Events - December, 5, 2012
Books
Stettenheim Literary Circle: "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes
Wednesday, Dec 5th 10:30 AM - 12 PM or 6:30 PM - 8 PM Open to all Temple members Winner of the 2011 Man Booker...
Performing Arts/Film
The Life and Times of Lorenzo Da Ponte (Mozart's Librettist)
All lectures include video and music, and are given by Cavaliere Ufficiale Aldo Mancusi, President and Curator of the Enrico Caruso Museum. YOU MUST MAKE A...
Art/Photo/Design
The Ash Can Artist's New York: Times Square & Coney Island
With Barry Lewis, architectural historian If George Bellows and his colleagues wanted to paint "le tout New York," he had fertile ground in the New...
Books
Zadie Smith - NW
The super-sharp and funny author of White Teeth and On Beauty explores her new novel set in northwest London, the corner of the city where Smith grew up and...
Religion/Spirituality, History/NYC
Hezbollah and Hamas: A Comparative Study
Hezbollah and Hamas are major players in Middle Eastern politics and have a growing involvement in global events. Despite their strikingly different beginnings, they share...
Science/Tech/Health
Is There A Longevity Gene? The Biology of Aging
Dr. Nir Barzilai works with more than 500 Ashkenazi Jews—healthy centenarians over age 95—and their children to help identify genes that could lead to new...
Art/Photo/Design
Christian Patterson
Moderated by Phillip S. Block, the weekly Photographers Lecture Series brings together ten distinguished photographers and artists from all aspects of the field to present...
Performing Arts/Film, BooksHow Music Works: David Byrne
In How Music Works, Byrne explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth...
Art/Photo/Design, History/NYC
The Ordeals of Substance: Material Economies of Passion and Probation in the Middle Ages
With Aden Kumler, Art History, University of Chicago. In the life of certain privileged medieval things, processes of purification, refinement, testing and destruction play a suggestive part....
Legal/Politics/Economics, Books
Rebecca Kobrin & Andrew Dolkart Book Talk - Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism
Edited by Prof. Rebecca Kobrin of Columbia University, the collection of essays in Chosen Capital examines the impact of Jewish immigrants and residents on American capitalism as both its...
The Postgenomic Family
Professor Nelson will discuss the state of the family after the genome. Nelson addresses the paradox of how 'postgenomic' can be seen as both denoting...
Art/Photo/Design
Baby Blanket and More
With Dr. Drunell Levinson, artist. Levinson—whose work Baby Blanket is on view in “Ooh, Shiny!”—uses unorthodox materials in a traditional female art form to deliver a provocative message. This series...
Books, Art/Photo/Design
Readings and Conversations with Caridad De La Luz "La Bruja"
Hop off the BCA’s Bronx Culture Trolley at BxMA and hear Bronx poet Caridad De La Luz “La Bruja” discuss her recent book The Poetician!...
Performing Arts/Film
Person, Place, Thing Live! With Randy Cohen and Jack Hitt
The concept behind Randy Cohen’s public radio series Person Place Thing is simple: he invites notable figures from all genres and backgrounds to discuss one person, one...
Science/Tech/Health, Religion/Spirituality
Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates: Science Refutes God
FOR: Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration Michael Shermer, Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and author AGAINST: Ian...
Legal/Politics/Economics,
Lawrence H. Summers: Looking Ahead to the Global Economy in 2013 & Beyond
Larry Summers is widely recognized as one of the preeminent economists of his generation. Summers, the 27th president of Harvard University and the 71st Secretary...
Art/Photo/Design
Fraternité: French Artists from Revolution to Romanticism
The Revolution of 1789 transformed French art. Neoclassicism, embodied in the paintings of Jacques-Louis David, became the style of the day. This series explores the...
, Film
Bosnia: Healing the Wounds of War
The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina may have ended sixteen years ago, but for so many of the nation’s women, the legacy of wartime rape lives on....
Science/Tech/Health
Oligomeric Signalosomes in Innate Immune Signaling
Hao Wu, professor, biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, gives a talk.
Books
Lewis Lapham in conversation with Jonathan Fanton
Jonathan Fanton, FDR Visiting Fellow and Interim Director of Roosevelt House, continues his series of conversations with fascinating public figures with Lewis Lapham, longtime editor of Harper’s Magazine and now publisher and editor of Lapham’s Quarterly.
Legal/Politics/Economics,
The Korean Presidential Elections: Forecasts and Factors
Exactly two weeks before Korea’s sixth Presidential election since democratization, Columbia University Professor Charles Armstrong addresses issues facing Korean voters, candidate positions, possible outcomes, and...
Art/Photo/Design
Ari Marcopoulos and Andrew Roth - Out to Lunch
Ari Marcopoulos and Andrew Roth discuss the book as exhibition space and chart the history of Marcopoulos’ output from the earliest zines to OUT TO...
Legal/Politics/Economics
David Rockefeller, Jr. + Kurt Andersen
How much money do you need to be happy? Or should the question be: how much of your wealth do you need to give away...
Religion/Spirituality, History/NYC
Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History
Editor Tony Michels explores the intertwined histories of Jews and the American Left, illuminating the immigrant population's efforts to refashion themselves in the face of poverty, anti-semitism,...
Books
CFA Master Class: Susan Isaacs
As part of the Center's Crime Fiction Academy, acclaimed author Susan Isaacs will offer practical writing tips to budding crime authors in this talk.
Books
The Oldest Story Ever Told in a Whole New Way
Celebrate the holidays with your friends and family by coming to the Rare Book Room for a special night with biblical scholar, artist, publisher Ben...
Books
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Romance Novels
Find out everything you ever wanted to know about writing, publishing, and reading romance novels but were afraid (or never had the chance) to ask!...
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