Events - July, 18, 2012

The South Bronx: Deconstruction of a Neighborhood's Reconstruction

The bisection of the South Bronx by Robert Moses's Cross-Bronx Expressway in the 1950s created the friction that, two decades later, ignited neighborhoods from Melrose...

Books, History/NYC

Stephen L. Carter -The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

Prolific author Stephen L. Carter reads from his new work of fiction and alternative history that looks at the 16th president's last years in office,...

Books

Deborah Harkness - Shadow of Night

Books

Chris Colfer - Land of Stories

Film

Paris Onscreen - Marcelline Block

From Humphrey Bogart’s “We’ll always have Paris,” to movies by filmmakers such as Jean Renoir, François Truffaut and Woody Allen, Paris has endured in the...

Books

The Fug Girls present MESSY

Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, founders of the must-read blog Go Fug Yourself, present their second YA novel, Messy (sequel to Spoiled), which continues the adventures of Brooke Berlin...

Performing Arts/Film, Film

Meet The Lady: Burlesque

Tom Blunt's long-running variety program catapults from the screening room to the mainstage for a spectacular event celebrating the tradition of burlesque in cinema... and...

Art/Photo/Design

Ship Portrait Artists and the South Street Connection

Speaker: Anthony Peluso, independent scholar and author Peluso has discovered a relationship between 19th-century ship portrait artists Conrad Freitag, John Hansen, Joseph Smith, and Elisha...

Legal/Politics/Economics

The Three Ages of Greek Coinage and Monetary Policy by Alain Bresson, Depart of Classics, University of Chicago

The 2012 Eric P. Newman Graduate Summer Seminar Visiting Scholar, Professor Alain Bresson, will analyze the finance and monetary policy of the early, electrum phase,...

Books

Uzodinma Iweala & Teju Cole

Uzodinma Iweala, author of Our Kind of People: A Continent’s Challenge, a Country’s Hope, in conversation with Teju Cole, author of Open City. Introduction by Jessica Moore of...

Books

Copyright & Punishment in the Digital Age: Rob Reid, Ken Fisher, Erik Martin, and Drew Curtis

Online entrepreneurs Drew Curtis (Fark.com), Erik Martin (Reddit), and Ken Fisher (ArsTechnica) discuss intellectual property and fair use online; moderated by fellow entrepreneur Rob Reid...

Feeding North Korea: Food Security and Nutritional Assistance

What is the current state of malnutrition in North Korea and need for food? How should the international community respond? What measures are in place...

Film

!Women Art Revolution

Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into...

Performing Arts/Film

Ethics and the Theater - The Diary of Anne Frank

As the Gestapo roamed Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, eight Jews hid in an attic for over two years, keeping silent during the days, coming to life in...

History/NYC

America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union

In collaboration with the New-York Historical Society and Oxford University Press, the Bryant Park Reading Room presents a series of lectures on popular topics to...

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 current novels, Napolitano’s A Good Hard...

Performing Arts/Film, Film

Searching for Sugar Man

Catch a preview screening of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival special jury prize-winning documentary, “Searching for Sugar Man” – a story of a South African musical phenomenon...

Science/Tech/Health

Crystal Meditation Healing Circle

This month's meditation circle is on the Crown chakra: Governs our wisdom, spiritual selves, consciousness, and perspective. It is connected to the brain and all...

Books

Darcy Lockman

Release party for her new book, Brooklyn Zoo: The Education of a Psychotherapist, with reading, Q&A and signing.

Books

Lev Grossman in conversation with Erin Morgenstern

It ain’t easy being king. Or it’s too easy. In The Magician King, the follow-up to Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, Quentin Coldwater and his friends have beat...

Art/Photo/Design

Otto Piene in conversation with Massimiliano Gioni

An evening devoted to an intergenerational conversation about art and technology between artist Otto Piene and exhibition curator Massimiliano Gioni. Otto Piene (German, born 1928)...

Books

Patricia T. O'Conner - The Ear of the Beholder: What Makes a Word Beautiful?

Everybody, it seems, has a favorite word or two. For some people, a beautiful word is one that means something beautiful to them—like “bucolic” or “love.”...

A Conversation on Immigration with Jose Vargas, Cristina Jimenez, Karen Kaminsky, Iyaba Ibo Mandingo & Rinku Sen

An exciting conversation on immigration policy, activism and art in the context of the upcoming election with Define American founder Jose Antonio Vargas, recently featured on...

Performing Arts/Film

Talkin' 'bout My Generation

A conversation between emerging and established writers about the past, present, and future of musical theatre. Join us as several seasoned, decorated veterans of musical...