History
Inside the Members-Only New York Society Library, NYC’s Oldest Library
The New York Society Library 53 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United StatesStep inside a members-only library dating back to 1754 that has been through it all, from getting looted by British soldiers during the American Revolution to George Washington forgetting to return two books (c'mon, George!). Join New York Adventure Club for an exclusive trip through the members-only New York Society Library (NYSL), the oldest cultural institution in New York City, which […]
A Talk with Seymour Kaplan: Dachau Liberator
Commonpoint Queens Central 67-09 108th Street, Forest Hills, NY, United StatesAt 17-years old, Seymour Kaplan enlisted in the American Army and left Brooklyn to fight against Nazi Germany. He became a machine gunner with the 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion attached to the 42nd Infantry Division. He was one of the first American soldiers to enter the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945. As a Yiddish […]
Medieval Medicine and Literature: A Galenic Presence in Dante’s Writing
NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò 24 West 12th Street, New York, NY, United StatesThe attention to the relation between medieval medicine and Dante’s writing shows how contemporary scientific thought manifests itself both in evident and less explicit terms, which allude not to exclusively scientific concepts, but to structures of thought shared by other contemporary intellectual discussions, such as philosophy, ethics, political thought. This lecture investigates how the manifest […]
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas: A Conversation
CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesJoin us for The Enigma of Clarence Thomas: A Conversation between Corey Robin, the author of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (Metropolitan Books, 2019) and Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, on December 4, 2019 at 6:30PM in the Kelly Skylight Room of The Graduate […]
CBFS: The Black Athlete in the Freedom Struggle
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, United StatesCONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIES Black athletes have long propelled the quest for racial equality and social justice; and long been criticized for their freedom fighting. Join sportswriter Dave Zirin, historian Louis Moore, and legendary athlete and activist Wyomia Tyus in a discussion of the last half century of black male and female athletes in the freedom […]