Events - October, 30, 2012

Cai Guo-Qiang and Lesley Ma - An Artist Dialogue

In this intriguing event, world-renowned artist Cai Guo-Qiang discusses his fascinating new book, Ladder to the Sky. He is joined by art historian and former project director...

History/NYC

Grand Central's Engineer: William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan

With Dr. Kurt C. Schlichting, E. Gerald Corrigan Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of sociology and anthropology at Fairfield University....

Books

Cave Canem at The New School Presents: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Bianca Spriggs and Marcus Wicker

Cave Canem, the premier venue for African-American poetry, presents an ongoing series of readings and discussions with their authors. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of But a...

Science/Tech/Health

Transforming Your Health & Your Life through the Joy of Transcendence - Norman E. Rosenthal, MD

Understand the role of meditation in promoting cardiac health, reducing anxiety and depression, and recovering from drug and alcohol abuse. Discover how transcendental meditation changes...

Performing Arts/Film

A History of Opera

With Carolyn Abbate. Hear how opera evolved over several centuries and why it remains a powerful art-form today. See why the tensions inherent in opera—between...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Master Class: A Conversation with Stephen M. Ross and William L. Mack

Learn how Stephen M. Ross and William L. Mack have developed some of the city’s best residential, retail and office properties while remaining committed to...

History/NYC

Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in New America with Judith Sloan and student performers

Judith Sloan leads a panel of students from EarSay Voices partnership with the International High School at LaGuardia Community College in conversation on immigration policies that shape attitudes toward diversity.

Science/Tech/Health

Exploring Exoplanets With Emily Rice

Ever since exoplanets—planets orbiting other stars—were first discovered in the 1990s, the field has exploded to reveal hundreds of known exoplanets and thousands of candidates....

Art/Photo/Design

The Studio and the Salon: Artists, Masculinity, and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

With Daniel Harkett, History of Art and Visual Culture, Rhode Island School of Design. Visit official site for registration.

Books

Sam Sifton in Conversation With Julia Moskin and Kim Severson

Art/Photo/Design

Beverly Pepper: Monumentality: A Life in Art

Rizzoli presenst this monograph of the pioneer sculpture whose monumental works have been exhibited around the world. Including her latest environmental projects, this work showcases...

History/NYC

The Textured Interior: The Fabric Designs of D.D. and Leslie Tillett and the Next Generation

How are textile designers, fabric houses and interior designers building on the legacy of the Tilletts today? Presentations and conversation, co-hosted by Museum curator Donald Albrecht and...

History/NYC

Three Days at Gettysburg, Part I

With James M. McPherson, John F. Marszalek, Harold Holzer (moderator). In July 1863, Union and Confederate troops met in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and in three days forever changed the...

Books

Jo Nesbo - Phantom

Ian Frazier & Carmela Ciuraru

Ian Frazier discusses The Cursing Mommy’s Book of Days with author Carmela Ciuraru.

Books

Literary BFFs: Eliot Schrefer with David Levithan

Literary BFFs is a series hosted by David Gutkowski, aka Largehearted Boy, where authors are paired up with the people who know them all too...

Books

Graphic Novel Night with Mark Siegel, Fred Chao, Ryan Dunlavey, and Grady Hendrix

Join Brooklyn graphic novelists Mark Siegel (Sailor Twain), Fred Chao (Johnny Hiro), Ryan Dunlavey (Comic Book History of Comics, Dirt Candy), and Grady Hendrix (Dirt...

Books

Anka Muhlstein: Monsieur Proust's Library

Anka Muhlstein, one of the Center for Fiction's favorite speakers is back to talk about her new book, Monsieur Proust's Library.

Books

Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon

NYC launch of powerHouse Books publication, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon with photojournalist Paola Gianturco who will lead a slideshow presentation and talk.

Performing Arts/Film

Jazz Around the World - Scandinavia

As early as the 1920’s jazz was traveling the world, influencing and being influenced by musical traditions on every continent. Join us as we explore...

Perspectives: What is the Future of the Media? Another Look

David Carr and Stephen B. Shepard join Peter Beinart in this follow-up to the Graduate Center’s previous event “What is the Future of the Media?”...

Legal/Politics/Economics,

The Middle East as the Center of the World System in History

World-System Theory is an approach to the study of later world history through the analysis of a universal division of labor consisting of core, semi-periphery...

Books

Pete Hamill - The Christmas Kid: And Other Brooklyn Stories

Pete Hamill, bestselling novelist, journalist and lively observer of popular culture, reads from and talks about The Christmas Kid, his new collection of stories about...

Art/Photo/Design

Maria Gough - The Para-Architectural Imagination of Gustav Klutsis

In the early 1920s, the avant-garde artist Gustav Klutsis (Gustavs Klucis) proposed a pioneering series of para-architectural communication structures for the public diffusion of revolutionary...

Books

Claudio Magris and Norman Manea

What role does madness play in modern life? In art? The narrator of Claudio Magris' recent book, Blindly, is a pazzo lucido, a lucid madman, whose single...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Religious Fundamentalism & Elections

With the upcoming elections just one week away, Austrian journalist and author Robert Misik, David Gibson and Zeyba Rahman will discuss the ways that religion is playing a part...

Books

Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles

Religion/Spirituality

Enter the Conversation: Dr. Eben Alexander III

A dialogue on the afterlife between Dr. Eben Alexander and Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, in conversation with The Very Reverend Dr. James A. Kowalski. Dr. Alexander,...

Books

Patrik Ourednik - The Opportune Moment, 1855

The Opportune Moment, 1855 is another uproarious and unsettling attack on convention by one of literature’s great provocateurs. The nineteenth-century founding of “free settlements” in the...

Science/Tech/Health

Taking the Acid Test: Nicolas Langlitz, Avital Ronell and William Rauscher Discussing Germanic Adventures in Drug Experimentation

A discussion on the contemporary roles played by German-speaking research institutions in current psychedelics research. This talk between Nicolas Langlitz, Avital Ronell and William Rauscher will...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Beyond November 6: The United States and the World

Whoever wins the November 6 election, the next President of the United States will face many foreign policy challenges: the Middle East, North Korea, economic...