01 March 2020 Ilana Pardes The Song of Songs: A Biography Jewish Community Library , 1835... Free event with free garage parking on Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy. The Song of Songs has been embraced for centuries as the ultimate song… 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
02 March 2020 Robert Frank Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work NYU Institute for Public Knowledge... NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a book talk for Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work, featuring the author… 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Learn More
02 March 2020 Eleanor Wilner Before Our Eyes The Writer’s Center , 4508 Walsh... The Word Works and The Writer’s Center present poets Sham-e-Ali Nayeem and Eleanor Wilner. Café Muse opens at 7 pm with refreshments and classical… 7:00 pm Learn More
04 March 2020 Amy Offner Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas Princeton University, 216 Burr Hall... Sorting Out the Mixed Economy argues that many of the tools that took apart midcentury welfare and developmental states came, ironically enough, from… 12:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
04 March 2020 Susan Schneider Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind Stevens Institute of Technology... On Wednesday, March 4, Susan Schneider, philosopher at University of Connecticut and Library of Congress, will present the talk “How Will AI Change Us… 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
04 March 2020 Stian Westlake Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy Center for Policy Studies, 57 Tufton... CapX Live: Reviving Economic Thinking on the Right As the new government gets to grips with the British economy, what principles should animate its… 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
05 March 2020 Łukasz Stanek Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War Independent School for the City... On the 5th of March, we’ll organize a double book presentation and discussion, around two books dealing with planning and architecture during the Cold… 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
05 March 2020 Barry Scott Wimpfheimer The Talmud: A Biography UCSB, Loma Peloma Center, Ocean Rd... Barry Wimpfheimer will speak on “The Talmud as Icon” in the Loma Pelona Center at 4:00 p.m. He is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Law… 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
05 March 2020 Anne Case & Angus Deaton Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Columbia University School of Social... 2020 Alice P. Lin Memorial Lecture with Anne Case, Ph.D. Reception: 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Lecture & Discussion: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Free and… 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
05 March 2020 Ross Bayton The Gardener's Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names - with More than 5,000 Entries Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave ... Scientific plant names are an invaluable tool for those who understand them. Formed from Greek and, more commonly, from Latin root words, not only… 7:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
05 March 2020 Adom Getachew Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination Red Emma's , 1225 Cathedral St. ... Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an… 7:00 pm Learn More
06 March 2020 Wenfei Tong Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds Harvard Book Store, 1256... Harvard Book Store welcomes Wenfei Tong—research associate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University—for a… 3:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
08 March 2020 Peter P. Marra and Chris Santella Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer College of the Holy Cross—Hogan... Since 1992, birders from around New England have come together every March to attend Mass Audubon’s annual Birders Meeting. With the help of… 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Learn More
08 March 2020 Philipp Ther The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492 Kings Place, Hall 2, 90 York Way... The history of Europe is permeated with enforced exodus, displaced peoples and mass migration. Philipp Ther explores the major expulsions and… 2:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
08 March 2020 Martin Goodman Josephus's The Jewish War: A Biography Kings Place, Hall 2, 90 York Way... Titus Flavius Josephus (born as Joseph ben Mattathias) was a Jewish general turned Roman historian and the author of The Jewish War, an account… 2:00 pm Learn More
08 March 2020 Jim Al-Khalili The World According to Physics Kings Place, Hall 1, 90 York Way... Jim Al-Khalili shines a light on the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, inviting us to understand what physics tells us about the… 5:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
09 March 2020 Diana S. Kim Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia Department of Government The... Opium was once integral to colonial rule across Southeast Asia. The drug was a major source of revenue for European rulers, who also derived… 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Learn More
09 March 2020 Robert Frank Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work Millbank Tower , 21-24 Millbank ... Psychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But… 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Learn More
09 March 2020 Robert Frank Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work National Institute of Economic and... In the wake of the hottest years on record, only robust measures to curb greenhouse gases promise relief from more frequent and intense storms… 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Learn More
09 March 2020 Justin Farrell Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West Tattered Cover Historic LoDo , 1628... The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West, a Social Science Book Talk & Signing Justin Farrell will discuss and sign Billionaire… 7:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More