Events - December, 4, 2012

Art/Photo/Design

George Bellows, Master Realist

With H. Barbara Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Curator, Department of American Paintings and Sculpture. By the time George Bellows died at age 42, he was...
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Books, Art/Photo/Design

Masterpieces of Orientalist Art: The Shafik Gabr Collection

The launch of a sumptuous volume showcasing Shafik Gabr’s unsurpassed collection of Orientalist art, including masterpieces by many of the major nineteenth and twentieth century Orientalists.
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Performing Arts/Film

The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess: Race, Culture, and America 's Most Famous Opera

Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its...
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Books

Book Talk with Marcy Whitebook, PhD

Please note: This event takes place at the Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, 7th floor. Marcy Whitebook is the founder and director of the Center for...
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Food & Drink

Meal Multitasking - Bonnie Taub-Dix, MA, RD, CDN

Learn how certain super foods and power-packed snacks can multitask for your body by efficiently and economically boosting energy and heart health, strengthening bones, and...
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History/NYC, Film

One World, Big Screen: Hollywood and WWII

WWII coincided with cinema’s golden age, and movies were created at a time when all sides in the war were coming to realize the great...
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History/NYC

New York Genealogical & Biographical Society Lecture Series: Other Places Your Ancestors Might Be Hiding: "Non-Genealogy" Databases and Internet Resources to Explore

Through their rich offerings of online census records, passenger lists, naturalization records, and other sources, websites dedicated to genealogical research have led to an increased...
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History/NYC

Three Days at Gettysburg, Part II

In the second program in this two-part series, three distinguished Civil War historians continue to explore the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War battle that...
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Accountability and Reconciliation in Asia

In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge finally surrendered in 1999, ending decades of internal violence and conflict. The Nepalese civil war spanned a decade from 1996...
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Science/Tech/Health

Mary Beth Dawson on Women and Science

Mary Beth Dawson is a professor of Biological Sciences at CUNY Kingsborough. Dr. Dawson received her BS in Chemistry at CUNY Brooklyn College and her Ph.D....
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Books, History/NYC

Martin Duberman - Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left

Historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist Martin Duberman talks about his new book, discussing the anti-war and civil rights activist whose book A People's History of...
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Books, History/NYC

John Connelly

From Enemy to Brother illuminates the baffling silence of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust, showing how the ancient teaching of deicide—according to which the Jews...
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Books

The Salon: Literary Women

The Salon presents Literary Women, Guest Curated by She Writes & Hedgebrook Writers Retreat. Moderated by Amy Wheeler, with Lisa Dierbeck, Holly Morris, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, and Martha Southgate.
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Legal/Politics/Economics, Books

While America Sleeps: A Book Discussion with Russ Feingold

More than ten years after one of the greatest wake-up calls in human history, our nation seems to have again grown complacent about the issues...
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Books

Detroit City Is the Place to Be

Detroit native and Rolling Stone contributor Mark Binelli celebrates the launch of Detroit City is the Place to Be, a journey through America's greatest urban failure that proves that Detroit...
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Books

The Christmas Kid and Other Brooklyn Stories

Local favorite Pete Hamill visits to read and sign The Christmas Kid and Other Brooklyn Stories. A fitting kickoff; as a kid, Pete Hamill, who grew up in South...
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Books

Beyond Geography

Every story takes places somewhere. But how do authors decide where to set their characters in motion?  How does setting influence character, mood, and action?...
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Books

New Yorker Cartoonists Victoria Roberts and Arnie Levin in Conversation

You’ve seen Victoria Roberts’ hilarious cartoons in The New Yorker for nearly twenty-five years, and you’ve probably seen her illustrations in The New York Times or The Wall Street Street...
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