Events - June, 5, 2012
Books, FilmAuthor's Favorite Movie Night: Adam Gopnik Presents Double Indemnity
Adam Gopnik has written seven books including his lovely memoir Paris to the Moon, and the most recent The Table Comes First: France, Family and...
Art/Photo/Design, History/NYCThe Portrait Medal and Its Place in Italian Renaissance Culture," led by Stephen K. Scher, art historian
The portrait medal, an art form virtually invented during the early Italian Renaissance, encapsulates the most essential values and interests of that period. In one...
Science/Tech/Health, Religion/Spirituality, History/NYC
A Genetic History of the Jewish People with Harry Ostrer in conversation with Laurie Goodstein
Harry Ostrer MD, a medical geneticist and authority on the genetics of the Jewish people, shares insight into the work of scientific pioneers. Learn how...
Performing Arts/Film, Books
Shawn Colvin - Diamond in the Rough
A very special night with Grammy Award winner Shawn Colvin as she discusses her memoir Diamond in the Rough. There will also be a short...
Performing Arts/Film, Books
Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers discusses her book I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me.
Legal/Politics/Economics, History/NYC
Destructive Creators: Jewish Immigrant Bankers, the Business of Mass Migration and the Failures that Reshaped American Finance, 1914
Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University, explores how Jewish immigrant banks were central to the daily economic lives of thousands of Yiddish speaking Jews on the Lower...
LGBTQ+
Eminent Outlaws: Scenes of the Crime, A Lecture by Chris Bram
In the years following World War II, a small group of gay writers established themselves as literary power players, fueling cultural changes that would resonate...
History/NYC
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King with Rich Cohen and Nicholas Lemann
Known as El Amigo, the Gringo, or simply Z, Samuel Zemurray started with nothing but a cart of freckled bananas and built a sprawling empire....
History/NYC
Carol Willis - BUILDING / TYPE: New York's Newspaper Towers
Curator Carol Willis reflects on the research for the exhibition News PAPER Spires and proposes that New York's early newspaper headquarters represent an extraordinary new...
Books
The Democratic Contradictions Of Multiculturalism
St. Mark's Bookshop & Telos Press present a reading & discussion with Jens-Martin Eriksen & Frederik Stjernfelton on The Democratic Contradictions Of Multiculturalism What is multiculturalism?...
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