Events - June, 25, 2012

Bratislava/Pressburg Returns to the Map of Jewish Europe

Bratislava, long known also as Pressburg, was for centuries an important center of Jewish life and learning which was virtually destroyed in the Holocaust and...

Art/Photo/Design

Changing Hands CONNECTIONS: We Are Here

This one-day program focuses on contemporary Native North American art: aesthetics, ideas, contexts and contrasts, featuring artists, curators, and critical thinkers. Organized in conjunction with two significant and simultaneous exhibitions of...

Books

Steven Raichlen - Island Apart

New York Times bestselling author Steven Raichlen discusses his new novel, the story of a man and woman who have equally strong passions for love...

Books

Robert Goolrick - Heading Out to Wonderful

Robert Goolrick, author of A Reliable Wife and The End of the World as We Know It, reads from and signs copies of his latest...

Science/Tech/Health

Continuing to Build Ethical Relationships

Facilitator Marty Epstein, MS, trainer, coach, and mediator. Communication is at the core of every family, friendship, and organization. When we learn a better way...

Books

Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya with Anderson Tepper of Vanity Fair

Greek plays tend to end with mass death. But in Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya’s novel The Watch, which transposes the myth of Antigone in present day Afghanistan,...

History/NYC

One for the Road: Drunk Driving Since 1900

Listen to Public Health Historian Dr. Barron Lerner talk about the phenomenon of drunk driving in the United States and efforts to control it. Some topics...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Big House/Small City: Reimagining the SRO

The dense urban SRO (single room occupancy) housing work of Jonathan Kirschenfeld Architect has been described by The New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman as “serious...