Events - October, 22, 2012

Salman Rushdie - Joseph Anton: A Memoir

The author of Midnight's Children and The SatanicVerses talks about his long-anticipated, enthralling and provocative new memoir of his exile under the fatwa that sentenced him to death in...

Science/Tech/Health

How to Navigate the Ever Changing Landscape of Technology

With Abby Stokes, author of "Is This Thing On?, revised edition: A Computer Handbook for Late Bloomers, Technophobes, and the Kicking & Screaming." The digital...

Religion/Spirituality

In the Beginning: Origins of the Religious Experience - Elaine Pagels, Mark Smith & Robert Thurman

If religion is a human construct, where did it come from? Who “invented” God and why? And how is it that so many religions share...

Books

Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk’s new art book, The Innocence of Objects, takes readers inside his Museum of Innocence, which opened earlier this year in Istanbul. He is a “writer...

Books

R. L. Stine - Red Rain

Renowned YA/horror author R.L. Stine speaks with bestselling writer Harlan Coben about writing teen thrillers and does a signing for his newest book, Red Rain.

Heritage Ball Honoree Program with Iris Weinshall

As the Vice Chancellor for Facilities Planning, Construction & Management at the City University of New York, Ms. Weinshall oversees all facilities planning and capital construction...

Performing Arts/Film

League of Professional Theatre Women: Oral History Project

A conversation with New York Post theatre columnist Michael Riedel and actress Christine Ebersole who has captivated audiences throughout her performing career, from the Broadway stage to television series...

, Film

Just a Tiny Piece of Freedom

Stavanger-based ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network) presents a memorable program celebrating “The Shahrazad – stories for life” project, initiated 5 years ago to promote ICORN,...

Performing Arts/Film

An Evening with Casting Director Bernard Telsey

Meet the man who casts Broadway’s biggest hits! Bernard Telsey heads Telsey + Company, a preeminent theater and film casting agency in New York. He...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Crime, Race and the Dismal Science: From Thomas Carlyle to Michelle Alexander

Can low crime rates be achieved without high incarceration rates or frequent street harassment of young minority men? Mass incarceration is based on a theory...

Books, Food & Drink

Eric Asimov

New York Times wine critic Asimov will read from his new book, How To Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto, and answer any questions audience members...

Art/Photo/Design

Jews as Art Dealers and Collectors

Jews' prominence as collectors and dealers supported their claim to membership in European high culture and made them the principal targets of Nazi dispossession. Art...

Books

Sandra Cisneros Talks with PBS/NPR Journalist Maria Hinojosa

Come and listen to novelist Sandra Cisneros talk about her latest work, an illustrated fable of loss, grief and yes, healing. Cisneros is the author...

Books, History/NYC

Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation

Deborah Davis will talk about her new book. In this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner becomes a lens through which to examine race,...

History/NYC

Covering Fascist Italy - American Correspondents and Regime Censorship

David Kertzer will discuss Mauro Canali’s research on the files of the fascist police and censorship commission that oversaw the activity of US correspondents in...

Claire Chiang: Business and Social Responsibility in Asia

Join Dinda Elliott, Global Affairs Editor at Condé Nast Traveler, for a conversation with social activist, entrepreneur and author Claire Chiang on corporate social entrepreneurship in Asia. Claire Chiang is Senior...