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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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174 free talks, lectures, discussions in New York City (NYC) Thu, 01/23/2025 - 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 | 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, Jan 23
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
Free
Discussion | Cabaret Tony Nominee Steven Skybell in Discussion and Performance (online)
A recording of the public radio show, Person Place Thing, with actor Steven Skybell and Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Zalmen Mlotek. The conversation will consist of reflections on Skybell and Mlotek's work, including their experiences with the North American production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish and Skybell's current role as Herr Schultz in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club on Broadway, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Skybell and Mlotek will also perform live music throughout the event.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jan 23
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Being Jewish: A New Podcast (online)
A live conversation with artist-turned-activist Jonah Platt and AJU's Alyssa Silva as they take a behind-the-scenes look at his new podcast, Being Jewish with Jonah Platt. Inspired to amplify Jewish voices, especially after the devastating Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, Platt created a space to celebrate Jewish identity, challenge stereotypes, and engage diverse audiences. Platt and Silva will discuss his journey to podcasting, his choice of star-studded guests, and how he is fulfilling his mission to develop thought-provoking conversations about what it means to be proudly Jewish today.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jan 23
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Chief Rabbi's Funeral: The Untold Story of America's Largest Antisemitic Riot (online)
On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York's Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city's chief rabbi, the eminent Talmudist Jacob Joseph. All went well until the procession crossed Sheriff Street, where the six-story R. Hoe and Company printing press factory towered over the intersection. Without warning, scraps of steel, iron bolts, and scalding water rained down and injured hundreds of mourners, courtesy of antisemitic factory workers, accompanied by insults and racial slurs. The police compounded the attack when they arrived on the scene: under orders from the inspector in charge, who made no effort to distinguish aggressors from victims, his officers began beating up Jews, injuring dozens. To the Yiddish-language daily Forward, the bloody attack on Jews was not unlike the pogroms many Jews remembered bitterly from the Old Country, although no one was killed. But this was America, and Jews were now present in sufficient numbers, and possessed sufficient political clout, to fight back. Fed up with being persecuted, New York's Jews set a pattern for the future by deftly pursuing justice for the victims. They forced trials and disciplinary hearings, accelerated retirements and transfers within the corrupt police department, and engineered the resignation of the police commissioner. Scott D. Seligman's The Chief Rabbi's Funeral is the first book-length account of this event and its aftermath.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jan 23
6:00 pm
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Discussion | An Evening in Siena: The Endurance of Its Great Painters
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hisham Matar and Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 curator Stephan Wolohojian reflect on the enduring significance of place and Siena’s great painters. Matar’s book, A Month in Siena, explores a moment in the writer’s life when he immersed himself in the beautiful yet complex fabric of the city. It considers how centuries-old art can illuminate our own inner landscape to shed further light on the present world around us.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jan 23
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant: A Short Story Master
Editor Garth Risk Hallberg discusses this collection of over thirty short stories by one of the greatest fiction writers in American history, now available in a single volume for the first time ever. Mavis Gallant’s extraordinary mastery of the short story remains insufficiently recognized. She may be the best writer of stories since the early-1950s prime of John Cheever, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O’Connor, and even in such august company, her work is sui generis. Gallant’s short fiction refines the art of the story even as it expands the boundaries of what a story can be. Above and beyond that, however, it constitutes a striking, almost avant-garde reduction. To read her is to discover something about the very nature of story: how for better or worse life is caught up in it, and how on the page that common predicament can come to life.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jan 23
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Discussion | Two Internationally-Acclaimed Authors in Conversation
A reading by Valeria Luiselli, followed by a conversation/Q&A with Darin Strauss and a reception/signing. Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. She is the winner of the DUBLIN Literary Award, two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award, and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award Darin Strauss is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy, More Than It Hurts You, and The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story, as well as the memoir Half a Life. He has received awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Library Association Award, and many others.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jan 23
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Arturo A. Schomburg Lecture and Conversation
January 24 marks the anniversary of the birth of Afro-Puerto Rican scholar Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938), a writer, bibliophile, and historian dedicated to the collection and amplification of the artistic and academic work of people of African descent. Schomburg's seed collection to the Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints included more than 5,000 books; 3,000 manuscripts; 2,000 etchings and paintings; and several thousand pamphlets. This year's annual lecture will feature members from the teams at Fisk University, who, in partnership, are creating a digital edition of the archival papers of Arturo Schomburg, the bibliophile who built two of the world’s most important collections on Black history—one in Harlem and another in Nashville. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Vanessa K. Valdes, author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (2017).
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Fri, Jan 24
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Bearing Witness: Black Printmakers “Calling Out” America! (in-person and online)
An engaging conversation with esteemed scholar and historian Leslie King Hammond. This presentation reflects on the artistry of African American printmakers in the era of President Roosevelt’s Works Project Administration of 1935 to 1941, work that had a powerful impact on subsequent generations of Black printmakers. Each artist–then and now–sought to create original and truthful prints in their chosen mediums and modalities to “signify on” (or indirectly criticize) the realities of their lives as citizens in the United States. Leslie King Hammond is an art historian, artist, curator, educator, community innovator, and Professor Emerita, former Dean of Graduate Studies, and Project Director for the Ford Foundation-Philip Morris Fellowships for Artists of Color, and Founding Director of the Center of Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Jan 24
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Vietnam War: A Military History (online)
Based on thousands of pages of military, diplomatic, and intelligence documents, Geoffrey Wawro’s book offers a definitive account of a war of choice that was doomed from its inception. In devastating detail, Wawro narrates campaigns where US troops struggled even to find the enemy in the South Vietnamese wilderness, let alone kill sufficient numbers to turn the tide in their favor. Yet the war dragged on, prolonged by presidents and military leaders who feared the political consequences of accepting defeat. In the end, no number of young lives lost or bombs dropped could prevent America’s ally, the corrupt South Vietnamese regime, from collapsing the moment US troops retreated.
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Fri, Jan 24
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Discussion | Mystical Abstraction: Women, Spiritualism, and the Arts (online)
Jennifer Higgie and Hilma’s Ghost in a conversation about Shaker gift drawings, spiritual abstraction, and women artists. Shaker gift drawings are mysterious. On view in the exhibition Anything but Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic, these divinely inspired artifacts testify the vibrant and complex vision of the women who made them.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Jan 26
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Many Lives of Anne Frank: A New Biography (online)
In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929–1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust.
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Mon, Jan 27
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
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Lecture | Family Separation and Antisemitism: Reconstructing the Migrations of Jewish Siblings from Poland Across the Early 20th Century (in-person and online)
The lecture presents a collective biography of Jewish Siblings from the Polish town of Lubartów from the early 1920s through the 1950s. The five siblings traverse the globe in an attempt to evade antisemitism. Their journeys take them to various locations, including Germany, England, France, Venezuela, Colombia, and the Auschwitz concentration camp. Some of them survived the Holocaust, while others were murdered. By combining a transnational perspective with a microhistorical methodology, this lecture addresses the relations between migrations and persecution. Speaker Claire Zalc is Research Director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, France) and a professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, France).
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Mon, Jan 27
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | In American Fashion: Ruth Finley's Fashion Calendar (online)
Author Natalie Nudell takes an in-depth look at Finley’s unique contribution to the development of the time-system and culture of American fashion, making her a key player during the ascendency of American fashion design. Nudell is a fashion and textile historian and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the History of Art Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology SUNY.
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Mon, Jan 27
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Discussion | Holocaust Remembrance Day
Commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year with an event that highlights the creative process behind current New York's Holocaust-related theater. In partnership with the National Jewish Theater Foundation's Holocaust Theater International Initiative, NJTF President, producer, director, and educator Arnold Mittelman will interview theater creators. This program illuminates how artists use a variety of source material to create unique works that impact audiences and combat hate and antisemitism. Registration required.
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Mon, Jan 27
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Discussion | Musicians in Dialogue (online)
Martha Redbone is a composer, vocalist, and US Artist Fellow known for blending folk and mountain blues from her Kentucky upbringing with the eclectic grit of her teenage years in pre-gentrified Brooklyn. Drawing from her gospel-singing father's voice and her mother's Indigenous and African American heritage, she expands the scope of American Roots music. Claudia Acuna is a Chilean jazz vocalist who has been working with Redbone on a project that explores the music diaspora of the Americas through Indigeneity, transatlantic slavery, as well as the history of colonization and how that culture continues through maternal lines. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A with attendees.
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Mon, Jan 27
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | New York Nico's Guide to NYC by Nicolas Heller
“Unofficial talent scout of NYC,” filmmaker, and social media icon New York Nico sits down to discuss his new guidebook, featuring his top 100 New York institutions, shops, and eateries and the characters who shape them, with writer and social media creator Noah Rinsky. What makes New York City the greatest city in the world? As one of the foremost chroniclers of New York’s local legends and urban glory, New York Nico has thoughts. Nico gets asked a lot of questions about his hometown. Where’s the best slice, pastrami sandwich, cup of coffee, vintage store, or bookshop? In this must-have city guide, New York Nico takes readers on an epic tour of his 100 can’t-miss NYC spots, including food, shopping, and so much more. As he traverses the five boroughs, he offers a raw and authentic “locals-only” guide to the city so nice they named it twice. But behind every New York institution are the personalities who make them special. Nico’s debut book functions as a document of a city and its people during a moment of transition. You’ll meet and learn the stories of beloved characters like Henry at Army Navy Bags, Yuval at Liebman’s Deli (the last kosher deli in the Bronx), Julia who serves Sri Lanken food to riders of the Staten Island Ferry, Jamal at Village Revival Records, and Big Mike and the dozens of barbers who speak Italian, Russian, Greek, Spanish, French, Polish, Uzbek, and Farsi at Astor Place Hairstylists. By hearing the living histories of New York’s most colorful characters, Nico shows us the heart and soul of the place they call home.
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Mon, Jan 27
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Book Club | Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
This classic novella follows Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, as he battles a massive marlin in the Gulf Stream. Noted for its modern style and exploration of themes like courage, resilience, and personal triumph, The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most acclaimed works. Published in 1952, it solidified his literary legacy and contributed to his 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Join an exploration of this captivating novel followed by an engaging discussion with fellow book lovers. You don't need to have read the entire book to join. Everyone is welcome!
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Mon, Jan 27
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Lecture | New Views of Samothrace and Its Mystery Cult
A lecture about fascinating Samothrace. Dr. Bonna D. Wescoat — Director of the American School, Emory University Professor of Art History, and head of excavations at Samothrace — discusses this tiny windswept island located in the northern Aegean Sea. During antiquity, its fame emanated from its mystery cult of the Great Gods, also known as the Cabeiri. The rites of initiation promising protection in times of need were kept secret, but archaeology, 3D modeling, and experiential investigations provide an illuminating window into the efficacy of this famous cult and its rituals.
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Mon, Jan 27
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution (online)
Richard Brookhiser's engaging book tells the life-story of John Trumbull, and also explains the significance of Trumbull’s celebrated Revolutionary War paintings, which reflected Trumbull’s personal experience as aide to George Washington and to Horatio Gates. Four of John Trumbull's most famous paintings, The Declaration of Independence, Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General George Washington Resigning His Commission, are on display in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Other Trumbull paintings are displayed in the Yale University Art Gallery, including Trumbull’s iconic The Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jan 27
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Mon, Jan 27
7:00 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, Jan 28
10:30 am
Free
10:30 am
Free
Lecture | “America – A New World for Jewish Children”: An Unknown Letter by Sholem Aleichem (online)
Within the Herman Bernstein collection at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research lies an unknown and previously unpublished letter by Sholem Aleichem (Shalom Rabinowitz, 1859–1916), one of Yiddish literature’s most renowned writers. Unidentified for over a century, it was first recognized in 2017, 101 years after the author’s death. In the letter, Sholem Aleichem addresses the theme of Jewish cultural assimilation in general, and Americanization in particular. Apparently written not long after Sholem Aleichem first arrived in America in 1906, the letter is significant because it demonstrates his approach to the phenomenon of Jewish American children, a subject which he developed during the last decade of his life and which culminated in his final literary work, Motl, the Cantor’s Son. A close reading of the letter sheds new light on the his impressions of American Jewish immigrants and, in particular, of American Jewish children. The excitement and fascination generated by this topic would turn out to be one of his main literary subjects until his death 10 years later. In this presentation, Yael Levi will explore the letter’s content, situating it within the historical and cultural context of Sholem Aleichem’s biography and epistolary legacy, with a particular focus on the pivotal period of Jewish migration and the experience of East European Jewish children in America.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jan 28
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Cursed: AI and the Body
Author Charlie Engman harnesses generative AI’s uncanny distortions of the physical world to explore the pleasure, humour, and horror of the body.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jan 28
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Lazarus Man by Richard Price
Join WNYC's Alison Stewart and Richard Price for a live conversation about his newest book, Lazarus Man. East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the street with a thick layer of ash. As the city’s rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. By day’s end, six bodies have been recovered but many of the other tenants are missing. It's here we find intertwining portraits of a group of compelling and singular characters whose lives are permanently affected by the disaster. Anthony Carter—whose miraculous survival transforms him into a man with a message and a passionate sense of mission. Felix Pearl—a young transplant to the city whose photography and film work that day provoke in this previously unformed soul a sharp sense of personal destiny. Royal Davis—the owner of a failing Harlem funeral home whose desperate trolling of the scene for potential customers triggers a change of heart and a quest to find another path in life. And Mary Roe—a veteran city detective, driven in part by her own family’s brutal history, who becomes obsessed with finding one of the building’s missing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jan 28
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The New Internationals by David Wright Falade (In Person AND Online!)
David Wright Falade will discuss his new book, The New Internationals with award-winning author Julie Orringer. Paris, 1947. Still recovering from the Nazi occupation that left its economy in shambles and unraveled its social fabric, the city brims with international students, American GIs, and young people from France’s colonies. Cecile Rosenbaum, from a bourgeois Jewish family that lost everything, meets Minette Traore, a feisty, French-born girl of Senegalese descent, on the bus to a Communist Youth Conference. There, she also meets Sebastien Danxome, an aspiring architecture student from West Africa, and romance blooms. Back in Paris, as these young internationals haunt the cafes and jazz clubs of the Latin Quarter, Cecile and Sebastien find their budding love muddied by confused loyalties and unyielding cultural traditions. Nuanced, powerful, and sharply realized, The New Internationals chronicles the postwar awakening and the young women and men who rose up—and came together—in an attempt to imagine a better world.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jan 28
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Talk | Fashion Lines: Designer and Donor Lineages in the Texas Fashion Collection (online)
Texas Fashion Collection director Annette Becker gives an exploration of the creative lineages of famous designers - Cristobal Balenciaga, Hubert de Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta - and the clientele who worked closely with them to manifest their shared fashion dreams. Annette Becker is a material culture historian whose research focuses on fashion and dress. She serves as the director of the Texas Fashion Collection, an archive of nearly 20,000 garments and accessories housed within the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jan 28
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini: The Anatomy of a Fascist Crime
Author Mauro Canali’s research is based on the trial records smuggled to London by the lawyer of the Matteotti family, Giuseppe Emanuele Modigliani when it became clear that he too was a target of the regime. Modigliani documented that Matteotti was investigating bribes from the American Sinclair Oil Company to the Italian government in exchange for the monopoly to drill on Italian soil and in the Italian colonies. Matteotti’s murder in 1924 opened the way to establishing the Fascist dictatorship and to redesigning the institutions of the state. Through the lens of the trial and Modigliani’s activity, Canali addresses the history of the war over natural resources of which Matteotti remained a marginal yet highly symbolic victim. Canali follows the parallel routes of corruption and social struggles flowing between worlds politically and ideologically apart, how they shaped different populist and democratic narratives, and the rise of an inextricable bond between ruling classes, warfare, and industrial interests. Giuseppe Emanuele Modigliani (1872-1946) was one of the founders of the Italian Socialist Party and of the first Italian union. He developed and maintained strong ties with unions and socialist activists in the US, especially with David Dubinsky, Bruce Vladek, and the Local 89 International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. His relation to Matteotti before the murder and during the trial, illuminates a complex map of alliances and conflicts between the two countries and the role of unionism in the battle against authoritarianism.
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Tue, Jan 28
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Scorpion Queen: Based on a Malian Folktale
Mina Fears discusses her dark fantasy inspired by a Malian fairy tale about a princess whose suitors are challenged to gruesome trials. Deep within the imperial palace at Timbuktu, Amie has suffered a devastating loss. Once the daughter of a prosperous salt merchant Amie’s life was cruelly overturned in a matter of months. At sixteen, Amie now finds herself disinherited, framed for a scandalous crime, and forced to serve Princess Mariama of Mali. Her father, Emperor Sulyeman, has created a series of impossible trials for his daughter's suitors. When they fail, he publicly boils them alive, littering Mariama’s path to marriage with ninety-nine corpses.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jan 28
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Many Lives of Anne Frank: A New Biography (online)
In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929–1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust.
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Tue, Jan 28
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Talk | Digital Photography Talk
A talk with photographer and photo-illustrator William King. King has significant expertise in studio lighting, commercial photography, and compositing. King's recent accomplishments include photographing multiple long-term projects; "Holiday Windows" as ornaments, "Conceptual Illustrative portraiture", "Channeling Magritte", and "The Living Marsh" in NYC. King is currently serving as a Board member for APA New York, and the Sierra Photo New York group.
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Tue, Jan 28
7:00 pm
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Tue, Jan 28
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Book Discussion | Henri Bendel and the Worlds He Fashioned: Dressing New York
Author Tim Allis looks at Henri Bendel's remarkable journey from a humble upbringing in late-nineteenth-century Louisiana to the pinnacle of high society. Starting with a small hat shop in Greenwich Village in 1896, he eventually redrew the map of fashion retail, turning then-strictly residential Fifty-Seventh Street into "the Rue de la Paix of New York." He introduced discerning clients to such influential designers as Schiaparelli, Molyneaux, and Chanel, and he outfitted Astors, Vanderbilts, and stars of stage and screen. Tim Allis was a senior editor at In Style for twelve years.
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Wed, Jan 29
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Lecture | Branding Modernity: Marinetti, Futurism and the Invention of the Avant-Garde
Speaker Luca Somigli is Professor and Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. He has published extensively on various aspects of Italian and European modernism and avant-garde, including the volumes Legitimizing the Artist. Manifesto Writing and European Modernism, 1885-1915 (University of Toronto Press, 2003) and Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde.
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Wed, Jan 29
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Club | Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
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Wed, Jan 29
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Book Club | My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
My Heart Is a Chainsaw is a 2021 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones and the first book in The Indian Lake Trilogy. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls readers into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.
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Thu, Jan 30
4:30 pm
Free
4:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Ruben Ortiz-Torres
To mark the occasion of Ruben Ortiz-Torres' first major solo exhibition in New York, this is a lively discussion that pairs the artist with his sister, Gabriela Ortiz, a much-celebrated classical music composer. Their family biography is the starting point for a rich conversation about the arts, which sets the stage for a discussion about what these two talented siblings share in their creative lives. The focus will then shift to the ways their work in art and music have been shaped by personal and public events over the past five years. The evening will be introduced by Betti-Sue Hertz, curator of Ruben Ortiz-Torres: Zonas de Colaboracion.
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Thu, Jan 30
5:00 pm
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5:00 pm
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Lecture | The Art Historian's Mark: Writings on Titian and Veronese
David Rosand (1938–2014) was the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University. An art historian, critic, and advocate for the conservation of cultural heritage, he was also a generous and committed teacher. This event celebrates two recent publications of his work in English: Titian's Poetics: Selected Essays by David Rosand and Paolo Veronese.
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Thu, Jan 30
5:00 pm
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5:00 pm
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Discussion | Travel Talk & Share: Destinations, Tips, Foodie Finds (online)
A fun-filled evening of storytelling and sharing travel experiences. Whether you are new in town or a seasoned traveler, this event is for all! They will delve into topics such as international travel, cultural activities, outdoor adventures, and wellness tips on the road. Connect with like-minded individuals, expand your social network, and discover hidden gems around the world. Indulge your taste buds with a variety of foodie finds as they discuss must-try dishes from different countries. From social networking to simply having a great time, this meetup promises to be an exciting opportunity to learn, laugh, and inspire each other.
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Thu, Jan 30
5:00 pm
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5:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature: An Anthology Mapping Cuba’s Literary-Cultural History
Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from the seventeenth-century to the twenty-first century. This landmark book highlights the intricacies of linguistic and cultural translation embodied in telling a story in English about a body of work expressed predominantly in Spanish, but also French, Haitian Kreyòl, Angolan Portuguese, and English. With editors Vicky Unruh and Jacqueline Loss.
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Thu, Jan 30
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The English Problem: Coming of Age During India's Independence Movement
Beena Kamlani launches her debut novel, the story of a young Indian man in London struggling for political and sexual liberation, set against the thrilling backdrop of the Indian independence movement.
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Thu, Jan 30
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | What a Way to Go!: A Conversation about the 1964 Shirley MacLaine Film (online)
Legendary costume designer “Edith Head” (aka award-winning creator Susan Claassen) and celebrity stylist William Squire for an insightful look at how the "Three Magicians" (clothing design, hair and makeup) of Hollywood worked their magic on Shirley MacLaine in the classic 1960’s film, What a Way to Go! This over-the-top comedy is a study in excess. Its whimsical premise, colorful set pieces, and sharp humor offers a satirical commentary on the pursuit of wealth and the American Dream. Susan Claassen has evolved into Managing Artistic Director - Emeritus of Tucson’s Invisible Theatre after fifty years of leadership where she produced and directed over six hundred productions. She was nominated for the 2011 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award and Broadway World LA Award as Best Actress for her portrayal of Edith Head in A Conversation with Edith Head and most recently, for The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle 43rd Annual Excellence in Theatre Awards for Best Solo Production and Best Production. Squire’s multifaceted career has spanned over thirty years in the fashion and entertainment industries, making him the preeminent authority on fashion, beauty, and style.
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Thu, Jan 30
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Latinx Contemporary Art: Artists Reflect
Join a discussion with artists Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Kathia St. Hilaire, and Carlos Reyes, as they reflect on Flow States—LA TRIENAL 2024, the museum's second major survey of Latinx contemporary art. The panel will explore creativity, focus, and the exhibition’s significance as it nears its conclusion on February 9, 2025. The conversation will be moderated by Zuna Maza, assistant curator.
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Thu, Jan 30
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis
Deborah Dwork's gripping history that plumbs the extraordinary stories of American relief and rescue workers during World War II.
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Thu, Jan 30
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (in-person and online)
Moderated by Kassandra Sparks, this conversation will draw on Yin Q’s experience as a lifestyle leatherperson, dominatrix, and mother, as well as Avgi Saketopoulou’s psychoanalytic practice and her engagement with the aesthetic domain in her recent book, Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia.
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Thu, Jan 30
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | A Lit Mag Mixer
An evening with some of New York's best literary magazines. Talk books, meet the editors, and flip through the magazines' most recent issues. With Epiphany, The Drift, Lampblack, One Story, The Paris Review, and A Public Space.
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Thu, Jan 30
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Lecture | Liminal Architectures and Diasporic Movements (in-person and online)
A lecture by Utsa Hazarika, an artist and writer based in New York. Her research-based practice ranges across video, sound, installation, sculpture and text, and explores how an interdisciplinary dialogue between art and social research can push us to think about power, memory and resistance. Her work has exhibited internationally, including at Socrates Sculpture Park, Smack Mellon, Hessel Museum of Art, and Museum of the City of New York in the United States. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Asialy Bracey Gardella.
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Thu, Jan 30
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Conference | (Re)-conciliation?: Postcolonial Francophone Literature
In recent years many works of Francophone literature, especially written by second-generation immigrants —such as Alice Zeniter or Faïza Guène, to cite a few— highlight the many fractures encountered in the postcolonial francophone world, testifying to the difficult experiences of the “double culture.” This conference will examine the question of (re)conciliation, notably through a postcolonial lens, echoing the complexity of the French-speaking world and its history, its diversity and richness, and considering the (im)possibilities of (re)conciliation in the face of colonial history and the current political context. Can you truly reconcile with France? How can we work from and within this divide?
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Fri, Jan 31
9:30 am
Free
9:30 am
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Conference | The Inaugural Zora Neale Hurston Summit
Celebrate the life, legacy, and work of this important Harlem Renaissance writer alongside the Hurston Family themselves. This summit will be a jam-packed two-day celebration featuring more than 70 multidisciplinary speakers and presenters. Expect to hear from Hurston Scholar luminaries such as Dr. Deborah G. Plant and Carla Kaplan. Other speakers include Dr. Imani Perry, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Mara Brock Akil, Yeye Luisah Teish, Monica Miller, and more. More than 30 Hurston Family members will be in attendance.
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Fri, Jan 31
10:00 am
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10:00 am
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Book Discussion | Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette (online)
Author Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell discusses her exploration of one of the most exciting, controversial, and extravagant periods in the history of fashion: the reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in 18th-century France. This turbulent era’s sophisticated and largely female-dominated fashion industry both produced courtly finery and promoted a thriving secondhand clothing market outside the royal circle. Chrisman-Campbell will illuminate the exceptionally imaginative and uninhibited styles of the period immediately before the French Revolution, as well as fashion’s surprising influence on the course of the Revolution itself.
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Fri, Jan 31
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Legacy of Inspiration: The Black Fives & Nike (online)
The award-winning author, historian, and Black Fives brand creator Claude Johnson will discuss the history of the early African American basketball teams depicted on his iconic “Legacy of Inspiration” sneaker collaboration with Nike in 2003–04. He will also talk about how that collab came to be, his own experiences at Nike as a product line manager in its branded basketball-apparel group, and, of course, those limited-edition styles themselves, including Air Force Is, IIs, and IIIs, Dunk Highs and Lows, Vandal Highs and Lows, and Blazers. Johnson, whose 2022 book, The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era, won the Museum of African American History’s Stone Book Award, remains the only historian ever to obtain a sneaker deal.
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Fri, Jan 31
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Conference | The Inaugural Zora Neale Hurston Summit
Celebrate the life, legacy, and work of this important Harlem Renaissance writer alongside the Hurston Family themselves. This summit will be a jam-packed two-day celebration featuring more than 70 multidisciplinary speakers and presenters. Expect to hear from Hurston Scholar luminaries such as Dr. Deborah G. Plant and Carla Kaplan. Other speakers include Dr. Imani Perry, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Mara Brock Akil, Yeye Luisah Teish, Monica Miller, and more. More than 30 Hurston Family members will be in attendance.
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Sat, Feb 1
10:00 am
Free
10:00 am
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Discussion | Changemaker Author Series (In Person AND Online!)
How does writing allow us to explore political grief, collective joy, and the range of emotions in between? How can we interrogate systems, relationships, and ways of engaging with the world around us? Authors Ibi Zoboi, Premilla Nadasen, and Zaina Arafat come together for a panel discussion reflecting on community building and systemic injustice through the lens of narrative nonfiction, afrofuturism, and other forms of storytelling. Following the panel and a short break for book signings, attendees are welcome to attend a 40-minute Changemaker Authors writing workshop, both in-person and virtual, inspired by the speakers’ words. Writers and aspiring authors will learn how to focus social justice ideas and experiences into a single book project. Resources on the publishing process will be provided. Program Schedule 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Panel Discussion 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM: Book Signings 3:20 PM - 4:00 PM: Writing Workshop
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Sat, Feb 1
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Emigre Autobiography: Spiritual Journeys
Author Abraham Rubin discusses his new book, a collective biography of German-Jewish converts to Christianity who recounted their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath. The book explores how Jewish emigrants interpreted their experiences of persecution and displacement through the hermeneutics of Christian conversion. It asks how chosen genres of writing both enabled and hindered self-understanding. Applying psychoanalysis, disability studies, and autobiographical theory to the life writing of converted Jews, the book offers new avenues for conceptualizing the Jewishness of historical subjects who disavowed their ties to Judaism.
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Mon, Feb 3
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
Join for an evening with Victoria Christopher Murray, author of Harlem Rhapsody: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Ignited the Harlem Renaissance in conversation with Melissa Noel, Essence Magazine. Harlem Rhapsody centers the life of Harlem Renaissance writer Jessie Redmond Fauset, the literary editor of the NAACP's The Crisis magazine (1919-1925) and mentor to writers like Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, and Claude McKay. In this work of historical fiction, Murray weaves together research and imagination to bring to life an exciting moment in history and the life of a woman considered a "mid-wife" to the Harlem Renaissance.
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Mon, Feb 3
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Book Club | The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic (in-person and online)
Discuss Dubravka Ugresic's edgy, extraordinary novel, offering universal insights into what it is like to lose home, nationality and language. Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the "Ministry." Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their "Yugonostalgia" in essays about their personal experiences during their homeland's cultural and physical disintegration. But Tanja's act of academic rebellion incites the rage of one renegade member of her class—and pulls her dangerously close to another—which, in turn, exacerbates the tensions of a life in exile that has now begun to spiral seriously out of control.
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Mon, Feb 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.
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Tue, Feb 4
10:30 am
Free
10:30 am
Free
Book Club | Poetry Discussion Circle: Black Poets on Nature
Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. At this meeting, explore poems by Black writers that expand the long tradition of nature poetry. Readings are selected from Poetry Magazine, Poetry Foundation, and poets.org. 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, Feb 4
2:30 pm
Free
2:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus: A Novel of Parental Secrets (online)
Emma Knight discusses her witty, atmospheric novel that offers compelling portraits of womanhood, motherhood and female friendship, along with the irresistible intrigue surrounding an extraordinary British family. Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she'll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father's--now a famous writer known as Lord Lennox--lives. When she is invited to spend the weekend at Lord Lennox's centuries-old estate with his enveloping, fascinating family, Pen begins to unravel her parents' secret, just as she's falling in love for the first time . . .
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Tue, Feb 4
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
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Discussion | The Case for Dual Loyalty: A Journey of Healing for American Jews (online)
How has the October 7 massacre and its fallout transformed the American Jewish community? This is a compelling conversation on Jewish loyalty and collective destiny with Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz and AJU’s President Jeffrey Herbst. Drawing on lessons from the past, Rabbi Lebovitz describes October 7 as a Jewish historical turning point, challenges longstanding tropes, and affirms that dual loyalty is the key to shaping a brighter tomorrow for Jewish life in America and beyond.
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Tue, Feb 4
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great (in-person and online)
By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great had reached the pinnacle of success. Or so it seemed. He had defeated the Persian ruler Darius III and seized the capital city of Persepolis. His exhausted and traumatized soldiers were ready to return home to Macedonia. Yet Alexander had other plans. He was determined to continue heading east to Afghanistan in search of his ultimate goal: to reach the end of the world. Alexander’s unrelenting desire to press on resulted in a perilous seven-year journey through the unknown eastern borderlands of the Persian empire that would test the great conqueror’s physical and mental limits. This incredible sweep of time, culminating with his death in 323 BC at the age of 32, would come to determine Alexander’s legacy and shape the empire he left behind. Renowned classicist and art history professor Rachel Kousser vividly brings to life Alexander’s labyrinthine, treacherous final years. Meticulously researched and grippingly written, Kousser’s narrative is an unforgettable tale of daring and adventure, an inspiring portrait of grit and ambition, and a powerful meditation on the ability to learn from failure.
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Tue, Feb 4
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Bibliophobia: A Memoir of Book Obsession
Books can seduce you. They can, author Sarah Chihaya believes, annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books understands this kind of unsettling literary encounter. Chihaya calls books that have this effect “Life Ruiners”.
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Tue, Feb 4
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | She's Always Hungry by Eliza Clark
From Eliza Clark, the author of the novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, comes a darkly comic story collection. A woman welcomes a parasite into her body. A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with dark humor, Eliza Clark’s debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger. Clark discusses her new book with Allison Nellis.
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Tue, Feb 4
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Cleavage by Jennifer Finney Boylan (In Person AND Online!)
Jennifer Finney Boylan talks to Roxane Gay about her latest memoir, an exploration of a life lived in two genders. In 2003 Jennifer Finney Boylan published She’s Not There, which became the first bestselling work by a transgender American and established Boylan as a go-to source for public conversation about the impact of gender on our lives. More than two decades later, her new memoir, Cleavage, returns with older and wiser eyes to examine the joys and the struggles of being transgender. Boylan considers how the experiences of trans people might have changed from when she came out in 2000 to the present era of blowback and fear. The book is a humane and compassionate antidote to a moment that often finds discussions of trans lives and issues being distorted and abused for political aims. Boylan speaks with bestselling author Roxane Gay about her hope for a future in which we all have the freedom to live joyfully as men, as women, and in the space between us. Book is NOT included with free ticket(s).
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Tue, Feb 4
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Book Club | Oreo by Fran Ross
A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City.
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Tue, Feb 4
7:00 pm
$5
7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Urban Owls: How Flaco and Friends Made the City Their Home (online)
Flaco captured the country’s imagination with his surprising flight toward freedom, but he’s not the first owl to experience the wonders of city life. National Geographic host Christian Cooper shares more about these incredible urban birds and the fame that found them.
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Tue, Feb 4
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy (online)
Author Benjamin Balint on the international struggle to preserve Franz Kafka’s literary legacy. Balint will discuss the legal, ethical, and political dilemmas of a writer whose last wish was betrayed by his closest friend; a wrenching escape from Nazi invaders as the gates of Europe closed; a love affair between exiles stranded in Tel Aviv, and two countries whose obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to a head in Israel’s Supreme Court.
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Wed, Feb 5
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Ancestral Connection in Art (online)
This conversation will explore how material acts as a vessel for memory and ancestral connection in the work of fellows from the fourth cohort of the Latinx Artist Fellowship, M. Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz (Fronterizx Collective), Charo Oquet, and Gadiel Rivera Herrera. The artists will discuss how they use materiality to engage with their homelands and spiritual cosmologies.
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Wed, Feb 5
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | In Defense of Partisanship: History and Reform of Congress
Historian Julian Zelizer will discuss his new book with Jonathan Alter. In Defense of Partisanship imagines what partisanship might look like if we put into place important reforms. Through a sweeping history of Congress since the Founding, Zelizer offers a way forward. Some are simple—repeal the filibuster, restore the campaign-finance rules undone by the Citizens United decision—while others are more revolutionary—increase the size of the House of Representatives. These reforms, which focus on enabling political parties to speak more forcefully and clearly for American citizens, have the potential to pay respect the deep differences that divide us while simultaneously creating more opportunities for collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.
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Wed, Feb 5
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
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Discussion | The Expanse of Radical Arts
Visionary dancer and multimedia artist Edisa Weeks and legendary performer Nona Hendryx have an inspiring conversation on the future of art, activism, and radical storytelling. Exploring the intersection of pedagogy as praxis, this dynamic discussion will delve into how art can be both a transformative educational tool and a powerful agent of social change. Moderated by Gayle Fekete, Professor of Professional Practice.
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Wed, Feb 5
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery by Ana Lucia Araujo
Author and professor Ana Lucia Araujo discusses her new book, Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery, with fellow scholar Herman L. Bennett. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas in cramped, inhumane conditions. Many of them died on the way, and those who survived had to endure further suffering in the violent conditions that met them onshore. Covering more than three hundred years, Humans in Shackles grapples with this history by foregrounding the lived experience of enslaved people in tracing the long, complex history of slavery in the Americas. Based on twenty years of research, this book not only serves as a comprehensive history; it also expands that history by providing a truly transnational account that emphasizes the central role of Brazil in the Atlantic slave trade. Additionally, it is deeply informed by African history and shows how African practices and traditions survived and persisted in the Americas among communities of enslaved people. Drawing on primary sources including travel accounts, pamphlets, newspaper articles, slave narratives, and visual sources such as artworks and artifacts, Araujo illuminates the social, cultural, and religious lives of enslaved people working in plantations and urban areas, building families and cultivating affective ties, congregating and re-creating their cultures, and organizing rebellions. Humans in Shackles puts the lived experiences of enslaved peoples at the center of the story and investigates the heavy impact these atrocities have had on the current wealth disparity of the Americas and rampant anti-Black racism.
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Wed, Feb 5
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Talk | In Piazza: The Role Played by Italian Public Squares
A "walk" with Craig Whitaker through the public squares of Italy that shaped its culture and were shaped by it in return. Whitaker is the author of Architecture and the American Dream.
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Wed, Feb 5
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Mercedes Matter and Rosemarie Beck: Significant Figures in the Abstract Expressionist Movement (in-person and online)
Join a lecture about two prominent artists: Mercedes Matter (1913-2001) was an American painter and key figure in the abstract expressionist movement, known for her dynamic compositions and exploration of abstraction. She also founded the New York Studio School in 1964, influencing a new generation of artists through her teaching and mentorship. Rosemarie Beck (1923-2003) was an American painter whose work combined abstract expressionism with figurative elements, often exploring themes of the human figure and emotional experience. She was a prominent feminist artist who blended symbolic imagery with psychological depth, contributing significantly to the New York art scene.
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Wed, Feb 5
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Cervantine Blackness: Black Identities in Cervantes' Works
This roundtable is an exploration into the depths of Miguel de Cervantes’ portrayal of Black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa, through a dialogue with Nicholas R. Jones’s latest scholarly work, Cervantine Blackness (Penn State UP, 2024). Jones, known for his multi-awarded book Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, which has significantly transformed the discourse on Blackness within early modern Iberian and broader Hispanic studies, will serve as the respondent. With Cervantine Blackness, Jones challenges entrenched paradigms and inviting a reevaluation of the complexities surrounding Black identities in Cervantes’s literary corpus. Participants: Eva María Copeland (Dickinson College) David Sterling Brown (Trinity College) Monica Styles (Howard University) Aurélie Vialette (Yale University) Emily Wilbourne (Graduate Center/Queens C, CUNY) Respondent: Nicholas R. Jones (Yale) Moderated by: Víctor Sierra Matute (Baruch, CUNY)
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Wed, Feb 5
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Invasive Insects and Their Impact on Agriculture
Invasive species such as the spotted lanternfly, brown marmorated stink bug, and emerald ash borer are disrupting ecosystems, endangering crops, and posing challenges to farmers both locally and globally. Hosted by Anne Nielsen, Extension Specialist in the Department of Entomology at Rutgers University. For ages 21+.
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Wed, Feb 5
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Victorian Psycho: A Novel of a Bloodthirsty Governess (online)
Virginia Feito discusses her the riveting tale of a bloodthirsty governess who learns the true meaning of vengeance. Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess―she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estate’s dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family―Mr. Pounds can’t keep his eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze. Compounded with her disdain for the entitled Pounds children, Winifred finds herself struggling at every turn to stifle the violent compulsions of her past. French tutoring and needlework are one way to pass the time, as is admiring the ugly portraits in the gallery . . . and creeping across the moonlit lawns. . .
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Thu, Feb 6
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
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Discussion | Rethinking Allyship: African Americans and Jews in the Fight Against Hate (online)
Explore the complexities of African American solidarity with the Jewish community amid rising antisemitism in a thought-provoking conversation with Anthea Butler, Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Thu, Feb 6
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Negotiating with the Devil: Inside the World of Armed Conflict Mediation
After many years in the little-known world of back-channel mediation, helping sworn adversaries to prevent, manage or resolve conflict, author Pierre Hazan reaximines the practical and ethical dilemmas that affected his work in Bosnia, Ukraine, the Sahel and the Central African Republic, and reflects more generally on the evolving conditions affecting mediation and conflict resolution. Should governments talk to terrorists? Should war criminals be included in dialogue? When trying to bring peace, should we “negotiate with the devil”? In this discussion Hazan will also consider how mediation needs to adapt to new forms of war (cyber), new technologies (AI), and a new geopolitical environment, characterized by more conflicts, less multilateralism, less of a role played by the UN, and less adherence to International Humanitarian Law?
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Thu, Feb 6
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Discussion | Becoming New: Artists on Change and Transformation
A range of artists gather for conversations on change and transformation. The featured artists will reflect on expansion and reinvention in their own creative lives, and consider the current moment of political and social transition. The program is timed to the New Museum’s continued construction as the institution embarks on its own building expansion and growth. This evening will feature artists Coco Fusco, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Marina Rosenfeld and Amy Sillman, and a performance by Morgan Bassichis.
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Thu, Feb 6
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Curator Talk: The Colorful World of Pancho Fierro, Afro-Peruvian Painter
A talk with Senior Curator Emeritus Dr. Marcus Burke about the exhibition. Dr. Burke will discuss Fierro’s vivid depictions of Peruvian society, highlighting the extraordinary upward social mobility that was possible in 19th century Lima, as well as the trans-Pacific networks of exchange that carried Fierro’s watercolors across the globe. The talk will also examine the scientific studies of these works recently completed by a team of scientists from Nottingham Trent University in the UK, casting Fierro’s watercolors in a new light.
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Fri, Feb 7
10:00 am
Free
10:00 am
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Book Discussion | Lebanese Sculptor Simone Fattal's Book Launch and Conversation
Join the celebration of the release of the Lebanese-born artist and sculptor Simone Fattal’s first comprehensive monograph (Portikus / Hatje Cantz, 2024). The artist will converse with writer, editor, and curator Negar Azimi about her diverse practice, including ceramics, sculpture, painting, collage, and publishing. Her abstract bronze and ceramic sculptures draw on ancient myths and archaeological discoveries, while her collages merge personal archives with historical events from the Arab world, reassembling fragments to reflect the fragility of identity shaped by migration.
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Fri, Feb 7
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Joan Jonas
Artist Joan Jonas will share reflections on her recent work, creative practice, and extraordinary career. Introduced by Sarah Cole, Dean of the School of the Arts. Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York, NY) is a world-renowned artist whose work encompasses a wide range of media including video, performance, installation, sound, text, and sculpture. Jonas' experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theatre. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of rituals, and the authority of objects and gestures.
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Sat, Feb 8
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Yiddish Literature Under Surveillance: The Case of Soviet Ukraine (online)
This book gives a broad view on Soviet Jewish literary life, and on the repression suffered by Yiddish writers under Stalinist rule. It moves from the paradigm of writing almost exclusively about the most prominent authors, whose execution in Moscow on August 12, 1952 is tragically known as "The Night of Murdered Poets." Instead, the narrative is built as a group biography of five writers whose literary home was in Kyiv, the capital of Soviet Ukraine from 1934 to 1991. Those authors are as follows: Avrom Abchuk (arrested and executed in 1937), Chaim Gildin (arrested in 1940; died in a camp in 1943), Itsik Kipnis (arrested in 1949; released in 1955), Rive Balyasne (arrested in 1952; released in 1955), and Hirsh Bloshteyn, an enthusiastic agent of the secret police. In addition, this book is populated by other Yiddish, Ukrainian, and Russian literati. Kyiv was the primary fountainhead for Yiddish literary creativity in the early postrevolutionary period for seven decades and remained a leading Soviet Yiddish literary center, second in importance only to Moscow. Author Gennady Estraikh pays special attention to the victims’ rehabilitation, posthumous or otherwise, in the mid-1950s and onwards.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Feb 10
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: Latest Mystery from Walter Mosley (online)
A family member’s terminal illness leads P.I. Joe King Oliver to the investigation of his life: tracking down his long-lost father, and meanwhile, a new case pits King’s professional responsibility against his own moral code.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Feb 10
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Feb 10
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
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Discussion | Exploring the Family Legacy of the Chinese BaoTingChang Performers
Join filmmaker, producer, and actor Grace Chang on a journey through her family legacy, most notably her father Bao Ting Chang, a legendary figure in Chinese entertainment history. Chang, who acted in The Joy Luck Club and other films, brings the audience on a family adventure over many decades, exploring the performance art form known as Xiang Sheng, including through the work of The Mushroom Brothers of China, who combined comedy, music, and singing. The Chang family were pioneers of other 20th century Chinese-based artists who bridged gaps over six regimes and across world cultures. Registration required.
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Mon, Feb 10
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | The Pleasure Lists
What's in a list? What do the lists we make say about ourselves? Inspired by a poem from playwright Bertolt Brecht, The Pleasure Lists began with a simple post online — a prompt calling for people to catalogue their pleasures. The outpouring of entries, an unexpected response to a humble exercise, led to The Pleasure Lists. Meant to be fun, delightful, and pleasureful, it is a reflection on the things that bring you joy. In the first-ever live gathering of The Pleasure Lists community, this is a workshop where you will have the opportunity to write your own Pleasure List and connect with other pleasure-seekers. The evening will begin with writing your own lists, followed by readings from Pleasure Lists founder Dalya Benor, friends Emmeline Clein, Camille Sojit Pejcha, Whitney Mallett, Rachel Syme, and more guests to be announced. The Pleasure Lists is a space for reflection, a reminder of the things that bring us joy. It’s as public or as personal as you want; as artistic or straightforward as calls you. The pure simplicity and banality of Bertolt Brecht’s poem shows us what we know to be true about pleasure: that it truly is in the eye of the beholder. Each list is as unique as its author, telling us more about the writer than the list itself. From the material to the mundane, the tactile to the intangible, the things that bring us pleasure speak volumes about what we value.
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Mon, Feb 10
6:00 pm
$5
6:00 pm
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Lecture | Love Without Hope: Philosopher Walter Benjamin's Trials with Surrealism
A talk by cultural theorist and University of Chicago professor Malynne Sternstein that weaves Czech surrealism into the urgency of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, his final, incomplete book about Parisian city life in the 19th century. Malynne Sternstein is the author of Against Arbitrariness: The Czech Avant-garde and the Subversion of the Symbolic Sign and Toyen: Gender, Obscurity and the Fires of Surrealism.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Feb 10
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, Feb 11
10:30 am
Free
10:30 am
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Book Discussion | Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History by Rich Benjamin
Rich Benjamin recounts the coup that ended his grandfather’s presidency of Haiti, the wound it left in his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite their past. In 1957, two weeks after his inauguration, Haitian populist hero Daniel Fignole and his wife—Rich Benjamin’s grandparents—were held at gunpoint and put on a plane to New York in a coup hatched by the Eisenhower administration. Benjamin’s mother and her siblings were kidnapped and ultimately smuggled out of the country. But while Rich was growing up, no one in his family spoke of this past. He didn’t know why his mother struggled with emotional connection, why she was so erratic. In turn, she knew little about him, about his childhood emotional pain, the physical agony from his blood disease, how he came to terms with his sexuality at the dawn of the AIDS crisis. It would take Rich years to piece together the turmoil that reverberated through his family. In this piercing memoir, he brings that story to light and paints a bold, pugnacious portrait of America—of the human cost of the country’s hostilities abroad, the experience of migrants on these shores, and the indelible ties of family.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 11
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
Book critic and essayist Sarah Chihaya will discuss her new book Bibliophobia with fellow writer Merve Emre . Books can seduce you. They can annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books, Sarah Chihaya thinks, has had this kind of unsettling literary encounter. She calls books that have this effect “Life Ruiners.” Chihaya’s "Life Ruiner," Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, became a talisman for her in high school, and its electrifying treatment of race exposed her deepest feelings about being Japanese American in a predominantly white suburb of Cleveland. Transformed, Chihaya knew she’d build her life around books, searching for another "Life Ruiner" that could show her how to live. But a lifelong struggle with depression thwarted the resolution to every plot, and when she was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown, the world became an unreadable blank page. Bibliophobia is a story of breakdown and survival told through books. Delving into Anne of Green Gables, Possession, A Tale for the Time Being, The Last Samurai, and many other texts, Chihaya interrogates her cultural identity, her relationship with depression, and the intoxicating, sometimes painful, ways books push back on those who love them.
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Tue, Feb 11
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981–1984: Photographs
In the 1980’s, Central America was engulfed in the ramificationsof the Cold War, the U.S. defeat in Vietnam, the rivalry between the U.S. government under President Ronald Reagan and the former USSR and Fidel Castro's Cuba. Photographer Robert Nickelsberg spent 1981-'84 based in El Salvador photographing for TIME magazine during the worst of its 12 year civil war. This book is a series of black and white photos, with essays by four preeminent reporters: Jon Lee Anderson, Carlos Dada, Alma Guillermoprieto and Scott Wallace.
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Tue, Feb 11
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | InnovateHERs: Why Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women Rise to the Top (online)
Author Barbara “Bobbi” Kurshan discusses her book. Kurshan is a business executive, innovator, academic, and board director who leads disruptive transformation through the development and commercialization of digital learning products for wide-ranging audiences. She brings a 35+ year career of leadership roles and a robust network across EdTech companies, for profits, non-profits, PE firms, and educational institutions.
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Wed, Feb 12
12:00 pm
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12:00 pm
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Discussion | Rethinking Allyship: LGBTQ+ Perspectives on Antisemitism and Solidarity (online)
Corinne E. Blackmer, Professor of English and Director of Judaic Studies at Southern Connecticut State University, brings a personal and unique perspective on LGBTQ+ solidarity with the Jewish community in the fight against antisemitism.
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Wed, Feb 12
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Talk | Bouncing Around: The Language of Billiards in Polygons
How many ways can a billiard ball bounce around a polygonal table? This seemingly simple question opens the door to some surprisingly deep mathematics. It turns out we don’t know much about mathematical billiards in polygons, even though they are very simple models of Newtonian mechanics. Jayadev Athreya, Professor of Mathematics and the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington, will share some very new mathematics as he explores the intriguing dynamics at the intersection of geometry and motion.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 12
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Symposium | From Lima to Canton and Beyond: The Ethnographic Art of Pancho Fierro and His Contemporaries
A symposium following the humanities-led scientific study of Peruvian Costumbrista watercolors (as well as Chinese and Philippine ones).
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Wed, Feb 12
4:30 pm
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4:30 pm
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Book Club | Poetry discussion: The Book of Nightmares by Pulitzer Prize Winner Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) was a MacArthur Fellow and state poet of Vermont. In 1982 his Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. For many years he was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University, as well as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. For 35 years—from The Book of Nightmares to Mortal Acts and, most recently, Strong Is Your Hold—Galway Kinnell enriched American poetry, not only with his poems but also with his teaching and powerful public readings.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 12
4:30 pm
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4:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Roman Year: A Memoir from Author Andre Aciman
A reading with author Andre Aciman as he sits down with J. Mae Barizo to discuss his new work. André Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, Homo Irrealis, Roman Year, and Find Me. He’s the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 12
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | There's No Turning Back: Eight Women in Rome
Translator Ann Goldstein presents Alba De Céspedes's coming-of-age novel that is as relevant today as it was nearly ninety years ago. There’s No Turning Back centers on eight women with radically different backgrounds who attend the same college in Rome. Some are there to study, others to escape a scandal, or keep a secret, and during their time there, they experience the challenges of love, work, and emancipation. Considered experimental and revolutionary at the time, this novel established Alba de Céspedes as a powerful new voice in the 20th century.
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Wed, Feb 12
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | To Save the Man by John Sayles
Film director and author John Sayles discusses his new novel, To Save the Man, with historian Jerry W. Carlson. In the vein of Never Let Me Go and Killers of the Flower Moon, To Save the Man sheds light on an American tragedy: the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the cultural genocide experienced by the Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. In September 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle school, a co-educational military-style boarding school in Pennsylvania for Indians founded and run by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, who considers himself a champion of the country’s rapidly dwindling Native population. His motto, “To save the man, we must kill the Indian,” is enforced in both classroom and dormitory: speak only English, forget your own language and customs, learn to be white. As the students navigate survival, they begin to hear rumors of the “ghost dance” moving its way through their home reservations on the Plains—tribal people dancing and chanting and reporting visions, all in the desperate belief that their efforts will cause the Creator to return the buffalo to the Plains, raise the Indian dead, and destroy all the white people with fire or flood. The yellow press hype the story with exaggeration and falsehood, spreading panic among local whites and forcing the deployment of federal troops onto Lakota land, a situation almost certain to end in slaughter. When news reaches Carlisle that legendary medicine man Sitting Bull has been killed by native police working for the government that holds them as “wards of the state,” each student, no matter what their tribe, must make a choice: to follow the white man’s path, or to be true to a way of life that may hold no future.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 12
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Bouncing Around: The Language of Billiards in Polygons
How many ways can a billiard ball bounce around a polygonal table? This seemingly simple question opens the door to some surprisingly deep mathematics. It turns out we don’t know much about mathematical billiards in polygons, even though they are very simple models of Newtonian mechanics. Jayadev Athreya, Professor of Mathematics and the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington, will share some very new mathematics as he explores the intriguing dynamics at the intersection of geometry and motion.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Feb 13
11:00 am
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11:00 am
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Book Discussion | Tell Me What You Did: A Novel of Podcast Confessions (online)
She gets people to confess their crimes for a living. He knows she's hiding a terrible secret. It's time for the truth to come out... Poe Webb, host of a popular true crime podcast, invites people to anonymously confess crimes they've committed to her audience. She can't guarantee the police won't come after her "guests," but her show grants simultaneous anonymity and instant fame—a potent combination that's proven difficult to resist. With author Carter Wilson.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Feb 13
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Book Club | Short Reads Book Club: The Horse by Willy Vlautin
Al Ward lives on an isolated mining claim in the high desert of central Nevada fifty miles from the nearest town. A grizzled man in his sixties, he survives on canned soup, instant coffee, and memories of his ex-wife, friends and family he’s lost, and his life as a touring musician. Hampered by insomnia, bouts of anxiety, and a chronic lethargy that keeps him from moving back to town, Al finds himself teetering on the edge of madness and running out of reasons to go on—until a horse arrives on his doorstep: nameless, blind, and utterly helpless.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Feb 13
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Class and Inequality in China and India, 1950–2010
China and India have long been central to the world economy. Two and a half centuries ago, they contributed 50% of the world’s output; after suffering a decline thereafter, their share fell to a paltry 9% in 1950 but has since resurged to about 25% today. This book shows that the growth and inequality experiences of China and India have had strikingly similar trajectories, especially after 1980, despite their very different political and social institutions. It offers novel insights using a class lens to analyze and compare the Chinese and Indian inequality stories, locating them within the larger contexts of Asian and global capitalism. Author Vamsi Vakulabharanam demonstrates that the interconnectedness between Chinese and Indian growth and inequality dynamics and the transformation and evolution of global capitalism is key to understanding the within-country inequality dynamics in both countries. The book thus offers a new perspective on economic development and inequality that builds on and adds to the insights of Kuznets and Piketty.
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Thu, Feb 13
5:00 pm
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5:00 pm
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Discussion | Five Classic Ballets Then and Now
Classic ballets from the 19th century may be household names, but what does their original history tell us about how they were first performed and what we can learn from the past that is useful for today's stagings? Marian Smith and Doug Fullington discuss long-forgotten aspects of some of the most well-known ballet classics with the dance writer Marina Harss. The two dance historians recently published Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg, a book that provides an in-depth look at the earliest productions of Giselle, Paquita, Le Corsaire, La Bayadere, and Raymonda, including detailed accounts of choreography, mime, music, and action. These classic story ballets were intended to appeal to popular audiences--they were easy to follow, full of variety, and they dazzled with special effects and spectacle. But in the 20th century, many of them underwent radical changes. And more recently, serious discussions have arisen about cultural insensitivity and exoticization. What is still interesting about them today? By revealing in unprecedented detail what they were like when first created, Smith and Fullington explore the viability of a number of ballet classics that are commonly revived for today's audiences. Registration required.
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Thu, Feb 13
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Club | A Taste of Sage by Yaffa S. Santos
To get into the spirit of Valentine’s Day, join a discussion of this culinary romance novel by Yaffa S. Santos. Lumi Santana, a chef with the gift of synesthesia, can perceive a person's emotions by tasting their cooking. Despite being raised by a single mother who taught her that dreams and true love were silly fairy tales, she takes a chance and puts her heart and savings into opening a fusion restaurant in Manhattan.The restaurant offers a mix of the Dominican cuisine she grew up with and other world cuisines that have been a source of culinary inspiration to her. When Lumi's venture fails, she is forced to take a position as a sous chef at a staid French restaurant in midtown owned by Julien Dax, a celebrated chef known for his acid tongue and brilliant smile. Lumi and Julien don't get along in the kitchen and she secretly vows never to taste his cooking. Little does she know that her resolve doesn't stand a chance against his culinary prowess. As Julien produces one delectable dish after another, Lumi can no longer resist his creations. She isn't prepared for the intense feelings that follow, throwing a curveball in her plan to move on as soon as possible. Plus, there's the matter of Esme, Julien's receptionist, who seems to always be near and watching. As the attraction between Lumi and Julien simmers, Lumi experiences a tragedy that not only complicates her professional plans, but her love life as well.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Feb 13
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us
Acclaimed writer and Executive Director of The Kitchen, Legacy Russell, presents her book exploring the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Feb 13
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | I Lived to Tell the Story: A Memoir of Love, Legacy, and Resilience by Tamika D. Mallory
Activist Tamika D. Mallory discusses her new book I Lived to Tell the Story: A Memoir of Love, Legacy, and Resilience. In this candid memoir, a follow-up to her "masterful" (Marc Lamont Hill, New York Times bestselling author) response to the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, State of Emergency, Tamika D. Mallory holds nothing back as she shares hers, the activist's life. From early days as daughter to Black civil rights activists in Harlem, New York, to a young Black woman's first battles against the physical and political violence she'd fight all her life, to the never-before-shared personal and professional crises launched by those forces intent on keeping her silent, this is a work of activism in motion and an unflinching story of America at the turn of the 21st century.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Feb 13
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi
How can a Taiwanese novel incorporate historical materials from its decades under Japanese colonial rule? How does two women’s travelogue become a work of fiction? This talk will examine Taiwan Travelogue’s use of a “Showa Taiwan Railway Gourmet Tour” as its storytelling framework, covering the novel’s early inspirations, conceptual development, research, fieldwork, archives-building, story conception, and writing process. The program will be conducted partially in Mandarin with interpretation. Taiwan Travelogue tells the story of two women, one Japanese and one Taiwanese, who grew up in different cultural backgrounds during the Japanese colonial period in 1938. Through a coincidental opportunity, they embark on a gourmet journey along the railway, exchanging culture and ideas. Yang Shuang-zi uses food and drink as metaphors, allowing readers to glimpse the contradictions between the Japanese empire’s treatment of colonial Taiwan, mainland Japanese people, and Taiwanese locals, as well as the differences in fate between men and women at that time. As independent individuals, women aspire to have independent professional identities and thoughts, but they face various difficulties and challenges. Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its first publication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan’s highest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unburies lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships, with the writer-translator relationship mimicking Japan’s colonial rule of Taiwan. And like many travel memoirs, the protagonist undergoes self-reflection while roaming an unfamiliar land.
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Fri, Feb 14
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | Celebration of Blackness: Curtain Call to Glory
Celebrate Black excellence and artistic legacy at Curtain Call to Glory, an inspiring event honoring iconic artists like Michaela De Prince, Twitch, Judith Jamison, Arthur Mitchell, August Wilson, Whitney Houston, and Maya Angelou. Students from multiple disciplines will pay tribute through performances of their work, celebrating those who shaped and inspired generations. This is an evening of community, celebration, and support for the arts. Event Details: -- Reception: Enjoy complimentary food and drinks catered by a selection of Harlem's acclaimed Black-owned restaurants. -- Panel Discussion: A groundbreaking and dynamic panel discussion featuring our visionary Arts Department Directors to be moderated by Gloria Harrison-Hall, Co-Executive Producer of NBC's Karamo Show.
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Sat, Feb 15
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
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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, Feb 15
3:30 pm
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3:30 pm
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Book Club | Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. It’s the return of the gladiators, and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
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Tue, Feb 18
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | The Lives of the Socialist Literary Journal: Embedded Modes of Independent Culture under State Socialism
In the Soviet Union and socialist Eastern Europe, literary journals enjoyed remarkable popularity. They not only provided access to sensational works of literature but figured as visually appealing objects and social events in everyday life. Against the background of the supposedly isolated and monolithic cultures of twentieth-century state socialism, they are often described through metaphors such as “windows to the world,” “islands of freedom,” or sites of “permitted dissent.” But what if this cultural form and institution is not an exception within its larger context but, rather, an essential and firmly integrated element? The methodological lens of periodical studies—the combined analysis of visual, literary, and social dimensions of journals—reveals socialist culture from an alternative angle. The synthetic mode of analysis, including the distant reading of the journals’ data, offers a different vision of freedoms and limitations in cultural production. This lecture focuses on several case studies from the 1960s and 1970s in the USSR and Czechoslovakia, especially the two journals Inostrannaia literatura (Moscow) and Světová literatura (Prague). Inasmuch as these periodicals continue precedents from the early 20-th century, the lecture argues, they provide models for independent and participatory modes of cultural production and reception that are an essential feature of East European socialism. Speaker Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Ohio State.
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Tue, Feb 18
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison's Life
A reading with author Andrea Pinkney as she sits down with Caron Levis to discuss her new work.
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Tue, Feb 18
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries (online)
Author Davida Siwisa James leads readers through four centuries of the storied New York neighborhood where George Washington headquartered in 1776, Alexander Hamilton built his country home, George Gershwin wrote his first hit, young Norman Rockwell learned to draw, and Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man. Her history focuses on the vibrant people and the beautiful architecture of today's landmark district, touching on The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as artists and luminaries who called it home, such as Thurgood Marshall, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, and W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Tue, Feb 18
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Psychoanalysis and Feminism (in-person and online)
The urgent need to overturn the patriarchal orientation of psychoanalysis is becoming ever stronger. Speaker Silvia Lippi tries to contribute by introducing the concept of sorority into psychoanalytic clinic and theory, for too long obsessed by fraternity and the murder of the Father. She will try to unfold the elements of a sororal psychoanalysis that enables us to think differently about the articulation of the intimate and the political, the psychic and the social, the unconscious and the collective. Silvia Lippi is a psychoanalyst. Trained as a philosopher, she holds a PHD in psychology and is a hospital psychologist at the Établissement Public de Santé Barthélémy Durand in Étampes.
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Tue, Feb 18
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Elegy, Southwest: A Novel of Collapses, Environmental and Otherwise
Madeleine Watts presents a timely and urgent novel following a young married couple on a road trip through the American Southwest as they grapple with the breakdown of their relationship in the shadow of environmental collapse. For fans of Rachel Cusk and Sigrid Nunez.
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Tue, Feb 18
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Talk | The YIVO Library in New York: Personal Reflections on Its History and Collections (online)
In the mid-1930s a group of New York Yiddishist intellectuals established the Central Jewish Library and Press Archive, whose collections became the nucleus of the YIVO Library when the Institute relocated from Vilna to New York in 1940. Over the succeeding decades, the Library grew by leaps and bounds, thanks to the dedication of its librarians and supporters. It emerged as a “collection of collections,” absorbing the extensive personal libraries of prominent Yiddish writers, scholars, and book collectors. Crucially, after 1945 the Library also recovered large portions of the Vilna YIVO’s prewar holdings along with thousands of rabbinic works from Vilna’s Strashun Library. Throughout its history, the YIVO Library has been a beehive of scholarship and bibliography, which has been fostered by such outstanding figures as Mendl Elkin and Dina Abramowicz. In this presentation, Zachary M. Baker will offer some personal reflections on the legacy that the YIVO Library’s founders and builders have left behind.
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Wed, Feb 19
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Book Club | Novella discussion: The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
A group of road-weary travelers convene first in a castle, then a tavern. After passing through a forest on their journey, their powers of speech are mysteriously taken from them. As each traveler attempts to tell the story of how they got here, they must relay on tarot cards instead of words. What follows is an interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal and chaotic history of all human consciousness.
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Wed, Feb 19
4:30 pm
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4:30 pm
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Discussion | Styled for Survival: How Music and Fashion Converge
Music and fashion have inspired each other through the ages, but how has that relationship aided in the preservation of culture and the development of identity? How have music and fashion worked in tandem as tools for resistance in systems of oppression? This dive into the intentional connections between sound and attire involves an exploration of Black dandyism and more. Panelists are Monica Miller, chair and professor of Africana studies at Barnard College, Columbia University; Lana Turner, historian and fashion icon; steel-pan player and composer Dr. Kendall Williams; and moderator Elizabeth Way, curator of costume and accessories.
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Wed, Feb 19
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Dream State: Love Triangle in Montana
Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-laws’ lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a young doctor with a brilliant life ahead of him. Charlie has asked Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate the ceremony, though Cece can’t imagine anyone more ill-suited for the task—an airport baggage handler haunted by a tragedy from his and Charlie’s shared past. But as Cece spends time with Garrett, his gruff mask slips, and she grows increasingly uncertain about her future. And why does Garrett, after meeting Cece, begin to feel, well, human again? As a contagious stomach flu threatens to scuttle the wedding, and Charlie and Garrett’s friendship is put to the ultimate test, Cece must decide between the life she’s dreamed of and a life she’s never imagined.
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Wed, Feb 19
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America by Sarah Lewis (In Person AND Online!)
Discover the pivotal moment when Americans chose to ignore the false foundations of our country’s racial hierarchies. Sarah Lewis’s latest book, The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America, is a historical detective work uncovering one of the most damaging lies in American history. There was a time when Americans were confronted with the fictions shaping up national ideas about race—and learned to disregard them. The surprising catalyst occurred in the 19th century. During a war for independence in the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe, images of Caucasian people captivated the American public but also showed that the place from which we derive “Caucasian” for whiteness was not white at all. Cultural and political figures ranging from P. T. Barnum to Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois to Woodrow Wilson recognized these fictions and more, exploiting, unmasking, critiquing, or burying them. Speaking with historian, author, and artist Nell Irvin Painter, Sarah Lewis shows how visual tactics have long secured our distorted regime of racial hierarchy—and offers a way toward dismantling it.
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Wed, Feb 19
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Rethinking Allyship: Asian American-Jewish Coalitions Against Hate (online)
A dynamic conversation with Daniel Tam-Claiborne and Helen Kim, who will explore the intersection of Asian American and Jewish solidarity in combating antisemitism, shedding light on race, identity, and the power of cross-community allyship.
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Thu, Feb 20
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
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Lecture | "All Geography Is Within Me": Following in Zora Neale Hurston's Travel-Dusted Tracks
Speaker Edwidge Danticat is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. She is the author of eighteen books, including, most recently, the essay collection We're Alone. Q+A to follow.
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Thu, Feb 20
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Architectural Imagination: A Conversation on Materialized Space
Embark on a night of discovery and examine how civic planning and ideas of utopia meet the works of architectural imagination within the built environment, as well as on television and film. In celebration of the exhibition Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, enjoy a panel discussion that brings together designers from the real and imagined worlds. Take a deep dive into unbuilt architectural visions and their imagined impact on our daily lives.
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Thu, Feb 20
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Louise Dupin’s Work on Women and the Forgotten Feminist Enlightenment
In the 1740s, Louise Dupin embarked on a project that would never see the light of day. Her “work on women,” as an heir later labeled it, would be the French Enlightenment's most important, and most neglected, feminist analysis of inequality. On the one hand, Dupin analyzes the mechanisms of men’s dominance. "Masculine vanity," she claims, aggrandizes men, diminishes women, and distorts all realms of knowledge, such that modern scientists incorporate old notions of women's weakness into new understandings of the body; historians denigrate female rulers or erase them altogether; legal scholars disenfranchise women through self-serving interpretations of Roman law; boys learn entitlement in school and men assert superiority in conversation. On the other hand, Dupin endeavored to bring to light evidence of women’s natural equality to men, of power exercised by queens and regents the world over, of self-determination once enjoyed by whole communities of French nuns, and of property rights once held by married women. Dupin’s research assistant for this project was none other than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His hand covers hundreds of pages of drafts and notes, and was the draw for the dozen or more archives and collectors across the United States and Europe who acquired parcels of Dupin’s papers at auction in the 1950s–the last time Dupin’s thousands of papers would be in one pile. Angela Hunter and Rebecca Wilkin reconstructed Louise Dupin’s Work on Women through extensive archival research. Their edition of translated selections, annotated and contextualized for general and specialist audiences, was published in the New Histories of Philosophy series of Oxford University Press (2023).
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Thu, Feb 20
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | The Evolution of Choreography, from Classical Ballet Pantomime to Today
Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) is the world's largest student ballet scholarship competition and dance network, designated by the U.S. Senate as America's National Youth Dance Competition. As the number one source of talent for the world's dance schools and companies, YAGP's mission is to support and develop world-class dancers of all economic, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds - ensuring the future of dance by traveling the world and auditioning more than 15,000 talented young dancers annually for scholarships, performance opportunities, and other educational programs. As part of its ongoing educational initiatives, YAGP presents a talk on the evolution of choreography--from classical ballet pantomime to contemporary works--featuring YAGP alumni from American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and other esteemed companies. The artists will also share about their journeys with YAGP, from young participants to stars of some of the world's leading dance companies, illustrating YAGP's impact on the dance world and how it has propelled emerging young dancers' careers worldwide. Registration required.
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Thu, Feb 20
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | George’s Daughter: Remembering a Controlling Father
A complex story of contradiction, disillusion and love, Carol Becker's George’s Daughter is a memoir/essay about a daughter’s attempt to live in accordance with her own values, in spite of conflicts with her controlling father whom she nonetheless adores. Ultimately, her defiance of him — by refusing to end a romantic relationship of which he does not approve — leads to emotionally catastrophic consequences for them both. These themes will resonate with anyone whose family has come undone when a member refuses to adhere to conventional expectations, whether around gender, sexuality, race, class, religion, politics or culture.
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Thu, Feb 20
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Club | Hurrican Season by Fernanda Melchor
The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters—inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable—forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.
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Fri, Feb 21
7:00 pm
$5
7:00 pm
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Discussion | Seen, Sound, Scribe: Spoken Word and Spirited Conversation
Brooklyn’s own Mahogany L. Browne, a prolific writer and avid advocate for public art, has written works of fiction, stage plays and critical essays, edited six anthologies, and authored another half-dozen poetry collections. For her Seen, Sound, Scribe series now in its third season, Browne curates thought-provoking evenings of spoken word, spirited conversation, and presentations of new work.
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Sat, Feb 22
7:30 pm
Free
7:30 pm
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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.
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Mon, Feb 24
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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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.
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Mon, Feb 24
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, Feb 25
10:30 am
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10:30 am
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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.
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Tue, Feb 25
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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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.
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Tue, Feb 25
4:30 pm
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4:30 pm
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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.
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Tue, Feb 25
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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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.
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Tue, Feb 25
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
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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.
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Tue, Feb 25
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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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.
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Tue, Feb 25
7:00 pm
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7:00 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.
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Tue, Feb 25
8:00 pm
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8:00 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.
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Wed, Feb 26
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 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
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5:30 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 | 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.
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Wed, Feb 26
6:30 pm
$5
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, Feb 27
11:00 am
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11:00 am
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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
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 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.
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Thu, Feb 27
4:30 pm
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4:30 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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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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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 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
Free
2:30 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
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5:30 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 | 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
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 11
10:30 am
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10:30 am
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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
Free
5:30 pm
Free
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
Free
6:30 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
Free
6:00 pm
Free
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
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.
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Tue, Mar 18
10:30 am
Free
10:30 am
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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
Free
5:30 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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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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Mar 20
6:30 pm
Free
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Mar 20
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 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, Mar 25
10:30 am
Free
10:30 am
Free
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Mar 25
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Mar 27
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
Free
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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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
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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.
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
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, May 29
11:00 am
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11:00 am
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