Perspectives with Peter Beinart
Gotham Center History Forums
Conversations
ITS: Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences
ARC Events
Live@365: A World Music Series
City of the World: A Special Addition To Live@365
Graduate Center President Bill Kelly talks one-on-one with contemporary thinkers, artists, and visionaries.
$12 / $10 members
CANCELED:
Tues, April 23 / 6:30 p.m. / Proshansky Auditorium
Edward O. Wilson, two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, father of the field of sociobiology, and professor emeritus in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.
Wed, May 1 / 6:30 p.m. / Elebash Recital Hall
Marilynne Robinson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and essayist and longtime faculty member at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, in a rare public appearance.
PERSPECTIVES WITH PETER BEINART
Author and Daily Beast writer Peter Beinart discusses the most pressing political and policy issues of our time with distinguished guests.
FREE, reservations required.
Tues, February 19 / 6:30 p.m. / Skylight Room
What Is the Future of the Media?
David Carr, media columnist for the New York Times, and Stephen B. Shepard, dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, join Beinart to consider the future of the media in the digital age. (Rescheduled from fall 2012.)
FREE RESERVATIONS
Thurs, May 9 / 6:30 p.m. / Proshansky Auditorium
Is Zionism in Crisis? A Follow-Up Debate
Following their impassioned fall 2012 conversation, Beinart reengages with famed jurist Alan Dershowitz over issues raised in Beinart’s book The Crisis of Zionism. Moderated by Ethan Bronner, former Jerusalem bureau chief for the New York Times.
FREE RESERVATIONS
GOTHAM CENTER HISTORY FORUMS
Two book talks showcasing New York’s rich history, building bridges between the city’s past and present.
FREE, reservations required.
Thurs, February 28 / 6:30 p.m. / Proshansky Auditorium
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America
Sam Roberts, urban affairs correspondent at the New York Times, discusses the station’s amazing 100-year history upon publication of his new book about Grand Central Terminal. Book signing to follow.
FREE RESERVATIONS
Wed, March 20 / 6:30 p.m. / Elebash Recital Hall
Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
Come hear the story of the Lower East Side gourmet store known as “the Louvre of lox” at this talk by third-generation former owner and author Mark Russ Federman. Book signing to follow.
FREE RESERVATIONS
CONVERSATIONS
FREE, reservations required.
Mon, February 4 / 6:30 p.m. / Elebash Recital Hall
Emancipation: James Oakes & Sean Wilentz
Historians James Oakes, of the Graduate Center, and Sean Wilentz, of Princeton, discuss Oakes’s provocative new book about the Civil War, Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865.
FREE RESERVATIONS
Thurs, March 7 / 6:30 p.m. / Skylight Room
Racecraft: Barbara Fields & Ta-Nehisi Coates
Barbara Fields, Columbia history professor and coauthor of Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic about America’s ongoing struggles with racism and inequality.
FREE RESERVATIONS
Wed, April 24 / 6:30 p.m. / Skylight Room
Marisa Silver & Deborah Treisman in Conversation
Novelist Marisa Silver and Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker, discuss Silver's latest novel, Mary Coin.
FREE RESERVATIONS
Mon, May 6 / 6:30 p.m. / Proshansky Auditorium
Exiles: Aleksandar Hemon & André Aciman
Two contemporary literary masters—Aleksandar Hemon, novelist and MacArthur “genius grant” recipient, and the GC’s André Aciman, celebrated memoirist and novelist—discuss their forthcoming books.
FREE RESERVATIONS
ITS: INITIATIVE FOR THE THEORETICAL SCIENCES
The Graduate Center continues its popular series featuring some of today’s leading scientific minds.
FREE, reservations required.
Tues, February 19 / 6:30 p.m. / Proshansky Auditorium
Medieval Science—Revealing Meaning across Disciplines
Three scholars from the UK—intellectual historian Giles Gasper, physicist Tom McLeish, and vision researcher Hannah Smithson—reanimate the fascinating world of medieval science in a cross-disciplinary discussion.
FREE RESERVATIONS
A SPECIAL PRESENTATION BY THE GC’S ADVANCED RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE (ARC) & THE LUXEMBOURG INCOME STUDY CENTER
FREE, reservations required.
Mon, May 20 / 6:30 p.m. / Proshansky Auditorium
Inequality and Economic Growth:
Paul Krugman & Tony Atkinson in Conversation
Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist, discusses the relationship between inequality and economic growth with Sir Tony Atkinson, professor of economics at Oxford University and one of the world’s foremost scholars of inequality. Moderated by Chrystia Freeland, editor of Thomson Reuters Digital and author of Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else.
FREE RESERVATIONS
LIVE@365: A WORLD MUSIC SERIES
Now in its second season, Live@365 presents renowned musicians from around the world in the Graduate Center’s intimate and acoustically rich Elebash Recital Hall.
$25 / $20 members
Spring Package (3 events) - $70 / $50 members
CANCELED:
Tues, March 12 / 7 p.m. / Elebash Recital Hall
Ancient Persia: Songs & Stories
Due to illness, Morshed Torabi will not be able to perform as originally scheduled.
JUST ADDED:
Tues, March 12 / 7 p.m. / Elebash Recital Hall
Turkish Sufi Improvisations
Erdal Erzincan, the acclaimed baglama (plucked lute) virtuoso and vocalist, in his U.S. debut as a soloist.
TICKETS
Tues, April 9 / 7 p.m. / Elebash Recital Hall
Hungarian Gypsy Cabaret from the ’20s-’50s
The critically acclaimed and distinctive band Budapest Bar recreates the lively atmosphere of long-forgotten Hungarian cafés. A US debut.
TICKETS
Tues, May 7 / 7 p.m. / Elebash Recital Hall
Chinese Jaw Harp
Virtuoso Wang Li creates his signature hypnotic sounds on the Chinese jaw harp. Using this ancient instrument, he produces modern melodies, evoking electronic dance music.
TICKETS
CITY OF THE WORLD: A SPECIAL ADDITION TO LIVE@365
Tickets for City of the World are $12, $10 for members
(not included in Spring Live@365 Package)
Wed, April 24 / 7 p.m. / Elebash Recital Hall
Trinidadian Orisha
Led by Brooklyn-based master drummer Earl Noel, this ensemble performance will feature the drums, songs, and dances of the Trinidadian Orisha religion, which combines West African Yoruba practices and Christianity.
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