01 October 2019 Jeffrey H. Skevington Field Guide to the Flower Flies Ingersoll Unifor Hall, 364 Victoria... Woodstock Field Naturalists and Ingersoll District Nature Club co-host Dr. Jeff Skevington, Research Scientist, Canadian National Collection of... 7:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
02 October 2019 David D. Hall The Puritans Old North Church, 193 Salem Street... David D. Hall will examine the values that shaped civil life in Puritan New England. Given a free hand to form colony and town... 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
02 October 2019 Ryan Patrick Hanley Our Great Purpose Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue... Adam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who was especially... 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
02 October 2019 Susan Schneider Artificial You Politics and Prose at The Wharf, 70... As director of the AI, Mind and Society Group at the University of Connecticut and NASA/Baruch Blumberg Chair at the Library of Congress, Susan... 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
03 October 2019 Kyle Jaros China's Urban Champions T-G-1 Wiener Auditorium, Harvard... Join us for a discussion with Kyle Jaros, author of China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development. Sponsor: Ash Center for... 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Learn More
03 October 2019 Yossi Harpaz Citizenship 2.0 165 Wallace Hall, Princeton... Citizenship 2.0 focuses on an important yet overlooked dimension of globalization: the steady rise in the legitimacy and prevalence of dual... 12:00 pm Learn More
03 October 2019 Susan Schneider Artificial You Academic Building, Room 2400... The Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science is pleased to announce the event, "Ethics and the Future of AI." With the rapid rise of AI, a... 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
05 October 2019 Robert J. Shiller Narrative Economics Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut... Nobel laureate Shiller’s new book is based on the simple proposition that the stories people tell affect economic outcomes. Whether true or... 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
06 October 2019 Sharon Marcus The Drama of Celebrity Bridge Street Books, 2814... *Please contact Bridge Street Books for the event time. Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a... 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
07 October 2019 A. James McAdams Vanguard of the Revolution 6th Flr., Ronald Reagan Building and... The Woodrow Wilson Center presents "2019: Melancholy, Remorse, and Resignation in a Year of Communist Anniversaries." 2019 is a year of... 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
08 October 2019 Lawrence Millman Fungipedia San Diego Natural History Museum... Mycologist and author Lawrence Millman would rather gaze admiringly at a mushroom than pick it and sauté it. With a recent spike of interest in... 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
09 October 2019 Lawrence Millman Fungipedia California Institute of Integral... Author and mycologist Lawrence Millman combines ecological, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary knowledge in his research and... 7:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
09 October 2019 Nicholas Buccola The Fire Is upon Us Powell's City of Books, 1005 W... A remarkable story of race and the American dream, Nicholas Buccola’s The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the... 7:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
10 October 2019 Carl Benedikt Frey The Technology Trap Calle Serrano, 105, Madrid, Madrid, ES Join the Center for the Governance of Change for a public discussion and Q&A with world renowned economist Carl Benedikt Frey, who will share... 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
10 October 2019 M. Taylor Fravel Active Defense National Committee on U.S.-China... Since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, China’s leaders have devised nine different military strategies, also... 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
10 October 2019 Ilana Pardes The Song of Songs Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street... The Song of Songs has been embraced for centuries as the ultimate song of love. But the kind of love readers have found in this ancient poem... 6:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
10 October 2019 Monica Kim The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain... The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History (Princeton University Press, 2019), by Monica Kim (NYU Department of History)... 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
10 October 2019 Martin Rees On the Future Cheltenham Literature Festival, The... Rich with fascinating insights into cutting-edge science and technology, Martin Rees takes a provocative and inspiring look at the future of... 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
10 October 2019 Marcia Bjornerud Timefulness AB 270 Weeks Hall, 1215 West Dayton... In the early nineteenth century, the young science of geology literally fueled the industrial revolution by elucidating the origins and... 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
11 October 2019 Martin Flaherty Restoring the Global Judiciary International Law Weekend, Fordham... This panel, "The Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and International Law," will explore the claim that the judiciary, both in the United States and... 10:45 am Ticketed Learn More
11 October 2019 Nancy L. Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead A Lot of People Are Saying Harvard Book Store, 1256... Harvard Book Store and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics welcome authors and professors NANCY L. ROSENBLUM and RUSSELL MUIRHEAD for a... 3:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
11 October 2019 Daniel Beunza Taking the Floor Auditorium, Centre Building, LSE... Wall Street banks need to rethink their use of financial models according to Daniel Beunza in his new book Taking the Floor: Models, Morals and... 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
12 October 2019 T. P. Wiseman The House of Augustus Old Library, Emmanuel College, St.... The Heffers 2019 Classics Forum. Join us in the Old Library at Emmanuel College, Cambridge for a day of talks by some of the top names in the... 10:00 am Ticketed Learn More
12 October 2019 Sharon Marcus The Drama of Celebrity New Dominion Bookshop, 404 East Main... Join us for a book talk with Sharon Marcus, author of The Drama of Celebrity. Professor Jack Hamilton will moderate the discussion. This... 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
13 October 2019 Martin Rees On the Future Main Stage, New Scientist Live... Our Earth is 45 million centuries old. But this century is the first when one species - ours - can determine the biosphere's fate. In this... 10:30 am - 11:30 am Ticketed Learn More
13 October 2019 Michael Werner & Peter Eisenhardt More Things in the Heavens Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse... Astronomers have been studying the heavens for thousands of years, but until recently, much of the cosmos has been invisible to the human... 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Learn More
13 October 2019 Lawrence Millman Fungipedia The Great Hall, 1119 Eighth Avenue... Alice in Wonderland, chestnut blight, medicinal mushrooms, and more—fungi pop up in our lives in more ways than we think! To introduce us to the... 7:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
14 October 2019 Carl Benedikt Frey The Technology Trap Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin... In this book talk the Author, Carl Benedikt Frey, will discuss how the Industrial Revolution was a defining moment in history, but how few... 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
15 October 2019 Peter Martin The Dictionary Wars Dartmouth House, 37 Charles Street... Peter Martin author of 'The Dictionary Wars' will speak about how it came about that Noah Webster engaged in considerable conflict during the... 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
15 October 2019 Anthony Atkinson Measuring Poverty around the World Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin... The persistence of poverty - in rich and poor countries alike - is one of the most serious problems facing humanity. But what is poverty and... 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
15 October 2019 Naomi Oreskes Why Trust Science? Arthur L. Carter Journalism... NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to the launch event for Why Trust Science? featuring the author Naomi Oreskes in... 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
15 October 2019 Lawrence Millman Fungipedia Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE... Combining ecological, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary knowledge, author and mycologist Lawrence Millman discusses how mushrooms are... 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
15 October 2019 Nicholas Haddad The Last Butterflies David Clark Labs 101, North Carolina... Join Dr. Nick Haddad for a discussion on conservation in a changing world and readings from his new book, The Last Butterflies: A... 7:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
15 October 2019 Charlotte Artese Shakespeare and the Folktale Charis Books and More, 184 S.... Charis and Agnes Scott College celebrate Professor Charlotte Artese's newest book, Shakespeare and the Folktale. Shakespeare knew a... 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
16 October 2019 Cheryl Finley Committed to Memory Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton... Morven is honored to welcome Dr. Cheryl Finley of Cornell University back to Princeton to share her extraordinary work and book... 2:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
17 October 2019 David Richeson Tales of Impossibility Whistlestop Bookshop, 129 W High St... Whistlestop will be hosting a book signing for David Richeson, professor of mathematics at Dickinson College, on October 17th! His new book... 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
17 October 2019 Jodi Magness Masada Bowman Hall 133, 850 University... Jodi Magness, author of Masada, presents "The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls." In 1946-1947, the first Dead Sea Scrolls were... 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
17 October 2019 Sharon Marcus The Drama of Celebrity Prologue Bookshop, 841 North High... Head down to Prologue Bookshop to hear Dr. Sharon Marcus read from and discuss her fascinating new book, The Drama of Celebrity. We hope... 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
17 October 2019 Susan Schneider Artificial You The Forum, 1119 8th Ave (West... Humans may not be Earth’s most intelligent species for much longer: the world champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy! are now all AIs. Given... 7:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
18 October 2019 Carl Benedikt Frey The Technology Trap Frankfurt Book Fair, Messegelände... Carl Benedikt Frey, author of The Technology Trap, speaks with Patrick Bernau (Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung) at the Frankfurt Book... 3:40 pm - 4:05 pm Ticketed Learn More
19 October 2019 Lawrence Millman Fungipedia Boston Book Festival, Old South... "True Stories" Combining ecological, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary knowledge, author and mycologist Lawrence Millman discusses how... 12:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
19 October 2019 Naomi Oreskes Why Trust Science? Boston Book Festival, BAC Cascieri... "Science and Psychiatry" Naomi Oreskes, Anne Harrington, and Carey Goldberg speak and answer audience Q&A. Followed by a book signing at 5:15... 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
21 October 2019 Katharina Pistor The Code of Capital Jerome Greene Annex, 410 West 117... Committee on Global Thought presents: Global Think-in: The Code of Capital Katherina Pistor | Edwin B. Parker Professor of... 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
21 October 2019 Robert J. Shiller Narrative Economics Fromm Hall - FR 115 - Berman Room... Dr. Robert Shiller, Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2013, will discuss his new book called Narrative Economics. In his talk, he will describe... 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Learn More
21 October 2019 Sharon Marcus The Drama of Celebrity The Heyman Center, Second Floor... New Books in the Arts & Sciences: Celebrating Recent Work by Sharon Marcus Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides... 6:15 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
21 October 2019 William Wallace Michelangelo, God's Architect Left Bank Books, 399 N. Euclid Ave.... Left Bank books presents the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis, William E.... 7:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
22 October 2019 Nicholas Buccola The Fire Is upon Us University of Southern California... On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between... 12:00 pm Learn More
23 October 2019 David Hall The Puritans Colonial Society of Massachusetts... David D. Hall, professor emeritus of American religious history at Harvard Divinity School, will speak about his new book, a sweeping... 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
24 October 2019 Carlos Eire The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila University of Chicago, Location TBA... Join us for a symposium discussion of the recent book by Carlos Eire. Featuring Carlos Eire (Yale University), Bernard McGinn (University of... 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
24 October 2019 Geoffrey Robinson The Killing Season Cardozo Law School, 55 5th Ave, ... The 2019 Lemkin Book Award Ceremony honoring "The Killing Season" by Geoffrey Robinson (UCLA) will be held at the Cardozo Law Institute in... 6:00 pm Learn More
24 October 2019 Robert J. Shiller Narrative Economics The Great Hall, 1119 Eighth Avenue... In a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign elections, can we afford to ignore the power of viral stories to affect... 7:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
25 October 2019 Dora Malech Stet Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre... The Lewis Center for the Arts presents the Princeton Poetry Festival, a two-day biennial event organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and... 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
25 October 2019 Nicholas Buccola The Fire Is upon Us Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado... On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between... 7:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
26 October 2019 Mark Peterson The City-State of Boston Ruggle’s Hall, Newberry Library... Join us as Mark Peterson discusses Boston and New England’s entry into the United States as contingent, not necessarily beneficial, and not... 10:00 am - 11:30 am Free and Open to the Public Learn More
29 October 2019 Matthew Engelke How to Think Like an Anthropologist The Seminary Co-op Bookstore, 5751 S... Matthew Engelke discusses How To Think Like an Anthropologist.A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. About the book: What is... 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
29 October 2019 Dan Hooper At the Edge of Time Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden... Over the past few decades, we have made incredible discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there... 6:45 pm Ticketed Learn More
30 October 2019 Marion Turner Chaucer TORCH Seminar Room, Radcliffe... Join us for the TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Chaucer: A European Life by Professor Marion Turner. The event will begin with a free lunch... 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More