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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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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
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180 free talks, lectures, discussions in New York City (NYC) Sun, 02/23/2025 - and on...
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!
Discussion | Immigration Debate: Who Stays? Who Goes? (in-person and online)
Millions of people are living in the U.S. without legal entry. What actions should be taken? Should the government pursue them or provide a path to stay? How can we balance enforcement with economic and humanitarian concerns? Panelists: - Muzaffar Chishti, Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute; - Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies Moderator: CBS News' John Dickerson
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Feb 23
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Talk | Hide and Seek: Jewishness in Fiction (in-person and online)
In her latest novel, The Many Lives of Theo, Nathalie Azoulai explores Jewishness directly in the aftermath of October 7, a departure from the subtle "concealment" characterizing her earlier works. Avatars, masks, shifts, transpositions, and analogies have long fueled her narrative DNA—defining not just plot trajectories but the intricate choreography of character interactions. This literary encryption is more than stylistic choice; it's a profound gesture inherent to European Jewish literary identity. Whether it be a deliberate choice of hiding or an unconscious bias that emerges during the creative process, the practice of encrypting Jewishness seems more prevalent in European literary traditions than in the United States. Geographically and sociologically, the stakes of Jewish authorship in Europe differ fundamentally from those in the United States—where disclosure carries different psychological and cultural weights.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Feb 24
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Between the World and Me: NYTimes Best Seller
The book club will read and discuss The New York Times best seller Between the World and Me. In the book, Ta-Nehisi Coates presents a powerful new perspective on America's empire built on race, showing how this falsehood harms everyone, especially Black men and women. Through a personal narrative, Coates shares his journey of awakening, from his experiences at Howard University to Civil War battlefields, Paris, Chicago, and beyond, exploring the deep impact of racial injustice. You don’t have to read the full selection to enjoy the event; everyone is welcome.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Feb 24
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Metamorphoses: Reconsidering What Binds All Life
Author Emanuele Coccia and Professor Eugenio Refini in a conversation around the concept of metamorphosis across philosophy and literature. In his 2021 book, Metamorphoses, Coccia sees metamorphosis not just as a biological process, but as the fundamental force that binds all life together. Challenging the rigid boundaries between species, the living and the non-living, and even human identity, Coccia presents a visionary perspective in which life is an ever-changing continuum, where transformation is not the exception but the rule. His book invites readers to reconsider existence as deeply interconnected, revealing a world in which every form of life is a continuation of those that came before. To what extent does this approach to metamorphosis speak to relevant concerns in the production and study of literary discourse?
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Feb 24
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | You Between the Lines: Literary Rivals
No one’s more surprised than Leigh when a prestigious MFA program in North Carolina accepts her. A former sorority girl, Leigh’s the first to admit she knows more about the lyrics of Taylor Swift than T.S. Eliot, and she’s never been able to shake the “all-style-no-substance” feedback her high school crush made in their poetry workshop. Leigh's insecurities become all too real when Will, that same high school crush-turned-nemesis, shows up at orientation. And now, he’s William, exactly the kind of writer Leigh hates, complete with his pretentious sweater vests and tattered Moleskine. Leigh’s determined to prove herself—and William—wrong by landing the program’s highly-coveted fellowship. But Will’s dead-set on proving himself too, and in a small cohort, they can't keep apart for long. With author Katie Naymon.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Feb 24
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Book Club | Graphic Novel Book Club: Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos by Jay Jackson
Meet Bungleton Green--an anti-racist time traveler and the first-ever Black superhero created more than a decade before characters like Black Panther and Falcon. In 1942, almost a year after America entered the Second World War, Jay Jackson--a former railroad worker and sign painter, now working as a cartoonist and illustrator for the legendary Black newspaper The Chicago Defender--did something unexpected. He took the Defender's stale and long-running gag strip Bungleton Green and remade it into a gripping, anti-racist science fiction adventure comic. He teamed the bumbling Green with a crew of Black teens called the Mystic Commandos, and together, they battled the enemies of America and racial equality in the past, present, and future. Nazis, segregationist senators, Benedict Arnold, fifth columnists, 18th-century American slave traders, evil scientists, and a nation of racist Green Men all faced off against the Mystic Commandos and Green, who in the strip's run would be transformed by Jackson into the first-ever Black superhero.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Feb 24
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time (online)
The launch of artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips’s expansive new book. Our dominant perception of time owes more to Western history and social order than to nature, argues Rasheedah Phillips, delving into Black and Afrodiasporic conceptions of time, where the past, present, and future interact in more numerous constellations. Drawing on philosophy, archival research, quantum physics, and Phillips’s art and law practice on housing policy, Dismantling the Master’s Clock expands the horizons of what can be imagined and, ultimately, achieved.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Feb 24
8:00 pm
Free
8:00 pm
Free
Forum | Dealing With the Mind
Join a discussion on different aspects of mental health. Discover resources to help your individual journey. Adults of all ages, backgrounds, identities, and ideas are welcome. This program is not intended to take the place of individual therapy or advice of a medical professional.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
10:30 am
Free
10:30 am
Free
Book Discussion | We Would Never: A Novel of Murder in the Family (online)
How far would you go to protect those you love? And can you live with the consequences? That’s the question that Tova Mirvis explores in her gripping new novel. Inspired by a true tabloid-esque story, We Would Never leads readers into the tangled tale of a murder in the midst of a bitter divorce, with the “peacemaker” among her relatives accused of killing her husband. This is an intimate drama about a family that spins out of control as their facade of wholesomeness is shattered by the sinister consequence of all-consuming love.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
11:30 am
Free
11:30 am
Free
Book Discussion | A Nation of Refugees: Russia's Jews in World War I (online)
When World War I began, the Russian Empire was home to more than 5.7 million Jews, the most densely settled Jewish population in the world. Thirty years later, by 1945, only remnants of this civilization remained. The years of World War I, from 1914 to 1918, launched nearly all the forces that led to this epic destruction. Author Polly Zavadivker tells how Jewish civilians experienced that war and its epicenter of violence on the Eastern Front. World War I transformed the lives of East European Jews in ways that were second only to the Holocaust in their magnitude. State violence and forced migration determined many aspects of Jewish wartime and revolutionary experience. These policies not only destroyed much of traditional Jewish life but also inadvertently compelled a transformation of Jewish civil society. The collapse of Russian imperialism enabled the growth of an empire-wide humanitarian campaign to rescue the “nation of refugees,” whose plight embodied that of the Jewish nation itself. By exploring this history of Jewish humanitarianism during World War I, Zavadivker provides the origin stories of key leaders and public institutions that served East European Jewry in the interwar years and during the Holocaust.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Talk | Irish Jewry through the Ages: Part Two (1892–1945) (online)
Uncover the roots of Jewish life in Ireland from the medieval era through the 19th century. This three-part series delves into the rich history of Jews in Ireland, from their earliest recorded presence in 1079 CE to the evolving Irish-Jewish experience of the 21st century. This session explores the flourishing of Dublin’s Jewish community, including the expansion of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation and the rise of secular Jewish life and cultural activities. We’ll examine Jewish integration within Irish society, through figures like the fictional Leopold Bloom and real-life leaders like Robert Briscoe and Rabbi Isaac Herzog, as well as the impact of WWII on Irish Jews. This period marks the community’s evolving identity and its lasting cultural contributions amidst challenges at home and abroad.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Lecture | Race and Ethnicity in American Visual Culture (in-person and online)
A talk by Romi Crawford who has a research practice that explores areas of race and ethnicity as they relate to American visual culture (including art, film, and photography). Her work often centers on, and expands the bounds of, Black Arts Movement ideas and aesthetics and positions pedagogical activities that embed in art practices.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Book Club | The Amen Corner: A Play by James Baldwin
For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
4:30 pm
Free
4:30 pm
Free
Talk | "What Makes It Italian?": Rossini and… (online)
“What Makes It Italian?” is a music listening and discussion group led by Gina Crusco, who has acted as maestro del coro for opera in Italy; instructed music at The New School; and directed Underworld Productions. The encounter will focus on: Conosciuto: Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868) Sconosciuto: Pietro Generali (1773 – 1832) Things were looking up for Generali – but then Rossini rose to fame, and the lesser-known composer was relegated to Barcelona.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought
Bruno Leipold's Citizen Marx is the first book to offer a comprehensive exploration of Marx’s relationship to republicanism, arguing that it is essential to understanding his thought. Challenging common depictions of Marx that downplay or ignore his commitment to politics, democracy, and freedom, Leipold shows that Marx viewed democratic political institutions as crucial to overcoming the social unfreedom and domination of capitalism. One of Marx’s principal political values, Leipold contends, was a republican conception of freedom, according to which one is unfree when subjected to arbitrary power.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | I'm Not Your Muse: Uncovering the Overshadowed Brilliance of Women Artists & Visionaries
Lori Zimmer and Maria Krasinski's book explores 31 women whose culture-defining contributions have, until now, been overshadowed by their role as “muses” to better-known men.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Ragas, because the sea has no place to grab: A Memoir of Home, Migration, and African Liberation
Author Sonia Vaz Borges will discuss her recently published memoir, the story of a mother and daughter's return to Cabo Verde reveals the legacies of national liberation, a story of memory and migration, and the psychic and physical landscape that colonialism has wrought.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies: The Conceits, Hijinks, and Delusions of New Yorkers from 1974–1995 by Stan Mack
From 1974 to 1995, New Yorkers starred in their own comic strip in the weekly pages of the city’s trailblazing alternative newsweekly, The Village Voice. Stan Mack’s “Real Life Funnies” chronicled the everyday, the extraordinary, and the downright outlandish lives of New Yorkers, capturing their sardonic humor, sexual shenanigans, and exotic obsessions. The Rugman, who wrapped himself in a carpet sample and lay on the sidewalk, eagerly waiting to be stepped on. The dolphin trainer who lamented her nonexistent love life because she always smelled of fish. The mob enforcer who also happened to be a gifted calligrapher. Every story was told entirely in the subjects’ own words—and in Stan’s acute cartoons. And New Yorkers ate it up. In June 2024, Fantagraphics published a hearty collection of nearly 300 of these strips: Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies: The Conceits, Hijinks, and Delusions of New Yorkers from 1974–1995. Using comic strips from the book, the back stories behind those strips, and some where-are-they-now revelations, Stan will take us on a visual thrill ride through New York in the age of graffiti, rap sessions, phone booths, cocaine, and self-expression the likes of which exist in no other city on earth.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Talk | The Autonomy of Anger: Ten Years of French Protests
France is experiencing a multiplication of protest movements, of which the so-called Yellow Vest movement in 2018-2019 is only the most original. I participated in this movement and observed directly or indirectly other movements of the last decade as well as the grievances collected by the French government from its population during the yellow vest movement (in "Cahiers" that recalled, albeit quite differently, those of the French Revolution). The result is a picture of French complaints and protests and their recent evolution. Here, we present a few features (and ask whether they can be found in other countries). Current French protests are more territorial, more critical of official organizations and, more focused on the sphere of reproduction (health, education, ecology). The failure of political parties to take up these complaints may well be one of the main reasons for the lasting difficulties of the Left in France. Electoral politics and protest politics are increasingly dissociated. Anger is becoming autonomous. Speaker Laurent Jeanpierre is political scientist, Professor of Political Science at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and co-author of Une Histoire Globale des Révolutions.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Talent: A Novel about Actresses in a Turbulent Awards Season
A emotional debut novel from Variety chief correspondent Daniel D'Addario about a group of actresses confronting their careers, their secrets, and each other throughout one turbulent awards season.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Talk | Photographer Talk: Picturing the World
An evening with the photographer Gerald Cyrus. A member of the historic Kamoinge photography collective, Cyrus' work has been widely exhibited and published. Cyrus has photographed extensively worldwide, notably in Cuba, Brazil, New Orleans, Camden, and Philadelphia, where he currently lives. His recent books include Stormy Monday: New York's Uptown Jazz Scene and Harlem Nights, 1990-2001.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Lecture | Reflections of Roman Art in the Buddhist Sculpture of Southern India
Examine the intersection of Greco-Roman art with Indian Buddhist narrative starting in the first century BCE. Dr. Elizabeth Rosen Stone, independent scholar and Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellow in Art History at the Metropolitan Museum, discusses Gandhara art which developed following Alexander the Great’s invasion of the Indian subcontinent. There will be fascinating visual references to the Classical world throughout the Buddhist art of Nagarjunakonda and related sites in Southern India from the first century BCE through the third century CE. The resulting rich tradition fused Greco-Roman art with Indian Buddhist narrative sculpture questioning the idea that the art of southern India is indigenous.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Talk | Researching Richard Foreman, Theater Iconoclast
Jennifer Krasinski and Andrew Lampert will share aspects of their ongoing research into Richard Foreman. Working together, they have uncovered a plethora of documentation and unstaged material that will be featured in a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Foreman and his collaborators in the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. They will discuss their process and consider the question of what it means to transmit experience. Foreman’s iconoclastic productions are largely irreproducible, and yet they must always be performed anew in order to be seen. What is involved in authentically staging the work of a theater artist who insists that others must not interpret or imitate him when performing his plays?
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Symposium | Tumbados: Celebrating Artist Guadalupe Rosales
A symposium celebrating artist Guadalupe Rosales and a decade of her ongoing archive project titled Veteranas and Rucas. This dynamic event including poetry, performance, panel discussions, and live music, is organized as part of her year-long public artwork with Lokey Calderon on Storefront’s facade. Tumbados engages with lowrider culture and its role within the built environment in creating and shaping spaces for Latin@/x public life. The symposium invites an intergenerational group of artists, writers and scholars to delve into Rosales’s community-focused practice and the expanded subjects of Queer life that she addresses. Her work commemorates and historicizes Chicanx subcultures, while fostering collective storytelling and self-affirmation, engaging audiences from LA to NYC and beyond. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz will open the symposium, followed by keynote speaker and artist Estevan Oriol, who will discuss archives and counter-archives in conversation with Rocío Aranda-Alvarado. Arts critic and educator Raquel Gutiérrez will present a reading on Queer Brown Urbanism, artist, friend and collaborator of Rosales, rafa esparza will participate with a performance, and will be followed by a panel discussion by Rosales and Assistant Professor of American Studies Leticia Alvarado, moderated by LACMA Curator and Acting Department Head in Contemporary Art Rita Gonzalez. Que Chola Tan Rica will close the event with a music set.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Other March Sisters by Liz Parker, Ally Malinenko, and Linda Epstein
Giving all the Little Women the stories they deserve at last, this historical novel and companion to the much-loved classic draws Meg, Beth, and Amy March from behind the shadow of Jo – Louisa May Alcott’s alter-ego and the “author” of Little Women – as vibrant and unforgettable characters grappling with societal strictures, queer love, motherhood, chronic illness, artistic ambition, and more. Four sisters, each as different as can be. Through the eyes and words of Jo, their characters and destinies became known to millions. Meg, pretty and conventional. Jo, stubborn, tomboyish, and ambitious. Beth, shy and good-natured, a mortal angel readily accepting her fate. And Amy, elegant, frivolous, and shallow. But Jo, for all her insight, could not always know what was in her sisters’ thoughts, or in their hearts. With Jo away in New York to pursue her literary ambitions, Meg, Beth, and Amy follow their own paths. Meg, newly married with young twins, struggles to find the contentment that Marmee assured her would come with domesticity. Unhappy and unfulfilled, she turns to her garden, finding there not just a hobby but a calling that will allow her to help other women in turn. Beth knows her time is limited. Still, part of her longs to break out of her suffocating cocoon at home, however briefly. A new acquaintance turns into something more, offering unexpected, quiet joy. Amy, traveling in Europe while she pursues her goal of becoming an artist, is keenly aware of the expectation that she will save the family by marrying well. Through the course of her journey, she discovers how she can remain true to herself, true to her art, and true to the love that was always meant to be. Purposefully leaving Jo off the page, authors Liz Parker, Ally Malinenko, and Linda Epstein draw inspiration from Alcott’s real-life sisters, giving the other March women room to reveal themselves through conversations, private correspondence, and intimate moments—coming alive in ways that might surprise even daring, unconventional Jo.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
Author Jack Fairweather brings to life the remarkable story of Fritz Bauer. At the end of the Nuremberg trial in 1946, some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The Allies were ready to overlook their pasts as the Cold War began, and the horrors of the Holocaust were in danger of being forgotten. Fairweather brings to life the remarkable story of Fritz Bauer, a gay, Jewish judge from Stuttgart who survived the Nazis and made it his mission to force his countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide. In this deeply researched book, Fairweather draws on unpublished family papers, newly declassified German records, and exclusive interviews to immerse readers in the shadowy, unfamiliar world of postwar West Germany where those who implemented genocide run the country, the CIA is funding Hitler’s former spy-ring in the east, and Nazi-era anti-gay laws are strictly enforced. But once Bauer landed on the trail of Adolf Eichmann, he wouldn’t be intimidated. His journey took him deep into the dark heart of West Germany, where his fight for justice would set him against his own government and a network of former Nazis and spies bent on silencing him.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Talk | Photogragher Talk: Jeffery Henson Scales
A talk with photographer, editor, and educator Jeffery Henson Scales. His photographs have been exhibited at museums throughout the United States and Europe and have appeared in numerous photography magazines, books, and anthologies, as well as in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The City Museum of New York, The George Eastman House, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Weisman Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Museum of Art at Newfields and The Baltimore Museum of Art.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Discussion | Exploring Cinema Through the Visionary Lens of Ernest Dickerson
Welcome renowned filmmaker and cinematographer Ernest Dickerson. A visionary artist, Dickerson is celebrated for his groundbreaking contributions to cinema, both as a director and a cinematographer. Dickerson’s illustrious career spans decades, during which he has worked on iconic films such as Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and Juice. A frequent collaborator of Spike Lee, Dickerson’s cinematography played a key role in shaping the visual style of many of Lee’s early films. As a director, he brought to life stories that resonate deeply, helming projects like Surviving the Game and Demon Knight, and has directed episodes for critically acclaimed series such as The Wire, Dexter, and Treme. A reception will follow the discussion.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
7:30 pm
Free
7:30 pm
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Discussion | On Art and Exhibition-Making: A Cross-Continental Conversation (online)
Artist and curator Maddy Rosenberg and Duncan Mountford, Visiting Professor at Taipei University of the Arts, in an engaging online conversation about art, exhibition-making, and the creative process. Tune in from wherever you are as Mountford discusses his solo show Tin Gods at Project Space 110 in Taipei, hosted by Jocelyn Shu.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 25
8:00 pm
Free
8:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Indulging Kleptocracy: British Service Providers, Postcommunist Elites, and the Enabling of Corruption
Authors John Heathershaw and Thomas Mayne tell one of the most fascinating stories of the post-Cold War era, showing how British professionals enable their postcommunist elite clients by hiding, protecting, and legitimizing their kleptocratic wealth and establishing status and influence for them in the West.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 26
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
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Discussion | Envisioning Seneca Village: An Interactive 3D Model (online)
Seneca Village was a community established by African American landowners in 1825 and destroyed by the City of New York in 1857 for the construction of Central Park. Research beginning in the 1990s has shed light on the once-forgotten village: a stable, successful, rural home to dozens of families. Much is still unknown, however, and no images or above-ground traces remain, making imagining the village challenging. This talk presents Envisioning Seneca Village, an interactive 3D model of what the village might have looked like in 1855. The project’s coauthors will discuss how they combined ongoing research in archaeology, history, historical geographic information systems (GIS), and architectural rendering to build the model; their plans for future improvements; and their aims for the project to both catalyze new research and keep the memory of Seneca Village alive in the present.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 26
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
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Discussion | Lindy Hop and Swing Dance
Barbara A. Jones is the Founder and Executive Director of The Harlem Swing Dance Society, the premiere Harlem non profit organization with the purpose of promoting, preserving and protecting the Lindy Hop dance and various forms of Swing Dance culture in its Harlem birthplace. The mission is to see the Harlem area once again embrace their signature cultural dance and energize community youth to be future innovators of this historic art form. While the Savoy Ballroom closed in 1958, a new Lindy Hop foundation was born with Mama Lu Parks and her dance troupes. Under her direction Harlem youth made history and brought future attention to Lindy Hop by lessons, performances and dance contests. For close to 30 years they traveled and hopped the globe as one of the longest running jazz dance groups. This "hidden" history will be brought back to life with film, artifacts, and experiences from her dancers. Registration required.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 26
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Lecture | Shakespeare's Haunted Generation: Sex and Succession in King Lear
This talk by Professor Tanya Pollard explores King Lear's preoccupation with birth and reproduction by situating the play in the context of the now invisible shaping power of some influential ghosts, both textual and material, looming behind the play. It argues that Shakespeare develops the play's devastating tragic vision by putting an older model of tragedy in conversation with the lives of the actors in his playing company,especially their leading actor, Richard Burbage. Attending to the way the play is haunted, both by past literary forms and by the lived experience of its creators, offers a window in its exploration of catastrophically broken bloodlines.
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Wed, Feb 26
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence, and Culture
Tonya Blazio-Licorish, archives editor with WWD and co-author of Black in Fashion, hosts a panel discussion on the book, a celebration of Black voices in fashion as captured by Women's Wear Daily contributors and photographers since the publication's inception in 1910. WWD is showcased here with more than 375 black-and-white and color photographs, illustrations, and articles from its massive archive. Panelists include designers Aaron Potts and Byron Lars.
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Wed, Feb 26
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped the Museum of Modern Art
Editors Ann Temkin and Romy Silver-Kohn discuss their book, a revelatory account of the Museum's early history told through newly commissioned profiles of fourteen women who, as founders, curators, patrons, and directors of various departments, made enduring contributions to MoMA during its first decades. Inventing the Modern tells the stories of trailblazing women, ranging from cofounder Abby Aldrich Rockefeller to longtime registrar Dorothy Dudley.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 26
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families (online)
In the 1920s scholar, author, and activist W. E. B. Du Bois started a magazine for children. Calling it “The Brownies’ Book: A Monthly Magazine for Children of the Sun”, it was the first magazine aimed specifically at Black youth. It was published at 70 Fifth Avenue. In his role as editor‐in‐chief, Du Bois reached out to the era’s most celebrated Black creatives—writers, artists, poets, songwriters—and asked them to contribute their “best work” to The Brownies’ Book “so that Black children will know that they are thought about and LOVED.” Among its contributors was Langston Hughes, whose first published poems appeared in The Brownies’ Book. Nearly 100 years later, author, educator, and Du Bois scholar Dr. Karida L. Brown and award‐ winning artist and children’s book creator Charly Palmer revived and expanded upon the Brownies’ Book legacy and showcase new art and writing for children from today’s brilliant Black creators. They discuss their new book packed with 60 all‐new stories, poems, songs, photos, illustrations, comics, short plays, games, essays, and more is designed to reflect, celebrate, and inspire a new generation of children and families.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 26
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Race Makers: A Biographical History of the Most Dangerous Idea Ever Invented
Andrew Curran’s forthcoming book is a group biography that traces the development of the concept of race in the eighteenth century. Among its “characters” are Louis XIV, François Bernier, Buffon, Voltaire, Carl Linnaeus, David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Immanuel Kant, J.F. Blumenbach, and Thomas Jefferson. In this talk, Curran will explore how biography offers a fresh perspective on both the intellectual landscape and the legacy of the Enlightenment era.
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Wed, Feb 26
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | What You Make of Me: The Sacrifices of Art
Sophie Madeline Dess's mesmerizing debut novel of two enigmatic and unforgettable siblings confronting what—and who—they’re willing to sacrifice for their art.
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Wed, Feb 26
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Mary Stuart Onstage: The Theatrical Evolution of Her Tragic Story
Professors Eugenio Refini and Janet Gomez explore the enduring legacy of Mary Stuart on stage, tracing the evolution of her tragic story from early modern tragedies to contemporary interpretations. Revisiting iconic works like Schiller’s Maria Stuart and Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, the discussion will examine how Mary’s character has been reimagined across genres and eras, reflecting cultural and artistic shifts. Special attention will be given to reception through performance, exploring how Mary’s portrayal has resonated with audiences over time and how different productions bring new layers to her narrative. The conversation will precede the performance of Robert Wilson’s Mary Said What She Said, offering insight into the afterlife of one of history’s most captivating figures in drama and opera.
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Wed, Feb 26
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Painting Her Pleasure: Women Artists in Avant-Garde Paris
Art dealer Berthe Weill was a staunch supporter of women artists in early 20th century Paris—she fought for their success in the avant-garde and beyond. In this spirit, the Grey presents a talk by Dr. Lauren Jimerson, author of Painting Her Pleasure: Three Women Artists and the Nude in Avant-Garde Paris (2023), on nudes by painters Émilie Charmy, Suzanne Valadon, and others. Her lecture will explore how these artists created modern nudes to challenge social and artistic conventions, explore female sexuality and subjectivity, and question gender identity.
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Wed, Feb 26
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Evolving Latino Diaspora
A conversation between Americas Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Brian Winter and Marie Arana, author of LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority (Simon & Schuster, February 2024). Arana’s latest book is a sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of its largest and fastest-growing minority.
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Wed, Feb 26
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics
From the distinguished art critic and historian Hal Foster, vital essays on key artists and critics, revealing how they redefined art and criticism over the last six decades.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 26
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
Discover the amazing unheard story of the Dance Theatre of Harlem and the troupe of women and men who became each other's chosen family. Author Karen Valby takes us on a journey forged by a pioneering group of five black ballerinas whose sisterhood created a legacy in the dance world, but whose history has been dismally overlooked until now. Lydia Abarca was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company — the Dance Theatre of Harlem, a troupe of women and men who became each other’s chosen family. Abarca and other trailblazing ballerinas performed in some of ballet’s most iconic works, including the young women who became her closest friends—founding Dance Theatre of Harlem members Gayle McKinney-Griffith and Sheila Rohan, as well as first-generation dancers Karlya Shelton and Marcia Sells.
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Wed, Feb 26
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Graft
Artist Edra Soto will be joined by Carla Acevedo-Yates, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; and Melanie Kress, Senior Curator, Public Art Fund for a conversation hosted on the occasion of Graft, Soto’s first large-scale public art exhibition in New York City. The discussion will delve into the themes of architecture and belonging explored in Soto’s Public Art Fund commission, which, like many of her sculptures and installations, draws from the rejas—patterned wrought iron gates—found in post-war Puerto Rican architecture. In consideration of Soto’s longtime explorations of the built environment, the artist and curators will discuss ways that Soto’s sculptures and installations have been presented and interpreted both in private museums and the public realm. The talk will examine how her decade-long project Graft engages with ideas of cultural memory, Afro-Caribbean heritage, and the complex feelings of both connection and dislocation that accompany migration. This event offers an opportunity to reflect on how art can create spaces for community and dialogue within the urban landscape of New York City.
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Wed, Feb 26
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Influential Photographer in Conversation with Curators
Photographer Richard Misrach's CARGO series, which he began in 2021 during the pandemic and its associated lockdowns, focuses on the towering cargo ships navigating the San Francisco Bay. His large-scale photographs, captured at various times of day from a single location, explore both the beauty of the bay and the environmental impact of international commerce, reflecting his long-standing interest in observing the world from one vantage point over time. Misrach will discuss his exhibition with Sarah Meister, Executive Director of Aperture. Moderated by Curatorial Director Xin Wang.
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Wed, Feb 26
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Wed, Feb 26
7:30 pm
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7:30 pm
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Discussion | Israel on Our Minds with Ambassador Ido Aharoni (in-person and online)
Even those of us who follow the news from Israeli regularly are left with more questions than insight: How should we think about Israel security in the face of a rapidly changing Middle East? What is the government doing in response to the worldwide condemnation of the Jewish State . . . and what could it do? Has the Start-Up Nation sputtered out? Can the breach between the religious and the secular populations be healed -- and how? Does the Israeli government take the concerns and opinions of the Jewish diaspora seriously enough? Should it? With so many questions -- and so much confusion -- they have recruited the ideal person to pull back the curtain on the complicated situation: an Israel diplomat, university professor, writer and investor, Ido Aharoni.
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Thu, Feb 27
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
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Lecture | Love and Betrayal. The German-Jewish Artist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970) (online)
Rachel Stern will present insights into the art and life of the German-Jewish artist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970) survived two world wars and persecution by the National Socialist regime. A close observer of the horrors of World War I and revolutionary unrest, he turned to Christian spiritual themes, which he radically reinterpreted. In intimate drawings, he dealt with the theme of love and betrayal from 1916 onward, both in his exploration of the crucifixion theme and with the figure of Bajazzo in the tragicomic opera “I Pagliacci.” Ascher’s strong and unique artistic voice is evident not only in his artwork, but also in his poems. These were written when he was no longer allowed to work under National Socialism because of his Jewish roots and as a representative of modernism, and had to go into hiding for years to avoid deportation.
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Thu, Feb 27
12:00 pm
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank, with History Professor (online)
In the aftermath of the Civil War, former slaves deposited millions into the Freedman's Bank, hoping it would foster economic growth. However, just nine years later, the bank collapsed due to betrayal by its white financiers, not its Black leadership. Historian Justene Hill Edwards uncovers this pivotal moment in American history, revealing the setback it caused in the struggle for economic autonomy and offering a new interpretation of the bank's failure. "Savings and Trust" explores the bank's impact on racial economic inequality in America.
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Thu, Feb 27
12:00 pm
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12:00 pm
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Discussion | What Pain Teaches Us: Jewish Lessons on Healing (online)
Rabbi Ilana Grinblat shares her journey of healing pain and discovering spiritual tools for body, mind, and soul. What does it take to truly heal? When a routine medical procedure took an unexpected turn, Rabbi Ilana Grinblat was plunged into a two-year journey of pain, resilience, and discovery. In her moving memoir, she shares the profound spiritual lessons she uncovered during her recovery and offers a path toward liberating ourselves--and others--from the constraints that hold us back. Grinblat will be in conversation with AJU's Rabbi Candice Levy as they explore the intersections of faith, healing, and the power of transformation.
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Thu, Feb 27
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Book Club | All Fours by Miranda July
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Feb 27
4:30 pm
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4:30 pm
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Discussion | Designer: Exhibition and Panel Goes Behind the Scenes at a Dance Theatre
Take a peak into the design development process of long-time collaborating dance artists with an interactive exhibition and panel discussion with: Dan Ozminkowski, lighting; Anna-Alisa Belous, costume/scenery; Joel Wilhelmi, sound; and Rob Dutiel, scenery; Gina Solebello, stage management. --- Exhibit Preview: 6-7 p.m. -- Panel: 7 p.m. -- Reception: 8 p.m.
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Thu, Feb 27
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Drifting Symmetries: Projects, Provocations, and Other Enduring Models
The new monograph by Weiss/Manfredi is a manual for expanding the terrain of contemporary architecture to construct more resilient settings for contemporary life. Cofounders Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi will be in conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Justin Davidson, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Feb 27
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird
Author David Gessner presents the story of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo and captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of followers around the world, with 32 pages of stunning color photographs.
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Thu, Feb 27
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Art History Through a Jewish Lens: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (online)
Art historian Ellaine Rosen intoduces Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and his Parisian friends—the sex workers he respected, performers he elevated, and patrons he immortalized. Toulouse-Lautrec was working in Paris during two of the most significant antisemitic scandals of 19th-century France—the Panama Canal Scandal and the Dreyfus affair. How did Lautrec handle the controversies in his art? Was he on the right side of history? The answer is ambiguous.
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Thu, Feb 27
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | The Joffrey Methodology: Demonstration and Conversation
Robert Joffrey was a renowned and sought-after teacher who attracted students and dancers from very different backgrounds. His admirers included international ballet stars like Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, and Erik Bruhn, modern and postmodern icons such as Carmen de Lavallade and Yvonne Rainer, and young aspiring dancers —even Madonna, Patrick Swayze, Ann Reinking, and Charlize Theron. Joffrey was known for his logical, anatomically sound, eclectic approach, which differed from the prevailing methods of the time. He also hand-picked and mentored future teachers—some of whom will be leading a demonstration on Joffrey's methodology. Former Joffrey company artist Nicole Duffy leads a conversation giving a glimpse into training with Joffrey. Registration required.
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Thu, Feb 27
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Women’s Voices in the NYC Afro-Puerto Rican Musical Renaissance
This event will feature women who were part of the early bomba and plena scene in New York City before the emergence of Los Pleneros de la 21, and women who were inspired by LP21 to form all-women groups. Participants in include: Yvette Martínez, Manuela Arciniegas, Luz Rodriguez, and Elena Martínez
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Thu, Feb 27
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
February 27, 2025 is the 165th anniversary of the Right Makes Might speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln to a New York City audience. A speech of great consequence, it has been credited with propelling the then-Illinois statesman to the White House. To mark the occasion, The Cooper Union is pleased to present Steve Inskeep, the author of Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America and cohost of NPR’s Morning Edition, in conversation with ABC News anchor Linsey Davis about a great politician's strategy in a country divided and lessons for our own disorderly present. Many of Lincoln’s greatest acts came about through his engagement with people who disagreed with him; for better or worse, Inskeep argues, that's what democracy requires.
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Thu, Feb 27
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Club | Play Club: Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Play Club is like a book club, but for plays! Whether you are familiar with the art of reading plays, or looking to expand your appreciation for dramatic literature, this book club is an opportunity to read plays you have been meaning to explore or have never considered reading before. Learn about new works, discover new playwrights, and make friends! Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins tells the story of an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a prestigious Manhattan-based literary magazine that are each chasing the same dream: a life as successful writers-and to get out of their cubicles before they turn 30. When a regular day at the office suddenly becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell the career-making story are higher than ever. Registration required.
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Thu, Feb 27
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution: Reimagining the Bolsheviks
The revolutions of 1917 swept away not only Russia’s governing authority but also the property order on which it stood. The upheaval sparked waves of dispossession that rapidly moved beyond the seizure of factories and farms from industrialists and landowners, envisioned by Bolshevik revolutionaries, to penetrate the bedrock of social life: the spaces where people lived. Author Anne O’Donnell reimagines the Bolsheviks’ unprecedented effort to eradicate private property and to create a new political economy—socialism—to replace it.
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Fri, Feb 28
12:00 pm
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12:00 pm
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Discussion | Malcolm 100X: A Radical Centenary
May 19, 2025 is the 100th anniversary of Malcolm X's birth. This event celebrates Malcolm X's global legacy on Black nationalism, internationalism, and anti-colonial and anti-imperial movements. The celebration includes two academic panels, artistic installations, and community discussions. "Women of Color and Malcolm X's Enduring Legacy" This panel examines the profound impact that Black women had on Malcolm X's political thought as well as the enduring influence of his legacy on diverse women of color worldwide. Moderated by Dr. Mona Oraby, the first conversation features Mapping Malcolm editor Najha Zigbi-Johnson and Afro-Caribbean American Muslim artist Nsenga Knight, both of whom draw upon their creative practice and writing to explore how Black women shaped Malcolm's evolving understanding of Black radicalism and internationalism. The second conversation highlights Dr. Maytha Alhassen and Dr. Denise Lim both of whom discuss how Malcolm X's legacy continues to inspire Black-Arab and Black-Asian solidarities today. "Malcolm X, Internationalist" The centenary of Malcolm X's birth offers a unique opportunity to explore his profound international impact beyond U.S. borders. This panel will analyze Malcolm's advocacy for African Americans at the United Nations--linking U.S. racism to internal colonialism, his relationship with the Islamic world and his trips to Africa, and his engagement with intellectuals and activists from outside the US not only influenced his perspectives on global liberation movements and socialism, but his relevance to contemporary political movements. The panelists are academics Robyn Spencer-Antoine (Wayne State University), Kevin Gaines (University of Virginia), Ben Talton (Howard University) and Michael Sawyer (University of Pittsburgh). Hisham Aidi (Columbia University) will chair.
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Fri, Feb 28
2:30 pm
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2:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Culture
Marcos Gonsalez's book makes a case for laziness as an aesthetic-political strategy for countering the oppressive logics of cisheteronormative racial capitalism. Focusing on ways in which queer and trans Latinx people demonstrate the unwillingness of their participation in “productivist” ethics and allied respectability politics, Gonsalez argues that slacking off, lounging, daydreaming, and partying are liberatory practices—revolts that in turn are treated as revolting.
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Fri, Feb 28
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Malcolm X Expanded: Exploring His Legacy at the Intersections of Black Art and the Built Environment
This event brings together organizer Lumumba Bandele, architect Sara Zewde, and Jerald Cooper, the founder of Hood MidCentury Modern to discuss how Malcolm X’s legacy continues to resonate in the worlds of architecture, urban planning, and Black artistic expression. The conversation led by Najha Zigbi-Johnson will be an evening of powerful dialogue and insight, where we explore how history, art, and space intersect to shape our communities today. The program will be followed by a soulful DJ set by Tara, blending music and history to close out the evening.
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Fri, Feb 28
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | 3 South American Artists (online)
Talks will present new research by curators Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, Kiki Mazzucchelli and Miguel A. López, drawing on the themes and approaches of the Museum’s exhibition Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets. With a focus on South America in the long 20th Century, this year’s lecture presents three painters who defied realism, capturing daily life at a time of social, ecological and political changes: Jose Antonio da Silva (Brazil; 1909-1996), Helio Melio (Brazil; 1926-2001) and Rosa Elena Curruchich (Guatemala; 1958-2005). Schedule 1:00 p.m. ET Welcome & Opening Remarks 1:10 p.m. ET Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro on Jose Antonio da Silva (Brazil; 1909-1996) 1:40 p.m. ET Kiki Mazzucchelli on Helio Melio (Brazil; 1926-2001) 2:10 p.m. ET Miguel A. López on Rosa Elena Curruchich (Guatemala; 1958-2005) 2: 40 pm ET Q&A
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Sun, Mar 2
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Discussion | The Life and Legacy of Historic Synagogues in New York and Poland (online)
This panel will explore commonalities and differences in how historic synagogues are preserved and transformed on both sides of the Atlantic. What were these synagogues like in their golden years, what remains of them today, and what does the future hold?
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 2
2:30 pm
Free
2:30 pm
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Talk | Antisemitism and the Left (in-person and online)
In her important and much admired essay October 8th, Genealogy of a Virtuous Hatred, Professor Eva Illouz, Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Paris School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, analyzes the intellectual, political and psychological factors behind what she sees as the embrace by the left of an antisemitism that has become "virtuous", justified on the basis of progressive values, as exemplified by the lack of compassion after the massacre of October 7th. Join us for a fascinating dive into the effects of Foucault's French theory, Derrida's deconstructivism and much more by a lifetime member of the left for whom October 8th was a watershed moment.
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Mon, Mar 3
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Mothers and Sons: Lawyer Caught in Trap
Adam Haslett's new novel is the story of a New York asylum lawyer caught up in the lives of his clients and the mother from whom he’s estranged, a former minister who now runs a women’s retreat center. The book moves between the immigration courts of Manhattan to an intentional community in Vermont.
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Mon, Mar 3
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Book Club | On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle (in-person or online)
Tara Selter, the heroine, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin? Will she ever be able to share her new life with her beloved and now chronically befuddled husband? And on top of her profound isolation and confusion, Tara takes in with pain how slight a difference she makes in the world. (As she puts it: “That’s how little the activities of one person matter on the eighteenth of November.”)
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Mon, Mar 3
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Entrepreneurs & Patriots: George Washington, Samuel Fraunces, and Their Bold Business Ventures (online)
George Washington and Samuel Fraunces developed skills of risk-taking, judgement, and leadership through their entrepreneurial ventures that would later advantage them and the new nation when they chose to join the cause of American patriots. This lecture will spotlight the successes and struggles of both men in their respective business careers that intertwined at important points in American history. Presented by John Berlau.
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Mon, Mar 3
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Forum | Dealing With the Mind
Join a discussion on different aspects of mental health. Discover resources to help your individual journey. Adults of all ages, backgrounds, identities, and ideas are welcome. This program is not intended to take the place of individual therapy or advice of a medical professional.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Mar 4
10:30 am
Free
10:30 am
Free
Book Club | Poetry Discussion Circle: Lesbian Feminist Poets
Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Readings are selected from Poetry Magazine, Poetry Foundation, and poets.org. This month, introduce yourself to influential poems by lesbian feminists from the 70s to the present. Please note that contemporary poetry deals frankly with contemporary issues and all works discussed are artistic expressions selected for an adult audience.
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Tue, Mar 4
2:30 pm
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2:30 pm
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Book Discussion | This Is a Love Story: Life and Death in New York City (online)
Jessica Soffer discusses her novel about marriage, parenthood, life and death. This Is a Love Story is a timeless exploration of family and a glittering ode to New York City.
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Tue, Mar 4
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
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Talk | Irish Jewry through the Ages: Part Three (1945–Present) (online)
Uncover the roots of Jewish life in Ireland from the medieval era through the 19th century. This three-part series delves into the rich history of Jews in Ireland, from their earliest recorded presence in 1079 CE to the evolving Irish-Jewish experience of the 21st century. This session examines the establishment of the Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation and the evolution of Jewish institutions amidst a shrinking community. We’ll discuss how anti-Semitism, institutional racism, and anti-Israel sentiment have affected Irish Jewish life, along with rare instances of support. Concluding reflections will highlight a millennium of Jewish resilience and cultural legacy in Ireland.
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Tue, Mar 4
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibition Discussion
Randy Cohen and Dr. Colleen Hill in an engaging conversation about the exhibition Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities. Cohen's podcast Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are most captivating when they talk not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Hill, senior curator of costume, discusses three particularly meaningful objects featured in the exhibition and how they piqued her curiosity.
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Tue, Mar 4
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
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Lecture | Strolling the Village with Fitz-Greene Halleck
Though a statue of Fitz-Greene Halleck graces the Poet’s Walk in Central Park, the nearly forty years he lived in New York City, between 1808 and 1848, were spent mostly in Greenwich Village. Halleck got his start in newspapers, earning his reputation with versified, “talk of the town”-style poems that reported on some of the hottest cultural events of his day. A confirmed bachelor, Halleck also came into contact with some of the earliest forms of New York’s night life, theater, and sex work. This lecture will introduce audiences to this once-famous but now forgotten poet, and along the way it will trace some of the paths he walked during one of New York City’s fastest and most consequential periods of urban development. Speaker Jordan Alexander Stein is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University.
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Tue, Mar 4
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Your Comrade, Avreml Broide: A Worker's Life Story - 1944 Yiddish Novel with Translator and Theater Director
Join translator Annie Sommer Kaufman and theater artist Jenny Romaine (co-founder of the OBIE winning visual theater collective Great Small Works) for a discussion of the 1944 Yiddish novel, which follows the family history, immigration, and radicalization of an everyman named Avreml Broide.
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Tue, Mar 4
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments (in-person and online)
The long-time head of Human Rights Watch discusses taking on the biggest villains and toughest autocrats around the world. Kenneth Roth spent nearly three decades directing Human Rights Watch and building it into a powerful global institution. His first book, Righting Wrongs, combines memoir and analysis to refute the skeptics who question whether it is possible to defend human rights effectively. Roth pulls back the curtain on the strategies and tactics that Human Rights Watch and its allies employed to force governments to behave better. At a time of global instability and rising right-wing extremism, Roth provides an insider’s view of how it is possible for a relatively small group of people—through persistence and creativity—to move even the most powerful and despotic governments.
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Tue, Mar 4
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find music, cosmology, fascism. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender center of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found. Compact, powerful and intense, The Melancholy of Resistance, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, "is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type."
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Tue, Mar 4
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | All That Glitters...: Exhibition Tour
A tour will introduce visitors to the organizational and thematic choices of the exhibition, focusing on the materiality, conservation, and social meanings of shiny and reflective materials in fashion.
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Wed, Mar 5
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
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Book Discussion | Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination
Webb Keane will discuss his new book, a mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhuman.
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Wed, Mar 5
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
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Discussion | Federico Garcia Lorca, Flamenco, and the Harlem Renaissance (in-person and online)
Experts discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's relationship with the music and Black artists he met in New York City.
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Wed, Mar 5
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
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Discussion | Leaving the Hasidic Community: Reality vs Popular Culture
Speaker: Zalman Newfield, PhD Prof. Newfield is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology and the acting Director of the Jewish Studies Program. Speaker: Heba Gowayed, PhD Prof. Gowayed is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Mar 5
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star
Author Mayukh Sen presents a beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Mar 5
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | October Files-David Hammons: Essays on One of the Most Important Living Black Artists
A collection of essays on one of the most important living Black artists of our time. Documenting five decades of visual practice from 1982 to the present, the book features contributions from scholars, artists, and cultural workers, and includes numerous images of the artist and his work that are not widely available. Participants include: Kellie E. Jones (Columbia University) - Moderator Sampada Aranke (The Ohio State University) Abbe Schriber (University of South Carolina) Coreen Simpson renowned photographer & designer (NY) Tobias Wofford (Virginia Commonwealth University)
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Wed, Mar 5
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Songs She Wrote: 40 Hits by Pioneering Women of Popular Music
This book celebrates women’s contributions to popular music by looking at dozens of well-known figures like Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, and Dorothy Parker as well as unearthing more unknown women who made major contributions. In this talk and his book, Michael Garber explores the style and artistry of female songwriters, lyricists, and composers in the first half of the twentieth century and provides intriguing backstories and analysis of forty hits. Learn about Maria Grever (“What a Difference a Day Makes”) who was the first female Mexican composer to achieve international acclaim and the fascinating story of African American lyricist Lucy Fletcher (“Sugar Blues”), among many others in this book. The talk will be accompanied by song selections from Peter Muir, Lauren Sansaricq and Charlie Judkins (aka Miss Maybell and Her Jazz Age Artistes).
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Wed, Mar 5
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Adventures in Italian Opera with Met Bass Rene Pape
The fifth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features the legendary bass Rene Pape, who will be singing the role of Rocco in Beethoven's Fidelio at The Metropolitan Opera.
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Wed, Mar 5
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Healing through Remembrance: Memorializing Covid, Five Years and Beyond (in-person and online)
Since May 2020, Naming the Lost Memorials, a volunteer team of artists, activists, and folklorists, has curated memorial sites in NYC for COVID-19 victims. From 2023-2025, they’ve collaborated with 45 community groups to install memorials at Green-Wood Cemetery and St. Mark’s Church during Mano a Mano’s Día de Muertos celebration. Join the conversaton with communityartists, writers, and partners.
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Wed, Mar 5
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Ugliness: Power and Beauty
Moshtari Hilal discusses her book -- translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer—dealing with attraction, repulsion and mounting pressures to conform to norms of appearance. How do power and beauty join forces to determine who is considered ugly? What role does that ugliness play in fomenting hatred? Moshtari Hilal, an Afghan-born author and artist who lives in Germany, has written a touching, intimate, and highly political book. Dense body hair, crooked teeth, and big noses: Hilal uses a broad cultural lens to question norms of appearance—ostensibly her own, but in fact everyone’s. She writes about beauty salons in Kabul as a backdrop to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, Darwin’s theory of evolution, Kim Kardashian, and a utopian place in the shadow of her nose. With a profound mix of essay, poetry, her own drawings, and cultural and social history of the body, Hilal explores notions of repulsion and attraction, taking the reader into the most personal of realms to put self-image to the test. Why are we afraid of ugliness?
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Wed, Mar 5
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Why Humans Are Unremarkable Compared to Other Species
From an evolutionary standpoint, modern human bodies are surprisingly ordinary compared to other species. But what does that actually imply? Habiba Chirchir, assistant professor of anthropology at The Ohio State University, explores how skeletal structure relates to behavior, using evidence from human fossils, contemporary populations, and comparisons with species like wolves and dogs, to argue that humans have "domesticated" themselves, revealing the deep evolution of our biology and behavior. For ages 21+.
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Wed, Mar 5
7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Middletide: A Young Doctor's Murder (online)
Author Sarah Crouch's gripping and intensely atmospheric novel. A disquiet descends on a small town after the suspicious death of a beautiful young doctor, with all clues pointing to the reclusive young man who abandoned the community in chase of big city dreams but returned for the first love he left behind.
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Thu, Mar 6
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Talk | Mordechai: Hero or Hothead? (online)
Explore the celebrated Jewish leader of the Purim story with religion scholar Raymond Jasen. Dive into the laws, rituals, and customs of Purim and an alternative perspective on co-hero Mordechai in The Book of Esther.
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Thu, Mar 6
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Grief Is for People: Losing a Friend to Suicide
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley’s memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend. A Best Book of the Year, as named by Vogue, TIME, The Washington Post, Esquire, NPR, Elle, LitHub, Oprah Daily, Publishers Weekly, The Independent, New Statesman, and more, now out in paperback. How do we live without the ones we love? After the pain and confusion of losing her closest friend to suicide, Sloane Crosley looks for answers in philosophy and art, hoping for a framework more useful than the unavoidable stages of grief.
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Thu, Mar 6
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Moving Image: A User's Manual by Peter B. Kaufman
130 years since the birth of film, the moving image—from movies to TV to Tiktok—is today's most popular information medium. Join Peter B. Kaufman, Senior Program Officer at MIT Learning, for a conversation about the ascendance of video as explored in his new book The Moving Image: A User's Manual, with audio archivist Marcos Sueiro Bal. Video (television, film, the moving image generally) is today's most popular information medium. Two-thirds of the world's internet traffic is video. Americans get their news and information more often from screens and speakers than through any other means. The Moving Image is the first authoritative account of how we have arrived here, together with the first definitive manual to help writers, educators, and publishers use video more effectively. Drawing on decades as an educator, publisher, and producer, MIT's Peter Kaufman presents new tools, best practices, and community resources for integrating film and sound into media that matters. Kaufman describes video's vital role in politics, law, education, and entertainment today, only 130 years since the birth of film. He explains how best to produce video, distribute it, clear rights to it, cite it, and, ultimately, archive and preserve it. With detailed guidance on producing and deploying video and sound for publication, finding and using archival video and sound, securing rights and permissions, developing distribution strategies, and addressing questions about citation, preservation, and storage—across the broadest spectrum of platforms, publications, disciplines, and formats—The Moving Image equips readers for the medium's continued ascendance in education, publishing, and knowledge dissemination in the decades to come.
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Thu, Mar 6
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | History of Abolitionist Movement with Scholars (online)
In this panel on "State Violence: Prisons, Police, Politics," five scholars explore the history behind the abolitionist movement. Orisanmi Burton revises the Attica Rebellion's history, Donna Murch examines Black left politics in the '80s and '90s, Mary Frances Phillips discusses Ericka Huggins' resistance to state violence, and Charles W. McKinney covers the evolution of the Black freedom struggle.
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Thu, Mar 6
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Club | Fragrant Palm Leaves by Thich Nhat Hanh
A rare window into the early life of a spiritual icon, Fragrant Palm Leaves provides a model of how to live fully, with awareness, during a time of change and upheaval.
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Thu, Mar 6
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Loca: Young People Living on the Edge
It’s 1999, and best friends Sal and Charo are striving to hold on to their dreams in a New York determined to grind them down. Sal is a book-loving science nerd trying to grow beyond his dead-end job in a new city, but he’s held back by tragic memories from his past in Santo Domingo. Free-spirited Charo is surprised to find herself a mother at twenty-five, partnered with a controlling man, working at the same supermarket for years, her world shrunk to the very domesticity she thought she’d escaped in her old country. When Sal finds love at a gay club one night, both his and Charo’s worlds unexpectedly open up to a vibrant social circle that pushes them to reckon with what they owe to their own selves, pasts, futures, and, always, each other. Loca follows one daring year in the lives of young people living at the edge of their own patience and desires. With expansive grace, it reveals both the grueling conditions that force people to migrate and the possibility of friendship as home when family, nations, and identity groups fall short. With author Alejandro Heredia
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Thu, Mar 6
7:00 pm
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Discussion | Democracy and the Future of Immigration Policy (online)
President Trump's executive order on immigration and birthright citizenship has reignited debates about constitutional rights, national identity, and democracy in the U.S. How do these policies challenge democratic values and affect marginalized communities? What are the historical and legal implications of restricting birthright citizenship and immigration rights? With Doris Meissner, former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Jonathan Blitzer (The New Yorker).
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Thu, Mar 6
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Yiddish Tangos and Klezmer Mambos (online)
This panel discussion will explore the remarkable influence of Latin American music and dance on the culture of Yiddish speaking communities in the United States. Ronald Robboy will discuss Latin American musical influences upon Yiddish theater composers, including Sholom Secunda, Abraham Ellstein, and Alexander Olshanetsky; Sonia Gollance will discuss the popularity of dances like the Tango and Mambo in the Borscht Belt, as exemplified by movies like Dirty Dancing and Mamboniks; and Josh Kun will discuss the influence of Latin American music on post-war Jewish music and the influence of Jewish music on U.S. Latino/a artists.
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Mon, Mar 10
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | Celebrating 90 Years of 92NY Moving Dance Forward
Since the 1930s, the 92nd Street Y has provided a home for modern dance—a space for experimentation, discussion, demonstration, and community interaction. Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm, and Anna Sokolow were among the dance center’s founding faculty when it opened in 1935. Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Jose Limon, Merce Cunningham, Pearl Lang, and many others developed important work there. In 1960, Alvin Ailey debuted his most famous work, Revelations, in Kaufmann Concert Hall—and later credited 92NY with helping launch his own dance company. More than a stage, 92NY helped shape the very contours of modern dance as we know it. In this evening event, a gathering of three generations of choreographers, dancers, and directors reflect on the institution’s enduring influence and their personal connections to it. Joan Finkelstein, Executive Director of the Harkness Foundation for Dance and former Director of Dance at 92NY, will join them in conversation to look back and consider how the spirit of experimentation that began at 92NY continues to shape the art form today. Registration required.
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Mon, Mar 10
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity (online)
Monica Miller and Sarah Lewis will discuss Miller's pioneering study of the black dandy and the ongoing resonance of this cultural phenomenon. Slaves to Fashion charts the course of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. Interpreting performances and representations of black dandyism in particular cultural settings and literary and visual texts, Miller emphasizes the importance of sartorial style to black identity formation in the Atlantic diaspora.
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Mon, Mar 10
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Forum | Dealing With the Mind
Join a discussion on different aspects of mental health. Discover resources to help your individual journey. Adults of all ages, backgrounds, identities, and ideas are welcome. This program is not intended to take the place of individual therapy or advice of a medical professional.
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Tue, Mar 11
10:30 am
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10:30 am
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Book Discussion | Abraham: The First Jew (online)
Rediscover the story of Abraham, the first Jew, through the research and interpretation of author Anthony Julius. The story of Abraham is one of faith vs. skepticism, critique vs. devotion, and above all a reflection of the Jewish people. Join author Anthony Julius and AJU’s Pinchas Giller as they discuss his new book Abraham: The First Jew, a biography that examines the foundational figure and father of Judaism. Discover new perspectives on Abraham’s dual legacy and how his journey is reflected in today’s challenges and identity in Judaism.
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Tue, Mar 11
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Book Discussion | To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement (in-person and online)
Half a century ago, the Soviet Union found itself unexpectedly challenged by a group of Soviet citizens who achieved global fame in the longest battle of the Cold War – the battle of ideas. The struggle of Soviet dissidents for the rule of law and human rights made them instant heroes in the West as they pursued the goal of containment of Soviet power from within. Rather than see dissidents as surrogate soldiers of democracy and liberalism behind the iron curtain, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause takes as its point of departure the idea that dissidents were Soviet people. How do orthodoxies generate their own heresies? University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin Nathans will be in conversation with The New Yorker’s Jennifer Wilson.
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Tue, Mar 11
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | 3 New Books on Interior Design
A celebration of interior design with Caroline Gidiere, Marcus Mohan, and Beth Webb, the authors, respectively, of Interiors for a Life in Good Taste, The Romance of Home, and Embracing Beauty.
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Tue, Mar 11
5:00 pm
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5:00 pm
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Talk | "What Makes It Italian?": Verdi and… (online)
“What Makes It Italian?” is a music listening and discussion group led by Gina Crusco, who has acted as maestro del coro for opera in Italy; instructed music at The New School; and directed Underworld Productions. The encounter will focus on: Conosciuto: Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901) Sconosciuto: Saverio Mercadante (1795 – 1870) Mercadante was as famous as he was prolific during his lifetime, and Verdi incontestably drew upon his understanding of dramatic writing. It is Verdi’s music that has endured, while Mercadante has fallen into oblivion.
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Tue, Mar 11
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Crafted Kinship: Inside the Creative Practices of Contemporary Black Caribbean Makers (in-person and online)
Author and artist Malene Barnett to discuss her new publication, a vibrant celebration of over 60 contemporary Black Caribbean makers reshaping the boundaries of art and design. Through powerful interviews and stunning photography, this book immerses you in a rich tapestry of multidisciplinary creativity—from bold ceramics to intricate textiles. Barnett will take us deeply into stories of identity, Black womanhood and manhood, and the complex legacies of migration and diaspora as each artist connects heritage with innovation in ways that captivate and inspire us.
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Tue, Mar 11
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
Nicholas Fox Weber discusses his new biography. In the early 1920s, surrounded by the roaring streets of avant-garde Paris, Piet Mondrian began creating what would become some of the most recognizable abstract paintings of the 20th century. With rectangles of primary colors against a dazzling white background, this was geometric abstraction in its purest form. These revolutionary compositions exhilarated, intoxicated, confused, and enraged the international public—and changed the course of modern art forever.
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Tue, Mar 11
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street
Author Paulina Bren tells the story of how women infiltrated Wall Street starting in the swinging sixties, when "No Ladies" signs hung across the doors of its luncheon clubs and, more discreetly, inside the brokerage houses and investment banks, up until 9/11. First came the ambitious secretaries who saw that making money might be within their grasp, then came the first female Harvard Business School graduates, who soon discovered an equal degree did not mean equal opportunity. By the 1980s, as markets went into turbodrive, women were being recruited from elite campuses to join in the high-stakes culture of the wolves of Wall Street. As engaging as it is enraging, the stories in She-Wolves offer an illuminating deep dive into the collision of women, finance, and New York. After Bren's talk, she'll be joined by Museum director and architecture historian Carol Willis to discuss how lower Manhattan's Financial District was the stage for a new set of actors.
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Tue, Mar 11
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Malaparte: A Biography
Curzio Suckert (1898-1957)—best known by his pen-name Malaparte—was not only a literary master but one of the mystery men of twentieth-century letters. The son of a cosmopolitan German businessman, his mother an Italian, Malaparte led a life that was intimately entwined from start to finish with the twentieth century’s troubled history, and only recently has it become possible to begin to separate fact from the screen of fictions with which he continually surrounded himself. Author Maurizio Serra tells the story of a precocious child who hurried to enlist in the French Army and endured the horrors of trench warfare in World War I. Taking up the pen of the journalist in the interwar years, Malaparte both allied himself and fell out with Mussolini, writing his provocative bestseller The Technique of the Coup d’Etat to popularise the lessons of the Bolshevik revolution and the fascist March on Rome before being sent into exile in provincial Italy.
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Tue, Mar 11
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Misleading Lives: The Perils of Ancient Biography (in-person and online)
Mary Beard, tThe acclaimed classicist, shares insights on researching and writing about ancient subjects.
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Tue, Mar 11
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The League of Kitchens Cookbook: Brilliant Tips, Secret Methods and Favorite Family Recipes from Around the World (in-person and online)
The founder of New York’s beloved cooking school joins special guests to celebrate the culinary expertise of women and immigrants from around the world. Food speaks a language that transcends cultures. In 2014 Lisa Kyung Gross founded the League of Kitchens to help empower immigrant women to share their culinary expertise and culture through hands-on workshops in their homes and online. Kyung Gross’s unique cooking school blends storytelling with practical cooking advice. A dream-team of women from around the world welcome students into their homes, teaching family recipes from Mexico, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Afghanistan, India, Argentina, Japan, Iran, and beyond. The new The League of Kitchens Cookbook invites readers to bring the classes into your own kitchen.
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Tue, Mar 11
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life
This talk is based on Elena Borisova’s recent book researching what migration is and what it does in rural Tajikistan – one of the most remittance dependent countries in the world. Exploring this dependency, Borisova moves beyond economistic push-pull narratives about post-Soviet migration and foreground the experiences of those who ‘stay put’ and struggle to reproduce their moral communities.
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Wed, Mar 12
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | All That Glitters: Conservation and Sustainability of Fashion Collections
A panel discussion on the conservation of dress collections, exploring how the development of new fashion materials and industry technology affects deterioration. The sustainability of fashion is considered from the stage of initial production to long-term care in a museum. The panel includes conservators Alison Castaneda and Callie O'Connor, and graduate conservation student Katherine Shark.
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Wed, Mar 12
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | Ask A Cemetarian (online)
Thanatologist Matilda Garrido and Gabrielle Gotto, Director of Public Programs at Green-Wood Cemetery, take a deep dive into the day to day life of a cemeterian. Gabrielle will share how working around the dead shapes her philosophies and life practices, as well as how she aims to bring the beauty of Green-Wood to the public. She may even reveal some secrets!
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Wed, Mar 12
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Behind Notre-Dame’s Monumental Restoration (in-person and online)
The devastating fire at Notre-Dame de Paris on April 15, 2019 reminded the world of the significance of humanity’s built heritage and inspired a resolute commitment to rebuild. The extraordinary project that restored the beloved French landmark in just five years marks a triumph in preservation and a renewed commitment to safeguarding our shared cultural heritage. Following Notre-Dame's reopening in December 2024, get a behind-the-scenes look at the revival of this icon of French medieval architecture. Special guests will include Philippe Villeneuve, chief architect for historic monuments in France, including Notre-Dame de Paris; Barry Bergdoll, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University; Bas Smets, landscape designer; and Patrick Malloy, dean at the church, in conversation with WMF President and CEO Bénédicte de Montlaur.
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Wed, Mar 12
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Jews, Humans and Animals: A View from Early Hebrew Printing
Ishai Mishory (Columbia University) explores the visual signification of Otherness in the first-ever illustrated printed book in Hebrew, Gershom Soncino’s 1490-1491 edition of Isaac ibn Saḥula’s Meshal ha-ḳadmoni (“Fable of the Ancient”). This talk examines the first-ever illustrated printed book in Hebrew: Gershom Soncino’s 1490-1491 edition of medieval Spanish poet Isaac ibn Saḥula’s Meshal ha-ḳadmoni (“Fable of the Ancient”). While the talking animals of this a fable compendium are easily identifiable textually as “Jewish” – they are conversant not simply in the finer points of Hebrew and Aramaic biblical exegesis and Talmudic argumentation, but indeed in medieval Aristotelian philosophy – are they also understood visually as “Jewish”? The talk examines the ‘translation’ of their identity into the Renascent, and specifically northern-Italian, ambit of the book’s printing. Can the rise in ‘signification anxiety’ around Jews and other ‘others,’ which engulfed 15th-century Italian city-states, help us make sense of these animals’ visual representation – and of larger Italian Renaissance ideas of the ‘human’? Ishai Mishory is a scholar of Jewish history and religion who focuses on early modern Italy and the early printed book.
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Wed, Mar 12
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Club | Animanga Club
Adult Animanga Club aims to bring together adults in a space to discuss anime and manga. All topics under the umbrella of animation and manga are welcome. You will be watching anime from Crunchyroll and discussing selected manga.
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Wed, Mar 12
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk/Performance: Beyond the Aperture
Beyond the Aperture examines how Victoria Keddie's practice navigates the shifting landscape of machine perception and data collection through sound, installation, and performance. Moving beyond traditional optical recording, Keddie's work reveals how contemporary surveillance and information systems generate new forms of seeing and knowing that transcend human visual perception. Through projects like Electrona in Crystallo Fluenti and Pshal P'shaw, she transforms invisible streams of information—from orbital debris trajectories to neural language patterns—into immersive sonic and visual experiences that make tangible the hidden architectures of our data-mediated world. In conversation with curator and media historian Liz Flyntz, Keddie will discuss her methodologies for translating machine-gathered data into experiential artworks. The talk involves a live performance demonstrating these transformative processes in real time.
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Wed, Mar 12
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Capturing "Between": Artists in Conversation
This program brings together photographers Yusuf Ahmed and Andina Marie Osorio in conversation with scholar Joyous R. Pierce about the importance of visual art and personal archives in navigating the various states of "betweenness" that affect the African Diaspora.
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Wed, Mar 12
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings (in-person and online)
Explore Persia’s founding through conversation, performance, and the Library’s own collections. Around 1000 CE, one of Iran’s greatest poets, Ferdowsi, wrote what has become considered a bedrock of Iranian nationhood, the Shahnameh, or The Book of Kings. It is the longest poem written by a single poet, tracing Persian collective memory from its mythic origins through the Arab Conquest of the 7th century. From Rostam’s heroics to the tragic love of Bijan and Manijeh, Persian-speaking people of all ages across the Middle East and South Asia can recite lines from it by heart to this day. In the West, the book remains relatively unknown. This March, the New Victory Theater will stage Song of the North, Hamid Rahmanian’s shadow-puppet adaptation of Bijan and Manijeh. Rahmanian also edited a new translation of the Shahnameh. He will join others for reading and discussion about the epic’s enduring power. Some of the Library’s incredible illuminated manuscript editions of the Shahnameh will be on display before and after the program.
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Wed, Mar 12
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Moving Image: A Usuer's Manual
Peter B. Kaufman's book is the definitive guidebook for using video in modern communication. Video (television, film, the moving image generally) is today’s most popular information medium. Two-thirds of the world’s internet traffic is video. Americans get their news and information more often from screens and speakers than through any other means. The Moving Image is the first authoritative account of how we have arrived here, together with the first definitive manual to help writers, educators, and publishers use video more effectively. Drawing on decades as an educator, publisher, and producer, MIT’s Peter Kaufman presents new tools, best practices, and community resources for integrating film and sound into media that matters.
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Wed, Mar 12
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Meet Me in the Kitchen: Making Healthy Choices
Nutritionist Lauren C. Kelly offers creative twists on classic recipes, food prep and cooking trends. From appetizers, to entrees, to dessert, learn how to design menus using helpful tips and current research findings for better health and eating.
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Thu, Mar 13
11:00 am
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11:00 am
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Talk | Artist Talk: Afric-American Picture Gallery
Jonathan Michael Square will deliver a talk on his upcoming exhibition Afric-American Picture Gallery. This discussion will serve as a springboard for a broader exploration of Square’s multifaceted career, highlighting his curatorial practice, contributions to digital humanities, innovative approaches to pedagogy, and scholarship on the visual legacy of slavery. By weaving these themes together, Square will illuminate how his interdisciplinary practice reimagines and enriches our understanding of history, material culture, and the African American experience.
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Thu, Mar 13
12:30 pm
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12:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Undertow: Christian Nationalism and the Fever Dream of Fascism (in-person and online)
Author Jeff Sharlet is one of the most important contemporary chroniclers of Christian nationalism. In works of immersive investigative journalism, he has charted the ways that particular forms of Christianity are braided into U.S. political life, reaching the highest levers of power. Organized around a series of “dispatches” (from on the ground coverage of Trump rallies in the 2016 and 2020 elections to interviews with pastors and members of right-wing militia churches), The Undertow takes us into the lives of everyday believers, their sorrows, hopes, and angers, and shows how they are magnetized into the fever dream of an America made great again through the figure of Trump.
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Thu, Mar 13
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | “Daylight at the Exit”: Women Translating Kafka
What does it mean for Kafka’s work that the first translations were by women? Michelle Woods examines this question in a lecture on Milena Jesenská and Willa Muir, and their roles in establishing Kafka as a globally influential writer. For years, both women have been misread and misrepresented: one was idealized as Kafka’s lover, the other faulted for the limitations of Kafka’s translations. Woods challenges these characterizations, re-centering the lives of these brilliant women in the story of Kafka and discussing their feminist impact on modern perceptions of his works.
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Fri, Mar 14
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Symposium | Reclaiming Control – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Insights from Mount Sinai Doctors
Whether you’ve been living with OCD for years or have recently been diagnosed, you are welcome. - Explore the Latest Advances: Discover cutting-edge treatments and diagnostic tools that can make a real difference. - Get Your Questions Answered: Engage in open discussions about medications and surgeries. - Hear Real Stories: Gain inspiration and insights from those who have been on this journey. - Achieve Your Health Goals: Learn how to take control of your health - Connect with Compassionate Experts: Hear from the leading OCD specialists who are here to listen and offer guidance and support you or your loved one in working towards the best possible lifestyle.
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Sat, Mar 15
10:00 am
Free
10:00 am
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Forum | Death Cafe: A Discusson on Death
An informal, group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives, or themes. The purpose of 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.
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Sat, Mar 15
3:30 pm
Free
3:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919–1945 (in-person and online)
Vladimir Tikhonov’s recent book deals with the process through which Marxian socialism was domesticated and applied in different realms of society, thought and culture in colonial-age Korea. Seen as the alternative modernity, the way out from both premodern backwardness and modern predicaments, Marxian socialism gave life to a distinctively Korean brand of Marxist thought which focused its critique on such reified concepts as “nation” or “national culture.” It enabled Korean intellectuals to criticise contemporary far-right totalitarianism in Europe and search for ways of gender liberation by empowering women and emphasizing their agency. It was predicated on a vision of an interconnected globe, a spatio-temporality in which concurrent developments in Soviet Union or Chinese revolution were just as important as what was happening domestically, or inside the Japanese Imperial borders. As Vladimir Tikhonov argues, while these alternative modernist visions were never fully realized, their impact on both post-colonial Korean states was in many ways decisive.
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Mon, Mar 17
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
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Book Discussion | This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South (online)
More than 3 years passed between the last battle in the North and the British surrender at Yorktown. This lecture tells what actually happened in those 3 too-little known years that forced the British to lose the war–and enabled America to win it. With author Alan Pell Crawford.
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Mon, Mar 17
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Forum | Dealing With the Mind
Join a discussion on different aspects of mental health. Discover resources to help your individual journey. Adults of all ages, backgrounds, identities, and ideas are welcome. This program is not intended to take the place of individual therapy or advice of a medical professional.
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Tue, Mar 18
10:30 am
Free
10:30 am
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Book Club | Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
This novel brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing.
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Tue, Mar 18
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | Illiberal Religious Momfluencers: The Political Language of Wellness
This talk examines illiberal Jewish and Christian women Instagram influencers who focus on wellness, domesticity, and motherhood. Using digital ethnography and interviews, Fader explores where and how influencers inspire each other and interact, elaborating a political illiberal religious women’s authority that creates change, while imagining a new public space for illiberal religion in the US today. Speaker Ayala Fader is Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University.
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Tue, Mar 18
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Matchmaker Matchmaker: Find Me a Love That Lasts (online)
Netflix’s Jewish matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom in an exclusive conversation about her groundbreaking new book. She will discuss her paradigm-shifting approach to modern dating, debunk common myths about love, and share real-life success stories from her matchmaking clients. Whether you’re single, searching, or simply fascinated by the art of matchmaking, this is your chance to learn from the star of Jewish Matchmaking and gain expert advice on love, relationships, and lasting partnership.
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Tue, Mar 18
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson
The first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story. Associate Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family’s ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America’s highest court within the span of one generation.
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Tue, Mar 18
4:30 pm
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4:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing
Author and cultural historian Elizabeth L. Block and Digital Media and Strategic Initiatives Manager Tamsen Young discuss Block's latest book, a riveting and diverse history of women's hair that re-establishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America. A book signing will follow the event.
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Tue, Mar 18
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Talk | "What Makes It Italian?": Catalani and... (online)
"What Makes It Italian?" is a music listening and discussion group led by Gina Crusco, who has acted as maestro del coro for opera in Italy; instructed music at The New School; and directed Underworld Productions. The encounter will focus on: Conosciuto: Alfredo Catalani (1854 - 1893) Sconosciuto: Luigi Mancinelli (1848 - 1921) In the late Ottocento, Northern Europe's taste for myth and fairytale crossed the Alps, along with Wagnerian harmony. La Wally (1892) by Alfredo Catalani was premiered at La Scala, and Luigi Mancinelli's Isora di Provenza (1884) at Bologna.
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Tue, Mar 18
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Early Thirties: Looking for Love Never Gets Old
Josh Duboff presents a hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about two thirtysomething best friends’ messy search for connection and love in New York.
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Tue, Mar 18
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibition Discussion
This show explores the fascinating connections between fashion and cabinets of curiosities. Nearly 200 garments and accessories from The museum collection—many of which have never before been on view—are selected to pique curiosity through their rarity, beauty, or originality.
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Wed, Mar 19
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
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Lecture | The Unseen Revelers: A Brief History of Female Nightlife Activists in the Village (online)
A virtual lecture that delves into the vibrant history of female nightlife activists in the iconic Greenwich & East Village neighborhoods of New York City. This program will explore the remarkable contributions of women who took up space in taverns, bars, lounges, speakeasies and clubs to advance political ideas; highlight emerging subcultures & artforms; gathered people of classes/races/ethnicities, and shift the zeitgeist. The Unseen Revelers features iconic dames and pivotal moments, like Billie Holiday singing 'Strange Fruit'; Norma Miller doing the Lindy, Sylvia Robinson introducing Hip Hop to new audiences at Webster Hall; and Patti Astor gathering New Wave artists and graffiti writers in one space.
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Wed, Mar 19
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Trapped: Life Under Security Capitalism and How to Escape It (in-person and online)
Can security be bought? At this moment when people are nervous about their safety, authors Setha Low and Mark Maguire discuss how security has become a commodity, causing both those with and those without it to live in fear. In their new book, they explore -- in interviews with police, private contractors, and ordinary citizens -- how the security-industrial-complex actually increases anxiety -- and what can be done to break down walls for a freer, safer, and more just society.
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Wed, Mar 19
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Faces and Facades: Artist Talks About her Work (online)
Join Andrea Arroyo as she guides you through creating her exhibition, "Faces and Facades," a tribute to the uptown community and the women who strengthen it. The paintings blend organic and architectural forms, inspired by the women and structures of Northern Manhattan, offering inspiration for creatives, artists, and feminists alike.
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Wed, Mar 19
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Our Science, Ourselves: How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science
Christa Kuljian’s book tells the story of a trailblazing network of women scientists in the Boston area in the 1970s, ‘80s and ’90s including Hammonds, Ruth Hubbard, Rita Arditti, Evelyn Fox Keller, Anne Fausto-Sterling, and Banu Subramaniam. Inspired by the social and political activism of the women’s movement, and organizations like Science for the People and the Combahee River Collective, they began to develop feminist and anti-racist critiques of science. The book tells the origin story of feminist science studies, and also illustrates how engaging with these critiques is often difficult for many women scientists, including Nancy Hopkins, initially a “reluctant feminist.”
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Thu, Mar 20
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19 by Edna Bonhomme
Historian and writer Edna Bonhomme discusses her new book A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19. Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout history, outbreaks of disease have been exacerbated by and gone on to further expand the racial, economic, and sociopolitical divides we allow to fester in times of good health. Princeton-trained historian Edna Bonhomme’s examination of humanity’s disastrous treatment of pandemic disease takes us across place and time from Port-au-Prince to Tanzania, and from plantation-era America to our modern COVID-19-scarred world to unravel shocking truths about the patterns of discrimination in the face of disease. Based on in-depth research and cultural analysis, Bonhomme explores Cholera, HIV/AIDS, the Spanish Flu, Sleeping Sickness, Ebola, and COVID-19 amidst the backdrop of unequal public policy. But much more than a remarkable history, A History of the World in Six Plagues is also a rising call for change.
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Thu, Mar 20
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Club | Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel by Bonnie Garmus
Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the 1960s and despite the fact that she is a scientist, her peers are very unscientific when it comes to equality. The only good thing to happen to her on the road to professional fulfillment is a run-in with her super-star colleague Calvin Evans (well, she stole his beakers.) The only man who ever treated her-and her ideas-as equal, Calvin is already a legend and Nobel nominee. He's also awkward, kind and tenacious. Theirs is true chemistry. But as events are never as predictable as chemical reactions, three years later Elizabeth Zott is an unwed, single mother and the star of America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth's singular approach to cooking ('take one pint of H2O and add a pinch of sodium chloride') and independent example are proving revolutionary. Because Elizabeth isn't just teaching women how to cook, she's teaching them how to change the status quo.
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Thu, Mar 20
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | After Acts of Art: Three Generations of Black-Owned Galleries
To mark the publication of the Acts of Art in Greenwich Village exhibition catalogue, this is a dynamic and thought-provoking conversation highlighting some of New York's thriving Black-owned galleries. Bringing together gallerists who first opened their pioneering spaces in the 1970s and 1980s with representatives from Black-owned galleries founded in the past decade, the conversation will bridge generations, uncovering unique perspectives, and shared experiences. Don’t miss this chance to explore the varied histories and the multiple futures of Black creative spaces. The catalogue will be available for purchase at the event or you can order online in our bookshop.
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Fri, Mar 21
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Talk | Afghan Artist Showcase (in-person and online)
An event featuring the work of 5 University in Exile for Afghan Artist Fellows. This event will feature a keynote presentation with Shirin Neshat, an award winning artist and filmmaker.
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Fri, Mar 21
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Ghosts of Iron Mountain:: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today
Phil Tinline presents his compelling work of investigative journalism that explores the surprising origins and hidden ramifications of an epic late 1960s hoax, perpetrated by cultural luminaries, including Victor Navasky and E.L. Doctorow. For readers curious about the surprising connections between John F. Kennedy, Oliver Stone, Timothy McVeigh, Alex Jones, and Donald Trump.
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Mon, Mar 24
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Forum | Dealing With the Mind
Join a discussion on different aspects of mental health. Discover resources to help your individual journey. Adults of all ages, backgrounds, identities, and ideas are welcome. This program is not intended to take the place of individual therapy or advice of a medical professional.
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Tue, Mar 25
10:30 am
Free
10:30 am
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Book Discussion | Saltwater: Thriller about Family's Criminal Secrets (online)
Katy Hays's novel is an electrifying thriller about an opulent family retreat to Italy that’s shattered by the resurfacing of a decades-old crime.
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Tue, Mar 25
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion
Author and fashion historian Nancy MacDonell will be discussing her new book with Deputy Director Patricia Mears. This will be an illuminating conversation about the extraordinary women who put American fashion on the international stage and created the template for modern style.
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Tue, Mar 25
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
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Talk | "What Makes It Italian?": Respighi and... (online)
"What Makes It Italian?" is a music listening and discussion group led by Gina Crusco, who has acted as maestro del coro for opera in Italy; instructed music at The New School; and directed Underworld Productions. The encounter will focus on: Conosciuto: Ottorino Respighi (1879 – 1936) Sconosciuto: Giovanni Salviucci (1907 – 1937) Giovanni Salviucci’s star was rising when his career was cut short by death at age 29, just a year after the death of his teacher, Ottorino Respighi.
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Tue, Mar 25
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Global Battlefields: Memoir of a Legendary Public Intellectual from the Global South
Walden Bello’s book is the story of a Filipino activist and intellectual, who went from Princeton PhD in sociology and anti-Vietnam War activist to pro-democracy activist against the Marcos Dictatorship, member of Congress and Vice-Presidential candidate, University Professor and intellectual.
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Tue, Mar 25
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Belonging with Songs: Towards an Historical Anthropology of Medieval French Chansons
Why do we sing? How does singing shape how we see ourselves and how we relate to one another? Emma Dillon takes up these universal questions in the context of a medieval song community. Her talk explores Medieval French songs (trouvère songs) as a social practice, linked to specific people and families from Northern France and to other forms of social activity. She offers a case study of twelfth-century trouvères (using new recordings of their songs), and shows how songs, charters and seals foster a sense of belonging to a community. Her talk also introduces the UKRI-funded project, Musical Lives, which takes further the possibility of song-centred histories through interdisciplinary collaboration with scholars and performers.
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Tue, Mar 25
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Launch of Three Chapbooks by Jeffrey C. Wright, Bonny Finberg, and Barry Wallenstein
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright received his MFA after studying with Allen Ginsberg. A New Romantic poet, he is author of 20 books of verse, including Blue Lyre and Doppelangster; Self Portraits in a Funhouse Mirror. His graphic book of poems and artworks, Party Everywhere, resulted from a residency at eMediaLoft and was designed by Barbara Rosenthal and published by Xanadu Press. His work appears in New American Writing and Best American Poetry, 2023. He has received an Acker Award for both publishing and writing as well as a James Tate Award for poetry. Wright publishes Live Mag! You can see his puppet shows on Youtube. Bonny Finberg’s work has been published internationally, translated into four languages. Her photographs have appeared in various journals and galleries. Her books include Kali's Day; How the Discovery of Sugar Produced the Romantic Era; Deja Vu; Sitting Book, Xanadu Press. Her work is included in Evergreen Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Big Bridge, The Villager, Sensitive Skin, Best American Erotica, A Gathering of The Tribes, American Book Review, Live Mag!, Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Grand Journal. Barry Wallenstein is the author of eleven collections of poetry, the most recent being a chapbook Odd Men Out from Xanadu Press. Barry is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the City University of New York, an editor of the journal, American Book Review and advisory editor at BigCityLit.
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Tue, Mar 25
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Price of Peace: Money and Democracy and the Life of John Maynard Keynes (in-person and online)
Paul Krugman, one of today’s leading economists, joins in a discussion with Zachary D. Carter, author of an award-winning biography of John Maynard Keynes, the great 20th-century thinker and father of macroeconomicsl. What can the life and ideas of Keynes, who traveled from Bloomsbury group parties to the halls of power on two continents, teach us about today’s debates over government spending and inequality? Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, longtime former columnist for The New York Times, and distinguished professor of Economics, helps to illuminate Keynes’ theories for today. He speaks with Carter, biographer, columnist at Slate, and a fellow at the Global Order at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Tue, Mar 25
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Trauma Plot: The Cost of Survival
A brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir by Jamie Hood on trauma and the cost of survival
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Tue, Mar 25
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
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Talk | Photographer Talk: Picturing Fashion
A talk with fashion photographer Diane Allford. Born in Philadelphia, Allford grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She initially took photography classes to help with her work as a broadcast and print journalist. Soon after, she fell in love with photography. Allford’s style centers narrative. Her fashion photography is part of her journey starting out as an urban street-style photographer. Today, she is a professional fashion and advertising photographer. Allford shoots editorial and commercial imagery for marketing, eCommerce, and advertising. Through collaboration with fashion designers, wardrobe stylists, and hair and makeup artist professionals, she creates fashion images based on the aesthetics of the clothes, the locations, and the magic that happens when everyone comes together on set. There is a different approach in post-production where she creates surreal fashion-forward fine art digital collages that incorporate the fashion photos with additional visual elements that sometimes include social commentary.
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Tue, Mar 25
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Discussion | On the Italian Stage: Solo Shows (online)
On the Italian Stage is a series of encounters conceived and led by Laura Caparrotti (Artistic Director, Kairos Italy Theater) that journeys into the history of Italian theater to explore its language, and its contribution to Italian society and world theater. Solo shows are increasingly becoming a cornerstone of Italian theater. Their affordability, ease of production, and flexibility for touring make them a practical choice for many artists and companies. Despite their simplicity, these performances are highly impactful, often delivering powerful narratives with minimal resources. In fact, solo shows may currently represent the heart of the Italian theatrical landscape, offering a genuine reflection of both the audience’s interests and the artists’ passions. They provide an intimate platform for storytelling, giving voice to personal, social, and cultural themes that resonate deeply in today’s Italy.
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Wed, Mar 26
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
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Talk | 150 Years of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: A Tour of the New York Studio School
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was born on January 9, 1875. The life she chose for herself was nothing short of revolutionary, having a huge impact upon the art world, and the Village. Mark the 150th anniversary of Whitney’s birth with a tour of the very place she created, the original Whitney Museum (now the New York Studio school), which contains many of her incredible artworks 2024 marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the New York Studio School in 1964 by Mercedes Matter and her students. Since its inception, the New York Studio School has been an innovator in arts education, prioritizing daily continuity of study for artists through work in the studio. In 1967, the School moved into what had been the original Whitney Museum of American Art on West 8th Street, where it continues today to offer its signature programming: MFA and Certificate programs, Evening Lecture Series, exhibitions, and internationally recognized Marathons. The tour will discuss the storied art career and patronage of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who was also a prominent sculptor in her time. Participants will walk through the historic spaces that have played a significant role in the history of American art for over a century, including the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Studio, decorated by Robert Winthrop Chanler. This tour will be guided by Lauren Allshouse, the Librarian at the New York Studio School. She received an Master of Library Science degree from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor of Arts in Painting from the University of Minnesota.
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Wed, Mar 26
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Whatever Happened to Frankie King?: Brooklyn, Books, and Basketball
Come meet father-son duo, author-illustrator Eli Neugeboren and author Jay Neugeboren for an authors' talk for the new graphic memoir.
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Wed, Mar 26
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: My Mother and Eye
A public talk with artist Carmen Winant and Public Art Fund Senior Curator Melanie Kress as they discuss My Mother and Eye, Winant’s Public Art Fund exhibition and her largest public art project to date. On view from February to April 2025, My Mother and Eye features 11 compositions assembled from over 1,200 film stills from works created by Winant and her mother as teenagers. The works will be displayed on 300 JCDecaux bus shelters in New York, Chicago, and Boston. This exhibition explores themes of generational kinship, self-discovery, and agency, offering a reflection on the personal and cultural landscapes shared by mother and daughter. During the talk, Winant will offer a short experimental lecture, give insights into her creative process, the significance of public space for this project, and the ways in which photography can shape both personal narratives and collective histories. The conversation will delve into the powerful role of self-representation and the importance of bringing intimate, familial stories into public view.
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Wed, Mar 26
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Discussion | Israel on Our Minds with Ambassador Ido Aharoni (in-person and online)
Even those of us who follow the news from Israeli regularly are left with more questions than insight: How should we think about Israel security in the face of a rapidly changing Middle East? What is the government doing in response to the worldwide condemnation of the Jewish State . . . and what could it do? Has the Start-Up Nation sputtered out? Can the breach between the religious and the secular populations be healed — and how? Does the Israeli government take the concerns and opinions of the Jewish diaspora seriously enough? Should it? With so many questions — and so much confusion — they have recruited the ideal person to pull back the curtain on the complicated situation: an Israel diplomat, university professor, writer and investor, Ido Aharoni.
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Thu, Mar 27
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
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Book Discussion | Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia
When the hammer and sickle came down in late 1991, Russia’s feverish new market opened for business. From banking to breweries, sectors emerged out of nowhere, in a country that had never had a functioning economy. For the next three turbulent decades, a wild, proto-capitalist free-for-all transformed Russian society. Then, in 2022, Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The market started to collapse; Western firms fled Moscow’s skyscrapers. No country this large had ever transformed itself as dizzyingly as 1990s Russia–now, just as dramatically, it was over. The intervening decades had seen phenomenal successes and crushing failures; the creation and destruction of enormous fortunes. How did it all happen? Charles Hecker's book brings to life the complex, vivid color of one of the greatest experiments in the history of global commerce. What have businesses learnt–or failed to learn–from this adventure, both about Russia and about dynamics between countries and companies in the face of relentless change?
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Thu, Mar 27
12:00 pm
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12:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Reviving a Yiddish Masterpiece: A Conversation on Sons and Daughters (online)
Discover Chaim Grade’s literary treasure and the enduring legacy of Yiddish culture with translator Rose Waldman. Translator Rose Waldman and AJU’s Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson explore Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters, now available in its long-awaited English translation. Praised by Elie Wiesel as “one of the greatest contemporary Yiddish novelists,” Grade’s novel captures the decline of traditional Jewish life in 1930s Poland and Lithuania. Discover this literary treasure and the enduring legacy of Yiddish culture in this engaging conversation.
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Thu, Mar 27
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance (in-person and online)
Editor Svitlana Biedarieva's volume traces the development of art practices in Ukraine from the 2004 Orange Revolution, through the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity, to the ongoing Russian war of aggression. Contributors explore how transformations of identity, the emergence of participatory democracy, relevant changes to cultural institutions, and the realization of the necessity of decolonial release have influenced the focus and themes of contemporary art practices in Ukraine. The chapters analyze such important topics as the postcolonial retrieval of the past, the deconstruction of post-Soviet visualities, representations of violence and atrocities in the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine, and the notion of art as a mechanism of civic resistance and identity-building. The book will be of interest to scholars of art history, Eastern European studies, cultural studies, decolonial studies, and postcolonial studies.
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Thu, Mar 27
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age (online)
Author Martha Moffitt Peacock provides a novel interpretive approach to the artistic practice of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age. From the beginnings of the new Republic, visual celebrations of famous heroines who crossed gender boundaries by fighting in the Revolt against Spain or by distinguishing themselves in arts and letters became an essential and significant cultural tradition that reverberated throughout the long seventeenth century. This collective memory of consequential heroines who equaled, or outshone, men is frequently reflected in empowering representations of other female archetypes: authoritative harpies and noble housewives. Such enabling imagery helped in the structuring of gender norms that positively advanced a powerful female identity in Dutch society.
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Thu, Mar 27
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Skulls, Sculptures and the Kaiser’s Museums
What can museums tell us about a nation’s self-image? How does Germany approach its colonial past in light of the Holocaust? Berlin’s national museums have become the focus of current debates around repatriation and colonial collections – most visibly those now housed inside the contested Humboldt Forum. But the Humboldt Forum is just the beginning.This talk moves beyond the ethnological collections inside the resurrected Prussian castle in the center of Berlin. It ties recent discussions to other, hitherto neglected sites, such as the seemingly unproblematic antiquity collections from the former Ottoman Empire on Berlin’s Museum Island, and collections of human remains from ‘German East Africa' held in the storage facilities on the city’s periphery. How were all these collections entangled not only with each other but also with global networks of trade, material extraction and exploitative labour? In the late nineteenth century, these collections were furthermore exploited to consolidate triumphalist narratives of 'Western civilization' and human history – not least by providing the raw materials for a new form of ‘scientific’ antisemitism and racism that developed around 1900 onwards: with fatal consequences in the twentieth century. In spite of these problematic legacies, however, Berlin’s urban center still reflects an imperial mindset in the wake of an affirmative monumentalization of the Wilhelmine era. This tells us as much about race and memory politics in Germany today. Following the lecture, Mirjam Brusius will be joined in conversation by Professor Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam. A reception will conclude the evening.
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Thu, Mar 27
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Club | Play Club: How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
Play Club is like a book club, but for plays! Whether you are familiar with the art of reading plays, or looking to expand your appreciation for dramatic literature, this book club is an opportunity to read plays you have been meaning to explore or have never considered reading before. Learn about new works, discover new playwrights, and make friends! How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel is the story of a woman who learns the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel. Vogel’s play is a wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival, a sexual coming of age through the 60s, 70s and 80s as seen through the provocative lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man. Registration required.
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Thu, Mar 27
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Discussion | Every Work Has Several Faces: Writing and Translation
International literary luminary Yoko Tawada, born in Tokyo, lives in Berlin and publishes novels, stories, essays, poems, and plays in both Japanese and German as well as translating between these languages. She has received dozens of literary awards including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Goethe Medal, the Kleist Prize, and the National Book Award. Some of her major works available in English include The Emissary and Scattered All Over the Earth, translated from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani, and Memoirs of a Polar Bear and Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky.
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Thu, Mar 27
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic (online)
Simon Winchester's latest book explores how humans have attained, stored, and disseminated knowledge. Examining such disciplines as education, journalism, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography, and broadcasting, he looks at a whole range of knowledge diffusion—from the cuneiform writings of Babylon to the machine-made genius of artificial intelligence, by way of Gutenberg, Google, and Wikipedia to the huge Victorian assemblage of the Mundanaeum, the collection of everything ever known, currently stored in a damp basement in northern Belgium.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Mar 28
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | Binding Friendship: Writers Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich
This talk will feature Megan Behrent (Associate Professor of English, New York City College of Technology) in conversation with English Program student Ju Ly Ban. Behrent will discuss her current book project, which explores the friendship between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich and reflects on their literary and historical contributions. This discussion will also explore the process of writing and publishing a scholarly book.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Mar 28
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
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Lecture | "To Become a Soviet Fet": Unofficial Poetry and the Russian Nature Lyric Tradition
A key feature of post-WWII Soviet uncensored poetry is its complicated, often ironic relationship to the older lyrical traditions enshrined by official Soviet culture. One such tradition is Romantic nature poetry, with its emphasis on contemplation, rapture, and other forms of expressive subjectivity and authenticity. These forms, however, seem problematic in the Soviet 1960s and 1970s. This talk examines a body of work by poets associated with the Lianozovo group – Evgeny Kropivnitsky, Vsevolod Nekrasov and Yan Satunovsky – that repeatedly evokes Afanasii Fet, the foremost practitioner of 19th-century lyric expressivity and attunement to nature. What motivates this unexpected connection? Fet emerges as shorthand for nature poetry and Naturgefühl more generally, and as a symbol of its irrelevance and unsustainable escapism. The lecture sets Lianozovo’s dialogue with Fet against the backdrop of his reception by earlier poets and contrasts it with references to Alexander Pushkin’s nature lyric in the work of Leonid Aronzon, an unofficial poet of a very different formation, whose allusions, by contrast, seek to re-enchant the contemporary world. Speaker Luba Golburt is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination(University of Wisconsin Press, 2014) and has published articles on Enlightenment and Romanticism, as well as on modern Russian poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. She is currently working on a book-length study of the Russian nature lyric tradition and is co-editing, with Catherine Ciepiela and Stephanie Sandler, the Oxford Handbook of Russian Poetry.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 31
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy that the History Books Left Out by Jennifer Ashley Tepper
In honor of Women’s History Month, author and theater historian Jennifer Ashley Tepper will celebrate her newly released book with a presentation and performance. Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy that the History Books Left Out is the first-ever book about female musical theater writers. In this program, Tepper will give an inside look at some of the more than 300 inspiring women featured. Expect behind-the-scenes photos and stories about prolific and celebrated Broadway writers like Betty Comden and Jeanine Tesori, women who have written musicals but gained fame elsewhere like Dolly Parton and Sara Bareilles, and dramatists you may not have heard of—but definitely should have—from Micki Grant, whose mega-hit musical about the Black experience made her the first woman to write book, music, and lyrics for a Broadway show to María Grever, the first Mexican female composer to achieve international success—who made her Broadway debut at age 56. Tepper will also present guest performers sharing some fascinating songs written by women for musicals that will bring the book to life and make you look at theater in a whole new way. Registration required.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 31
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Discussion | Making Truths Believable Again in an Age of Conspiracist Mythocracies (in-person and online)
In an age of rampant misinformation and disinformation, authors Yves Citton (Mythocracy, Verso 2025) and François Noudelmann (Director of La Maison Française, author Can We Make Truth Great Again? Max Milo, 2025) come together to discuss the nature of reality vs. myth, and whether truth has the capacity to endure in an environment in which facts have an alternative.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 31
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Club | Graphic Novel Book Club: Bitch Planet Book One: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro
In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest crop of fresh femmes arrive, can they work together to stay alive or will hidden agendas, crooked guards, and the deadliest sport on (or off!) Earth take them to their maker?
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 31
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Talk | Surviving a Plague: Art & Activism in the Time of AIDS
Award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker David France speaks on the achievements, in the midst of terrible necessities, of AIDS activists in art and politics. Filmmaker David France is the director and co-writer of the Oscar-nominated and critically-acclaimed, How to Survive a Plague, the documentary and subsequent book about the early years of the AIDS epidemic. The film earned him The John Schlesinger Award (given to a first-time documentary or narrative feature filmmaker) from the Provincetown International Film Festival and the PBS Independent Lens broadcast won the Peabody Award and was nominated for two Emmys. David is also a best-selling author and an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in national publications.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 31
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Discussion | Fashion at the 1925 Art Deco Exhibition
Deputy Director Patricia Mears, Swann Gallery owner Nicho Lowry, and jewelry specialist Virginia Salem in a panel moderated by Couture Council member Gordon Kendall in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Paris' 1925 Art Deco Exhibition. Speakers will discuss the exhibition's continuing influences on fashion and design at this important event.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Apr 2
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
Free
Gallery Talk | Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibition Discussion
This show explores the fascinating connections between fashion and cabinets of curiosities. Nearly 200 garments and accessories from The museum collection--many of which have never before been on view--are selected to pique curiosity through their rarity, beauty, or originality.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Apr 7
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
Free
Discussion | Israel on Our Minds with Ambassador Ido Aharoni (in-person and online)
Even those of us who follow the news from Israeli regularly are left with more questions than insight: How should we think about Israel security in the face of a rapidly changing Middle East? What is the government doing in response to the worldwide condemnation of the Jewish State . . . and what could it do? Has the Start-Up Nation sputtered out? Can the breach between the religious and the secular populations be healed — and how? Does the Israeli government take the concerns and opinions of the Jewish diaspora seriously enough? Should it? With so many questions — and so much confusion — they have recruited the ideal person to pull back the curtain on the complicated situation: an Israel diplomat, university professor, writer and investor, Ido Aharoni.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Apr 24
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
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Discussion | Israel on Our Minds with Ambassador Ido Aharoni (in-person and online)
Even those of us who follow the news from Israeli regularly are left with more questions than insight: How should we think about Israel security in the face of a rapidly changing Middle East? What is the government doing in response to the worldwide condemnation of the Jewish State . . . and what could it do? Has the Start-Up Nation sputtered out? Can the breach between the religious and the secular populations be healed — and how? Does the Israeli government take the concerns and opinions of the Jewish diaspora seriously enough? Should it? With so many questions — and so much confusion — they have recruited the ideal person to pull back the curtain on the complicated situation: an Israel diplomat, university professor, writer and investor, Ido Aharoni.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, May 29
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
Free
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