the library to read to yourself for one hour. After that, spend an hour ... more >> socializing with those around you!
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Wed, Sep 16
6:00 pm
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Book Club | Historical Book Club: Read & Discuss Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens
Discuss acclaimed and trending recent titles by distinguished authors on diverse topics from the pages ... more >> of global history—from the ancient world through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This month, the group will discuss Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens by David Stuttard. Synopsis: A new perspective on ancient Athens at the height of its powers, reinterpreting the city’s supposed “Golden Age” as a period of ruinous culture wars. The age of Pericles, in the fifth century BC, is often described as the Golden Age of Athens. The city witnessed a flowering of philosophy, art, and architecture—including an ambitious building program, with the Parthenon its centerpiece. But as David Stuttard shows in this vivid account, the seemingly triumphant city was in fact riven by conflict and contradiction. Though nominally a democracy, Athens led a tyrannical empire. And for Pericles and his circle, the Parthenon was less a holy place than a propaganda vehicle. Its sculptures carried the message that Athenians, beloved by the gods, were nearly divine in their own right—which to many Greeks smacked of hubris.
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Wed, Sep 16
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Book Club | Luddite Book Club -- Resisting Big Tech: The Personalized Is Political
This offline book club is a space for in-person conversation about the role technology plays in the world, ... more >> where the group will be discussing Resisting Big Tech: The Personalized is Political by Niels Niessen. Book Synopsis: Calls for a collective consciousness of how increasingly personalized online streams colonize our associations. Focusing on four domains of life—home, city, learning, love—advocates for the need to foster new offline communal spaces.
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Thu, Sep 17
6:30 pm
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Lecture | Re-Examining the History & Legacy of the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
A talk from Chérie Adrienne Butler, Deputy Superintendent of the Statue of Liberty National Monument ... more >> and Ellis Island. Chérie has served as Superintendent of the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and now as Deputy Superintendent - Park Operations for the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island. America’s past becomes palpably alive as she discusses these extraordinary sites, integral to our Nation’s history and very soul.
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Thu, Sep 17
6:30 pm
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Book Club | Read & Discuss The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
This book club will be reading and discussing a fiction book set in a new country every month, with a ... more >> high priority of reading books in translation that are written by authors from the given country. At this event, the group will discuss the Argentinian novel The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated from Spanish by Sarah Moses! Book synopsis: From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find--discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe--cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe. But how did she get to the Sacred Sisterhood? Why can't she remember her life before? And what really happens when a woman is chosen as one of the Enlightened?
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Fri, Sep 18
4:30 pm
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Discussion | Conversation with Artists on Strategies of Resistance & Resilience in Art
Panel discussion with members of Array Collective and invited artists to discuss varying strategies of ... more >> protest and catharsis in art practice. How using performative elements such as song, chanting, keening, and karaoke can work to both disconcert the oppressor and encourage collective solidarity amongst allies.
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Sat, Sep 19
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Bestselling Italian Novel Reissued: Coins in the Fountain Discussed by the Author's Daughter
In 1952, newsman and novelist John H. Secondari published Coins in the Fountain-- the bestselling novel ... more >> that inspired the Oscar-winning film, Three Coins in the Fountain. Born in Rome and raised in America, Secondari brought his personal experience to his story of American expatriates in postwar Italy. Secondari's daughter, Linda Secondari -- Creative Director of Studiolo Secondari and publisher of this new edition -- has a conversation about reissuing her father's novel more than seventy years after its original publication. The group will discuss Rome and the Trevi Fountain as characters in their own right, the complicated portrayal of women, and the American exceptionalism of the era that colored how these characters saw Italy, and how Italians saw them. Linda will speak candidly about the very personal experience of rereading her father's work today and how it has deepened her relationship with her history.
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Tue, Sep 22
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | New York Times' Food Writer DIscusses Her Craft & Career
Florence Fabricant discusses her new memoir, Salty, Not Sweet. She trains her sharp and inquisitive gaze ... more >> on the food world then and now: the rise of farm-to-table cooking, the cult of celebrity chefs, the role of the restaurant critic, and the evolving way we cook and eat. At the Times, Fabricant's keen instincts led her to early coverage of food world titans like Thomas Keller, Martha Stewart, Eric Ripert, Alain Ducasse, and Tom Colicchio. This recounting of her singular life and career will speak to readers in love with food, New York, and the alchemy of a truly great dining experience.
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Tue, Sep 22
6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Discusses Her New Sculptural Works in a Landmark Museum
Artist Liu Wei and curator Lesley Ma have a conversation about The Genesis Facade Commission: Liu Wei, ... more >> Speculation, a suite of four large-scale sculptures. Using a variety of materials and remixing familiar motifs—fragments from the urban environment, historical sources, and bodily forms—Liu Wei invites contemplation, surprise, and revelation to pierce through our perceptions of reality with a blend of rawness and refinement. The conversation also delves into Liu Wei’s expansive career as a conceptual artist. Please note that this program includes interpretation from Mandarin Chinese into English.
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Tue, Sep 22
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Launch: Vanity Fair-Featured Writer's New Memoir
Downhill is Juana Libedinsky’s account of a couple of terrible years, told with the sharp eye of a ... more >> seasoned reporter and a signature dry humor that surfaces in unexpected places. Woven throughout are reflections on the writers who sustained her through interminable hospital stays and the logistical ropes course of caregiving: Joan Didion on grief, Jorge Luis Borges on memory, Abraham Verghese on the orderly nature of tennis. Their voices form a kind of chorus, grounding Juana as she—and we—are reminded of the transcendental and practical powers of reading.
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Wed, Sep 23
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Critic Discusses His New Biography/Memoir/Cultural History Book, The Death of the Clinic (In Person AND Online!)
To mark the launch The Death of the Clinic: Radical Experiments in the Art of Medicine, author Benoit ... more >> Loiseau discusses the book with Emily Apter. Weaving together biography, memoir and cultural history, The Death of the Clinic is a groundbreaking exploration of five experimental clinics in recent Western history: a sex clinic housed in a stately mansion in Weimar Berlin; a preventive health centre in pre-NHS London; a post-war institute of psychiatry in a French chateau; a feminist health centre in 1970s Geneva; and a grassroots research initiative run by and for people with AIDS in New York. Each of these clinics emerged in response to seismic political shifts and era-defining global events. Yet at their heart lie the stories of extraordinary individuals who dared to reimagine how we care for one another. Reframing Michel Foucault's seminal book, Loiseau's The Death of the Clinic is a radical invitation to rethink the clinic - not as a fixed institution but as a living, evolving practice rooted in care, resistance, and collective imagination.
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Wed, Sep 23
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Musicians Discuss New Memoir from Infuential Electronic Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto
A celebration of the life and legacy of a renowned musician and composer. A panel conversation with Arto ... more >> Lindsay, Dedekind Cut, and Sam Bett to celebrate the release of the candid memoir of one of the world's most influential electronic composers. The conversation will be moderated by Sasha Frere-Jones, followed by a signing.
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Wed, Sep 23
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Quiet Reading Meet Up
Bring a book or check one out of the library to read to yourself for one hour. After that, spend an hour ... more >> socializing with those around you!
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Wed, Sep 23
6:00 pm
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Lecture | Environmental Artist Discusses Artworks & the Climate Crisis
Artist Sarah Cameron Sunde will lead a panel on public art and climate change. They will discuss the ... more >> role of art, rituals, and listening in preparing for extreme weather events, and how they can reveal invisible infrastructure all around us. Sunde is an interdisciplinary environmental artist and a cofounder of the Works on Water Triennial.
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Wed, Sep 23
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Network Science Expert Discusses Modern Architectural History & Visual Journey of Networks
In this talk, Albert-László Barabási will chart the 25-year odyssey of BarabásiLab in crafting the ... more >> visual lexicon of networks and connectivity. He will focus on their recent monumental project for the 2024 Venice Architecture Biennale, which charts 50 years of architectural history. Dr. Barabási is the Robert Gray Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University. He has exhibited at galleries all over the U.S and Europe and recently co-designed the opening experience for the Biennale Architettura di Venezia.
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Wed, Sep 23
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Forum | Creative Climate Activism Promoting a Sustainable Future (Panels, Workshops, Nature Walks, & More)
An all-day forum of art, panels, and workshops on urgent creative responses to the climate crisis. This ... more >> event welcomes artists, youth, educators, community members, advocates, and anyone ready to explore creative tools, build new connections, and take action for a more just and sustainable future. Through performances, panels, workshops, and immersive installations, participants activate the power of imagination and collaboration to respond to the climate crisis—together. What to Expect:
Live Performances with climate artivists
Powerful panels on fast response and systemic change
Workshops on climate storytelling, justice, care, and community mobilization
Morning and afternoon nature walks with climate leaders
An all-day immersive Climate Action Room featuring interactive installations
A vibrant networking celebration to end the day
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Thu, Sep 24
9:00 am
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9:00 am
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Discussion | Former French Ambassador Discusses His Life & Career (In Person AND Online!)
Philippe Étienne will present his memoir, Le Sherpa, in an English-language conversation with La Maison ... more >> Française of NYU Advisory Board Chair Guy Sorman. Together, they will explore four decades of front-line global diplomacy, offering rare behind-the-scenes insights into transatlantic relations, European crises, and high-stakes negotiations at the pinnacle of international power.
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Thu, Sep 24
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Museum Curator Shares His New Book, Andrew Wyeth: The Masterworks (+ Signing)
William L. Coleman celebrates his book, a monograph chronicling Wyeth's artistic legacy across seven ... more >> decades. He will be in conversation with Stephanie Herdrich, followed by a signing.
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Thu, Sep 24
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Book Discussion | New York Times-Columnist Shares His New Biography on Literary Icon Judy Blume
Mark Oppenheimer pulls back the curtain to reveal the woman behind the icon, and the unlikely journey ... more >> of her literary ascension, in this "vibrant, authoritative account" (Wall Street Journal). For fifty-five years, Judy Blume's work has rewired the world's expectation of what literature for young people can be--frank, candid, earthy, and unafraid to show the messier sides of humanity. Pen America cites Blume's titles among "the fifty-two most banned books" of recent years. Blume's novels --including Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great; Forever...; and Summer Sisters--have touched the lives of millions of adults and children.
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Thu, Sep 24
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Humanities Scholar Shares His New Book Exploring NYC in the 20s
Jonathan Ezra Goldman, James Joyce Society President and Professor at New York Tech, provides a fresh ... more >> look at 1920s New York City in this conversation with recent Manhattan Borough Historian Robert Snyder. Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City, unearthing stories of everyday life and marginalized communities. In sections that intertwine entertainment, politics, art, technology, crime, shopping, eating, and recreation, the book portrays sweeping events such as the Harlem Renaissance, Prohibition, and immigration reform through anecdotes of individual experiences that counter the era's popular conceptions of ballooning wealth and uproarious celebration.
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Fri, Sep 25
6:00 pm
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Talk | Fashion Historian Shares Her New Book on the Evolution of Gilded Age Wardrobe
Author Raissa Bretaña shares her new book, Fashion of the Gilded Age. It's an in-depth look at the ... more >> evolution of the fashionable silhouettes from 1870 to 1910, along with the cultural context and customs of etiquette surrounding dress during this dynamic period in American history. Raissa Bretaña has hosted a video series for Glamour, and appeared as a guest on Follow the Thread for Turner Classic Movies and HBO Max. She currently works at the Museum at FIT and is the author of Shoes (2021) and co-author of Moxie: The Daring Women of Classic Hollywood (2024). Nothing embodied the resplendence of the Gilded Age like the opulent fashions worn by the women of elite society. With their well-appointed wardrobes, they achieved social prominence by ensuring they were elegantly and appropriately dressed for every luncheon, reception, promenade, and ball. It was an era marked by an increasingly style-conscious public, shaped by the expanding fashion press that reported on both the couture houses of Paris’s Rue de la Paix and the department stores of New York’s Ladies’ Mile.
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Fri, Sep 25
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Book Club | Korean Book Club: Nobel Prize WInning Writer's Novel, Human Acts
A special book club meeting celebrating Chuseok, or Korean Thanksgiving, with a discussion of Korean ... more >> literature in English translation. The group will discuss Human Acts by Han Kang, exploring the novel’s historical and cultural context. Book synopsis: The novel draws upon the democratization uprising that occurred on 18 May 1980, in Gwangju, Korea. In the novel, one boy's death provides the impetus for a dimensional look into the Gwangju Uprising and the lives of the people in that city.
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Sat, Sep 26
2:30 pm
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2:30 pm
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Talk | Architectural Historian Discusses the Design & Construction of NYC's Historical Buildings
A talk by Francis R. Kowsky, a leading authority on the Jefferson Market Courthouse (now library), and ... more >> an expert on our building's architects: Calvert Vaux and Frederick Clarke Withers, in cooperation with the Calvert Vaux Preservation Alliance (CVPA). Learn about the celebrated Gilded Age careers of architect Frederick Clarke Withers and architect/landscape designer Calvert Vaux, co-designer of Central Park. Also find out about restoration efforts underway at The Point, the landmark Hudson Valley estate in Staatsburg, NY, designed by Vaux for the Hoyt family in 1855!
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Sun, Sep 27
2:00 pm
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Discussion | Art Scholars Discuss the Relationship between Florine Stettheimer & Georgia O’Keeffe (In Person AND Online!)
Barbara Bloemink (lead scholar of the forthcoming Florine Stettheimer Catalogue Raisonné Project) ... more >> and Barbara Buhler Lynes (Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné) in a conversation moderated by renowned journalist Julia Halperin. Florine Stettheimer and Georgia O’Keeffe are prominent American women modern artists. As friends, they exhibited widely in galleries and museums — and were highly admired by curators and art critics during the first half of the 20th century. Their approaches to artmaking, however, are remarkably different. Bloemink and Lynes will discuss the artists’ relationship, how they controlled their public image, how their work differs and yet reveals a mutual interest in simultaneity, and more. This event will also call attention to published and forthcoming catalogues raisonnés that document all known works by Stettheimer and O’Keeffe.
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Sun, Sep 27
3:00 pm
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Talk | Art History & Curatorial Experts Discuss the Visual Culture of Pahari Paintings
Moving beyond questions of attribution, the conversation with art historian and professor Molly Emma ... more >> Aitken traces artists, patrons and practices across regions. This talk reveals a shared visual culture shaped by movement and exchange. Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the Pahari kingdoms of the northwestern Himalayas created a luminous world of painting—intimate, expressive and richly coloured. In this richly illustrated session, celebrated curator Sonya Rhie Mace explores a remarkably dispersed collection that offers new ways of seeing these works.
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Tue, Sep 29
11:00 am
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Talk | Explore Dorothy Day's Journey to Possible Sainthood
Robert Ellsberg, a former managing editor of the CW and editor of Dorothy Day’s writings, will describe ... more >> her New York journey. Dorothy Day, champion of the oppressed, witness for peace, was born in Brooklyn and spent most of her life in New York’s Lower East Side. In the 1920s, while working as a journalist for progressive papers, she became close to Eugene O'Neill and others in the Greenwich Village scene. After her conversion to Catholicism, she founded the Catholic Worker newspaper and the first of her “houses of hospitality,” combining service to the poor and work for justice. The founder of the Catholic Worker movement, Dorothy Day established her first “houses of hospitality” in Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1933, living with the poor, practicing the “works of mercy,” and struggling for peace and justice. Greenwich Village played an important part in her early life, when she was close to Eugene O’Neill and immersed herself in the literary/activist/bohemian scene. Later, as a Catholic, she modeled a version of radical Christianity, was arrested repeatedly for acts of civil disobedience during the civil defense drills of the 1950s, and spent time in the Women’s House of Detention on Sixth Avenue.
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Tue, Sep 29
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Book Discussion | Book Launch--Jean Louis: Hollywood's Bombshell Designer (+ Signing)
Mauricio Padilha and Roger Padilha celebrate their book, a comprehensive look at how the designer defined ... more >> Hollywood's most famous films, actresses, and iconic fashion styles. The conversation will be followed by a signing.
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Wed, Sep 30
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Book Discussion | Quiet Reading Meet Up
Bring a book or check one out of the library to read to yourself for one hour. After that, spend an hour ... more >> socializing with those around you!
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Wed, Sep 30
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Book Discussion | Historian Shares Her New Book on the Death Penalty in the Soviet Union
A discussion with Yana Skorobogatov for her book, Fate in My Hands. Anne O'Donnell will join as ... more >> a conversant. Book synopsis: A striking examination of the death penalty in the Soviet Union that documents in heart-rending detail how its citizens, hopeful for a new life post-Stalin, lost faith that their transgressions could be forgiven.
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Wed, Sep 30
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