Exhibition Walkthrough of "by Alison Knowles" at the Grey Art Museum
A guided walk through the Alison Knowles exhibition, a chance to take in the work at a slower, more informed pace. Space is limited, so registration is required.
Talks in Greenwich Village
Talks · Greenwich Village — change
An Evening with Anne Fadiman: Looking back on The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down after three decades
Anne Fadiman sits down with Perri Klass to trace how her book on Lia Lee, a Hmong child with epilepsy, came together and why its lessons on cross-cultural care still hold.
Polio Vaccines: Wanted Dead or Alive
A conversation with David Oshinsky, Frances Bernstein, Perri Klass, and Trace Jordan on the two kinds of polio vaccine developed in the 1950s, one made with killed virus.
Book Launch Party
NYU Journalism alumna Stacey Patton reads from Strung Up, out from Beacon Press, then joins a live Q&A with Karen Hunter of Sirius FM. Refreshments are served at the signing.
Bioethics Colloquium: On Chaos, What we Ought to Do, and What we Ought to Regret
MIT philosophy professor Caspar Hare draws on his new book, Living in a Strange World, to explore a striking idea about how almost every action ever taken reaches future generations.
Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches
A book talk with editors Angelique Nixon, Carole Boyce Davies, and Christen Smith on their collection gathering historical and contemporary Black feminist thinkers across transnational contexts.
Discussion with Director of Hungarian documentary on press freedom, "80 Angry Journalists"
Director András Földes, a journalist turned filmmaker, discusses his documentary following Vera Munk, editor-in-chief of 444, and the pressure on independent reporters.
