Events - February, 2, 2013

Gotham: Writers in the City: Jacqueline Woodson

Woodson has written over two dozen works for children and young adults. She has won three Newbery Honors, a Coretta Scott King Award and three...

Food & Drink

Sackler Brain Bench One-Day University: Your Food, Your Future

Humans have been domesticating crops and animals for more than 10,000 years to suit our needs, with both positive and negative consequences to human health, the evolution...

History/NYC

Fugitive Art & Fugitive Testimony: Slave Narratives Then and Now

In this lecture, Professor Janet Neary brings together contemporary “visual slave narratives” and classic slave narratives from the 19th century to examine the way black...

Performing Arts/Film

Opera in Arabic

A performance-discussion on translating opera into classical and colloquial Egyptian Arabic, with Baritone Raouf Zaidan, Bass Baritone Ashraf Sewailam, and Kamel Boutros, pianist. Moderated by...

Books

The Innocents Abroad Book Club: The Valleys of the Assassins

Remember all those books you’ve read that have inspired you to travel? The stories about faraway places (or nearby ones) that make you daydream about...

Books