Events - June, 18, 2012

Frontiers in Astrophysics Lecture Series: Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe with Alex Filippenko

The expansion of the universe, once thought to be slowing down, is now believed to be speeding up under the force of a mysterious “dark...

Legal/Politics/Economics,

CORPORATE PROGRAM: A Roadmap for Japan's Steady, Sustainable Pathway Forward

Despite making a quick recovery from the devastating earthquake and tsunamis in the Tohoku region, Japan is facing more challenges with its political instability, appreciation...

Legal/Politics/Economics, Books

Christopher Buckley with Chris Matthews

Satirist Christopher Buckley returns to 92nd Street Y to discuss his career and a hilarious and sure-to-be-controversial novel about US/China relations. Submit your questions for Mr....

Legal/Politics/Economics

War, Politics and Evolution: What Humans Do, and Why They Do It - Jonathan Haidt and Chris Hedges

War and intergroup violence still play a large and devastating part in human interaction, and have, with ebbs and flows, for all of human history....

Books

Alafair Burke

Bestselling author Alafair Burke discusses her new book, Never Tell.

Art/Photo/Design

The Perils of Progress: Artists and the Atomic Age

Joan Marter, Distinguished Professor of Art History, Rutgers University, discusses 1950s American sculpture as a rich, authoritative, and vibrant art. Just as Abstract Expressionist painting...

Performing Arts/Film

NYU Game Center Presents Agitprop Game Design

Do video games have the ability to discuss intense cultural and political issues in the same way as films, books, and other traditional art forms?...

Books

Novelists Ann Napolitano & Courtney Sullivan Discuss Each Other's Work

Escape the summer heat and relax in the Rare Books Room with writers Ann Napolitano and Courtney Sullivan. Though their currents novels, Napolitano’s A Good...

Books

Samuel R. Delany With Kenneth James - Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

Prolific author Samuel Delany, whose works of science fiction and on sexual identity have won him numerous awards, reads from his new novel, Through the...

Legal/Politics/Economics, Books

John Lanchester - Capital

John Lanchester, the bestselling author of The Debt to Pleasure, presents Capital, an epic social novel set around the 21st century obsession: the financial crisis.

History/NYC

Mad Men, Working "Girls" and Desperate Housewives: American Women at the Dawn of the 1960's - Stephanie Coontz

In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her best-selling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hear what life was really like for women in...

Books,

Adam Ginsberg

Adam Ginsberg is a powerful speaker sharing his inspirational story and personal experiences in a way that audiences around the world can relate to. Adam...