Curated lectures, panels, and cultural talks worth your evening.
Anthropologist Steve Bialostok discusses his five-year ethnography of elderly Black men, dominoes, and placemaking in a ...
"Five years of fieldwork compressed into a single evening β Bialostok's study of ..."
The New-York Historical Society's morning lecture series brings historians to the breakfast table for a lively early-mor...
"History before 10 AM with actual breakfast β the New-York Historical Society's f..."
Four-day free public conference at CU Boulder featuring 70+ global thinkers across 200+ sessions on politics, science, a...
"Four days, 200+ sessions, completely free β CWA is one of the most ambitious pub..."
The New York Academy of Sciences presents scholar Kwame Edwin Otu in a distinguished lecture exploring identity, culture...
"Otu's scholarship on queer African life challenges Western frameworks for unders..."
NYT reporter Noam Scheiber examines a disillusioned generation's efforts to reclaim dignity and take on corporate Americ...
"The new labor movement looks nothing like the old one β it's driven by college-e..."
Two-term U.S. Poet Laureate shares work from 'Startlement: New & Selected Poems,' connecting human experience with the n...
"The U.S. Poet Laureate reads from her new collection β sharp, warm, and attuned ..."
Scholar Jerrilynn Dodds examines religious coexistence, cultural exchange, and the limits of tolerance in medieval Spain...
"Medieval convivencia sounds like ancient history until you realize the questions..."
Pulitzer finalist historian reveals the lives erased by frontier mythology β Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Mexica...
"The American West you learned about in school was a myth. This Pulitzer finalist..."
A lecture at the American Museum of Natural History on NASA's SPHEREx mission to map the universe in near-infrared light...
"NASA's newest space telescope is mapping 450 million galaxies and 100 million st..."
Author Saul Austerlitz, NYC Council Member Alexa AvilΓ©s, and activists explore how ordinary people catalyze grassroots m...
"This panel goes beyond slogans to the actual mechanics of movement building: how..."
A Columbia panel examining how disciplinary structures in American schools mirror and feed the carceral system, and what...
"The connection between school discipline and mass incarceration is well-document..."
A free evening at the Center for Brooklyn History exploring the mechanics of social movement building β how ordinary peo...
"Drawing on the conviction that 'you and two friends can change the world,' this ..."
Emily Dufton investigates how the addiction treatment industry profits from the opioid crisis, exposing systemic failure...
"The opioid crisis has been extensively covered β but the treatment industry that..."
Poet and Guggenheim fellow Camille T. Dungy joins feminist author Kate Schatz to discuss their new works exploring Ameri...
"Dungy is one of the more serious poets working in America right now β her Guggen..."
USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich delivers a firsthand account of the Trump Administration's systematic dismantling of...
"A firsthand account from inside the dismantling of USAID β the kind of primary-s..."
Leading philosopher examines how green movements can exclude working-class interests, arguing for climate justice that d...
"One of the most important living political philosophers asks who the environment..."
Twice Booker-shortlisted novelist Deborah Levy celebrates her new novel in conversation with Josh Cohen at the Purcell R...
"Levy is one of the few novelists who can talk about the art of fiction without m..."
Practical advice for outdoor concerts and festivals from someone who has stood in enough fields to know what actually ma...
"After enough sunburned shoulders and dead phones, the difference between a miser..."
A talk at the Museum of Food and Drink tracing the pickle's journey from Lower East Side pushcarts to symbol of immigran...
"The New York pickle is a lens on immigration, labor, and the Lower East Side β t..."
NPR's Planet Money team brings economic storytelling to the stage with Anthropic's head of policy and a Michelin-starred...
"AI policy, Chinatown culinary culture, and economic storytelling in one evening ..."
Pollan traces the nature of consciousness through science, philosophy, literature, and psychedelics. Book included with ...
"Pollan's How to Change Your Mind brought rigorous reporting to psychedelic resea..."
Henry Street Settlement's annual civic forum examines New York City governance, housing, childcare, and public infrastru...
"Named for Lillian Wald, who founded Henry Street Settlement in 1895 and invented..."
Philosopher Ε½iΕΎek and journalist Mason dissect liberal fascism, post-truth politics, and what forms of justice remain po...
"Ε½iΕΎek is at his best when pushed by a sharp interlocutor β Mason's political jou..."
Novelists Rabih Alameddine and editor John Freeman discuss the global short story tradition, translation, and what gets ...
"Freeman has edited two decades' worth of international fiction at Granta and els..."
Former attorney Dolores S. Atencio and federal judge Christine Arguello discuss a seven-year research project uncovering...
"A seven-year archival project tracing Latina attorneys from 1880 to 1980 β this ..."
Columbia hosts a keynote panel on what becomes possible when scholars read across and against established disciplinary a...
"Four scholars who have spent decades working across disciplinary lines ask wheth..."
Pulitzer-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses pivotal moments in American history and presidential leadershi...
"Goodwin has spent her career inside the minds of Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and LB..."
A lecture at the Museum at FIT exploring how Karl Lagerfeld reinterpreted ancient Greek aesthetics for modern fashion.
"Lagerfeld's obsession with antiquity was never nostalgia -- it was argument. Thi..."
Author Cauvery Madhavan discusses cultural identity, the Irish-Indian diaspora experience, and literary expression at th...
"An Indian-born writer who made Ireland home β the kind of cross-cultural literar..."
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist closes CU Boulder's 78th Conference on World Affairs with a keynote ad...
"The youngest Nobel laureate closes a four-day ideas conference that's been runni..."
Media scholar Shannon Mattern explores what it means to dismantle systems as a form of teaching, cataloguing the pedagog...
"Mattern is one of the sharpest thinkers on infrastructure and media alive. Her a..."
Scholar Mathelinda Nabugodi reflects on race, gender, and belonging in the Romantic literary archive at the NY Society L...
"What happens when a Black woman reads the Romantic canon not as outsider but as ..."
USA Today's Susan Page explores Queen Elizabeth II's remarkably candid relationships with thirteen American presidents o...
"Thirteen presidents, seventy years, one relationship β Page uses the Queen's enc..."
Landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson maps pre-1609 Brooklyn's wetlands and waterways, connecting ecological history to ong...
"Sanderson did something remarkable with Manhattan in his book Mannahatta β now h..."
A lecture exploring which human jobs involve irreplaceable social connection and care, and what happens when we try to a...
"As AI automates more cognitive work, the question of which jobs require genuine ..."
Nancy Lemann's novel follows a New Orleans family across generations, using the city's rituals and eccentricities as the...
"Lemann is one of American fiction's most distinctive voices β her New Orleans no..."
Bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple discusses her new novel Go Gentle, a book about connection...
"Semple's Bernadette was one of those rare novels that felt genuinely surprising ..."
Social scientist Gail Whiteman unpacks creative resilience in the face of planetary change in this free pre-concert talk...
"Whiteman's work sits at the intersection of social science and planetary systems..."
Two bereaved peacemakers β a Palestinian and an Israeli β offer a radical roadmap for reconciliation that moves beyond b...
"Abu Sarah and Inon have both lost family members to the conflict β and chose dia..."
Music journalist Andy Beta presents his biography Cosmic Music, repositioning Alice Coltrane not as John Coltrane's wido...
"Alice Coltrane influenced electronic composers, jazz musicians, and devotional a..."
Political veteran Lanny J. Davis and journalist Carl Cannon argue for a pragmatic centrist path to bridge America's deep...
"In a political landscape defined by polarization, Davis and Cannon make the unfa..."
Leading antiracist scholar examines how 'great replacement theory' has ushered in an antidemocratic age, while offering ...
"Critical thinker traces the intellectual genealogy of contemporary threats to de..."
MacArthur Fellows Nabarun Dasgupta and Gregg Gonsalves examine how current drug policy fails people and what a more comp...
"Two MacArthur Fellows on the frontlines of drug harm reduction β this is the kin..."
Former DOJ official and legal analyst Sarah Isgur delivers a myth-busting insider account of the Supreme Court's inner w...
"With the Court more politically consequential than ever, Isgur β who has worked ..."
A veteran and business writer examines what military service actually trains people to do β and how those skills transla...
"The gap between what military service teaches and what civilian employers unders..."
Visual artist Tonika Lewis Johnson, architect Amanda Williams, and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor illuminate systemic h...
"Three MacArthur Fellows, three different disciplines, one argument: the housing ..."
Letterpress printer and typographer Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. discusses using printmaking as protest and his new book Citize...
"Kennedy discovered letterpress printing in his late thirties, quit a corporate c..."
Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi, discusses his newest novel in conversation at the Chicago Humanities Festival's Bridg...
"Martel has always used fiction to ask what stories do to us β not just what they..."
Maus creator Art Spiegelman looks back on an illustrious career β from underground comix to Pulitzer Prize β at the Chic...
"Spiegelman's Maus redefined what comics could carry β and his career since has k..."
Documentary photographer Sandra Steinbrecher presents her two-year photographic chronicle of the Morton Salt Warehouse's...
"The Salt Shed transformation is one of the more interesting architectural storie..."
Nobel Laureate and DeepMind founder discusses the future of AI with the author of 'The Infinity Machine.'
"A Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer in conversation about the most consequential te..."
Five poets from Hanging Loose Press respond to archival audio from Brooklyn oral history collections, exploring how the ...
"This is genuinely unusual programming: poets select archival audio that moves th..."
Historian of science Naomi Oreskes examines how power shapes scientific authority and why public trust in science is bot...
"Oreskes has spent two decades documenting how industry-funded doubt campaigns un..."
Virginia Richards presents a photographic and narrative history of a southern waterway enslaved people were forced to bu...
"The irony at the heart of this story β enslaved people building the very waterwa..."
Travel writer recounts his 1978 overland journey from Istanbul to Kathmandu at age 23, through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan...
"Steves made this journey in 1978, through countries that have since become unrea..."
A SETI researcher and a geometric intelligence pioneer explore how we search for extraterrestrial life and decode intell...
"Two researchers approaching the question of intelligence from opposite ends β on..."
A Columbia roundtable asking whether AI will accelerate or obstruct the energy transition, with scholars tackling the ju...
"The AI-climate conversation usually collapses into boosterism or panic. This pan..."
Columbia's annual summit convenes CEOs, policymakers, and academics on AI's power demands, critical minerals, great powe...
"This is where energy industry leaders and policy scholars actually hash out the ..."
A scholarly look at how ErdoΔan uses public displays of emotion as political performance β and why his supporters read t...
"Populism is usually analyzed through policy and grievance β this talk focuses on..."
Denver Public Library's readers' advisors preview thirty new and forthcoming titles across genres at Fiction Beer Compan...
"The best reading recommendation comes from someone who has already read the book..."
Mathematician and novelist Manil Suri recounts a son's love, a mother's obsession, and the malevolent grip of the past i...
"Suri is that rare combination β a working mathematician and a published novelist..."
Colm TΓ³ibΓn reads and reflects on storytelling, drawing on fiction exploring Irish identity, exile, and emotional life a...
"TΓ³ibΓn is one of the few novelists who can make restraint feel devastating. Hear..."
USC professor Mike Ananny argues that treating AI as an abstract idea rather than concrete systems obscures the real sta...
"The AI conversation tends to swing between utopian and dystopian abstractions. A..."
Scholar Bruno Bosteels explores how Adorno's critical theory transformed Hegelian dialectics in this installment of Colu...
"The Hegel-Adorno relationship is one of the most productive tensions in 20th-cen..."
The Atlantic's Megan Garber argues our media landscape has turned citizens into characters, incentivizing performative p...
"Garber's thesis is deceptively simple β that entertainment has consumed democrac..."
Columbia neuroscientists Wes Grueber and Mimi Shirasu-Hiza explore how the brain monitors hunger, fatigue, and illness β...
"Grueber and Shirasu-Hiza work at one of the world's most serious neuroscience in..."
New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe investigates a teenager's mysterious death in the Thames and the London und...
"Keefe's gift is for finding the system inside the crime β 'London Falling' promi..."
Grief advocate and author Marisa Renee Lee explores loss as a public and political experience β how Black women in parti...
"Lee makes an argument that grief is political β that who is allowed to mourn pub..."
Historian Lisandro PΓ©rez reconstructs New York's nineteenth-century Cuban community β the largest Latin American diaspor...
"New York's Cuban community pre-dates the 1959 revolution by a century, and most ..."
Political scientist Daniel Ziblatt examines democratic backsliding in the US and Europe, and what history reveals about ...
"Ziblatt co-wrote the book that gave everyone the vocabulary for democratic erosi..."
Israeli diplomat Ido Aharoni fields audience questions on Israel's security, politics, and diaspora relations in the thi...
"Ambassador Aharoni brings rare insider access β former Consul General in New Yor..."
Rabbi Sharon Brous and UC Berkeley's john powell explore ancient wisdom and contemporary frameworks for building belongi...
"Two thinkers from different traditions β one rooted in rabbinic thought, the oth..."
Historian Craig Fehrman offers a major revisionist account of Lewis and Clark, restoring overlooked voices and consequen...
"The Lewis and Clark story most Americans know is the adventure version. Fehrman'..."
Philosopher Rachel Fraser of MIT delivers a colloquium lecture at Columbia's Department of Philosophy, with discussion a...
"Columbia's philosophy colloquium series consistently draws top-tier speakers. Fr..."
Oxford neurologist Masud Husain examines what brain science actually tells us about identity, free will, consciousness, ...
"Husain is a practicing neurologist who has spent his career at the intersection ..."
New Yorker staff writer and author of 'Say Nothing' and 'Empire of Pain' closes the Portland Arts & Lectures season.
"The best investigative journalist working today closes Portland's most prestigio..."
Award-winning former KING TV anchor Lori Matsukawa reflects on 36 years in Seattle broadcast journalism, breaking barrie...
"Matsukawa spent 36 years at KING TV shaping how Seattle saw itself β her memoir ..."
The Planet Money podcast team shares stories from 10+ years of economic reporting, joined by UChicago economists. Book a...
"Planet Money has spent more than a decade making economics legible to a general ..."
Three interconnected talks at 92Y examining how American art reflects, shapes, and challenges national identity narrativ...
"Three talks in one afternoon, each approaching American identity through a diffe..."
Journalist Gal Beckerman offers a guide to dissent β part philosophy, part history, part manual for living with integrit...
"Beckerman's previous book traced how small groups change the world β this one as..."
Annual joint graduate philosophy conference with keynote by Harvard's Selim Berker, exploring backsliding, resistance, a...
"This is where the next generation of political philosophers present original wor..."
Climate communicator Will Hackman presents a guide for younger voters that avoids myths and scare tactics to chart a rea...
"Climate communication has been stuck between denial and doom for too long. Hackm..."
Adam Rubin, author of Dragons Love Tacos and Those Darn Squirrels, explores the Come Together storytelling exhibition th...
"Picture books are among the most distilled forms of storytelling that exist. Rub..."
Dragons Love Tacos author Adam Rubin discusses objects from the Morgan's Come Together exhibition on 3,000 years of stor...
"Rubin's work depends on the mechanics of storytelling at their most elemental. W..."
Poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman presents a soaring, scientifically grounded ode to our solar system that blends astro...
"Ackerman has spent a career dissolving the border between science and poetry β t..."
Novelist Helen Benedict reads from her new work exploring an Iraq veteran who shelters an interpreter's widow and child ...
"Benedict has spent decades writing about war's hidden costs β this novel brings ..."
Paleontologist Steve Brusatte traces how birds evolved from dinosaurs, survived the asteroid that killed their cousins, ...
"Brusatte has the rare ability to make deep evolutionary time feel immediate β hi..."
Southbank Centre's monthly poetry and live music night features Leyla Josephine, Dr Nick Makoha, and Richard Scott, host...
"Three poets who have each carved out a genuinely distinct territory β Josephine'..."
Spanish novelist and art theorist Miguel Γngel HernΓ‘ndez explores how contemporary art confronts trauma, suffering, and ...
"HernΓ‘ndez works at the intersection of literary fiction and art theory β a rare ..."
Author Charlotte Ickes on Felix Gonzalez-Torres, the Cuban-American artist whose candy piles, light strings, and billboa...
"Gonzalez-Torres died in 1996 but his work β candy distributed to viewers until n..."
Urban ecologist Chris Schell reveals how coyotes, foxes, and raccoons adapt to city life, and how American history has q...
"Schell's research connects environmental justice to urban wildlife in ways that ..."
Political scientist Doron Shultziner uses Israel's 2023 judicial reform protests as a case study in media polarization, ...
"Israel's 2023 protests were the largest in the country's history, and the media ..."
Bret Stephens and Jeremy Ben-Ami debate the widening rift between American Jews and Israel in a frank exchange at Temple...
"Stephens and Ben-Ami represent genuinely opposed positions within the Jewish mai..."
Artist-researcher Fernando do Campo traces how Brooklyn became ground zero for the house sparrow's North American spread...
"A genuine hybrid of environmental history and archival art β do Campo uses one o..."
NYT bestselling nature writer Brianna Madia discusses balancing wilderness independence with domestic commitment, drawn ...
"The tension between freedom and rootedness is one of the West's oldest stories β..."
The definitive biography of Lonesome Dove author Larry McMurtry β Pulitzer winner, bookseller, screenwriter β tracing hi...
"McMurtry was a Pulitzer-winning novelist who ran a bookstore empire from a small..."
Man Booker Prize-winning author David Szalay discusses Flesh, his hypnotic novel exploring contemporary masculinity and ...
"Zadie Smith called Flesh the novel that 'made the novel new' β Szalay writes abo..."
Postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha engages with Hegelian thought and questions of hybridity, culture, and identity in Col...
"Bhabha's concept of cultural hybridity has shaped how we think about identity fo..."
A lecture at The Frick Collection on how Gainsborough's portraits shaped fashion and royal image in 18th-century Britain...
"Gainsborough didn't just paint the powerful -- he helped them see themselves. Th..."
Journalist Suzy Hansen uses one Istanbul neighborhood as a window onto a city, country, and world in upheaval under Erdo...
"Hansen did something rare with her first book β she made Americans see themselve..."
Caltech microbiologist reveals how gut bacteria shape neurological health, with implications for Parkinson's and Alzheim...
"The gut-brain connection is one of the most surprising frontiers in biology. A l..."
Historian David Nasaw and writer Frank Rich discuss the psychological and social toll on WWII veterans returning to a ch...
"The Greatest Generation mythology rarely makes room for what actually happened w..."
Historian Garrett Peck traces Willa Cather's Southwest adventures that inspired her masterpiece Death Comes for the Arch...
"Cather's Archbishop is one of those novels people call perfect without being abl..."
Historian Garrett Peck traces the overlooked human and ecological consequences of industrial expansion along America's f...
"Peck has built a career writing the history that gets crowded out by the standar..."
The first of three free evenings at the Center for Brooklyn History examining climate change β starting with the manufac...
"The story of how coordinated disinformation delayed climate action by a generati..."
Actress and writer Annabelle Gurwitch confronts aging, mortality, and American culture's refusal to reckon with either, ...
"Gurwitch writes about aging the way Americans rarely allow themselves to β direc..."
Poet Richie Hofmann reads from his new collection, which moves between classical antiquity and contemporary desire with ...
"Hofmann writes with a classicist's rigor and a lyricist's ear β poems that read ..."
Literary scholar Colleen Lye closes Columbia's Pedagogy of the Deed series by examining how activists have read Marx's C...
"Reading Capital as literature rather than scripture. Lye's approach asks what ch..."
Two Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists connect over their latest works and most urgent questions about exile, memory, and ...
"Two Pulitzer winners who write from exile β Matar from Libya, Nguyen from Vietna..."
A live recording of The Observer's editorial podcast with journalists debating the news agenda, offering audiences a rar...
"Most people have never seen how an editorial conference actually works β this li..."
Art critic and CU Boulder professor Megan O'Grady explores how five works of art reshaped her life, in conversation with...
"O'Grady braids personal narrative with art criticism in a way that's rare β this..."
The Observer's editors stage a live editorial meeting at RSA House. Watch how journalists set the agenda, then pitch you...
"A rare look inside how a major newspaper decides what matters, and they actually..."
An evening at the South Street Seaport Museum uncovering the hidden stories of women who shaped the culture and commerce...
"Maritime history is usually told through captains and merchants β this event dig..."
Jay Bernard, Salena Godden, Anthony Anaxagorou, and Joelle Taylor join the London Sinfonietta for an urgent evening of p...
"Merging Out-Spoken's most urgent poets with the London Sinfonietta's contemporar..."
Georgetown professor Michele Swers examines Congress's role in the current political moment and what structural shifts c...
"With the midterms approaching and Congress increasingly sidelined, Swers brings ..."
Scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor challenges myths about democratic erosion, examining the long-standing structural forces...
"Taylor's work refuses easy narratives about democracy under threat β instead ask..."
Wall Street Journal reporter Cheng reveals the surprising Christian roots of North Korea's personality cult, tracing how...
"The connection between American Christianity and North Korea's personality cult ..."
Brown historian Fisher uncovers the suppressed history of Indigenous enslavement in America, reframing the nation's orig...
"The history of Indigenous enslavement in America has been systematically erased ..."
Art historian Betancourt chronicles how Disneyland's engineering innovations pioneered automation technologies that resh...
"A history of automation that starts not with Silicon Valley but with animatronic..."
Author Aziz and legendary journalist Woodward examine the resurgence of fascism in American politics and the structural ...
"Aziz's argument about fascism in America gets tested in real time by Bob Woodwar..."
UC Berkeley law professor Khiara M. Bridges reveals how racism in maternal healthcare persists across income levels, dra...
"By studying an affluent clinic, Bridges closes the escape hatch of class β her r..."
Bestselling authors Epstein and Pink explore the counterintuitive science of how limitations fuel creativity, innovation...
"Epstein's research on generalists versus specialists was genuinely field-changin..."
Rachel Goldberg-Polin speaks about her son Hersh's captivity and death in Gaza, the global advocacy campaign she built, ...
"Rachel Goldberg-Polin became one of the most recognized faces of the Gaza hostag..."
Bestselling author Gabrielle Zevin discusses Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, her celebrated novel of creativity, a...
"Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow did something rare β it made video game des..."
Philosopher explores postactivism, deep time, and why 'the times are urgent β let us slow down' in a talk that challenge...
"The most challenging and original thinker on this season's Long Now calendar. Hi..."
Scholar Ronald Robboy argues that Gershwin's Yiddish theater immersion shaped how he absorbed Black American music β upe...
"The claim here is genuinely revisionist: that Gershwin's absorption of Black Ame..."
Celebrated novelist and Columbia professor Colm Toibin discusses his latest work in an intimate afternoon conversation a...
"Toibin writes about exile, belonging, and the weight of home with a precision th..."
A fresh look at the private world of Queen Elizabeth II β her relationships, decisions, and the gap between the public m...
"Three years after her death, the historical reassessment of Elizabeth II is prop..."
CUNY hosts a talk on the shifting US-China economic relationship and its implications for the global financial order.
"The US-China economic relationship is being remade in real time, and most public..."
Jamaican novelist Marlon James β author of A Brief History of Seven Killings and the Dark Star fantasy trilogy β in conv...
"James is one of the few writers working today who operates fluently across liter..."
Archivists from NYPL's Berg Collection and Emory's Rose Library discuss the challenges of preserving and interpreting Ke...
"The people who actually handle Kerouac's notebooks, letters, and scroll drafts t..."
A lecture exploring Native American artist George Morrison's depictions of New York and his place in the Abstract Expres...
"Morrison was an Ojibwe artist working at the center of Abstract Expressionism wh..."
Joyce Carol Oates β author of over 50 novels β sits down with Antonio Monda at the NY Historical Society for a conversat...
"Oates has published more than 50 novels across 60-plus years, and there are few ..."
Democratic strategist Atima Omara argues that young Black women are the essential constituency for American democracy, c...
"Omara's thesis is specific and backed by data: without Black women voters, Ameri..."
Royal biographer Robert Hardman explores the life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth II at RSA House, marking the centenary o...
"Robert Hardman has had more access to the inner workings of the monarchy than al..."
Booker Prize-winning Douglas Stuart presents his new novel following a young man's return to his Hebridean island home, ...
"Douglas Stuart won the Booker for Shuggie Bainβa novel about poverty, addiction,..."
Climate leader Wilkinson offers a compassionate framework for navigating ecological grief and turning personal reckoning...
"Wilkinson's contribution to 'Drawdown' established her scientific credibility β ..."
Writer and birder Ryan Goldberg explores how New York City becomes a vital migratory corridor each spring, and what urba...
"Each spring, millions of migratory birds move through New York City β through Pr..."
Ten true personal stories, five minutes each, no notes β The Moth GrandSLAM brings its competitive storytelling format t...
"The GrandSLAM format strips away everything except the story and the person tell..."
The final Philharmonia debate examines how teacher-pupil relationships shape musical interpretation and whether that con...
"The Philharmonia's season finale debate asks whether the master-apprentice tradi..."
OpenAI's VP for Science outlines the vision for AI as a platform for scientific discovery β what that means in practice ...
"The claim that AI could become the next great scientific instrument is bold β th..."
A special evening celebrating ten years of the International Booker Prize with special guests and readings from across t...
"Ten winners in ten languages, from Arabic to Kannada β this anniversary celebrat..."
Legal scholar Lawrence Douglas and law professor Stephen Vladeck discuss how international justice mechanisms handle sta...
"Douglas is one of the most rigorous thinkers on international criminal law β thi..."
Emmy-winning actor discusses his memoir on two decades of character work before overnight recognition, in conversation w...
"Hiller's memoir is about twenty years of doing the work without the recognition ..."
Sociologist Jonathan Wynn presents research on urban culture, public life, and the social fabric of American cities at C...
"Wynn studies the infrastructure of public life β walking tours, festivals, the s..."
Radiolab creator Jad Abumrad and graphic novelist Lynda Barry β both MacArthur Fellows β make the case for art's necessi...
"Abumrad and Barry approach creativity from opposite ends β audio and image, scie..."
Hoover Institution historian Auslin traces the Declaration of Independence from Jefferson's drafting table to its role a...
"The first history to follow the Declaration itself β as a physical object and as..."
Obama strategist David Axelrod and conservative NYT columnist David French discuss why their political differences matte...
"A liberal strategist and a conservative constitutional lawyer agreeing that the ..."
New Yorker writer and Columbia professor Jelani Cobb presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of the turbulent past decade in A...
"Cobb has spent the past decade writing about American democracy from the inside ..."
Civil rights scholar KimberlΓ© Crenshaw β the legal theorist who coined 'intersectionality' β on her pioneering life and ...
"Crenshaw gave American law and activism the concept of intersectionality β and h..."
Architectural historian Gregory Dreicer exposes the untold story of how a new way of building transformed the modern wor...
"Chicago invented the skyscraper, and this lecture promises to tell that story fr..."
Emmy-nominated host Padma Lakshmi reflects on seven years of travel for Taste the Nation, exploring how food serves as a...
"Taste the Nation treated food as a lens on immigration and belongingβnot celebri..."
Architecture photographer Will Quam explores how Chicago's billion-bricks-a-year peak transformed brick from fireproofin...
"At its peak, Chicago was producing and consuming over two billion bricks a year...."
Arts leader Remington and author Golden examine how white supremacy was built into America's institutional foundations a...
"Remington's structural analysis arrives at a moment when the conversation about ..."
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me host Peter Sagal asks whether the Warren Court invented constitutional rights β or revealed them...
"The Warren Court expanded rights that Americans now take for granted β and its c..."
An interfaith dialogue at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine: Episcopal dean Winnie Varghese and NYU Islamic Center ch...
"Two of New York's most institutionally embedded religious leaders talking not ab..."
Legal scholars Ryan Goodman, Tess Bridgeman, and Mary McCord examine accountability for war crimes and the constitutiona...
"Three of the country's leading national security lawyers β from Just Security an..."
Professor and rhetorician Jennie Young applies feminist communication theory to online dating patterns, showing how toxi...
"Young is a professor of writing and rhetoric using academic rigor to decode some..."
Senior figures from Channel 4, ScreenSkills, and the Creative Industries Council unveil major new research on skills gap...
"Rare policy-facing discussion where the people who actually train and fund creat..."
Go the F to Sleep author and United Shades of America host discuss humor, race, and social justice β two Bay Area voices...
"Mansbach and Bell have both built careers on using humor to get at things that s..."
Scholar Lerone Martin presents a landmark origin story exploring the man and minister before MLK became the civil rights...
"We know the speeches and the marches. Lerone Martin's scholarship focuses on who..."
University of Pennsylvania classicist Emily Wilson discusses her new Iliad translation, following her celebrated 2017 Od...
"Wilson's 2017 Odyssey was the first English translation of Homer by a woman β he..."
Legendary US goalkeeper shares her journey from Olympic gold and World Cup glory through career-ending concussion to red...
"National Soccer Hall of Famer delivers an inspiring story of overcoming devastat..."
A debate on how urban design either excludes or welcomes marginalized communities, examining the politics of public spac...
"The benches with armrests that prevent sleeping, the spikes under bridges β this..."
Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert and NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt examine what we know about global warmi...
"Elizabeth Kolbert wrote the book on extinctionβliterallyβand Gavin Schmidt has 1..."
Neuropsychiatrist Thomas Pollak and tech policy researcher Katie Freeman-Tayler examine how AI chatbots are reshaping em...
"OpenAI's own data showing 560,000 users weekly showing signs of mental health em..."
Comedian and podcaster John Robins brings his new solo show Thirst to the Southbank Centre β an exploration of desire, o...
"Robins built a devoted following through his podcast work and stand-up shows tha..."
Author Simone Stolzoff and journalist Rhaina Cohen discuss what uncertainty can teach us β and why the drive to eliminat...
"Stolzoff's first book challenged hustle culture's hold on identity; this one tak..."
Political leader and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams addresses democracy, the rule of law, and the role of civil le...
"Abrams has been making the specific, practical case for voting rights infrastruc..."
Two Caldecott-winning picture book creators discuss the art of making books that carry genuine emotional weight for read...
"Barnett and Klassen have built a body of work that takes picture books seriously..."
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'James' discusses how he reimagines literary traditions to help readers see the world d...
"The Pulitzer winner who reimagined Huck Finn from Jim's perspective discusses th..."
Legal scholar traces human rights evolution through modern frameworks, using Hong Kong as a case study for how internati...
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Speakers from the classical music world debate whether a composer's sexuality shapes their music and how that awareness ...
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Anthropologist Lilith Mahmud traces how a seemingly innocent confection reveals deep histories of racial commodification...
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A two-day gathering launching the Latinx Freedom Movement Archive, featuring civil rights veterans, scholars, and journa...
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Brooklyn Museum hosts an informal evening exploring the portrait photography of Seydou Keita and his lasting influence o...
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Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith delivers Columbia's prestigious Nagel Lecture on how evolutionary biology illuminates co...
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Actor Greig Sargeant performs readings from Baldwin's semi-autobiographical novel, followed by guided discussion on iden...
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Planet Money's Alex Mayyasi and Jeff Guo celebrate their book with economist Joseph Politano, exploring the economic for...
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Nicholas Lemann traces his family's history across three centuries in a sweeping exploration of place, identity, and Ame...
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Art historian Jonathan D. Katz traces how the coining of 'homosexual' in 1869 catalyzed a global wave of queer artistic ...
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Journalist and author presents untold stories of Black soldiers during Vietnam and the war's lasting impact on civil rig...
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Political theorist Susan Buck-Morss engages with Hegel's philosophy and its political implications in Columbia Universit...
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MIT's 10th annual space conference brings together astronauts, CEOs, researchers, sci-fi authors, and artists to envisio...
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Former Tate Modern CEO Sir Alex Beard on leading cultural institutions through austerity, digital disruption, and shifti...
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NBC News Capitol Hill producer Frank Thorp V reconstructs the January 6 insurrection from inside the Capitol, drawing on...
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Lean Startup creator examines why good companies go bad and proposes frameworks for building institutions that maintain ...
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Yale geographer William Rankin argues for a new ethic of data visualization in a free public lecture at The New School, ...
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Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon uncovers the life and mysteries of Johannes Vermeer, one of art history's most elusive...
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Artist Molly Crabapple presents the first popular history of the Jewish Labor Bund alongside author Naomi Klein at the N...
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BAFTA and MOBO-winning artist, author, and historian Akala delivers a razor-sharp analysis of Britain's current moment o...
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A Liberty 250 lecture examining Thomas Paine's radical writings and their pivotal influence on the ideology of the Ameri...
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Two leading free speech scholars examine the global decline of expression rights and propose a framework for preserving ...
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Scholar-performer Walter Zev Feldman traces the largely hidden history of klezmer's 1960s American revival, drawing from...
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Architect Inaki Echeverria discusses large-scale ecological projects including the 35,000-acre Parque Ecologico Lago Tex...
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Philosopher Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek examines the paradox of liberal fascism, populism's global spread, and whether despair still co...
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Scholars from Stanford, American University, and Columbia examine how algorithmic systems, AI, and social media fuel aut...
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Actress and author Gina Gershon discusses four decades in film, TV, and theater, plus her newest memoir AlphaPussy, at C...
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Journalist John Harris discusses his book on raising his autistic son James, and how ten songs shaped his understanding ...
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Cindy Nguyen explores the role of public libraries in colonial and postcolonial Vietnam, examining how institutions shap...
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Scholar Erin McElroy examines how tech platforms create neo-feudal power structures reshaping cities, labor, and the mea...
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The Life of Pi author reimagines the Trojan War through two ordinary soldiers, exploring myth, mortality, and what histo...
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Guardian journalist discusses his book on music, neurodivergence, and the bond with his autistic son, exploring creativi...
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The 49th Vice President discusses leadership, public service, and the state of American democracy at Bellco Theatre.
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UCSF psychiatrist Dr. Amanda Downey and advocate April Pride examine how psilocybin disrupts entrenched thought patterns...
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National Geographic Explorer and photographer Kiliii YΓΌyan presents visual evidence of how Indigenous communities are Ea...
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Poets Maggie Harris and Taz Rahman discuss shared influences and read their work in an intimate evening at the National ...
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Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy examines how Chornobyl continues to shape environmental policy, energy debates, and Euro...
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Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson delivers the annual Scheidel Lecture on combating public misconceptions about controversial s...
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Author Susan Cheever discusses her literary career and family legacy at a free event hosted by The New School.
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A literary variety show where five authors perform short pieces around a single theme β part reading, part salon, part c...
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SF congressional candidates debate live on stage, co-presented by City Arts & Lectures, Commonwealth Club, KQED, and Man...
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LA Times Book Prize-winning author Alex Segura presents his Marvel crime thriller putting Daredevil at the center of the...
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International thinkers gather at Albertine for flash talks, salons, and readings on democratic principles, reason, and f...
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Life of Pi author Yann Martel discusses his new novel Son of Nobody, exploring identity, compassion, and the stories we ...
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Journalist and author Nicholas Lemann traces his family's intertwined roots to explore the meaning of home across three ...
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Immigration journalist traces her family's survival of the Holocaust in Poland and their dispersal across continents β a...
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A roundtable on how cultural narratives shape our climate future, with scholars examining why current frameworks breed d...
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Legal scholar examines how structural racism operates inside reproductive healthcare, shaping the experiences of pregnan...
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Historian Anthony Bellov reveals over a dozen Colonial-era buildings still standing across Manhattan, witnesses to the R...
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CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and tech author chronicles Apple's full 50-year arc, from garage startup to the most va...
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Feminist urban scholar Faranak Miraftab examines planning education's constraints and envisions anticolonial, relational...
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Turtle Survival Alliance CEO Marc Dupuis-Desormeaux recounts discovering a critically endangered Pancake Tortoise popula...
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Painter Simon Dinnerstein and pianist daughter Simone discuss his 1982 Brooklyn painting Nocturne, exploring memory, imm...
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Writer Danielle Crittenden on loss, the strange labor of mourning, and what it means to document grief as it happens rat...
"Grief memoirs rarely capture the experience while it's still unfolding β Critten..."
Forest ecologist Suzanne Simard explores tree communication, fungal networks, and intergenerational forest wisdom in con...
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Maritime historian Bill Miller guides audiences through New York Harbor's landmarks and history β the Statue of Liberty,...
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Life of Pi author Yann Martel discusses his new novel Son of Nobody, described as a masterpiece of myth, history, and do...
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Music historian Anna Harwell Celenza explores iconic musical works that sparked debate and direct action in the halls of...
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An ethnographic exploration of elder care as a creative and relational process, drawn from the author's experience with ...
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Historian recovers the story of African American activists who built and fought for equal education in the decades befor...
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Photographer Samuel Laurence Cunnane discusses a decade of analogue photography across Europe and Ireland in his first L...
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Comedian and activist Lindy West discusses her memoir Adult Braces, a road trip through fame, depression, marriage, and ...
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New York Times bestselling poet reads from her newest collection exploring how the self shifts through time, body, and m...
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Bloomberg reporter Katrina Manson discusses the Pentagon's first AI warfare initiative and the tensions it sparked in Si...
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The Southbank Centre's monthly poetry night features Nikki Giovanni, Mary Jean Chan, and Hannah Lavery with live music f...
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Public defender and co-founder of Partners for Justice exposes the systemic failures inside criminal courts that no one ...
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Student researchers from Barnard, Teachers College, and Columbia examine social difference, spatial segregation, and dem...
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Joe Baker, Executive Director of the Lenape Center and enrolled Delaware Tribe member, discusses 3,000 years of stories ...
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Historian Jie-Hyun Lim examines how nations construct identity through competitive victimhood, with Columbia faculty dis...
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UC Berkeley geographer and New Yorker contributor Caroline Tracey explores salt lake ecosystems, what their decline reve...
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Stanford historian argues that Lamarck's dismissed evolutionary theory is vindicated by modern epigenetics, reframing ho...
"The scientist who coined the word 'biology' has been a punchline for two centuri..."
Neuroscientist Gina Rippon exposes decades of gender bias in autism research and reveals how autism manifests differentl...
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Environmental writer and activist argues that abundant renewable energy holds the potential to fundamentally transform h...
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Documentary screening followed by Q&A with director Matthieu Verdeil and scholar Brent Edwards, tracing Claude McKay's 1...
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A panel at El Museo del Barrio exploring how artists working across cultures create resonant strategies for dialogue and...
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Artist Kip Fulbeck discusses 25 years of the Hapa Project, exploring mixed-race Asian American identity through portrait...
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Three pioneering feminist artists discuss their decades-long friendship and parallel careers in the New York art world, ...
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Anthropologist Mayanthi Fernando explores the intersections of secularism, animality, and more-than-human worlds in Colu...
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A virtual discussion exploring how Buddhist philosophy β from dependent origination to non-attachment β offers framework...
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Acclaimed Canadian artist Stan Douglas delivers a lecture at Columbia exploring his conceptual photography and film inst...
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Two leading health policy scholars trace America's chaotic, cyclical healthcare system across administrations and explai...
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A talk at Barnard College examining why autism has been chronically underdiagnosed in girls and women, exploring the sci...
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An open Q&A with Ambassador Aharoni exploring current Israeli diplomacy, Middle East geopolitics, and the challenges of ...
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Scholars and city officials examine how memorials in public parks are designed, reviewed, and stewarded β and whose stor...
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Shankar Vedantam brings a decade of Hidden Brain insights to the stage at Town Hall NYC β seven key ideas about the unco...
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Three animated short films envision ocean futures, followed by a panel on climate justice, marine protection, and the po...
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The celebrated essayist and climate activist delivers a sequel to Hope in the Dark, surveying transformation, resistance...
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Psychotherapist Esther Perel, ethicist Kwame Anthony Appiah, and director Simon Stone explore trauma, secrecy, and conce...
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Irish cultural critic Fintan O'Toole delivers a lecture at the NYPL on the political mythology of national greatness and...
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Cultural leaders from Queens discuss the borough's creative ecosystem, immigrant communities, and how local institutions...
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Financial Times journalist reveals the Pentagon's decade-long campaign to integrate artificial intelligence into militar...
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Richard Kahlenberg presents a class-based approach to college admissions that redefines how we pursue justice and divers...
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CUNY scholars examine Goodall's six decades of chimpanzee research, her conservation legacy, and contemporary debates ab...
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Bruce Friedrich makes the case for transforming meat production through science to feed the world sustainably and humane...
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A documentary on The New Yorker's women cartoonists followed by a panel with Liza Donnelly, Emily Flake, Liana Finck, an...
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Historian Charlotte Brooks recounts one family's transpacific journey navigating racism, Japanese occupation, and the Co...
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The scientist who imaged a black hole explores how physics and AI are revealing cosmic structures beyond human perceptio...
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A Pratt Institute lecture inside the Banksy Museum examining street art as political protest, tracing how public walls b...
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NYU doctoral student Luis Fernando Banuelos examines how Mexico City's landmark glass bookstore democratized knowledge a...
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A book talk exploring the tensions and dialogues within contemporary architecture, from theory to built form.
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Anthony Wood and Peg Breen discuss Bard's four-decade battle with Robert Moses and his role in creating New York City's ...
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Architect Trey Trahan discusses how architecture can bridge cultural divides and build stronger communities through thou...
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A virtual lecture examining the recurring figure of the ghostly woman in New York City folklore and what these stories r...
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Rebecca Solnit and Anand Giridharadas explore 75 years of transformation in civil rights, gender, and environmentalism β...
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CBS tech journalist David Pogue shares stories from 150 interviews about Apple's five decades, joined by tech writers La...
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Art historians Gail Levin and Deborah Solomon discuss overlooked abstract painter Alice Baber and her place in twentieth...
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Anne Lamott and writing teacher Neal Allen discuss the craft of good writing β its mechanics, its emotional truth, and w...
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A scientific illustrator takes a position with a reclusive entomologist in 1899 North Carolina and discovers his researc...
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Scholar Matthew Keegan examines pre-modern literary traditions across cultures, exploring the global flows of texts befo...
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Astronomer Eileen Gonzales uses James Webb Space Telescope data to explore brown dwarf atmospheres and what they reveal ...
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Queer writer Scott Broker discusses his surreal debut novel about a marriage unraveling on the Oregon coast, in conversa...
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Senator Cory Booker discusses civic courage, democratic ideals, and what it demands of citizens and public servants when...
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Sociologist Paolo Boccagni presents his ethnography of young West African asylum seekers in limbo in northern Italy β ex...
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Poet and naturalist Eoghan Walls blends lyrical prose with ecological urgency in meditations on species loss and vanishi...
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Nicholas Thompson discusses how major magazines navigate polarization, press freedom threats, and AI disruption at the N...
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National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi traces how 'great replacement theory' evolved from fringe ideology to global p...
"Kendi's project here is historical rather than polemical β tracing a specific id..."
Renowned architect Steven Holl and Mireia Luzarraga discuss their practices in conversation with Columbia GSAPP Dean And...
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Marine ecologist shares groundbreaking research on Darwin's finches, giant tortoises, marine iguanas, and whale shark mi...
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The fifth Perveen Mistry novel follows Bombay's first female lawyer into 1920s Bollywood, where a film censor is murdere...
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An all-day symposium at The Explorers Club with renowned explorers discussing ancient tombs, underwater labyrinths, and ...
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Extreme angler, author, and broadcaster Jeremy Wade explores the hidden ecological world of rivers and why they matter m...
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A public dialogue at Brooklyn Public Library exploring mathematics as philosophical inquiry, examining foundations, logi...
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Dr. Richard Pegg examines rare Chinese blue maps and what they reveal about cartography, exploration, and cross-cultural...
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Warm and witty memoir exploring the complex relationships between mothers, mothers-in-law, and daughters, with novelist ...
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Author Andrea Janes explores female ghost stories β from Lizzie Borden to Triangle Shirtwaist victims β and what they re...
"The best books about ghost stories aren't really about ghosts β they're about wh..."
Beloved essayist Anne Fadiman discusses her new personal essay collection in conversation with journalist Isaac Arnsdorf...
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A Metropolitan Museum lecture on how 19th-century Calcutta artisans used chromolithography to make Hindu devotional imag...
"How mass reproduction turned the gods into popular imagery β the story of Indian..."
Political scientist explains why fifty years of reform efforts haven't fixed Congress, tracing the structural forces tha...
"Most books about Congress are either insider memoirs or partisan screeds β Kornb..."
Political scientist Maya Kornberg explains why fifty years of reform efforts have failed to fix Congress, and what struc...
"Kornberg's research at the Brennan Center puts hard data behind what most people..."
Dan Eberhart presents his biography of his father Perry Eberhart, a Colorado WWII veteran turned journalist and historia...
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EFF executive director chronicles her thirty-year battle to protect digital privacy and why this right underpins all oth...
"The woman who has spent three decades fighting for your digital rights tells the..."
The director of Rome's Borghese Gallery lectures on Caravaggio in connection with the Morgan Library's exhibition on one...
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Three strangers board a cruise ship bound for Bermuda just after 9/11, each carrying regrets and the fragile possibility...
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Japanese author Terao Tetsuya discusses his book examining the intersection of violence, politics, and personal identity...
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A civic panel examining how federal immigration enforcement affects Seattle communities and what legal tools residents h...
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Does a composer need to be a believer to write great religious music? The Philharmonia's debate series explores music, s...
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Nelson Algren Award winner Barry Pearce discusses his interconnected story collection set across Chicago neighborhoods w...
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Erik Larson reconstructs the five months between Lincoln's election and Fort Sumter β the period when the Civil War beca...
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Ibram X. Kendi traces the intellectual lineage of authoritarian ideas across history, connecting past and present in a l...
"Kendi is asking where authoritarian ideas come from and how they travel. That qu..."
Author Tess Chakkalakal explores how skin color has shaped American racial politics, identity, and social hierarchies fr...
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A lecture at Neue Galerie on how university scholars were recruited as WWII intelligence operatives, revealing the inter...
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Law professor examines how Big Tech captured the open internet and makes the legal and political case for taking it back...
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Curators, writers and scholars explore the ideas behind the Hayward Gallery's parallel exhibitions by Chiharu Shiota and...
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BAFTA-winning actress Joanna Scanlan and young creatives discuss Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, with musical extracts...
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Scholars trace how totalitarian regimes in Italy and Germany weaponized fashion as propaganda and social control during ...
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Historians and Legal Aid leaders trace 150 years of impact on NYC residents through archival records, case histories, an...
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Marine humanities professor explores how ocean memory functions as historical record and future indicator, rethinking lo...
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Genealogist Chaya Sara Herman presents the basics of Jewish family history research with a focus on Eastern European lin...
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A discussion at the Art Students League examining the role and relevance of art criticism in an era of algorithmic taste...
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An online discussion examining the history and politics of free public access to New York City's cultural institutions a...
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Award-winning Mexican novelist Alvaro Enrigue presents his new work blending history, identity, and the borders between ...
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Photographers Kennedi Carter and Adraint Khadafhi Bereal discuss visual documentation of racial identity, Black cultural...
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Performance art legend Marina AbramoviΔ joins Seth Meyers to discuss five decades of boundary-pushing work and the ideas...
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Sharp critique of the American education system's failure to prepare informed, engaged citizens β and what a genuine civ...
"Traub's argument is specific: schools aren't failing at civic education by accid..."
Scholars Miriam Ticktin and Ruth Wilson Gilmore challenge innocence as a political and moral framework in humanitarian p...
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Historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein discusses her archival research into family documents and what they reveal about Jewish m...
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Landscape architect Johanna Gibbons delivers the RSA Patron's Lecture on reconnecting urban children with nature through...
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Historian Marsha Rozenblit offers a comparative analysis of Jewish community development in New York and Vienna, explori...
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New York Times White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs on the realities of covering presidential power in a polariz...
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The Italian Cultural Institute hosts a talk on how traditional craftsmanship and emerging technology converge to shape d...
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EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn traces her 30-year legal battle for digital privacy rights, from the Crypto Wars to po...
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Sculptor Nayland Blake reflects on three decades of boundary-crossing work spanning sculpture, performance, and identity...
"Blake's work resists the tidy career arc that most artist talks present β this i..."
Lindy West discusses her road trip memoir on depression, reinvention, and driving herself sane, in conversation at Polit...
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Award-winning author Rachel Rueckert discusses her historical novel following notorious women pirates Anne Bonny and Mar...
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John Studzinski, Rebecca Salter, and Will Todd explore how art and creativity help us process trauma and build resilienc...
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Scholars and architects unveil the project to restore Venice's Teatro San Cassiano, the world's first public opera house...
"The original public opera house β the one that made opera a democratic art form ..."
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who broke the Harvey Weinstein story discusses investigative reporting and accountabil...
"The journalist whose investigation ignited #MeToo speaks in Denver's most distin..."
Journalist Jane Eisner traces Carole King's Jewish Brooklyn roots, the Brill Building years, Tapestry, and her evolution...
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Six-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis shares championship-level visualization techniques for strengthening memory a...
"A six-time memory champion who has summited Everest four times, Nelson Dellis br..."
A free panel celebrating D'Angelo's fusion of soul, funk, and jazz, with artists Joel Culpepper and Lola Moxom exploring...
"D'Angelo rewired what soul music could be β this panel traces that influence thr..."
Biography of John Quincy Adams as the original American political maverick β a president defined by principle over party...
"John Quincy Adams's career β son of a founder, president, then congressman for s..."
New York Times journalists and political analysts discuss the state of American politics in an era of unprecedented inst...
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Music journalist Emma Warren speaks with singer-songwriter Celeste about her musical journey, jazz influences, and genre...
"Celeste makes music that draws from jazz without being constrained by it β this ..."
Two of Ireland and Britain's sharpest political writers discuss democracy, power, and the shifting landscape of politics...
"O'Toole is arguably the finest political essayist writing in English today β his..."
Journalist reflects on Germany's multigenerational effort to confront, memorialize, and make partial amends for the crim...
"Germany's reckoning with Nazism is the most sustained national confrontation wit..."
A physicist-turned-novelist sets a murder in a Naples cathedral, drawing on years living in the city as a civilian analy...
"A physicist who worked for the European Space Agency and Microsoft's AI research..."
Bestselling classicist and comedian retells the myth of Medea from the priestess's perspective, centering love, vengeanc...
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Mathematicians discuss how artificial intelligence is transforming mathematical proof and discovery at the National Muse...
"The question of whether AI can do real mathematics β not just compute, but prove..."
Harvard legal scholar and former Obama regulatory chief asks whether the constitutional structure Americans take for gra...
"Sunstein has written more books on constitutional law and behavioral economics t..."
Historian places race at the center of Native American and colonial American history, reframing the founding narrative f...
"Silverman is one of the most rigorous historians of Native America working today..."
Architectural historians and scholars of racial capitalism examine how property is fabricated and destroyed through desi...
"Property feels natural until you look at the legal fictions, architectural decis..."
Career content creator and workplace communication expert shares scripts for navigating every professional situation wit...
"McGoff built her following by saying out loud what most people only think about ..."
A climate scientist presents field research on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier collapse and its catastrophic implications ...
"Thwaites Glacier holds enough ice to raise sea levels by two feet β and the scie..."
Three debut authors discuss their writing process, path to publication, and how media shapes their work in this free pan...
"Debut authors before the polish of a publicity tour β the questions about craft ..."
Turkish author Ece Temelkuran discusses displacement and the politically homeless with musician and thinker Brian Eno at...
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Scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor delivers a talk at MoMA PS1 exploring race, freedom, and multiracial democracy in Americ...
"One of the sharpest voices on race and inequality in America, now at one of New ..."
Three photographers discuss the power of everyday imagery, identity, and intimacy in contemporary photography at ICP.
"Three photographers from different continents who all gravitate toward quiet, in..."
Investigative reporter Miranda Spivack exposes how local political dealings and backroom power dynamics shape the commun...
"Local government is where policy actually touches your life, and Spivack's inves..."
A talk exploring SPAM's unlikely journey from wartime ration to cultural icon, and what canned meat reveals about Americ...
"The history of SPAM turns out to be a surprisingly sharp lens on American milita..."
The Philharmonia's debate series continues with a discussion on how composers navigate and blend cultural identities thr...
"Classical music meets identity politics in the best possible way β a debate abou..."
Columbia University hosts an interdisciplinary dialogue on the nature of human suffering, drawing on philosophy, theolog...
"This is one of the rare events where philosophy, theology, and science sit at th..."
Philosophy YouTuber Robert Pantano explores how self-awareness creates both pain and beauty, tackling alienation, nihili...
"Pantano built one of philosophy's largest YouTube audiences with Pursuit of Wond..."
Political scientist Kornberg and Princeton historian Zelizer examine why Congress has resisted reform for fifty years am...
"If you've ever wondered why Congress seems incapable of fixing itself, Kornberg'..."
The first Black woman on the Supreme Court discusses her memoir, tracing her family's heritage through segregation to th...
"A sitting Supreme Court Justice discussing her path from segregation-era family ..."
Former public defender exposes criminal court dysfunction in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Percival ...
"A public defender's account of a system that punishes poverty, in conversation w..."
Fashion historian Natalie Conklin traces how royal courts, social movements, and cultural shifts have shaped clothing fr...
"Fashion as a lens for understanding power, protest, and identity β the kind of i..."
A talk uncovering New York City's hidden infrastructure β the tunnels, utilities, and underground geography most New Yor...
"Beneath Manhattan's grid lies a second city of tunnels, cables, and waterways th..."
Author Denny S. Bryce discusses her novel following three women on a 1935 Caribbean expedition, tracing dance, identity,...
"Inspired by Katherine Dunham's real research voyage, this novel braids dance eth..."
A lecture at the CUNY Graduate Center examining African American intellectual history, the politics of education, and co...
"The struggle over who gets to define Black intellectual life β and what gets tau..."
Filmmaker and scholar Angela Aguayo explores how documentary filmmaking becomes a form of political education and direct...
"The best documentaries do not just document. They intervene. Aguayo has the theo..."
A practitioner-focused forum in SoHo exploring what it means to build products, teams, and businesses as AI agents becom...
"Unlike most AI panels that debate futures, this one gathers people who are activ..."
An online lecture examining the overlooked roles of Black women in Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Associati...
"The UNIA was one of the largest Black organizing movements in history, but the w..."
Pulitzer-winning historian examines how the 1984 subway shooting weaponized racial fear and fueled mass incarceration, w...
"Thompson won the Pulitzer for her account of Attica β she traces the direct line..."
The Tenement Museum hosts a talk exploring American identity through the lens of immigration history and lived experienc...
"The Tenement Museum is one of the few places in New York where questions about A..."
Beloved cook and broadcaster Dame Prue Leith discusses her new book Being Old β on ageing well, reinvention, loss, and u...
"Prue Leith has earned the right to be candid about ageing β and her book apparen..."
Historian of science Jessica Ratcliff examines how states, corporations, and institutions have monopolized knowledge fro...
"This talk connects the East India Company's control of navigational knowledge in..."
Art historian Dan Nadel lectures on the visionary comics artist Jack Kirby and his lasting impact on visual culture and ...
"Kirby invented the visual language of the Marvel universe before anyone knew wha..."
Historian Jessica Ann Levy traces Black empowerment politics from Reverend Leon Sullivan's 1964 declaration to its legac...
"The overlooked story of how Black economic self-determination movements crossed ..."
Dame Prue Leith discusses her book Being Old with candid warmth, exploring aging, shifting priorities, and the unexpecte...
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Neuroscientist and philosopher explores how we can understand the turbulent present through reason, evidence, and honest...
"One of the sharpest public thinkers on consciousness, morality, and AI β live an..."
Pulitzer Prize finalist Anand Gopal follows six Syrians through revolution, war, and displacement in a searing account o...
"Gopal embeds with six ordinary Syrians across a decade of upheaval β the kind of..."
Novelist and Atlantic journalist Xochitl Gonzalez joins the Tenement Museum's signature talk series to explore identity,...
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A lecture at the Museum at FIT exploring how utilitarian and workwear design shaped modern fashion and the aesthetics of...
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Nobel Prize-winning biochemist explores RNA's expanding role in medicine, from COVID vaccines to potential breakthroughs...
"A Nobel laureate explaining RNA science to a general audience β free, with pizza..."
Vahe Boghosian presents the Sudanahye Project, documenting Armenian heritage in colonial Sudan through archival photogra...
"A diaspora story you've almost certainly never heard β Armenian communities in c..."
Fox News anchor Bret Baier discusses the current political landscape and his reporting from Washington in a wide-ranging...
"The Streicker Center consistently pairs high-profile newsmakers with an audience..."
The drama of war and postwar Italy told through the life of celebrated fashion designer Emilio Pucci, with journalist Sa...
"Less a fashion book and more a story about how Italy reinvented itself after the..."
An intellectual salon asking why modern life prioritizes optimization over beauty, and what we lose when everyday spaces...
"A salon that takes beauty seriously as an ethical question, not a lifestyle one...."
A lecture exploring Queens' transformation from a rural hinterland into one of the world's most diverse urban boroughs.
"Queens went from farmland to the most linguistically diverse place on Earth in a..."
Leading physicists debate the interpretation and implications of quantum mechanics in an accessible public forum at Pion...
"Pioneer Works makes cutting-edge physics feel like a conversation at a bar. Free..."
Authors Jonathan Mahler and Alyssa Katz explore New York City's contemporary crises, political dysfunction, and failures...
"Two of the sharpest writers on New York power dissect what's gone wrong with the..."
New Yorker executive editor tells the epic story of Chinese immigration to America from the mid-19th century to the pres...
"A New Yorker editor's debut book on Chinese immigration reframes American histor..."
A distinguished lecture at the Museum of the City of New York on how immigrants, dialects, and linguistic diversity shap...
"New York is home to more languages than any other city on earth. This lecture ex..."
Pastor and activist William H. Lamar presents a meditation on ancestral inheritance, spiritual legacy, and the forces th...
"Lamar writes about ancestral inheritance with the kind of specificity that turns..."
Author Daisy HernΓ‘ndez presents her new book on national belonging, immigration, and what it means to be a citizen in a ...
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Food historian and author Anissa Helou explores Lebanon's culinary traditions, cultural identity, and the stories that l...
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New York Times journalist traces El Paso through five interconnected families across a century of border life, immigrati...
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International Women's Day discussion on protecting women and girls globally, with The Circle CEO and a grassroots leader...
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One of the world's most influential philosophers presents on Hegel as part of Columbia's distinguished lecture series.
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Postcolonial theorist Gayatri Spivak engages with Hegel's philosophy in Columbia's landmark lecture series exploring con...
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Scholar Mary Helen Washington traces Paule Marshall's overlooked role connecting Harlem Renaissance writers to contempor...
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Art historian Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen examines how Egyptian art shaped Freud-era psychology, connecting Rodin's Balzac...
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American Idol alum chronicles his journey through fame, a Mormon mission, and the decision to leave the church to live a...
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UT PhD candidate traces how evolutionary theory has transformed from Darwin to modern population genetics, with a guided...
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Science comedian Brian Malow hosts UT professors on quantum computing, extraterrestrial life, and time travel β with com...
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