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Carribean Artists Discuss Artmaking and their Islands' Weight of History

A pair of influential Caribbean-born artists discuss with two New York-based curators how the sometimes heavy mix of culture and history in the Caribbean impacts artists in Havana, Santa Domingo, and Miami today.

Event Date: Sep 10, 2007 7:00 PM

Benjamin Franklin in Paris

Dr. Philip J. Briggs speaks

Event Date: Sep 27, 2007 6:30 PM

Holocaust

Event Date: Oct 31, 2006 7:00 AM

Black Indians

Event Date: Nov 16, 2006 6:00 PM

Holocaust

Dr. Eric Kandel was born in Vienna, the cultural center of the German-speaking world, where he lived until the age of nin. His family fled to the U.S. in 1939, one year after Hitler came ot power. He vividly recalls the ruthless violence of Nazi rule and the trauma of Kristallnacht, which fell two days after his ninth birthday. He received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system and his contribution to the field of neuroscience.

Event Date: Nov 04, 2006 8:00 AM

DAVID NASAW & VARTAN GREGORIAN: On Andrew Carnegie

About David Nasaw David Nasaw is the author of the The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, winner of the Bancroft Prize for History, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Ambassador Book Prize for Biography, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His new book is Andrew Carnegie. He is currently a distinguished professor of history and Director of the Center for the Humanities at the City University of New York Graduate Center. About Vartan Gregorian Vartan Gregorian is president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making institution founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. He has also served as president of Brown University and The New York Public Library. Gregorian has taught at San Francisco State College, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Texas at Austin. He was provost at the University of Pennsylvania. Gregorian is author of The Road To Home: My Life And Times, Islam: A Mosaic, Not A Monolith, and The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan, 1880-1946. In 2004, President Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civil award.

Event Date: Nov 10, 2006 7:00 PM

Paula Baxter- Gentlemen Prefer Black: A Rakish History of Men's Wear

Event Date: Nov 08, 2006 12:30 PM

The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Spain

Event Date: Nov 10, 2006 10:00 AM

SAVING THE WORLD: KATI MARTON in conversation with SAMANTHA POWER

Kati Marton served as an overseas bureau chief for ABC News and a news correspondent for NPR. She was the host of a PBS-Radio weekly broadcast America and the World and a reporter for PBS-TV, Atlantic Monthly, London Times, and New Republic. She is the Hungarian-born daughter of Jewish refugees from communist persecution and author of Hidden Power—Presidential Marriages that Shaped our History, Wallenberg, the Polk Conspiracy, A Death in Jerusalem, and a novel, An American Woman. She lives in New York City with her husband, Richard Holbrooke. Samantha Power is The Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and author of A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, a 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner. Power was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She has reported for U.S. News and World Report, The Boston Globe, and The Economist. Power is co-editor of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact. She spent 2005-06 working for Senator Barack Obama and is writing a biography of the UN's

Event Date: Nov 16, 2006 7:00 PM

Liz Goldwyn, author of “Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Murlesque Queens”

Event Date: Nov 09, 2006 7:00 PM

Former National Park Service Director Roger Kennedy

Event Date: Nov 14, 2006 7:00 PM

Law Enforcement

Event Date: Nov 28, 2006 7:00 PM

New York City as the New Jerusalem: The Colonial Origins of an Urban Myth

Event Date: Dec 05, 2006 12:30 PM

Glover's Brigade, 1776

Event Date: Dec 14, 2006 6:30 PM

Kati Marton: The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World