Past Events
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Performance | Members' Room
Sheila Jordan, one of the premier living jazz vocalists has performed with bassist Cameron Brown all over the world for a decade and on two live albums.
This event is generously supported by the Estate of Marian O. Naumburg.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
This New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
After years of civil war destroyed the lives of women across Liberia, Leymah Gbowee galvanized them in 2003 to force a peace, using tactics from protests to a sex strike.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 8:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
An internationally renowned public garden designer, Lynden Miller discusses the story and theory behind the face of New York City's public places by providing a connection with nature for neighborhoods rich and poor.
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Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 10:00 AM | Technology | Taught by Carolyn Waters
Learn how to search, retrieve and print from Google Books. Focuses on full-text books and periodicals.
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Sunday, May 1, 2011 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room
The Phoenix Quartet is dedicated to enriching audiences by performing music composed or arranged for vocal quartet, commissioning new music for vocal quartet, and conducting educational outreach.
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Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | Members' Room
Sally Dawidoff hosts an evening of refreshments, conversations, readings, video, and more, showcasing the literary magazines Electric Literature and BOMB.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
A Conversation About Character and Contemporary Fiction: Who ARE These People, and Why Do We Care?
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 2:00 PM | Technology | Taught by Carolyn Waters
Learn to access, search, and save or print articles from the acclaimed scholarly database, which includes over 380 high-quality humanities and social-science journals from over 60 academic publishers.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 10:00 AM | Technology | Whitridge Room
Etsy is an online marketplace of handmade and vintage goods. Learn how to find and buy items on Etsy and learn to use Etsy to sell your own goods.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Noted poet, translator, and FSG publisher Jonathan Galassi evokes the rich world of influential lyric poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837).
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
Writers such as Annie Dillard, Marguerite Duras, Stephen King, and Edmund Wilson have all kept journals for both personal and professional reasons.
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Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Victorian science expert Laura Snyder brings together the stories of four friends who met at Cambridge in 1812 and went on to change the scientific world: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Performance | Ukrainian Institute
The New York Times has called Joseph Smith's playing "eloquent," and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung found him a "richly sensitive interpreter." In this lecture-recital, he will perform a wide range of music with background on the work
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Quintessential New York City historian Kenneth T. Jackson brings the whole city to you in the enlarged edition of the bestselling encyclopedia--everything from Air Train to E-ZPass.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
Do you understand the nuances of your book contract? Does your agreement give you the protections you need and the control you want over how your book is published?
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Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter CollegePulitzer Prize-winner Annette Gordon-Reed recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Acclaimed biographer Hazel Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention at the heart of one of the 20th century's most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
What makes a writing group successful? How can you ensure that you get the most out of your own writing group?
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Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
New science reveals the disturbing fact that the matter making up everything we're aware of is only 4% of the universe.
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Monday, January 31, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Performance | Members' Room
In connection with the recent publication of nine of her biographically based plays, playwright and screenwriter Ruth Wolff will share insights from the book's introductory essay, "The Art of Dramatizing Lives," with scenes from her historical pla
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, Atlantic tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
You've finished your book, and now you need a literary agent. (And you thought the hard part was over!) Our distinguished panel of agents tells us how they find clients and what writers should and shouldn't do to get their attention.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
The author of Bowling Alone reveals the results of recent surveys showing how the web of personal ties involved in organized religion bring surprising interfaith tolerance, nothwithstanding the so-called culture wars.