Past Events
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Today's technological inventions offer rapid-fire virtual relations and instant access to reams of data. But the costs of such advances are mounting.
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Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room
This lecture-concert surveys timeless songs about the Big Apple from before 1900 to World War II, with insights from popular-music historian Michael Lasser.
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Monday, February 9, 2009 - 7:00 PM | | Whitridge Room
William Finkelstein is an Emmy Award-winning producer and screenwriter of the television dramas L.A. Law, Law and Order, Brooklyn South, Murder One, and NYPD Blue, and a former attorney.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In his acclaimed book Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Anthony Appiah overcomes the divisive sectarian rhetoric of politicians and fundamentalists with a true ethic for the era of globalization, inspired by the ancient Greek ideal of cosmopolitanis
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
A publishing insider shares his experiences in the book world and the qualities that get a manuscript noticed or relegated to the slush pile.
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Monday, December 15, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Originally composed for Lent and Easter 1742, Handel's most legendary work has become a staple of the Christmas season in both secular and sacred settings.
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Sunday, December 7, 2008 - 7:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room
Written in 1942, when the world was at war, Auden's Oratorio is a parable merging the Biblical and the contemporary with a result that is simultaneously audacious and poetic.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
The Dalai Lama's life is widely considered extraordinarily dedicated to peace, communication, and unity, as demonstrated by his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize and the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The twentieth century's foremost name in classical choreography, George Balanchine has inspired a wide range of art, thought, and criticism.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
Bruce Coville is the author of many well-loved books including the Unicorn Chronicles series, My Teacher is an Alien, Aliens Ate My Homework, and the Magic Shop series.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. This event is co-sponsored with WNET/Thirteen New York.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
This definitive biography of New York society's grande dame reveals her fabulous life with the help of Astor's hard-to-find memoir, interviews with her friends, and first-hand experience.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
The bestselling author and Caldecott honoree shares her recent books and guides participants in creating their own die-cut storybooks.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
James Laughlin (1914-1997) - poet, ladies' man, heir to a steel fortune, and the founder of New Directions Publishing - left behind files crammed full of photos, letters, clippings, and notes.
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Monday, September 29, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Performance | Members' Room
Thomas F. Flynn covered the events of September 11, 2001 in New York for CBS News after charging to the scene on his bicycle. Searching for an appropriate voice and medium to share his experiences, he found an unusual format: the epic poem.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
Moyers on Democracy collects Bill Moyers' most moving statements on the state of America, including insights on economic inequality, the assault on the Constitution, the undermining of the electoral process, and the despoiling of the envi
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Monday, May 19, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Longtime New Yorker writers share their perspectives about the evolution of writing about the city in its essential magazine.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Children | Members' Room
The Newbery medalist talks about her love for writing and for sharing her favorite books.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
The first biography to make use of Einstein's massive personal correspondence, Isaacson's book shows how Einstein's scientific genius, his leaps of creative thought, was part and parcel with his public face as a rebel and innovator.
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Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Historical novelist Ellen Feldman illuminates the human dimensions of the infamous 1931 Alabama case.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Marie-Thèrése, the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped from Paris' notorious Temple Prison in 1795 at age seventeen and went on to become one of the defining figures of the early nineteenth century through her political
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 2:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The first American writer to live by his pen and the first to gain an international reputation, Washington Irving gave his fledgling nation her own distinct literature with works such as A History of New York and "Rip van Winkle." Jones'
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
The Feiffers share their story and talk about how they worked together to create a tale of a "satisfying journey of self-discovery" that "becomes funnier with each reading," according to School Library Journal.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Author Jackson and two of the country's leading authorities on books and libraries discuss the role of books in the context of the Internet and changes to publishers and libraries.
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
Bruce Degen's love of art began in his childhood in Brooklyn.