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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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36 free talks, lectures, discussions in New York City (NYC) Tue, 07/14/2026 - 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!
Book Discussion | The Catcher in the Rye 75th Birthday Celebration with Award-Winning Author (+ Free Books)
This event celebrates the 75th anniversary of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Host Megan Nolan will discuss this modern American classic with the author's son, Matt Salinger. If you arrive early, you can sign up and receive a free copy of the book while supplies last. Megan Nolan is an Irish writer based in New York. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was an international bestseller, the recipient of a Betty Trask Award, and nominated for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Her second, Ordinary Human Failings, was nominated for the George Orwell prize for Political Fiction, the Nero Prize, and the Women's Prize, among others. She is the 2025 Sewanee School of Letters John Grammer Fellow.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jul 14
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
Free
Discussion | Group Discussion: Ken Burns' The American Revolution
In recognition of the 250th anniversary of 1776, the group will be exploring Ken Burns’ expansive, evenhanded documentary, The American Revolution. Watch on your own and come to discuss! Series available on pbs.org. At this session, the group will be discussing The American Revolution, Episodes 5 and 6.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jul 14
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Art Critic Shares Her New Book, Museum in Transit: 10 Contemporary Artists in the NYC Subway (+ Signing)
A conversation with author Xhingyu Chen to celebrate the launch of her new book, Museum in Transit: 10 Contemporary Artists in the NYC Subway, a critical retrospective of the artists and stories behind the public art installations in our MTA system. She will be in conversation with Lester Burg, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jul 14
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Reading & Analyzing the Classic Novella, Loser Takes All
At this novella discussion, the group will be discussing Graham Greene's 1955 novella, Loser Takes All. About the book: Bertram had no belief in luck. He was not superstitious. A conspicuously unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the second time. Quite quietly: St Luke's, Maida Hill, and then two weeks in Bournemouth. But Dreuther, a director of Bertram's firm, whimsically switches wedding and honeymoon to Monte Carlo. Inevitably Bertram visits the Casino. Inevitably he loses. Then suddenly his system starts working...
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jul 15
4:30 pm
Free
4:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Paris Review Editor Speaks with Author about Her New Book, Salt Sisters
Lindsey Palmer will be in conversation with author Emily Nemens about her new book. About the book: Twin sisters Jocelyn and Maddy Marx grew up in a tight-knit family on Cape Cod, but they couldn't be more different. Jocelyn, laid-back and dreamy, still lives in their hometown as a Realtor. Maddy, intense and ambitious, left for New York after college and never looked back. Until the summer they turn thirty-one. After a dramatic fall from grace in her career, a pregnant Maddy returns to the Cape with her husband and announces she's back for good. For Jocelyn, it's less a reconciliation than a reminder of a life that was ripped away from her and the deep grief she's carried ever since. Back in each other's orbit, the sisters reopen old wounds and are forced to confront what it will take to heal.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jul 15
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Panel of Curators & Art Historians Discuss the Significance of Tarot in Renaissance Italy
In this wide-ranging discussion about the exhibition Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions, curators Joshua O’Driscoll, Claire Gilman, and Frank Trujillo are joined by art historian Susan Aberth and artist Ali Banisadr to explore the origins of tarot in Renaissance Italy and its ongoing relevance as a source of inspiration for artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. While registration is required, seating is first come, first served.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jul 15
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Quiet Reading Meet Up
Bring a book or check one out of the library to read to yourself for one hour. After that, spend an hour socializing with those around you!
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jul 15
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | CNN & PBS -Featured Political Scientist Shares His New Nonfiction Title, Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln
In Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln, award-winning historian Saladin Ambar unearths the horrors that shaped a young Abraham Lincoln's worldview, pushing him to find his political voice. Murder on the Mississippi tells the story of three racially motivated murders in Mississippi River towns from 1835 to 1838 that inspired the speech that put Lincoln on the national map--the Lyceum Address. Confronted by lawlessness, racial terror, and his own inner demons, Lincoln's battle was political and deeply personal. Saladin Ambar is a Professor of Political Science and Senior Scholar at the Center on the American Governor at Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Politics. He is the winner of the Association of American Publishers' PROSE Best Book Award in Government and Politics for Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama, and his Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era is in development for a feature film. He is Co-Director of the Democracy Committee for New Jersey's Reparations Council and was a contributor for the Lincoln Presidential Foundation's docuseries on the Lyceum Address. He hosts the podcast This Moment in Democracy and has been a fact-checker and contributor for the Smithsonian Channel, CNN's Race for the White House, and PBS's MetroFocus.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jul 15
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Wed, Jul 15
7:00 pm
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Book Club | Luddite Book Club -- More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner
This offline book club is a space for in-person conversation about the role technology plays in the world, where the group will be discussing More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner. Synopsis: What is writing when large language models can generate text that provides an instant facsimile of thought? Calls for us to view this moment as an opportunity to reckon with how we work with words, and rethink our relationship with writing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jul 16
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | An Inside Look at the New Novel The Future Perfect
Author Cay Kim in conversation with Hannah Bae about her new book, The Future Perfect. About the book: A radiant portrait of a young woman caught between cultures, and what is lost and found in the struggle to succeed. Told in incandescent prose, Cay Kim's debut novel is a portrait of a brilliant young woman growing up between cultures, and a love letter to girlhood, family, and the great dreams we hold for ourselves, no matter where we're from.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jul 16
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Arts, Wellness, & Policy Experts Discuss Artistic Engagement & Wellbeing at a Major NYC Concert Hall (+ Live String Quartet Music)
Against the backdrop of the world's celebration of soccer, this conversation explores how creativity can be understood as a health-creating behavior alongside physical activity, supporting not only individual wellbeing, but the health of our cities. While sport and exercise are widely recognized for protecting physical and mental health, growing evidence shows that engagement in music, dance, storytelling, and the visual arts also strengthens stress regulation, emotional wellbeing, social connection, and community resilience. Bringing together voices from the arts, sports, public health, and policy, this event examines how creative participation can advance World Health Organization (WHO) global health targets while aligning with New York City's priorities around prevention, equity, and neighborhood-level wellbeing. The conversation highlights how arts engagement can support mental health, reduce health disparities, and foster the social cohesion that underpins healthy, thriving communities. This event will begin with members of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center playing a selection from Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's String Quartet in E-flat major.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Jul 17
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Scholar Shares Her New Book on Turkish Sufi Philosopher Semiha Cemal (+ Live Sufi Music)
A book talk with Dr. Arzu Eylul Yalcınkaya for Semiha Cemal: A Portrait of a Turkish Sufi Philosopher, accompanied by a Sufi music performance by Istanbul Mesk Ensemble. Semiha Cemal: A Portrait of a Turkish Sufi Philosopher restores to memory a pioneering figure whose voice was nearly lost to history. A philosopher, educator, and mystic, Semiha Cemāl lived at the threshold of empire and republic, bringing together Sufi metaphysics and classical philosophy in a way that quietly challenged the binaries of her time. This book presents both a critical portrait of her life and the inaugural English edition of her 1927 novel, Ask Peygamberi (The Prophet of Love). It stages love as a force of ethical transformation, blending Platonic allegory with Sufi cosmology to explore the soul's journey toward truth.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, Jul 18
1:30 pm
Free
1:30 pm
Free
Book Club | Sapphic Book Club -- Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza
At this event, attendees come ready to discuss, rant, and rave with other sapphic book lovers! This discussion will center around Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza. Synopsis: When the author moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world's largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. These stories inspired her to seek out lesbians throughout history who could become her role models, in romance and in life. Centered around seven love stories for the ages, this is the writer's journey into the archives to recover the personal histories of lesbians in the twentieth century: who they were, how they loved, why their stories were destroyed, and where their memories echo and live on. *The term “Sapphic” comes from Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from the island of Lesbos (where we get the word “lesbian!”). Organizers use it here as an umbrella term to refer to women/nonbinary/genderqueer folks who experience attraction to others in that umbrella. All are welcome!
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, Jul 18
2:30 pm
Free
2:30 pm
Free
Discussion | Journalist & FIlm Critic Shares His New Book, The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki
A talk with Nicolas Rapold, the author of The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki. A master animator and one of cinema's greatest artists, Hayao Miyazaki is able to imagine and populate worlds like no other director or animator—from My Neighbour Totoro to the Oscar-winning Spirited Away and The Boy and The Heron. The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki journeys through the rich mix of cultural, historical, and artistic influences that shape Miyazaki’s storytelling. From Japanese folklore and childhood memories to architecture, classic cinema, literature, and political commentary, it reveals how Miyazaki’s deeply personal vision creates layered worlds that somehow feel both fantastical and grounded in truth. With insight into his process, visual language, and recurring themes, including nature, flight, girlhood, resistance, and renewal, The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki offers fans and film lovers a deeper understanding of the imagination behind the magic. Nicolas Rapold is a journalist, critic, and the author of The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki. His writing is published in The New York Times, Sight & Sound, W magazine, Air Mail, Filmmaker, Criterion Collection, The Financial Times, and Screen Slate. He hosts the podcast The Last Thing I Saw with critics and filmmakers as guests, and served as editor-in-chief of Film Comment magazine, which won the Film Heritage Award from the National Society of Film Critics.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jul 20
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Poetry Discussion: USA at 250
Poetry enthusiasts unpack the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Discuss poems related to civic ideals and democracy as the group honors America at 250. Please note that contemporary poetry deals frankly with contemporary issues, and all works discussed are artistic expressions selected for an adult audience.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jul 21
2:30 pm
Free
2:30 pm
Free
Book Club | Award-Winning, NYT Bestselling Novel The City We Became Discussion
A book club centered around The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin. About the book: Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a "glorious" story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City. In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power. In the Bronx, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city, so beautiful and powerful that it's as if the paint is literally calling to her. In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels. And they're not the only ones.
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Tue, Jul 21
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
Free
Discussion | AI Panel Discussion: Experts Share How AI Affects Entrepeneurs
A panel discussion that aims to make sense of how AI might affect your daily life, whether you're a professional, small business owner, artist, parent, student, or simply curious. You’ll hear about what’s changing and come to understand both how it impacts your work and community and some practical steps you can take to keep pace and be more equipped to navigate what’s ahead. For the small business owner, AI has the potential to be a “force multiplier.” Speakers will demonstrate how businesses and freelancers are using AI tools to help mitigate busy administrative work, from note-taking to drafting social media content to complex data analysis. They'll also discuss best practices for deploying AI tools to avoid common pitfalls.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jul 21
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Quiet Reading Meet Up
Bring a book or check one out of the library to read to yourself for one hour. After that, spend an hour socializing with those around you!
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jul 22
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Award-Winning Nonfiction Writer Shares Her New Biography on Angelica Schuyler
Angelica: For Love & Country in a Time of Revolution is a vivid biography of Angelica Schuyler “Carter” Church, a leading American woman whose web of influence spanned the American War for Independence, the formative postwar years, and the turbulent politics and rival ideologies that threatened to tear apart the nascent United States. Author Molly Beer is a documentary writer whose work grapples with the politics of place. After years of reporting from Central and South America, South Asia, and across the U.S., she returned to her roots to research and write Angelica, a book that chronicles the far-flung life of Angelica Schuyler “Carter” Church: the charismatic Founding Era networker and de facto diplomat who gave her name to Beer’s hometown of Angelica, New York. Beer has served as an Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and currently teaches writing at the University of Michigan.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jul 22
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Book Launch: "Deeply Satisfying" Novel Unfinished Business
Clare Osongco in conversation with Lauren Kung Jessen about her new book Unfinished Business. About the book: In this funny, warmly chaotic novel, a floundering office worker discovers her mother's ghost is trapped in the company Slack server, and must free her by resolving her own troubled love life.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jul 23
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Sustainable Food Systems Expert SHares His New Book, North Stars of Emancipation
Researcher Antonio Roman-Alcalá discusses his new book, North Stars of Emancipation: California's Diverse Food and Farming Movements in Times of Racial Reckoning, on how greater racial inclusion can propel movements forward and help realize sustainable change, from a longtime political organizer and researcher.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Jul 24
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Gallery Talk | The Social Practice of Oral History in Art with Penny Arcade & More
An arts panel with Penny Arcade, David Hirsh, and Steven Watson, moderated by Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez. The discussion will revolve around audio and video excerpts of interviews with some of the subjects in Sheyla Baykal’s photographs, including Agosto Machado and Minette. Each panelist will speak about their oral history practices as part of three distinct organizations/projects: the Lower East Side Biography Project, the David Hirsh Tapes at Visual AIDS, and Artifacts.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Jul 26
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Discussion | French New Wave Film Director in Conversation with Call Me By Your Name Author
Director Eric Rohmer has long been praised--and criticized!--for his wordy, literate films, in which conversation and flirtation are the main events. But Rohmer was a relatively late convert to film; his first love was literature, and the culmination of his early ambitions was the novel Elisabeth, written as the Allies were battling to retake Paris, and first published under a pseudonym in 1946, when Rohmer was 26 years old. Available in English for the first time this July, Elisabeth is a literary portrait of one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century as a young man: a beguiling, strangely timeless, and prematurely wise first draft of what we now recognize as a quintessentially Rohmeresque situation: a summer idyll whose placid surface roils with lust, resentment, wit, and even happiness. It was also the "matrix," as Rohmer himself later put it, of the images, ideas, and formal concerns of his first sequence of films, Six Moral Tales. Andre 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. His most recent book is Room on the Sea. He's the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jul 27
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
Free
Discussion | Dance Festival Panel with the Leaders of 5 Major NYC Dance Companies
A behind-the-scenes peek into the creative collaboration between the five iconic NYC dance companies! This panel discussion features the artistic leaders of all five companies: Ballet Hispanico New York, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem. There are two ways to access this event: 1. General Admission, first-come first-served. Just show up! 2. Fast Track opening the Monday before the event at noon for all.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jul 28
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Discover a Collection of Never-Before-Seen VR Lang's Poetry with Her Editor (+ Signing)
A conversation with Rosa Campbell to celebrate the launch of The Miraculous Season Selected Poems by V.R. "Bunny" Lang, a collection of poems by the eccentric V. R. "Bunny" Lang. Most of the included poems are never-before-seen. She will be in conversation with Dorothea Lasky and Jameson Fitzpatrick, followed by a signing.
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Tue, Jul 28
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Talk | Discover How NYC's Green Spaces Foster Bird Migration
An evening with Myles Davis of NYC Bird Alliance, who explores how small urban green spaces are becoming vital stops along one of the largest bird migration routes in the Americas. Discover how this area supports migratory and sensitive bird species and learn about the critical role community gardens can play in creating habitat in the heart of New York City. Every year, millions of birds migrate through New York City.
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Tue, Jul 28
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Mystery Novel Discussion at a Fifth Ave Mansion: Tokyo Express
You are invited to discuss Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto. To miss this would be a crime. About the book: In a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing on the cold beach, the police see nothing to investigate: The flush of the couple’s cheeks and the empty juice bottle speak clearly of cyanide, of a lovers’ suicide. But in the eyes of two men, senior detective Torigai Jutaro and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jul 28
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Book Launch: "Compulsive" Thriller The Night Hunter
Natalie Moss in conversation with Canwen Xu about her new book, Night Hunter. About the book: In a remote corner of the South African bush, two sisters reunite to bury a family secret once and for all, but when they’re stranded among the wild animals, they find a predator far more dangerous waiting for them in the shadows...
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Tue, Jul 28
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Quiet Reading Meet Up
Bring a book or check one out of the library to read to yourself for one hour. After that, spend an hour socializing with those around you!
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Wed, Jul 29
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Awrd-winning, NPR- Featured Historian Shares Her New Book on the Feminist Movement & Miss America Pageants
Liberation Summer: The Moment That Changed the Women's Movement and the Future of American Politics explores the road to the September 1968 protests of the Miss America pageant—one led by women’s liberationists and the other organized by the emergent Miss Black America pageant—and the birth of a new politics of beauty. The book unfolds the full scope of this history, detailing the shocking injustices and passionate debates that led to the demonstrations, as well as the broader social and political landscape that gave rise to some of the most iconic women on both sides of the ideological spectrum. Liberation Summer proves how the battle for beauty’s meaning has always been inextricably political, and how its enduring impact continues to shape our politics today. Author Micki McElya is a professor of history at the University of Connecticut, specializing in the histories of women, gender, race, and sexuality in the United States from the Civil War to the present. Her last book, The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received a number of other accolades; her 2007 book, Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America, was the cowinner of a 2007 Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. McElya has written for the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Boston Review, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, MSNBC, The Nation, Elle, and more.
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Wed, Jul 29
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Public Health Expert Shares His New Book, Fighting for New York
Nicholas Freudenberg discusses his new book, Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice Since the 1960s, with Merlin Chowkwanyun, author of All Health Politics Is Local. Fighting for New York is a pragmatic account of health-focused social movements over the past several decades. Nicholas Freudenberg--a longtime public health professional, researcher, and activist--examines a variety of cases, from campaigns for reproductive rights, environmental justice, and free school lunch to the Close Rikers Island and Fight for $15 movements. He analyzes how activist leaders, members, and organizations approach injustices, build coalitions, frame their messages, and define success, considering which strategies worked and which failed to achieve their goals.
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Wed, Jul 29
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Panel of Experts Discuss the Benefits of Collective Singing (+ Orchestral Performance of Works by William Grant Still & George Gershwin)
Bringing together voices from music, neuroscience, public health, and community practice, this event explores how collective singing can be understood not only as cultural expression, but as a scalable public health resource. Audiences are invited to reflect on how raising our voices together can help build healthier bodies, stronger relationships, and more connected communities. What if singing together were recognized as a shared health practice for individuals and communities? Collective singing is one of the most powerful wellbeing practices humans share. From lullabies and community choirs to spontaneous public song, singing together is a universal behavior linked to stress reduction, improved mood, social bonding, and physiological regulation. A growing body of research shows that group singing can support mental wellbeing, reduce loneliness, and strengthen social connection—protective factors central to World Health Organization (WHO) priorities for population health and noncommunicable disease prevention. This event will begin with members of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center playing selections from William Grant Still's Motherless Child and George Gershwin's Lullaby.
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Fri, Jul 31
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Discussion on Bestselling Urban Fantasy Novel, The City We Became
A book discussion about by The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin! About the book: This urban fantasy novel follows six souls of New York as they come together, despite their differences, to fight a common enemy. Jemisin weaves together themes of diversity, gentrification, prejudice, and nature to create a thrilling, fast-paced ride of a novel. The e-book and audiobook are availiable for immediate access with your Library card.
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Thu, Aug 6
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Discussion | Death Cafe Discussion Group
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, Aug 8
3:30 pm
Free
3:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Award-Winning Filmmaker & Public Speaker Shares Her New Nonfiction Book, What Will They Say?
Denise Soler Cox discusses her new book, What Will They Say?: Confront Cultural Taboos and Discover Your Inner Power, which exposes nine common Latinx cultural taboos no one dares discuss and shares her road-tested advice to blast through them and reclaim your power. Through raw personal stories and unflinching honesty, Cox reveals the cultural taboos that have been quietly sabotaging Latina success, drawing from thousands of one-on-one conversations with Latinas after her keynotes who recognize these unspoken patterns but never had language for what was holding them back. Each chapter exposes a taboo through Cox’s own vulnerability, creating space for readers to break through their own.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Aug 19
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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