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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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146 free talks, lectures, discussions in New York City (NYC) Sat, 04/27/2024 - 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!
Conference | Language: What Is It Good For?
Successful communication can result in human flourishing and cooperation, while misunderstanding proliferates suffering. Words do not have stable, precise definitions, but “have those meanings which we have given them,” as Wittgenstein notes—new with each interpretational circumstance. Subjective and cultural forces shape the way we interpret signs, which makes our daily connection through language profound. Yet the human capacity to animate signs, by imbuing sound (and movement) with sense, remains beyond scientific understanding. Language is both one of the most fundamental elements of the human experience and one of the least understood, illustrating the need for a creative reexamination of the human language faculty. This interdisciplinary conference will share innovative thoughts about language use and linguistic communication. This one-day conference is inspired by the twin observations that opportunities designed specifically to initiate cross-disciplinary collaborations are rare, and that graduate students are ideally poised to take advantage of such opportunities to generate influential new insights and frameworks. The conference will feature talks and poster presentations in the morning and early afternoon. In the late afternoon, speakers will participate in identifying persistent questions and themes emerging from the presentations, as well as potentials for targeted collaborations.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, Apr 27
9:00 am
Free
9:00 am
Free
Conference | (Anti-)Colonialisms and its Afterlives: Renewing and Rethinking the Debate
According to some scholars, the various traditions of criticizing colonial modernity in the human sciences (rather than literary criticism)—postcolonial, decolonial, settler colonial, and anti-imperial, are now spent. Some disagree. Certain approaches and themes associated with these fields, to be sure, have been rendered anachronistic by ongoing socio-political transformations that have taken place within and across the countries of the peripheral fringe and the metropolitan core (including neoliberal globalization, mass migration, the proliferation of ethno-racial enclaves and camps for stateless peoples, the spread of populism) have blurred the boundaries between them; others have been ossified by intra-disciplinary academic debates and still others by ideologically monistic perspectives. Without ignoring or belittling the criticisms that have been leveled against these counter-colonial traditions by critics and sympathizers alike, this conference seeks to rethink and renew them by having them engage with and transform each other’s understanding of the current and untimely aspects of the receding present.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, Apr 27
9:30 am
Free
9:30 am
Free
Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Atomic Terrain
Atomic Terrain will talk about the show How to Make a Bomb, a geopolitical gardening project that uses a rare species of rose—the Rosa floribunda “Atom Bomb” rose—to examine the structural connections between horticulture, state power, and nuclear colonialism.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, Apr 27
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Conference | (Anti-)Colonialisms and its Afterlives: Renewing and Rethinking the Debate
According to some scholars, the various traditions of criticizing colonial modernity in the human sciences (rather than literary criticism)—postcolonial, decolonial, settler colonial, and anti-imperial, are now spent. Some disagree. Certain approaches and themes associated with these fields, to be sure, have been rendered anachronistic by ongoing socio-political transformations that have taken place within and across the countries of the peripheral fringe and the metropolitan core (including neoliberal globalization, mass migration, the proliferation of ethno-racial enclaves and camps for stateless peoples, the spread of populism) have blurred the boundaries between them; others have been ossified by intra-disciplinary academic debates and still others by ideologically monistic perspectives. Without ignoring or belittling the criticisms that have been leveled against these counter-colonial traditions by critics and sympathizers alike, this conference seeks to rethink and renew them by having them engage with and transform each other’s understanding of the current and untimely aspects of the receding present.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Apr 28
10:00 am
Free
10:00 am
Free
Talk | How to Break into Comedy
The Manhattan Comedy School, New York City’s premier comedy training ground, is celebrating National Humor Month by offering a free seminar, “Breaking into Comedy”. This engaging and informative session will provide aspiring comedians with the tools and knowledge they need to launch a successful career in the world of laughter. The seminar will offer an ideal learning environment for everyone from total beginners to more advanced comedy enthusiasts. It will explore a wide array of essential topics, such as: · Learn Basic Skills: Learn the secrets of joke writing and finding humor in everyday life. 5 ways to get stage time in NYC, 6 beginner mistakes to avoid, 5 things all new comics need to do, when to audition, and much, much more. · Stage Presence and Performance: Overcoming performance anxiety and finding your on-stage persona and hook. · Navigating the Comedy Landscape: Discover the various avenues available to comedians today, from stand-up routines to the ever-growing realm of online platforms like YouTube and TikTok.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Apr 28
2:30 pm
Free
2:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (In Person AND Online!)
Join WNYC's Alison Stewart and Stephen Graham Jones for a live conversation about his book, My Heart is a Chainsaw, an homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre. On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. 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 us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Apr 29
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region
David Alff launches his new book, the first comprehensive history of perhaps the most famous American railway. In conversation with Ann Kjellberg. Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be America’s most famous railway, but its influence goes far beyond the right-of-way. David Alff welcomes readers aboard to see how nineteenth-century train tracks did more than connect Boston to Washington, DC. They transformed hundreds of miles of Atlantic shoreline into a political capital, a global financial hub, and home to fifty million people. The Northeast Corridor reveals how freight trains, commuter rail, and Amtrak influenced—and in turn were shaped by—centuries of American industrial expansion, metropolitan growth, downtown decline, and revitalization.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Apr 29
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Graphic Novel Book Club: Y: The Last Man Vol. One: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra
Y: The Last Man, one of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling comic books series of the last decade, is that rare example of a page-turner that is at once humorous, socially relevant and endlessly surprising. Written by Brian K. Vaughan (Lost, Pride Of Baghdad, Ex Machina) and with art by Pia Guerra, this is the saga of Yorick Brown-the only human survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome. Accompanied by a mysterious government agent, a brilliant young geneticist and his pet monkey, Ampersand, Yorick travels the world in search of his lost love and the answer to why he's the last man on earth.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Apr 29
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Lecture | The “New Architecture:” Hungarian Modernism in the 1930s
The 1920s were decisive for modern European architecture, although its impact was delayed in Hungary. The period between 1928 and 1932 is considered the beginning of modern architecture in Hungary, although architects understood modern architecture quite differently: they saw modernity in the adaptation of technical and technological innovations. Speaker Eva Lovra Ph. D. in Architectural Sciences is senior lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Debrecen.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Apr 29
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Discussion | The Role of the Gallery in the Age of Social Media (online)
Participants : -- Jeannine Bardo, artist, curator, arts educator, founder and director of Stand4 Gallery -- Josiah Ellner, artist -- Anne Trauben, artist, director and curator of Drawing Rooms -- Shihui Zhou, artist, founder and director of Latitude Gallery
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Apr 29
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Talk | Artist Talk: A Cosmology of Inclusions (online)
Mixed-media artist Jaz Graf explores how materials collide and synthesize to convey embodied and metaphorical stories. Her love of inclusions in the papermaking process has been essential in the development of her ongoing personal mythology. Graf plays with materials and their inherent and potential meanings. She considers Thai mulberry as plantcestor, offering remedy, rumination, and reverence. Graf will talk about a new body of work created at Dieu Donné’s paper studios during her West Bay View Foundation Fellowship in 2022-23. She delves into her iterative projects inspired by textiles, ancient manuscripts, and design motifs of her cultural heritage.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Talk | Tree Canopy and Biodiversity in the Park
Llandscape consultants SCAPE help you learn about Battery Park City’s recently completed tree and biodiversity inventory. Explore the results of the tree canopy assessment – including street trees and those in the parks – as well as the inventory of plants growing in the gardens throughout the neighborhood. The results highlight the overall biodiversity, habitat value, and resiliency of Battery Park City’s urban tree canopy and planted areas.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Living In Music: A Discussion, Wisdom Worth Sharing from Music Makers
Embark on an illuminating exploration into the heart of the music industry with Living In Music: A Discussion, Wisdom Worth Sharing. This panel, comprised of esteemed luminaries Monika Ryan, John Doelp, Mia Moravis, Rene Hart, Denise Barbarita, and Jeff Lipton, promises an enriching discourse on their extensive expertise and profound insights. Experts from all sides of the music business come together to share and inspire, each member bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge to the table. Whether you're a burgeoning artist embarking on a career in music or a seasoned pro, seize the opportunity to engage with these industry leaders and delve into the inner workings of the music world.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | How to Make Your Mother Cry: Searching for Home
Linked genre-queer short stories by Sejal Shah braided with images and ephemera explore the experiences of growing up and living as a diasporic Gujarati woman searching for home.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
6:00 pm
$5
6:00 pm
$5
Book Discussion | Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade: Time-Spanning Drama
Based on the extraordinary little-known history of the women who received the Croix de Guerre medal for courage under fire, Janet Skeslien Charles's book is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, the power of literature, and ultimately the courage it takes to make a change.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Roger A. Deakins: Byways
Portraits and landscapes from the cinematographer Roger A. Deakins famed for his work with Sam Mendes and the Coen brothers.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Club | The Lock-Up by John Banville
In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford begin to investigate the death as a murder, but it’s the victim’s older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case. One of Rosa’s friends, it turns out, is from a powerful German family that arrived in Ireland under mysterious circumstances shortly after World War II. But as Quirke and Strafford close in, their personal lives may put the case, and the lives of everyone involved, in peril, including Quirke’s own daughter. Spanning the mountaintops of Italy, the front lines of World War II Bavaria, the gritty streets of Dublin and other unexpected locales, The Lock-Up is an ambitious and arresting mystery by one of the world’s most celebrated authors.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Talk | The Phenomenology of Surprise (online)
What differentiates surprise from the weird, the interesting or the startling? Artist Jeanette Andrews' unique practice as a magician and artist have afforded her unique insights into this topic which inspired her installation and performance work "Taken by Artificial Surprise" and recent talk on this topic for the British Society of Aesthetics.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Discussion | What Makes a Cultural Landmark? Perspectives from Mexico
Leading experts explore cultural heritage sites in Mexico, including the region of Oaxaca and the unique relationship between its local communities, their daily lived traditions, and natural landscapes. Learn how the new galleries will foreground the significant role that landscape plays in Mesoamerican art.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Lecture | Racialized Geographies in México: Violence, Disappearance and Militarization in Indigenous Territories
In the presentation, speaker Rosalba Aida Hernandez Castillo will reflect on the impact of the “war on drugs” on the bodies and territories of the indigenous peoples of Mexico. Taking as an analytical window the life histories of women victims of sexual violence in militarized and paramilitarized regions, and the experience of relatives of disappeared persons, this presentation will establish connections between occupation through the violation and control of indigenous women’s bodies, the disappearance of racialized youth and the occupation of their territories and dispossession of their natural resources. These processes take place simultaneously and respond to the neocolonial logic of capitalism, within which gender and race inequalities are essential for their reproduction.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
6:15 pm
Free
6:15 pm
Free
Discussion | Adventures in Italian Opera with TV Chef Lidia Bastianich (in-person and online)
The seventh and final Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features food diva Lidia Bastianich, Emmy award-winning television host, best-selling cookbook author, and a great lover of Italian opera.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Discussion | What Can Be Done to Stop Environmental and Social Destruction in NYC?
Pat Arnow and Harriet Hirshorn from East River Park Action convene an evening of discussion around the question, “What can we do to stop the city from continued environmental and social destruction?” The workshop will be anchored by a screening of Hirshorn’s film-in-progress Greenwashed! What happened to East River Park which documents the efforts between 2018-2021 to save the East River Park from demolition. Following the film, Alicia Boyd from the anti-gentrification group Movement to Protect the People, will talk about the citywide zoning proposal called City of Yes that is actively planning to continue the destruction. This Open Session is an invitation for the audience to think through how the city has ravaged the environment of the Lower East Side neighborhood in order to supposedly protect the community from the ravages of climate change, and unpack the complexities and dangers of this approach.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Shakespeare Was a Woman & Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler in Conversation with Academy Award Winner
Presenting her book, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, Elizabeth Winkler will explore with Academy Award-winning actor Mark Rylance the theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name. Scholars admit that the Bard's biography is a "black hole," yet to publicly question the identity of the god of English literature is unacceptable, even (some say) "immoral." Winkler sets out to probe the origins of this literary taboo, the conflicting views, and the evidence concerning the authorship of the plays and poems traditionally credited to William Shakespeare.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Constitution of the War on Drugs: A New Argument
The U.S. government's decades-long "war on drugs" is increasingly recognized as a moral travesty as well as a policy failure. The criminalization of substances such as marijuana and magic mushrooms offends core tenets of liberalism, from the right to self-rule to protection of privacy to freedom of religion. It contributes to mass incarceration and racial subordination. And it costs billions of dollars per year--all without advancing public health. Yet, in hundreds upon hundreds of cases, courts have allowed the war to proceed virtually unchecked. How could a set of policies so draconian, destructive, and discriminatory escape constitutional curtailment? Author David Pozen provides an authoritative, critical constitutional history of the drug war, casting new light on both drug prohibition and U.S. constitutional development.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Reading The Iliad (In Person AND Online!)
Emily Wilson spent nearly a decade wrestling with her translation of the great Homeric epic, The Iliad, which she calls, "the most gripping and heartbreaking work of literature I know." The poem, she writes, "evokes human greatness and human vulnerability...even now, when I turn back to lines I have read hundreds of times already, I find that the raw power of the Greek still startles me." Wilson reads from her translation (and perhaps some in the original Greek as well!), and discusses the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts, the fury, and grief that define the thrilling, magical, and emotionally complex poem.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Talk | Stargazing in the Park
A walk along the park and a chance to take a closer look at the stars. Peer through high-powered telescopes provided by the knowledgeable members of the Amateur Astronomers Association to see rare celestial sights. No experience is necessary and telescopes will be provided between sunset and park closure.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 30
7:45 pm
Free
7:45 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
Ava Chin—author, performer, and professor—performs and talks about her new in paperback book about the impact of the country’s first immigration restrictions on four generations of her family in NYC’s Chinatown.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At a time when dominant institutions cast doubt on the value or even the idea of Black history, these bibliophiles, scrapbookers, and librarians created an enduring set of African diasporic archives. In building these institutions and amassing abundant archival material, they also reshaped Black public culture, animating inquiry into the nature and meaning of Black history. Scattered and Fugitive Things tells the stories of these Black collectors, traveling from the parlors of the urban north to HBCU reading rooms and branch libraries in the Jim Crow south. Laura E. Helton chronicles the work of six key figures: bibliophile Arturo Schomburg, scrapbook maker Alexander Gumby, librarians Virginia Lee and Vivian Harsh, curator Dorothy Porter, and historian L. D. Reddick. Drawing on overlooked sources such as book lists and card catalogs, she reveals the risks collectors took to create Black archives.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
Free
Lecture | Carnivalesque Classics: The Case of 19th-Century Afro-Latin American Poet Luiz Gama (in-person and online)
As a singular example of Latin America’s literary production, the Brazilian poet, abolitionist, newspaper man, and lawyer Luiz Gama (1830–1882) enlisted satire and the carnivalesque as aesthetic choices, prefiguring the cultural cannibalism of the modernist movement in the first half of 20th century. The carnivalesque element and cannibalism manifest themselves in Gama’s poetic collection Trovas Burlescas through social and racial critique. Gama incorporates the plurality and contradictions of ancient myth to present the absurdities that attended empire, church, and slavery in Brazilian society of the second half of the 19th century. Unlike Parnassian poets, Luiz Gama used classicisms to heighten the comic effect of his satires while foregrounding his own position as a Black author. Readers of Gama learned various curiosities from the ancient world, and they did not need to be formally educated to understand the satirical intersection between ancient Mediterranean myths and Latin American colonial mythologies. Speaker: Andrea Koukanakis, Hunter College
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Delfi: Literature as a Social Event
A reading and conversation with contributors Fatma Aydemir, Eileen Myles, and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | New Narratives on the Peopling of America: Immigration, Race, and Dispossession
Editors T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra D?lano Alonso present an extraordinary collection of original essays that reshape our understanding of the peopling of the United States. This thought-provoking volume goes beyond conventional accounts of immigration by reexamining narratives about foreign-born populations in the United States. It situates them as part of a larger story of forced displacement and dispossession that needs to include indigenous people, enslaved persons, deported and returned migrants, and those residing in territories and foreign nations acquired by the United States.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Now You See Me!: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design
Charlene Prempeh celebrate hers debut, which documents a century of Black design history. In conversation with Tavares Strachan. Now You See Me! celebrates dozens of innovative yet little-known Black graphic artists, architects, and fashion designers. Strachan’s artistic practice has long elevated overlooked Black figures who have shaped our culture. Together, Prempeh and Strachan will examine how Black pioneers can be given their due in real time.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Discussion | A Conversation with Writer Honor Moore
A conversation with Honor Moore, faculty member and author of A Termination and Brigid Hughes, Editor at A Public Space. Robert Polito, distinguished faculty member, will moderate the evening.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and China’s Ambitions
A public conversation by Professor Ahmet Evin. Moderated by Alexander Cooley.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir
Author and journalist Zahra Hankir discusses her new book, Eyeliner: A Cultural History. From the distant past to the present, with fingers and felt-tipped pens, metallic powders and gel pots, humans have been drawn to lining their eyes. The aesthetic trademark of figures ranging from Nefertiti to Amy Winehouse, eyeliner is one of our most enduring cosmetic tools; ancient royals and Gen Z beauty influencers alike would attest to its uniquely transformative power. It is undeniably fun—yet it is also far from frivolous. Seen through Zahra Hankir’s (kohl-lined) eyes, this ubiquitous but seldom-examined product becomes a portal to history, proof both of the stunning variety among cultures across time and space and of our shared humanity. Through intimate reporting and conversations—with nomads in Chad, geishas in Japan, dancers in India, drag queens in New York, and more—Eyeliner embraces the rich history and significance of its namesake, especially among communities of color. What emerges is an unexpectedly moving portrait of a tool that, in various corners of the globe, can signal religious devotion, attract potential partners, ward off evil forces, shield eyes from the sun, transform faces into fantasies, and communicate volumes without saying a word.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Reboot: Hollywood Satire
Author Justin Taylor presents a raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture, following a washed-up actor on his quest to revive the cult TV show that catapulted him to teenage fame.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Book Discussion | Who Are We Now?: The Dynamic "Us"
From leading AI researcher Blaise Agüera y Arcas comes an exploration of how biology, ecology, sexuality, history, and culture have intertwined to create a dynamic "us" that can neither be called natural nor artificial. Identity politics occupies the front line in today's culture wars, pitting generations against each other, and progressive cities against the rural traditions of our past. Rich in data and detail, Who Are We Now? goes beyond today's headlines to connect our current reality to a larger more-than-human story.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Gallery Talk | Artists on Artists Lecture
Artist Julia Phillips lectures on artist Louise Bourgeois.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Discussion | From Artists As Workers To Workers As Artists (And Back)
Sociologist Katja Praznik, author of Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism (2021), and artist Ina Wudtke will discuss their views on the relationships between art and work, and artists and workers in a talk moderated by philosopher Dieter Lesage, which will be preceded by a screening of Wudtke’s video, A Portrait of the Artist as a Worker (RMX) (2006). Using the case study of the professionalization of artistic labor under the Yugoslav socialistic model of culture, Praznik’s book counters the Western understanding of art—as a passion for self-expression and an activity done out of love, without any concern for its financial aspects—and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible labor. Praznik helps elucidate the contradiction at the heart of artistic production and the origins of the mystification of art as labor.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Lecture | From Private and Insular to Public and Engaged
Upon the German invasion of Belgium in 1914, George Sarton, a historian of science, the owner/editor of Isis, and an evangel of the field, fled his house near Ghent, eventually arriving in the United States. He found a place at Harvard and, together with friends, an institutional home for the journal by establishing the History of Science Society, in 1924. Running Isis largely alone, he made it an outlet for the (often unrefereed) work of scholars of reputation, including himself. Sarton’s journal recognized the contributions of the Middle East and Asia to the creation of modern science, but during his editorship, Isis published little that bore on the science-related social, economic, and political upheavals in the first half of the twentieth century. Shortly after World War II, with the encouragement of John Fulton, a Yale physiologist and admired historian, the historians of science Conway Zirkle and Henry Guerlac initiated various reforms, including transfer of ownership and substantive oversight of the journal to the Society, and the installation of a managing editor. He was I. Bernard Cohen, a young Harvard physicist and budding historian, who succeeded Sarton as editor, in 1952. Cohen instituted additional changes, notably the regular refereeing of submitted articles, and he encouraged contributions from scholars in the history of biology and of American science. Since the 1960s, the content of both the Society’s journal and meetings has expanded and diversified. The transformation has been marked by much less attention to the content and methods of science, far more to its social, economic, and political engagements. The transformation has gained history of science a large audience, but without adequate attention to the truth-content of science, it is handicapped in resisting, for example, racist biology, denials of vaccine effectiveness, or the devastations of anthropogenic global warming. Speaker: Daniel J. Kevles, Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Lecture | Comparing the Jewish and Islamic Legal Traditions (online)
Professor Rabea Benhalim will present on the comparative features of Jewish and Islamic law. She will discuss the historical relationship of Jewish and Islamic legal scholars, the shared features of each religious legal system, and the continued development of each within the modern, American context. Rabea Benhalim is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Discussion | A Converation with Actress and SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher
This program spotlights Fran Drescher for a live taping of She Pivots, an iHeart podcast which delves into the stories of remarkable women who have proved that success is not defined by a one-size-fits-all formula. For this one-night-only live taping, Emily Tisch Sussman will sit down with Drescher to discuss how her personal journey has impacted her impressive career.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 1
7:30 pm
Free
7:30 pm
Free
Discussion | Chinese Global Infrastructure (online)
This panel discusses China’s diversifying role in global infrastructure development. Prof. Austin Strange will provide an overview of the scale and scope of China’s overseas infrastructure using large datasets he developed. Prof. Wendy Leutert and Dr Isaac Kardon will discuss China’s global port development involvement and its economic and security implications. Prof. Oscar Otele will introduce China’s involvement in railway development. He will delve into local elite collusion and contestation in the largest infrastructure investment in Kenya since its independence, financed by China. Dr. Andrea Pollio will use years of fieldwork in Kenya and South Africa to outline China’s growing involvement in digital infrastructure in Africa and its implications for urban growth and entrepreneurship development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, May 2
9:00 am
Free
9:00 am
Free
Symposium | Institutional Psychotherapy: Legacy and Constellations of Francesc Tosquelles (online)
Situated at the intersection of art and psychiatry, the exhibition Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut explores for the first time in the United States the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. After fleeing the Nationalist government of Franco amidst the Spanish Civil War, Tosquelles arrived in 1940 at the Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital in Southern France, where he devised a series of revolutionary psychiatric practices. This symposium will draw from the themes and contributions featured in the multi-author English accompanying publication (edited by AFAM’s exhibition co-curators Carles Guerra, Joana Masó, Valérie Rousseau and Edward Dioguardi), as well as by Joana Masó’s English anthology on Tosquelles. Conceived as an interdisciplinary dialogue, this online symposium will chart the history of the Saint-Alban “asylum-village,” while studying past and present significance of “institutional psychotherapy”. Akin to Tosquelles’ methodologies and epistemologies, the symposium will not offer a doctrinal survey about pioneering psychiatry and occupational therapy. Instead, the presentations will guide us through experiences, artworks and archival materials to reexamine mental health history and reconsider it in a larger political, social, and cultural context.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, May 2
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
Free
Gallery Talk | Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut: Exhibition Tour
Co-curators behind the scenes of Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut, which explores for the first time in the United States the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. The four curators will walk through the exhibition's artworks, archival documents and films, opening up a new window on psychiatry and its connections to art, literature and French theory.
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Thu, May 2
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
Free
Lecture | Violent Backlash to Political Reform: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution
Local violence often accompanies moments of momentous political change, as feelings of political threat intersect with preexisting prejudice to endanger groups popularly associated with reform. This talk examines the relationship between such violence and demographics in the context of the 1905 Russian Revolution, which triggered numerous anti-Jewish pogroms. Counter to an extensive literature that emphasizes the contribution to conflict of ethnoreligious polarization, we show that the sharp increase in pogroms after October 1905, when publication of the October Manifesto and accompanying anti-Semitic propaganda increased feelings of political threat among many non-Jews, was smaller in settlements with relatively large Jewish populations. The talk demonstrates that this empirical pattern can be rationalized with the Esteban-Ray (2008) model of conflict when, as with the October Manifesto, political reform systematically alters the distribution of benefits across groups. Speaker Scott Gehlbach is the Elise and Jack Lipsey Professor in the Department of Political Science, the Harris School of Public Policy, and the College at the University of Chicago.
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Thu, May 2
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
Free
Conference | Latin America on the Move
12:30 pm - Welcome Michael Cohen, Director, Observatory on Latin America Juan Tokatlian, Professor, Universidad de Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires 1:00 pm: Continental Governance Moderator: Peter Hoffman, Director, Julien Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs Speakers: Sandra Borda, Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Andreas Feldman Pietsch, Professor, Latin America and Latin Studies and Political Science, University of Illinois Tomás González, Centro Regional de Estudios de Energía (CREE), Bogotá, Colombia. Discussant: Enrique Desmond Arias, Marxe Chair of Western Hemisphere Affairs and Professor, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York 2:30: The Impact of the US 2024 Elections on Latin America Moderator: TBA Speakers: Ana Covarrubias, Professor, El Colegio de México, Mexico City Juan Tokatlian, Professor, Universidad de Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires Discussant: Michael Cohen, Director, Observatory on Latin America
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Thu, May 2
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
Free
Talk | On Getting The Life You Want: Psychoanalysis With Pragmatism
British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips aims to show the compatibility of psychoanalysis and American pragmatism. Pragmatism without psychoanalysis can seem naive, psychoanalysis without pragmatism can seem unduly coercive and essentialist.
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Thu, May 2
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a diabolical thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, “a fantasy academy laid out like a combination of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey, and a White Lotus–style resort” (Los Angeles Times) dedicated to the art of murder where students study how best to “delete” their most deserving victim.
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Thu, May 2
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims (in-person and online)
A special conversation to celebrate the publication by Adriana Carranca, a graduate who covers conflicts and human rights. She was awarded the OPC Foundation's Harper’s Magazine Scholarship in Memory of I.F. Stone in 2018. She will be joined by Graciela Mochkofsky, Dean of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, and Sarah Stillman, staff writer at The New Yorker. The conversation will be moderated by Samuel Freedman, Professor of Journalism at Columbia Journalism School with welcome remarks from Patricia Kranz, Executive Director of the Overseas Press Club. Based on over a decade of research and reporting, Soul by Soul is a riveting journey that follows the pilgrimage of a Brazilian family through the underground passages of the global evangelical movement as it clashes with militant Islamic groups in the Middle East and South Asia.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, May 2
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Al-Qaeda: A Threat Evolved?
Almost three years after the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, the current state of al-Qaeda looms large. According to a recent United Nations report, key al-Qaeda allies have since consolidated power in Afghanistan, providing the group with favorable conditions to evolve. Defense policy researcher and counterterrorism expert, Sara Harmouch, argues "dispelling myths of its decline, al-Qaeda remains a resilient and evolving force, continually refining its methods." Together in conversation with Museum Director Clifford Chanin, Harmouch discusses the relationship between al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the current standing of al-Qaeda and its affiliates in the region, and what this all means for the U.S. and the complex threat landscape it currently faces.
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Thu, May 2
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Mean Boys: A Personal History
Author Geoffrey Mak presents a ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in our volatile, image-obsessed present. You know them when you see them: mean boys take up space, wielding cruelty to claim their place in the pecking order. Some mean boys make art or music or fashion; others make memes. Mean boys stomp the runways in Milan and Paris; mean boys marched at Charlottesville. And in the eyes of critic and style expert Geoffrey Mak, mean boys are the emblem of our society: an era ravenous for novelty, always thirsting for the next edgy thing, even at our peril. In this pyrotechnic memoir-in-essays, Mak ranges widely over our landscape of paranoia, crisis, and frenetic, clickable consumption. He grants readers an inside pass to the spaces where culture was made and unmade over the past decade, from the antiseptic glare of white-walled galleries to the darkest corners of Berlin techno clubs. As the gay son of an evangelical minister, Mak fled to those spaces, hoping to join a global, influential elite. But when calamity struck, it forced Mak to confront the costs of mistaking status for belonging. Fusing personal essay and cultural critique, Mean Boys investigates exile and return, transgression and forgiveness, and the value of faith, empathy, and friendship in a world designed to make us want what is bad for us.
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Thu, May 2
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Conference | Vienna 1900: Birth of a Visionary Movement
The opening panel of a two-day conference with renowned experts from Austria, the US and Great Britain. Vienna 1900 has become a hallmark for the city's outstanding innovative capacities in formulating modern thought and highlighting the paradoxes of modernity. Renowned experts from Austria, the US and Great Britain will present the latest research on this topic and reflect on potentialities for cultural and societal innovation in the 2020s.
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Thu, May 2
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Choice by Neel Mukherjee (In Person AND Online!)
Neel Mukherjee has been called “one of the most original and talented authors working today.” In his new novel, Choice, he assembles a set of connected narratives that ask us how free we really are to make our own choices. From a London-based publisher set adrift by questions of how to live ethically, to an impoverished family on the West Bengal—Bangladesh border unmoored by the unexpected gift of a cow, Mukherjee confronts our fundamental assumptions about economics, race, appropriation, and the tangled ethics of contemporary life. He speaks with novelist and editor-in-chief of T Magazine Hanya Yanagihara.
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Thu, May 2
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Cancer Journals: Audre Lord's Devastating Memoir
First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde's experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women's pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women's body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by prosthesis. Living as a "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," Lorde heals and re-envisions herself on her own terms and offers her voice, grief, resistance, and courage to those dealing with their own diagnosis. Poetic and profoundly feminist, Lorde's testament gives visibility and strength to women with cancer to define themselves, and to transform their silence into language and action.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, May 2
7:00 pm
$5
7:00 pm
$5
Discussion | Debut Authors Showcase (in-person and online)
A conversation between luminous emerging writers Hannah Bae, Jen Lue, Rajat Singh, and Gina Chung.
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Thu, May 2
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Writers in Conversation
Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of the experimental arts institution The Kitchen. Formerly she was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. Russell’s written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. Her first book is Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020). Her second book, BLACK MEME, is forthcoming via Verso Books. Hari Kunzru is the author of six novels, Red Pill, White Tears, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, and The Impressionist. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the “Easy Chair” column for Harper’s Magazine. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, May 2
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Conference | Vienna 1900: Birth of a Visionary Movement
The opening panel of a two-day conference with renowned experts from Austria, the US and Great Britain. Vienna 1900 has become a hallmark for the city's outstanding innovative capacities in formulating modern thought and highlighting the paradoxes of modernity. Renowned experts from Austria, the US and Great Britain will present the latest research on this topic and reflect on potentialities for cultural and societal innovation in the 2020s.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, May 3
9:00 am
Free
9:00 am
Free
Symposium | The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News (in-person and online)
An interdisciplinary group of scholars gather for a symposium aimed at identifying and protecting core press functions amid a changing news landscape.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, May 3
9:15 am
Free
9:15 am
Free
Symposium | Institutional Psychotherapy: Legacy and Constellations of Francesc Tosquelles (online)
Situated at the intersection of art and psychiatry, the exhibition Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut explores for the first time in the United States the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. After fleeing the Nationalist government of Franco amidst the Spanish Civil War, Tosquelles arrived in 1940 at the Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital in Southern France, where he devised a series of revolutionary psychiatric practices. This symposium will draw from the themes and contributions featured in the multi-author English accompanying publication (edited by AFAM’s exhibition co-curators Carles Guerra, Joana Masó, Valérie Rousseau and Edward Dioguardi), as well as by Joana Masó’s English anthology on Tosquelles. Conceived as an interdisciplinary dialogue, this online symposium will chart the history of the Saint-Alban “asylum-village,” while studying past and present significance of “institutional psychotherapy”. Akin to Tosquelles’ methodologies and epistemologies, the symposium will not offer a doctrinal survey about pioneering psychiatry and occupational therapy. Instead, the presentations will guide us through experiences, artworks and archival materials to reexamine mental health history and reconsider it in a larger political, social, and cultural context.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, May 3
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
Free
Gallery Talk | Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature: Exhibition Tour (online)
Explore the fascinating life of Beatrix Potter through a virtual docent-led discussion of Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature. Best known as the author and artist of classic children’s books, Potter’s most beloved characters and settings were inspired by real-life places and animals. This program looks at her accomplishments as an artist, scientist, farmer, and conservationist.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, May 3
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
Free
Symposium | The Performance and Politics of Truth (in-person and online)
This half-day symposium puts Foucault into contact with performance and performance theory. As Tony Fisher and Kélina Gotman observe in Foucault’s Theatres (2020), although Foucault's work has been keenly influential for many scholars of performance, direct engagement of his work that starts with performance practice and theory has been surprisingly scant. Participants in this event will take up this challenge, asking: What would it mean to take seriously the art in Foucault’s famous analysis of the “art of government”? What does an analysis of and from performance and the performative bring to our understanding of the contemporary politics of truth-telling? This symposium is part of the World Congress, Foucault: 40 Years After.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, May 3
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Lecture | What is Buried in a Mass Grave? Earthen Transmutations and Capitalist Flows in Colombia
Speaker: Dr. Sebastian Ramirez, Princton University
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, May 3
4:15 pm
Free
4:15 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Marxism and the Capitalist State: Authors' Roundtable
This event presents a panel of authors from an edited collection that builds on the recent revival of interest in Marx and Marxism, calling for a renewal and refinement of Marxist state theory. It aims to provoke and encourage new debates and critiques that build on the rich tradition of Marxist analyses of the capitalist state. The chapters share a commitment to an understanding of the specifically capitalist character of the modern state and its significance for any serious discussion of the causes of our current age of global catastrophe and the overcoming of capitalist social relations.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, May 3
4:30 pm
Free
4:30 pm
Free
Lecture | The Burning Beach and the Stumbling Stone: Glissant and Derrida’s Errant Landscapes
This talk stems from a larger project that seeks to offer a dialogical reading between the works of Édouard Glissant and Jacques Derrida. How, at the dawn of the 21st century, did Glissant and Derrida foreshadow the current reflection on what Achille Mbembe calls the conditions of our “planetary habitability.” Speaker Oana Panaïté is Ruth N. Halls Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Indiana University – Bloomington.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, May 3
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
Author Caoilinn Hughes discussed her new novel, The Alternatives, with fellow author Brandon Taylor. The Flattery sisters were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties—all single, all with PhDs—they are each attempting to do meaningful work in a rapidly foundering world. The four lead disparate, distanced lives, from classrooms in Connecticut to ritzy catering gigs in London’s Notting Hill, until one day their oldest sister, a geologist haunted by a terrible awareness of the earth’s future, abruptly vanishes from her work and home. Together for the first time in years, the Flatterys descend on the Irish countryside in search of a sister who doesn’t want to be found. Sheltered in a derelict bungalow, they reach into their common past, confronting both old wounds and a desperately uncertain future. Warm, fiercely witty, and unexpectedly hopeful, The Alternatives is an unforgettable portrait of a family perched on our collective precipice, told by one of Ireland’s most gifted storytellers.
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Fri, May 3
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Loss, A Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters
Part memoir, part imagined history, this unique personal essay depicts the intimate experience of childhood bereavement, lost love affairs, and the complicated realities of motherhood and marriage. Framed by an extended train journey, author Sophie Ratcliffe turns to the novels, novelists, and heroines who have shaped her emotional and romantic landscapes. She transports us with her to survey the messiness of everyday life, all while reflecting on steam propulsion and pop songs, handbags and honeymoons, Anna Karenina and Anthony Trollope, former lovers and forgotten muses. Frank, funny, tender, and transporting, Loss, A Love Story asks why we fall in, and out, of love—and how we might understand doing so amid the ongoing upheavals and unwritten futures of the twenty-first century.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, May 3
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Book Discussion | Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the US Legal System
Despite escalating geopolitical rivalry, the US and China continue to be economically intertwined. Numerous Chinese companies have made substantial investments in the US and are reluctant exit this strategically important market. While the global expansion of Chinese companies has ignited intense policy and academic debates, their interactions with complex host-state legal systems have largely escaped systematic examination. To fill this knowledge gap, Negotiating Legality introduces a dual institutional framework and applies it to analyzing extensive interviews and multi-year survey data, thereby shedding light on how Chinese companies develop in-house legal capacities, engage with US legal professionals, and navigate litigation in US courts. As the first comprehensive investigation of these crucial topics, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in China's rise, its global impacts-especially on legal systems of developed nations like the US-and the intricate dynamics of US-China relations. With author Ji Li.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, May 4
10:15 am
Free
10:15 am
Free
Gallery Talk | Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut: Exhibition Tour
Co-curators behind the scenes of Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut, which explores for the first time in the United States the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. The four curators will walk through the exhibition's artworks, archival documents and films, opening up a new window on psychiatry and its connections to art, literature and French theory.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, May 4
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
Free
Lecture | Artist Ber Ryback's Formal Approach to Jewish Art (online)
The visual and plastic works, as well as writings, of Jewish Ukrainian artist Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935) present a formal approach to national art, diverging from prevalent depictions of Jewish identity. Spanning illustration, drawing, painting, sculpture, stage design and theoretical writing, Ryback’s diverse body of work brings to the fore a material cult of everyday Eastern European Jewish life that was often overlooked. Central to the discussion is Shtetl, mayn khorever heym: a gedekhenish (Shtetl: My Destroyed Home, a Recollection), a lithograph album, conceived in 1917 within the Pale of Settlement and published in Berlin six years later in 1923. By closely analyzing the lithographs and Ryback’s contemporaneous writing, Noa Tsaushu examines the ways in which the artist exploited notions of materiality and visual representation to defy conventions of monolithic medium, push back against the Western European paradigm of Jewish aniconism, and challenge the hegemony of text as the Jewish medium of choice. Speaker Noa Tsaushu is a doctoral student of Yiddish Studies at Columbia University.
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Mon, May 6
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Talk | Israel’s Seven Front War: Gaza and the West Bank (online)
Gregg Roman examines Gaza and the West Bank in this week’s session of Israel’s Seven Front War. This series is a collaborative endeavor between the Middle East Forum and American Jewish University. Over seven sessions, this series promises to provide in-depth analysis and insights into the multifront war Israel has been combatting since October 7. Beginning with Hamas’s brutal assault on October 7, Israel has found itself in a multi-front war, according to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, attacked from seven fronts: Gaza and the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Turkey, and Iran. In this seven-part series, presented by American Jewish University and the Middle East Forum, AJU scholar in-residence Rick Richman will moderate discussions with MEF experts on each front, in an essential new set of programs on Israel’s fight for its future.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, May 6
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Lecture | Status at Work: Power, Race, and the Law in the Immigrant Workplace (in-person and online)
Speaker Shannon Gleeson is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, May 6
4:15 pm
Free
4:15 pm
Free
Book Club | Scatterlings by Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe (in-person and online)
Discuss Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe's lyrical, moving novel that tells the story of a multiracial family when the Immorality Act is passed, revealing the story of one family’s scattered souls in the wake of history.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, May 6
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Book Discussion | Stefan Sagmeister: Now is Better
A panel discussion with the acclaimed Austrian-born US based contemporary graphic designer and typographer Stefan Sagmeister. The focus of the talk will be Sagmeister’s latest publication, which was released in 2023 by Phaidon Press. A slide presentation by Stefan Sagmeister will be followed by a conversation moderated by Dr. Stephanie Buhmann, Head of Visual Arts, Art, and Architecture, as well as a Q&A segment with the audience.
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Mon, May 6
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabilities of the green life all around us. It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents. The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the beak of its pollinator, a pea seedling that can hear water flowing and make its way toward it? Zoë Schlanger takes us across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close.
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Mon, May 6
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Book Discussion | Where Are Your Boys Tonight? The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 by Chris Payne
Author Chris Payne discusses his book, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008, with writer Leslie Simon. If Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City's early 2000’s rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? gives the inside story of the turn-of-the-millennium emo subculture that became bigger than anyone thought possible. There was Pete Wentz, the Fall Out Boy leader who launched a litany of scene-stealing bands and preposterous side-hustles, and Gerard Way, the wizard behind My Chemical Romance and The Black Parade. Panic! At the Disco and Paramore emerged soon after—a pair of intrepid outsiders who got massive playing by their own rules. As they ascended, MySpace took over the internet and the age of influencers dawned, with emo its choice aesthetic. Music journalist Chris Payne experienced emo's mainstream takeover from sweaty crowds and mosh pits growing up in New Jersey. In Where Are Your Boys Tonight? he offers an authoritative, impassioned, and occasionally absurd account told through interviews with more than 150 people, from the scene's biggest bands, producers, and managers to the teenage fans who helped redefine American music culture.
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Mon, May 6
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Talk | Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew (online)
Presented by Jeremy Dauber, Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Columbia University and director emeritus of its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. Melvin James Brooks (Kaminsky, born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, Brooks is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies.[2] A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 19 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2024. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows from 1950 to 1954.[3] With Carl Reiner, he created the comedy sketch The 2000 Year Old Man, and together, they released several comedy albums, starting with 2000 Year Old Man in 1960. With Buck Henry, he created the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which starred Don Adams and ran from 1965 to 1970. Brooks rose to prominence becoming one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s. His films include The Producers (1967), The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995).[4] A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 and was itself remade into a musical film in 2005. He wrote and produced the Hulu series History of the World, Part II (2023).
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, May 7
2:30 pm
Free
2:30 pm
Free
Book Club | Poetry Discussion Circle: Asian/Pacific American Poetry
Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Each session focuses around a theme that celebrates the diversity and range of the poetic form and contemporary poetry culture. Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with a selection of poems that explore the experiences and histories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, May 7
2:30 pm
Free
2:30 pm
Free
Talk | Jews and Antisemitism on Campus: A Century of Discord (online)
Mark Oppenheimer on a journey through the history of antisemitism on college campuses from the 1920s to today. Just after World War I, the trustees of Columbia University conspired to limit the number of Jews on their campus, instituting concepts like "geographical diversity" to more easily recruit Gentile students from outside the New York area. In the century since, restrictions on Jews at schools like Columbia, Harvard, and Stanford came and went--and some worry that campus climates have turned hostile again. We'll learn the truth--and explode some myths--in this four-part course, ranging over 100 years of higher education. First of 4 sessions.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, May 7
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Price is Wrong, Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
Uppsala University Professor Brett Christophers will present his book. What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable? Today's consensus is that the key to curbing climate change is to produce green electricity and electrify everything possible. The main economic barrier in that project has seemingly been removed. But while prices of solar and wind power have tumbled, the golden era of renewables has yet to materialize. The problem is that investment is driven by profit, not price, and operating solar and wind farms remains a marginal business, dependent everywhere on the state's financial support. The global economy is moving too slowly toward sustainability because the return on green investment is too low. We cannot expect markets and the private sector to solve the climate crisis while the profits that are their lifeblood remain unappetizing. But there is an alternative to providing surrogate green profits through subsidies: to take energy out of the private sector's hands.
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Tue, May 7
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club: Comedy of Manners
Helen Simonson presents her timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about a generation of young women facing the seismic changes brought on by war and dreaming of the boundless possibilities of their future, from the bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.
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Tue, May 7
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Discussion | The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (online)
Explore a lesser-known but transformative piece of immigration law: the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. This groundbreaking law created pathways to citizenship and legal permanent status for millions of immigrants, yet created more regulation and enforcement of existing immigration restrictions. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Policy Director for the American Immigration Council, will moderate a discussion with Muzaffar Chishti, Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, and Charles Kamasaki, scholar and author of Immigration Reform: The Corpse that Will Not Die, about the passage of this law which set the stage for current debates about immigration.
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Tue, May 7
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press (online)
Between the 1880s and 1920s, Yiddish-language newspapers rose from obscurity to become successful institutions integral to American Jewish life. During this period, Yiddish-speaking immigrants came to view newspapers as indispensable parts of their daily lives. In A Revolution in Type, Ayelet Brinn argues that women were central to the emergence of the Yiddish press as a powerful, influential force in American Jewish culture. Through rhetorical debates about women readers and writers, the producers of the Yiddish press explored how to transform their newspapers to reach a large, diverse audience. The seemingly peripheral status of women’s columns and other newspaper features supposedly aimed at a female audience—but in reality, read with great interest by male and female readers alike—meant that editors and publishers often used these articles as testing grounds for the types of content their newspapers should encompass. Brinn shows that instead of framing issues of gender as marginal, we must view them as central to understanding how the American Yiddish press developed into the influential, complex, and diverse publication field it eventually became.
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Tue, May 7
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children by Jamaica Kincaid & Kara Walker (In Person AND Online!)
Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker come together to share their new book, a one-of-a-kind production entitled An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children. It is an inventive and surprising survey about what our gardens reveal. Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history behind them. Walker illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, many-layered watercolors. They speak with New Yorker staff writer and theater critic Hilton Als.
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Tue, May 7
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Talk | Stargazing in the Park
A walk along the park and a chance to take a closer look at the stars. Peer through high-powered telescopes provided by the knowledgeable members of the Amateur Astronomers Association to see rare celestial sights. No experience is necessary and telescopes will be provided between sunset and park closure.
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Tue, May 7
7:45 pm
Free
7:45 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life (online)
Three distinguished rabbinical voices in a captivating conversation about the profound insights in Shai Held’s new book, Judaism Is About Love. Rabbi Shai Held, a founder of the innovative Hadar community, will be in conversation with rabbis Brad Artson and Sharon Brous, moderated by Mark Oppenheimer. Whether you are well-versed in Jewish teachings or exploring them for the first time, this event is sure to leave you inspired and enriched.
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Tue, May 7
9:30 pm
Free
9:30 pm
Free
Lecture | Jewish Self-Defense in the Russian Empire 1903-1905 (online)
The phenomenon of self-defense against anti-Jewish violence prior to World War II has remained a largely unexplored topic. This presentation will delve into the history of Jewish local guard and self-defense units in Jewish communities in the Russian Empire before and during the failed 1905 revolution. Among the issues discussed will be the formation and leadership of Jewish self-defense units, the political and socio-economic background of their members, as well as contemporaneous Jewish discourse and debate on both the efficacy and the necessity of self-defense. By shedding light on Jewish resistance to pogroms through analysis of a variety of primary sources, Netta Ehrlich will contribute to our understanding of the development of Jewish self-defense both in theory and in practice. Speaker Netta Ehrlich is a doctoral candidate and MacCracken Fellow at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU.
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Wed, May 8
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | I Cheerfully Refuse: Big-Hearted, Hopeful Novel (online)
A storyteller “of great humanity and huge heart” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Like a River which sold over a million copies and captured readers’ hearts around the globe. Now comes a new milestone in this boldly imaginative author’s accomplished, resonant body of work, a big-hearted, hopeful novel that's part adventure story, part love story, and a delight to read. The dialogue, characters and sense of place are unforgettable.
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Wed, May 8
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Poetry Discussion: Selected Poems from Robert Bly's My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy
My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy is Robert Bly's book of ghazals. The ghazal form is well-known in Islamic culture, but only now finding its way into the literary culture of the West. Each stanza of three lines amounts to a finished poem. In a period when much American poetry is retreating into prosaic recordings of daily events, these poems do the opposite. The poems are intimate and yet reach out toward the world: the paintings of Robert Motherwell, the intensity of Flamenco singers, the sadness of the gnostics, the delight of high spirits and wit.
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Wed, May 8
4:30 pm
Free
4:30 pm
Free
Discussion | A Conversation Between Photographer Marc Ohrem-Leclef
The conversation between the photographer Marc Ohrem-Leclef and the curator Allen Frame will be moderated by Juliane Camfield, and focus on the inspiration behind the on-going photographic project and exhibition Ulisse. Working with found materials dating back to the 1940s, with vernacular images and his original photographs, Ohrem-Leclef follows the migratory footpaths of collaborators, roads, ships, pieces of mail, and–most iscerally–the pull of the water. From North Africa, Europe, Australia and America these pathways share a quest for belonging, driven by the push and pull of desire and memory: the desire to fulfill dreams and the memory of the people and places left behind.
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Wed, May 8
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life (in-person and online)
In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, the author’s father, kissed his twenty-one-year-old wife and two baby children goodbye. The twenty-five-year-old first lieutenant, pilot of a famed P-61 Black Widow, was leaving for the war. He and his night fighter squadron were sent to Iwo Jima, where, for the last five and a half months of World War II, he flew approximately seventy-five missions, largely in pitch-black conditions. His wife would wait out the war at the home of her small-town Ohio parents, one of the countless numbers of American family members shouldering the burden of being left behind. Joe Paul, the son of a Depression-poor Kentucky sharecropper, was fresh out of high school in 1937 when he enlisted in mechanic school in the peacetime Army Air Corps. Eventually, he was able to qualify for flight school. After marriage, and with the war on, the young officer and his bride crisscrossed the country, airfield to airfield, base to base: Santa Ana, Yuma, Kissimmee, Bakersfield, Orlando, La Junta, Fresno. He volunteered for night fighters and the newly arrived and almost mythic Black Widow. A world away, the carnage continued. As Paul Hendrickson tracks his parents’ journey, together and separate, both stateside and overseas, he creates a vivid portrait of a hard-to-know father whose time in the war, he comes to understand, was something truly heroic, but never without its hidden and unhidden psychic costs. Paul Hendrickson is a three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a winner of it once--for his 2003 Sons of Mississippi. His The Living and the Dead. Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War was a 1996 finalist for the National Book Award. His 2011 Hemingway's Boat was both a New York Times and London best-seller. In conversation with Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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Wed, May 8
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde
Author Jasper Fforde discusses his new book Red Side Story. Welcome to Chromatacia, where life is strictly regulated by one’s limited color perception. Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken “Something That Happened” five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision–segregated, everything dictated by an individual’s visual ability, and governed by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Twenty-year-old Eddie Russett, a Red, is about to go on trial for a murder he didn’t commit, and he’s pretty sure to be sent on a one-way trip to the Green Room for execution by soporific color exposure. Meanwhile, he’s engaged in an illegal relationship with his co-defendant, a Green, the charismatic and unpredictable Jane Grey. Negotiating the narrow boundaries of the rules within their society, they search for a loophole—some truth of their world that has been hidden from its hyper-policed citizens. As Eddie and Jane fight for their love—and their lives—Red Side Story delivers another thrilling, humorous, and fulfilling adventure with a remarkable surprise at the end.
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Wed, May 8
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Discussion | The Interweaving of Languages and Selfhoods
Three brilliant writers -- Jakuta Alikavazovic, Katie Kitamura and Lila Azam Zanganeh -- in a conversation on language, translation, and identity, presented by Villa Albertine and Fern Books.
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Wed, May 8
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Lecture | The U.S.-European Relationship in a Time of Populism and War (in-person and online)
Can the traditionally strong relationship between the U.S. and Europe weather the storms on the horizon? Get an in-depth, insider’s view at this crucial time from Karen Donfried, who helped shape policy in the region as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs under President Biden. Donfried will provide valuable insight on this complex relationship, helping us to understand the Biden administration’s posture toward Europe, the high stakes of supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia, the role of populism in contemporary transatlantic relations, European concerns about a possible second Trump presidency, regulation of AI in Europe and the U.S., and more. Before serving as Secretary of State Blinken’s top adviser on Europe and Eurasia, she was also a special assistant to President Obama and senior director for European affairs on the National Security Council at the White House. Donfried is a senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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Wed, May 8
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Discussion | The Role of Community in the Development of New Operas (online)
A discussion with the one-and-only Liz Lerman, whose Critical Response Process has served as a core component of the work we do at ALT. This conversation, moderated by American Lyric Theater’s founder Lawrence Edelson, will also include composer Jasmine Arielle Barnes and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, who will speak to their experiences at ALT and elsewhere in embracing community and audience in the development of their works.
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Wed, May 8
7:30 pm
Free
7:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Rogue: Surreal Horror Novel (online)
From author Mona Awad comes a "Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age" (Good Housekeeping) and "darkly funny horror novel" (NYLON) about a lonely young woman who's drawn to a cult-like spa in the wake of her mother's mysterious death. "Surreal, scary and deeply moving--like all the best fairy tales" (People).
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Thu, May 9
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants
Journalist and foreign correspondent Jacob Kushner launches his new book, which documents the shocking resurgence of far-right xenophobic violence in twenty-first century Germany. In conversation with Seyward Darby, author of Sisters in Hate, followed by a signing.
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Thu, May 9
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Lecture | Imperia Cognati in Literary and Legal History (online)
Cognati's impact on early 16th century Roman culture deserves a closer look. Through her role as poet, performer, and confidante of the intelligentsia, she influenced some of the greatest artists and intellectuals of Julian Rome. This paper will explore this legacy as well as the opposing explanations for her apparent suicide offered by Bandello's Novelle and her will. At the same time the difficulties she endured as a courtesan point to her reasons for ensuring that her daughter did not follow in her footsteps.
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Thu, May 9
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | A Living Remedy: A Memoir (online)
From Nicole Chung comes a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she’s lost.
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Thu, May 9
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Conference | The Role of Universities in the Lead-Up to Conflict, and in Peace and Reconciliation (online)
There will be two panels: “The Role of the Academy in Challenging Authoritarianism, Violence, and in Post-Conflict Situations” and “The Experiences of Exiled Scholars.”
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Fri, May 10
10:00 am
Free
10:00 am
Free
Book Discussion | Rajaraja Chola: King of Kings by Kamini Dandapani
Join author Kamini Dandapani as she discusses her book Rajaraja Chola: King of Kings with Navina Haidar, art historian and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rajaraja I, often described as Rajaraja the Great, was an emperor from the Chola dynasty who reigned the southern parts of India from 985 CE to 1014 CE. An iconic figure, often regarded as the King of Kings, he was the most powerful emperor in India during his reign and is remembered for reinstating the Chola influence and ensuring its supremacy across the Indian Ocean. His kingdom expanded from Sri Lanka in the south to Kalinga (Orissa) in the northeast. The southern part of India was united for the very first time in Indian history under his rule. By dividing the country into several districts and standardizing revenue collection through systematic land surveys, he streamlined the administrative system. He built the magnificent Brihadisvara Temple in Thanjavur, one of a group of Chola-era temples designated as a World Heritage Site. His achievements spanned the gamut from battlefield victories to administrative organization and stunning architectural works. Kamini Dandapani’s book was published on the heels of Mani Ratnam’s megastar film Ponniyin Selvan, also based on the Chola king Raja Raja Cholan. Rajaraja Chola: King of Kings chronicles the history of the Chola dynasty from its very earliest Sangam days until its demise.
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Fri, May 10
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artists Walton Ford and David Salle in Conversation
Artists and friends Walton Ford and David Salle appear in conjunction with the exhibition for a wide-ranging, entertaining, and thought-provoking conversation about artistic practice, storytelling, finding inspiration in nature, human behavior, and more. Through an exploration of works in Walton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio, and animal drawings by earlier artists in the Morgan's collection, Ford and Salle will discuss exhibition themes and artmaking processes central to Ford's work throughout his career, uncovering unexpected connections along the way.
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Fri, May 10
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood
This treasure trove for book lovers explores fifteen classic novels with memorable maternal figures, and examines how our cultural notions of motherhood have been shaped by literature. Author Carrie Mullins is a journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in Parents, Food & Wine Magazine, Epicurious, Tin House, and Publishers Weekly, among other publications.
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Sat, May 11
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 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, May 11
3:30 pm
Free
3:30 pm
Free
Lecture | Encounters of African and Jewish Diasporas in Brazil
“Synagogue of Ancestral Commitments" is an illustrated lecture about dialogue between Jewish and African religions. The universe of memories of the Jewish diaspora was welcomed in the temples of the African diaspora. Both African and Jewish religions offer their messages of understanding and harmony. This lecture raises complex issues of identity in contemporary multicultural society. Brazilian artist Andre Feitosa discovered that his family comes from both African slaves and Jews, forcibly converted by the Inquisition. Some of his ancestors were tortured by their slave owners, yet others burned alive for their Jewish faith, others expelled from Europe, then wandered around Brazil, changing their names, and hiding their past. To deal with the painful aspects of colonial history, Andre creates a community called "Synagogue of ancestral commitments" with other people of similar background, as a form of sacred healing art that combines Judaism and Afro-Brazilian religions. This cinematic presentation follows Andre’s spiritual journeys in the North of Brazil, while recreating experiences from the stories of the diasporas of both his Jewish and African ancestors.
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Sat, May 11
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
Free
Discussion | The Impact of Circle in the Square Theatre
In 1951 Circle in the Square Theatre was founded in an abandoned nightclub in Greenwich Village. It would rise to astounding heights as a driver of the pivotal Off-Broadway Movement. Through recollections, performances and a panel discussion this event will focus on the artistry and determination, the challenges, breakthroughs and relationship its two innovators shared through the beginnings. major achievements and in the ongoing impact of the Circle's phenomenal first decade. Registration required.
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Mon, May 13
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America (online)
What did “the pursuit of happiness” mean to our nation’s founders and how did that famous phrase become the foundation of our democracy? The Declaration of Independence identifies “the pursuit of happiness” as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. In his new book, National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen profiles six of the most influential founders—Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton—to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives. Rosen not only elucidates the meaning of the Declaration’s famous phrase, but also takes us on a revelatory journey into the minds of the Founders, providing a deep, rich and fresh understanding of the foundation of our democracy.
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Mon, May 13
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
“There is something valuable about wanting the small world around you to know how richly you are being moved, so that maybe some total stranger might encounter your stomp, your clap, your shout, and find themselves moved in return," writes Hanif Abdurraqib. He and Jennifer Wilson, two of our most ardent and attuned culture writers, as they talk about writing what they love—from music and literature to home courts, homecomings, and hometown heroes upon the publication of There's Always This Year, Abdurraqib’s new memoir of basketball and belonging.
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Mon, May 13
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Talk | Stargazing in the Park
A walk along the park and a chance to take a closer look at the stars. Peer through high-powered telescopes provided by the knowledgeable members of the Amateur Astronomers Association to see rare celestial sights. No experience is necessary and telescopes will be provided between sunset and park closure.
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Tue, May 14
7:45 pm
Free
7:45 pm
Free
Discussion | Israel and the World after October 7th (online)
Yael Eckstein provides insights into navigating Israel's global position after Oct. 7, humanitarian efforts, and Jewish-Christian relations. Since October 7th, Israelis and Jews worldwide have questioned how the Jewish state will relate to the international community. Yael Eckstein, President and CEO of The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, one of the world's leading religious charitable organizations, has a unique perspective on Jewish-Christian relations and Israel's role in the world. Yael, based in Israel, will be in discussion with AJU President Jeffrey Herbst about the lessons she has learned from helping many thousands of Jews move to Israel, providing humanitarian aid to victims of terror, and building inter-religious understanding.
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Wed, May 15
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Demian by Herman Hesse
Emil Sinclair is a young boy raised in a middle class home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a composite word meaning "world of illusion," so his entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth (see Plato's cave and dualism). Accompanied and prompted by his mysterious classmate and friend "Max Demian," he detaches from and revolts against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self.
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Wed, May 15
4:30 pm
Free
4:30 pm
Free
Gallery Talk | Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut: Exhibition Tour
Co-curators behind the scenes of Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut, which explores for the first time in the United States the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. The four curators will walk through the exhibition's artworks, archival documents and films, opening up a new window on psychiatry and its connections to art, literature and French theory.
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Thu, May 16
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
Free
Gallery Talk | Somewhere to Roost: Exhibition Tour
A tour of the current exhibition led by Luce Assistant Curator Brooke Wyatt. \ Featuring paintings, textiles, photographs, and sculptures, the exhibition explores the ways that artists evoke and construct ideas of “home.” Taken both literally and metaphorically, Somewhere to Roost represents spaces where artists live and work, as well as places remembered, imagined, or dreamed. The exhibition highlights experiences of immigration, incarceration, and housing insecurity, as well as visions of home that are playful, inventive, and unexpected.
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Thu, May 16
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Blue Maiden: Two Sisters vs the Devil
Author Anna Noyes presents a transportive and chilling debut novel of two sisters growing up on an isolated Northern European island in the shadow of their late mother and the Devil. It's 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island's women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead. In his place is Pastor Silas, a widower with two wild young daughters, Beata and Ulrika. The sisters are outcasts: imaginative, oppositional, increasingly obsessed with the lore and legend of the island's dark past and their absent mother, whom their father refuses to speak of. As the girls come of age, and the strictures of the community shift but never wane, their rebellions twist and sharpen. Ever capable Ulrika shoulders the burden of keeping house, while Bea, alone with unsettling visions and impulses, hungers for companionship and attention. When an enigmatic outsider arrives at their door, his presence threatens their family bond and unearths - piece by piece - a buried history to shocking ends. All the while Berggrund's neighboring island The Blue Maiden beckons, the storied home of the Witches' Sabbath and Satan's realm, its misted shore veiling truths the sisters have spent their lives searching for. A Nordic Gothic laced with the horrors of life in a patriarchy both hostile to and reliant on its women, The Blue Maiden is a starkly beautiful depiction of lost lineage and resilience.
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Fri, May 17
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Gallery Talk | Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut: Exhibition Tour
Co-curators behind the scenes of Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut, which explores for the first time in the United States the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. The four curators will walk through the exhibition's artworks, archival documents and films, opening up a new window on psychiatry and its connections to art, literature and French theory.
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Sat, May 18
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
Free
Gallery Talk | Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut: Exhibition Tour (online)
Co-curators behind the scenes of Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut, which explores for the first time in the United States the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. The four curators will walk through the exhibition’s artworks, archival documents and films, opening up a new window on psychiatry and its connections to art, literature and French theory.
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Mon, May 20
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Talk | Israel's 7-Front War: Gaza Strip (online)
Examine the recent actions, regional ambitions, and strategic implications of Tehran's aggressive expansion and its threat to Israel. With Daniel Pipes, President of the Middle East Forum.
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Mon, May 20
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Rescue Me: Actor Denis Leary on the 20th Anniversary of the Show
This year will mark the 20th anniversary of the debut of Rescue Me, the award-winning television series created by actor Denis Leary and writer Peter Tolan. Rescue Me tells the story of New York City firefighters through the dramatized story of Tommy Gavin, portrayed by Leary, and grapples with the issues and challenges faced by the FDNY in the aftermath of 9/11. In conversation with Museum Director Clifford Chanin, Leary and Tolan reflect on the series, its themes, and the impact it had on audiences around the world.
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Mon, May 20
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Discussion | The Mother of Modern Dance
Third generation Duncan dancer and Artistic Director of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation & Company, Lori Belilove makes public for the first time Isadora Duncan's early manuscript, Exercizes for the Dance. Contrary to myth and popular misconception, Belilove says this document reveals that, Duncan had a coherent technique and guiding principles. Belilove expounds, with demonstration, Duncan's role as the "Mother of Modern Dance" in the context of this early formative handwritten document. An American pioneer of dance, Isadora Duncan was a self-styled revolutionary who condemned the rigidity of ballet and championed free dance coupled with her view of the ideals of ancient Greece: beauty, art, and philosophy. Registration required.
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Mon, May 20
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Process & Practice
For nearly two decades, interdisciplinary artist Shervone Neckles has undertaken an intimate exploration of her Grenadian-American family's history. Revisiting her family archives, collecting oral narratives, and traveling to her homeland has unearthed a lineage of knowledge production that serves as a continuous wellspring of inspiration for her studio practice. Through her artwork she weaves together primary source materials with mixed media techniques that includes printmaking, sculpture, textiles, and installation. Her work reconstructs narratives that illuminate her own interiority, exploring her relationship to selfhood, memory and home, as well as her family's migration narrative from Grenada to the United States. During her Workspace Residency at Dieu Donné in 2021, Neckles created Memory Works, handmade paper artworks that contain ingredients from Grenadian family recipes. Considering recipes as matrilineal heirlooms, Neckles’s artworks form an archive of family traditions narrating a story of global migration and family history. In conversation with her collaborator at Dieu Donné, Director of Artistic Projects Tatiana Ginsberg, she will discuss papermaking within the context of her multifaceted artistic practice and the process of creating Memory Works.
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Tue, May 21
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Poetry Discussion Circle: Asian/Pacific American Poetry
Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Each session focuses around a theme that celebrates the diversity and range of the poetic form and contemporary poetry culture. Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with a selection of poems that explore the experiences and histories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. 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, May 21
2:30 pm
Free
2:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Silver Nitrate: A Dark Thriller (online)
From author Silvia Moreno-Garcia comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hidden powers.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, May 21
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
Award-winning author Julie Satow looks south on Fifth Avenue and back through the 20th century to examine the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them. In three chic palaces of consumption – Bonwit Teller, Lord & Taylor, and Henri Bendel – Satow writes, "men owned the buildings, but inside, women ruled." Her new book, Satow focuses on three talented business women in different decades: Hortense Odlum, Dorothy Shaver, and Geraldine Stutz. Rich with personal drama and trade secrets, Satow's book portrays the world of the fashionable department store in all its glitz, decadence, and fun, and showcases the women who ran the show.
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Tue, May 21
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Music & Madness: Creating Jeff Beal's Score for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
A conversation with five-time Emmy-winning composer Jeff Beal about the creation of his new score for the Weimar Cinema masterpiece The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Beal will be joined by Reinhild Steingr?ver, Professor of German at the Eastman School of Music. They will discuss his approach to creating the Caligari score and share clips from Kino Lorber's upcoming 4k Blu-ray release that will feature his score.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, May 21
7:30 pm
Free
7:30 pm
Free
Talk | Stargazing in the Park
A walk along the park and a chance to take a closer look at the stars. Peer through high-powered telescopes provided by the knowledgeable members of the Amateur Astronomers Association to see rare celestial sights. No experience is necessary and telescopes will be provided between sunset and park closure.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, May 21
7:45 pm
Free
7:45 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (in-person and online)
Underground Empire, a real-life techno-thriller by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, reveals how the U.S. controls a global web of surveillance, in the form of networks of fiber optic cables and banking systems, giving it enormous economic power. Farrell and Newman show how these channels, weaponized after 9/11 but now used as a matter of course, have become realms of spying and coercion over foreign businesses and countries, allowing for U.S domination. Paul Krugman — Nobel laureate in economics, columnist for The New York Times, and distinguished professor -- speaks with the authors about their investigation and the geopolitical implications of the power they uncover.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, May 22
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Last Time She Saw Him: A Psychological Thriller
A woman is left reeling when her former fiancé appears to take his own life, and she becomes desperate to prove it was actually murder—in the latest psychological thriller from bestselling author Kate White
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Wed, May 22
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir by Curtis Chin
1980s Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese; where he navigated the divided city's spiraling misfortunes; and where--between helpings of almond boneless chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, and some of his own, less-savory culinary concoctions--he realized just how much he had to offer to the world, to his beloved family, and to himself. Served up by the cofounder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, it is an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. It is structured around the very menu that graced the tables of Chung's. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant is both a memoir and an invitation: to step inside one boy's childhood oasis, scoot into a vinyl booth, and grow up with him--and perhaps even share something off the secret menu.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, May 23
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration
The United States has by far the world’s largest population of incarcerated people. More than a million Americans are imprisoned; hundreds of thousands more are held in jails. This vast system has doled out punishment—particularly to people from marginalized groups—on an unfathomable scale. At the same time, it has manifestly failed to secure public safety, instead perpetuating inequalities and recidivism. Why does the United States see punishment as the main response to social harm, and what are the alternatives? This book brings together essays by scholars, practitioners, activists, and writers, including incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, to explore the harms of this punitive approach. The chapters address a range of issues, from policing to prosecution, and from how people are treated in prison to the consequences of a criminal conviction. Together, they consider a common theme: We cannot reduce our dependence on mass incarceration until we confront our impulse to punish in ways that are excessive, often wildly disproportionate to the harm caused. Essays trace how a maze of local, state, and federal agencies have contributed to mass incarceration and deterred attempts at reform. They shed light on how the excesses of America’s criminal legal system are entwined with poverty, racism, and the legacy of slavery. A wide-ranging and powerful look at the failures of the status quo, Excessive Punishment also considers how to reimagine the justice system to support restoration instead of retribution.
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Thu, May 23
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Talk | Stargazing in the Park
A walk along the park and a chance to take a closer look at the stars. Peer through high-powered telescopes provided by the knowledgeable members of the Amateur Astronomers Association to see rare celestial sights. No experience is necessary and telescopes will be provided between sunset and park closure.
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Tue, May 28
7:45 pm
Free
7:45 pm
Free
Discussion | Touchstones from the Joffrey Ballet's History (In Person AND Online)
Former Joffrey Ballet dancer Trinette Singleton presents touchstones from the Joffrey Ballet's history with works from the repertoire and the Joffrey Methodology. Beginning with the early 1960s following the Joffrey Ballet's split with Rebecca Harkness, Singleton discusses the events of that first year as the company began to establish itself. Singleton highlights various works that went into the repertoire during that period, along with the 1967 addition of The Green Table, an important milestone for the company. That year was also the year Joffrey produced his groundbreaking multimedia ballet, Astarte. It thrust both the company and Singleton into major news attention. Singleton explores the creation of this work, which has always been a topic of interest to many. The program presents an overview of the work of the Joffrey Ballet's co-founder Gerald Arpino, who was a prolific, often underrated choreographer. The Arpino Chicago Centennial Celebration was a recent testimony to his choreographic genius. Some of the pieces performed for the Centennial Celebration will be highlighted. A few years ago, a small group of dancers who had studied with Robert Joffrey decided it was time to create a record of his teaching method. Through the efforts of those dancers and the Arpino Foundation, a document titled the Joffrey Methodology has resulted. Singleton speaks about the process of documentation and shows a video of a few exercises from Joffrey's actual classes. Registration required.
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Wed, May 29
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Discussion | O’Hara’s: Resilience on Tap
In the aftermath of 9/11, individuals came together in public spaces to grieve, find solace, and memorialize the attacks. These spaces fostered a sense of community that, in some cases, endure two decades later. O’Hara’s Restaurant and Pub is one of these sites. After suffering significant structural damage on 9/11, the bar re-opened seven months after the attacks, quickly becoming a space of mourning, healing, and a living tribute to first responders. To discuss the role of O’Hara’s after 9/11, the importance of community spaces, and how social ties are critical aspects of resilience, Museum Director Clifford Chanin is joined by Mike Keane, co-owner of O’Hara’s, retired firefighter Tim Brown, and Dr. David Abramson, Director of the Center for Public Health Disaster Science at NYU’s School of Global Public Health.
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Wed, May 29
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century--including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath--finally gets her due in this intimate biography by Sara B. Franklin. When twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones began working as a secretary at Doubleday's Paris office in 1949, she spent most of her time wading through manuscripts in the slush pile and passing on projects--until one day, a book caught her eye. She read it in one sitting, then begged her boss to consider publishing it. A year later, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl became a bestseller. It was the start of a culture-defining career in publishing. During her more than fifty years as an editor at Knopf, Jones nurtured the careers of literary icons such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike, and helped launched new genres and trends in literature. At the forefront of the cookbook revolution, she published the who's who of food writing: Edna Lewis, M.F.K. Fisher, Claudia Roden, Madhur Jaffrey, James Beard, and, most famously, Julia Child. Through her quiet and tenacious work behind the scenes, Jones helped turn these authors into household names, changing cultural mores and expectations along the way.
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Wed, May 29
6:30 pm
$5
6:30 pm
$5
Talk | The Connections Between Christian Anti-Judaism and the Hamas Attacks of October 7th (online)
A talk by Dr. Tilman Tarach, Lawyer; Author.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, May 30
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
Free
Book Discussion | Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege (online)
A new wave of aspiring neo-Nazi terrorists has arisen—including the infamous Atomwaffen Division, and they have a bible: James Mason’s Siege, which praises terrorism, serial killers, and Charles Manson. Spencer Sunshine's book documents the origins of Siege and shows how Mason’s vision emerged during debates in the 1970s after the splintering of the American Nazi Party/NSWPP. The second part of the book unveils for the first time how four 1980s musicians and publishers—Boyd Rice, Michael Moynihan, Adam Parfrey, and Nikolas Schreck—discovered and promoted the terrorist ideologue.
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Thu, May 30
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Talk | Down the Bridle Path: Vestiges of Greenwich Village’s Equine Past
For centuries New Yorkers relied on horses to transport them uptown, downtown, crosstown, and beyond, often retracing the paths created by the Native Americans on horseback who had come before them. However, nearly all of the city’s equine culture has been forgotten, supplanted by a cacophony of cars, trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles. Nevertheless, the horse in New York City’s past is not only present, but palpable in Greenwich Village, which still offers vestiges of this way of life through its former horsewalks, stables, mews and other associated objects. Architectural historian Gregory Dietrich takes you down the bridle path of this all but forgotten, yet tangible, legacy of Village horse culture.
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Thu, May 30
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The Last Murder at the End of the World: Atmospheric Whodunnit
Set on the foggy Greek isles, Stuart Turton's atmospheric whodunnit is wildly inventive, joyously confounding and an actual thrill to read.
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Thu, May 30
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Talk | Israel's 7-Front War: The West Bank (online)
Examine the recent actions, regional ambitions, and strategic implications of Tehran's aggressive expansion and its threat to Israel. With Gregg Roman, Director fo the Middle East Forum.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jun 3
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Lecture | Where Was God During the Holocaust? (online)
How do we find the divine in the face of unimaginable tragedy? Michael Berenbaum explores this profound question. Many people wonder where God was during the Holocaust, a question that has puzzled believers for decades. It gained significant attention in the latter half of the 20th century and continues to be a pressing issue for those grappling with the idea of God in a world filled with suffering and evil. In this course, they will explore the writings of Elie Wiesel, Emil Fackenheim, Richard L. Rubenstein, Eliezer Berkovits, Irving "Yitz" Greenberg, and others who have delved into this profound question. First of 4 sessions.
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Mon, Jun 3
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Discussion | A Delicate Ritual: Artists in Conversation
With: artist Abigail Deville, choreographer Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, composer Samora Pinderhughes, and artists Bebe Miller and Vinson Fraley. This event was designed to bring together voices of artists, curators, scholars, writers, and more, into long-form roundtable discussions. The content of these conversations are intentionally wide-ranging and artist-driven.
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Sat, Jun 8
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Discussion | Hidden Labor in the Art and Craft of Papermaking (online)
In this talk, artists Aimee Lee and Velma Bolyard will discuss their creative work in and with handmade paper and the traditions they draw on, based on their recent essays in Papermaker’s Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Papermaking, Volume 2. In conversation with the series editor Tatiana Ginsberg, Dieu Donné Director of Artistic Projects, Aimee and Velma will discuss their research and personal experiences of keeping traditions alive through use. Aimee Lee writes about toolmakers Ronald MacDonald and Howard Clark, whose handmade tools have allowed generations of papermakers to beat pulp and form sheets. Velma Bolyard’s essay traces her personal journey of discovering shifu, woven paper cloth, and teaching it to others. Both artists make, spin, dye, and weave paper into dimensional forms and books, and draw upon traditional and contemporary practices.
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Wed, Jun 12
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Poetry Discussion Circle: Pride Poems
Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Each session focuses around a theme that celebrates the diversity and range of the poetic form and contemporary poetry culture. Celebrate Pride Month and read poems reflecting a joyful variety of LGBTQ+ experiences and stories. 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, Jun 18
2:30 pm
Free
2:30 pm
Free
Book Club | The Nutmeg Trail: Recipes and Stories Along the Ancient Spice Routes by Eleanor Ford
From humankind’s earliest travels, people have followed and sought out the spice routes. These maritime trading trails acted as the central nervous system of the world, enabling the flow of goods and ideas. The Nutmeg Trail is a culinary exploration of spice, showcasing how centuries of spice trading and cultural diffusion changed the world’s cuisine. Eleanor Ford presents a unique and enlightening guide to cooking with spice as she follows the trails of ancient maritime trade through Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Sri Lanka, India, Iran, and the Emirates. Eleanor examines how spices can be used, combined and layered—how some bring sweetness, others fragrance, heat, pungency, sourness or earthiness to create something one-of-a-kind. Chapters and recipes are divided by spice—by the fire and thunder of ginger and peppercorns, floral petals & bark, chillies, lime & lemongrass, earthy cumin & coriander, plus complex spice blends. Combining historical research with a travel writer's eye and a cook's nose for a memorable recipe, The Nutmeg Trail is a cookbook interwoven with stories that explore how spices from across the Indian Ocean, the original cradle of spice, have, over time, been adopted into cuisines around the world.
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Thu, Jun 20
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Times Square Remade by Lynne B. Sagalyn
Scholar and author Lynne B. Sagalyn will discuss her book Times Square Remade with journalist Charles Bagli. What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of character, the place has maintained a unique hold on our collective imagination? In this book, which comes twenty years after her widely acclaimed Times Square Roulette, Lynne B. Sagalyn masterfully tells the story of profound urban change over decades in the symbolic space that is New York City's Times Square. Drawing on the history, sociology, and political economy of the place, Times Square Remade examines how the public-private transformation of 42nd Street at Times Square impacted the entertainment district and adjacent neighborhoods, particularly Hell's Kitchen. Sagalyn chronicles the earliest halcyon days of 42nd Street and Times Square as the nexus of speculation and competitive theater building as well as its darkest days as vice central, and on to the years of aggressive government intervention to cleanse West 42nd Street of pornography and crime. Thematically, the author analyzes the three main forces that have shaped and reshaped Times Square—theater, real estate, and pornography—and explains the politics and economics of what got built and what has been restored or preserved.
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Thu, Jun 20
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Discussion | A Discussion About Renowned Modern Dance Choreographer Eleo Pomare
Dance educator and former member of the Eleo Pomare Dance Company, Dyane Harvey Salaam, along with company members Dr. Carl Paris, PhD and Robin Becker, will venture into the mind and soul of master creative Eleo Pomare—the man, the artist, and the maker of artists. Born in Colombia, Pomare was a dancer and choreographer who trained with renowned choreographers, including Jose Limon, and established the Eleo Pomare Dance Company in 1958. Pomare’s productions were often influenced by socio-political themes of the time and portrayed the Black experience incorporating elements of ballet, jazz and modern dance. Using video and archival photos, enhanced by fond memories of Eleo Pomare Dance Company members, this lecture offers intimate knowledge of the vastness of Pomare’s creativity. Registration required.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 26
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Book Club | The Promise by Silvina Ocampo
A woman relives the people and places of her life while stranded in the middle of the ocean... The premise of Argentinian writer Ocampo’s posthumously published novella, which she worked on for the final 25 years of her life, is a grand metaphor for the authorial condition. Completed in the late 1980s, at a time when Ocampo was grappling with the effects of Alzheimer’s, the book can be read as a treatise on the dissolution of selfhood in the face of the disease. However, its tactile insistence on the recurrence of memory, its strangeness, and its febrile reality are themes that mark the entirety of Ocampo’s oeuvre and articulate something more enduring even than death.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 26
4:30 pm
Free
4:30 pm
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