Events - December, 6, 2012

Performing Arts/Film, Books, Religion/Spirituality

Six Words on the Jewish Life - A Live Storytelling Show

Who would have thought that years after Hemingway’s legendary challenge to wrote a novel in six words—"For sale: baby shoes, never worn"— Papa would have...

Art/Photo/Design

The Situation of Contemporary Artists in the Islamic World

The outpouring of cultural production from the Islamic world over the past decade has raised new questions about the role of ethics and methodology. Bringing together...

Science/Tech/Health

Shrink Rap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work

With Dinah Miller, M.D, Anne Hanson, M.D. and Steven Roy Daviss, M.D. Based on the authors’ hugely popular blog and podcast series, this dialogue is...

CPS: Giving: the Needs of Strangers

The New School's Center for Public Scholarship is pleased to present the 28th Social Research conference, Giving: Caring for the Needs of Strangers, on Thursday,...

Food & Drink

The Lure of Chocolate

With Francine Segan. Learn about chocolate’s history, starting with its New World origins, journey to Europe, and eventual transformation from a grainy bitter brew into...

Food & Drink, History/NYC

Inventing Wine: History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures

Paul Lukacs chronicles wine’s transformation from a source of sustenance centuries ago to today’s consciously pursued pleasure. Hear why modern wine exists as the product...

Performing Arts/Film, History/NYC

The Art of Making Do in Naples

Anthropologist Jason Pine will present his research on neomelodica, a musical form from Naples that combines traditional songs with contemporary stories of love, betrayal, loss and...

Art/Photo/Design

"War and Peace: Watteau in The Frick Collection," led by Colin B. Bailey, The Frick Collection

This seminar will focus on two paintings by Jean-Antoine Watteau, whose name is synonymous with eighteenth-century French art. We will look at the Frick’s Portal of...

Performing Arts/Film, Art/Photo/Design

Robert Kushner: Silence by John Cage

Artist and National Academician Robert Kushner reads from John Cage's book Silence. Best known as a pioneer of the Pattern and Decoration Movement, Kushner knew Cage personally...

History/NYC

Abraham Lincoln and the American Irish

For the fourteenth annual Ernie O'Malley Lecture, Prof. Kevin Kenny explores the dynamic relationship between Abraham Lincoln and the American Irish during his presidency. Professor Kenny examines...

Books

Michael Connelly - The Black Box

History/NYC

Pennsylvania Station was the first modern transportation complex in America. Conceived by the Pennsylvania Railroad’s brilliant president Alexander Cassatt, it brought electrically driven long distance...

Art/Photo/Design

Making Their Mark: Drawings by Academic Artists in the 19th Century

How best to know an artist? Most would agree through his or her drawings. Drawing played a particularly important role in the 19th century, especially...

Books

Tina Kelley & Kevin Ryan - Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope

With Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark.

Books

Norma Cole and Julian Talamantez Brolaski - Readings in Contemporary Poetry

Performing Arts/Film

The World of Our Dizis: The Rise of Turkish Television Drama as a New Genre

Based on interviews with script writers, directors, actors, musicians, managers, and producers, Professor Arzu Ozturkmen explores the contribution of artistic creativity to this genre. She...

Books, Science/Tech/Health

Nature And Poetry: A Conversation With E. O. Wilson And Robert Hass

Theodore Roosevelt’s passion for the natural world extended to a love of nature writing and photography. U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass and noted biologist E. O. Wilson will come...

Performing Arts/Film, Books

Tony Fletcher & Rob Sheffield

Discussing A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of The Smiths, the definitive book about one of the most beloved, respected, and storied indie...

Books

Oscar Hijuelos - Coming Home to City College

Oscar Hijuelos is the first Latino to have ever been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, which he won in 1990 for "The Mambo Kings...

Food & Drink

Holiday Teas and Sweets from Korea

Chef Haelin Lee returns to The Korea Society for a special holiday cooking demonstration and hands-on workshop on seasonal teas and Korean sweets. We’ll brew Omija and...

Books

The Richest Woman in America: Book Talk

During the Gilded Age, New York’s millionaires included Carnegies, Vanderbilts, Morgans and Rockefellers — and Hetty Green. Fiercely independent and frugal, Green was a financial...

History/NYC

James Lenox and the Origins of The New York Public Library

The New York Public Library, which opened in 1911, had two predecessors—the Lenox on upper Fifth Avenue where the Frick Collection now stands and the...

Books

BEA Buzz Panel

Authors Mark Siegel, Jacob Tomsky, and Rosie Schapp discuss process with their editors in this BEA-sponsored holiday buzz panel.

Performing Arts/Film

A Tribute to Arthur Laurents with David Saint

A Tribute to Arthur Laurents with David Saint, editor of Laurents's memoir "The Rest of the Story" and friends.

Books

A Reading to Benefit the Victims of Hurricane Sandy

The Center for Fiction was lucky enough to escape Hurricane Sandy without any damage, but we're teaming up with members of the literary community to...

Performing Arts/Film

Meredith Myers

You’ve seen stand-up, but not like this! Meredith Myers has been performing across the country since 2002 at Comic Strip Live!, Gotham Comedy Club, Stand-Up...