Events - October, 4, 2012

Mike Edison

Publisher of High Times magazine.

Deborah Feldman - Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

The author will speak about her life, travails, and finally escape from Williamsburg's insular Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism -- what she calls "a foreign...

Books

Tori Hogan

Author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Journey Into the Realities of International Aid.

Food & Drink

Baked Elements - Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

Brooklyn’s Baked Bakery was started in 2005 by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito, two advertising men who quit their day jobs to follow their dream,...

Legal/Politics/Economics, History/NYC

On George Kennan

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize, John Lewis Gaddis’s biography paints a revelatory picture of Cold War mastermind George Kennan. Kennan, author of the strategy...

Books

Michael Chabon and Zadie Smith

Michael Chabon’s new novel is Telegraph Avenue. He is “one of the most imaginative fiction writers of his generation,” wrote Steve Almond. “His readers have come...

Legal/Politics/Economics, Books

Ralph Nader

The consumer rights advocate discusses his book, The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future.

Food & Drink, History/NYC

Back to the Store: Taste and Talk

In a novel twist on the American dream, a new generation of immigrant offspring are leaving their high status careers to return to the family...

Performing Arts/Film, Art/Photo/Design

Sarah Michelson - Not a Lecture/Performance

Following her acclaimed residency at the 2012 Whitney Biennial, choreographer and director Sarah Michelson neither lectures, nor performs about the myriad layers that comprise her work.

Art/Photo/Design

A Painter, a Sculptor, an Architect -- Is Their Work about Us?

Featuring speakers Dorothy Koppelman, Marcia Rackow, and Dale Laurin.

Books, History/NYC

Brooklyn and the Civil War

Find out how Henry Ward Beecher, Walt Whitman, and other notables fought the war in Brooklyn with local historian Bud Livingston.

Film

A Quiet American: Ralph Rucci & Paris

A Quiet American: Ralph Rucci & Paris follows this great American designer for four years while he works on seven different collections, collaborating with some of...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Citizen Activism and the Political Process

A pre-Election Day conversation to explore how activists have influenced electoral debate and outcomes, historically and today. The panel will include Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of...

History/NYC

War on the Waters: The Civil War Navy

With James M. McPherson, Craig L. Symonds, Harold Holzer (moderator). The naval side of the Civil War was far more than a picturesque battle over vast oceans. Rather, it...

Science/Tech/Health,

A Voyage Around the North Pole: Modern Exploration and Climate Change

Changes to the environment and climate of the Arctic are offering new opportunities for both competition and collaboration among the states on its periphery. Dynamism in...

Art/Photo/Design, History/NYC

African American History Is American History: How Struggles for African American Liberty Earned All Americans Their Civil Rights

A panel discussion on African American history as it has shaped the history of America from Colonial Days to the present. In conjunction with the...

Books

Construction Magazine

With Stephen Metcalf, Maud Newton, Jacob Silverman, Masha Udensiva-Brenner (Moderator), Emily Witt.

Legal/Politics/Economics

2nd Annual: What Are You?

Let’s talk about race and ethnicity, and where we’re from (or where we’re from from); how we express our own multicultural identities, and how others...

Art/Photo/Design

Beautiful Suffering: Prof. Frauke Berndt on Friedrich Schiller and Contemporary German Photography Jens Neumann and Edgar Rodtmann

In a series of letters "On the Aesthetic Education of Man" (1795) Friedrich Schiller secured the aesthetic mediation of the ethical ideal anthropologically and framed it within a history-philosophical perspective. Yet,...

Books