03 November 2019 Christian Smith Religious Parenting Chicago Humanities Festival, Venue... In 2015, Pew found that nearly a quarter of Americans described themselves as “religiously unaffiliated,” which added fuel to the flames... 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
06 November 2019 David Richeson Tales of Impossibility National Museum of Mathematics, 11... “Nothing is impossible!" While it is comforting to believe this greeting card sentiment — it's the American dream, after all —... 4:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
07 November 2019 Susan Mattern The Slow Moon Climbs Avid Bookshop, 493 Prince Ave.... Are the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Historian Susan Mattern says yes, and The Slow Moon Climbs reveals just how wrong we have been.... 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
08 November 2019 Dan Hooper At the Edge of Time 720 Seneca St., Ste. A, Seattle, WA, US Scientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there... 7:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
09 November 2019 Emmet Gowin The Nevada Test Site Venue SIX10 FEINBERG THEATER , 610 S... Between 1951 and 1992, the Nevada National Security Test Site endured more than one thousand nuclear blasts. Esteemed photographer Emmet... 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Learn More
09 November 2019 Sharon Marcus The Drama of Celebrity 191 Bank Street , Burlington, VT, US Join Sharon Marcus for a talk on her book, The Drama of Celebrity. ABOUT THE BOOK: A bold new account of how celebrity works Why do so... 4:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
09 November 2019 Eleanor Wilner Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems 551 Carpenter Lane, Philadelphia, PA, US Big Blue Marble is thrilled to welcome poets Eleanor Wilner and Susan Roney O'Brien in celebration of their newest books. About the... 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Learn More
12 November 2019 Robert Bosch Opt Art National Museum of Mathematics, 11... How does a powerful modeling tool for discovering the best solution to a problem also provide a surprisingly rich medium for creating... 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
13 November 2019 Cheryl Finley Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon Clarence Ward ’37 Art Building... Join the Department of Art for a talk presented by Cheryl Finley, associate professor of art history at Cornell University. Drawing from her... 4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
13 November 2019 David Sorkin Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries Sterling Memorial Library Lecture... Please join us for an Arts and Humanities Book Talk by Professor David Sorkin, author of "Jewish Emancipation, A History Across Five... 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
13 November 2019 David D. Hall The Puritans: A Transatlantic History 77 Broadway , New Haven, CT, US David D. Hall is professor emeritus of American religious history at Harvard Divinity School. He will be discussing A panoramic new history of... 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Learn More
13 November 2019 Yael Tamir Why Nationalism Hilda Clark 2 & 3 at Friends House... The annual Nations and Nationalism Debate takes up recent major works in nationalism studies and considers their contribution to the field... 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm Learn More
13 November 2019 Mark Peterson The City-State of Boston 154 Moody Street , Waltham, MA, US "From Merchant Princes to Lords of the Loom: Textile Mills and the Remaking of Boston's Political Economy" The rise of New England's textile... 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
14 November 2019 Katharina Pistor The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality McKinney Conference Room, 111... Columbia Law School Professor Katharina Pistor will join us to discuss her new book "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and... 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Learn More
14 November 2019 4th Annual Humanities Lecture Hanif Abdurraqib: The Intersections Of Mundane Pleasures NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Jack... The Intersections Of Mundane Pleasures A presentation by Hanif Abdurraqib that explores how our living in and throughout the world is also an... 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
14 November 2019 Dan Hooper At the Edge of Time 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave. , Chicago , IL, US Dan Hooper discusses At The Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds. A Q&A and signing will follow the... 6:00 pm Learn More
14 November 2019 Eric Weitz A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States 207 Knox Hall, Columbia University ... Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming... 6:00 pm Learn More
15 November 2019 Nick Haddad The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center ... The Annual Fall Recognition Dinner and Silent Auction will honor those who dedicate countless hours to MNA, and reflect on another year of... 6:30 pm Learn More
15 November 2019 Matthias Doepke Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Aademic... Matthias Doepke investigates how economic forces and growing inequality shape how parents raise their children. Parents everywhere want... 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
15 November 2019 Eric Cline Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon UNO Thompson Center , 6705 Dodge... The 21st Annual Batchelder Conference for Archaeology and Biblical Studies will take place Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 14-16, 2019, at... 7:00 pm Learn More
16 November 2019 William E. Wallace Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece Kane Hall - University of Washington... The Artistic Genius of Michelangelo William Wallace / Washington University in St. Louis We recently celebrated the 500th anniversary... 9:00 am - 10:00 am Ticketed Learn More
17 November 2019 Lawrence Millman Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore Royal Ontario Museum Signy and... Join Dr. Lawrence Millman as he explores the various roles fungi play in the Canadian North — how they benefit both taiga and tundra as... 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
17 November 2019 Kate Bowler The Preacher's Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities 5015 Connecticut Ave NW ... Kate Bowler - The Preacher's Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities — In Conversation with Elizabeth... 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
18 November 2019 Kyle Jaros China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development A71 Louis A. Simpson International... The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic powerhouses... 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
19 November 2019 Naomi Oreskes Why Trust Science? Harvard Book Store , 1256... Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Cabot Science Library welcome acclaimed author and Harvard professor NAOMI... 6:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
19 November 2019 Sean Fleming Where the River Flows: Scientific Reflections on Earth's Waterways Oregon Museum of Science & Industry... Rivers are everywhere and affect everything. When all goes well, they provide us with water, power, food, transportation, recreation, and beauty.... 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
20 November 2019 Kyle Jaros China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development Center for the Study of Contemporary... The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic... 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Learn More
20 November 2019 Joshua Specht Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America The Rosenbach, 2008-2010 Delancey... “In a signal contribution to a growing scholarship on the history of food, Specht’s Red Meat Republic carefully traces the emergence of... 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
20 November 2019 Nancy Roseblum A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy The Graduate Center, 1201: Elebash... The Irving Howe Memorial Lecture Conspiracy theory has always been with us, but today it is taking dangerous new forms that threaten democracy.... 6:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
20 November 2019 Eric Cline Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon The Westin, 400 W Broadway, San... The 2019 Plenary Address will be given by Dr. Eric H. Cline, Professor of Classics and Anthropology, The George Washington University. Dirt... 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm Ticketed Learn More
20 November 2019 Eleanor Wilner Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street... Eleanor Wilner will be reading from her new collection, Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems. She received the 2019 Frost Medal for... 7:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
20 November 2019 Caitlin Zaloom Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave ... Caitlin Zaloom with Ross Reynolds The struggle to pay for college is one of the defining features of middle-class life in America... 7:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
21 November 2019 Nicholas Buccola The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America Thomas Jefferson Center for the... Lunchtime Lecture with Nicholas Buccola Nicholas Buccola holds the Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science at... 12:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More