03 February 2020 Katharina Pistor The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality UC Hastings Law Center for Business... Join author Katharina Pistor for the Spring 2020 Workshop in Law, Business and Economics series at UC Hastings School of Law in San Francisco for... 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
05 February 2020 Jack Wertheimer The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today Boca West Country Club, 20583 Boca... The 24th Annual Snowbird Event will welcome Jack Werthheimer, award winning author of The New American Judaism, to an evening hosted by the Jewish... 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Learn More
06 February 2020 David Sorkin Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries Harvard University, Hoffmann Room... This lecture aims to reorient Jewish history by outlining a comprehensive account of the process by which Jews became citizens with civil and... 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
06 February 2020 Sara Lorenzini Global Development: A Cold War History Thai Theatre, New Academic Building... Department of International History and LSE IDEAS: Book Launch: Global Development: A Cold War History Speaker: Dr Sara... 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
10 February 2020 Dan Hooper At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds Conde Nast College , 16-17 Greek... Join Professor Dan Hooper as he lifts the veil on the mystery of the universe’s earliest moments – and reveals how he and other... 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
10 February 2020 Amy C. Offner Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas Wilson Center , 1300 Pennsylvania... Join author Amy C. Offner for a discussion of her latest book, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental... 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
13 February 2020 Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior Bowdoin College, Hawthorne... Join us for the first of this spring's book launches, hosted by the Library. Chryl Laird, Assistant Professor of Government and Legal... 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
13 February 2020 Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry The Age of Hiroshima Ronald Reagan Building and... On August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The... 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Learn More
13 February 2020 Taína Caragol, Dorothy Moss, Richard Powell, and Kim Sajet The Obama Portraits Stony Island Arts Bank , 6760 South... From the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two... 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Learn More
13 February 2020 Victoria Smolkin A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism International Affairs Building, Room... A book talk by Victoria Smolkin. When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected... 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm Learn More
13 February 2020 Nicholas Buccola The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America American Writers Museum Readers Hall... Writer Nicholas Buccola presents his new book The Fire Is Upon Us, which shows how the iconic clash between the civil rights firebrand James... 6:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
14 February 2020 Sonia Contera Nano Comes to Life: How Nanotechnology Is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology AAAS Annual Meeting, Washington... How and why do we design and build artificial structures and even machines at the nanoscale using DNA, proteins, and other biological... 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Learn More
15 February 2020 Giovanni Pascoli Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli New Dominion Bookshop, 404 East Main... Join us for an evening with Taije Silverman, who will be reading from her translation of Giovanni Pascoli’s poems, Selected Poems of... 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
16 February 2020 Jim Al-Khalili The World According to Physics Whitla Hall , Queen's University... Shining a light on the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, Professor Jim Al-Khalili invites us all to understand what the... 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
18 February 2020 John Connelly From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe Central European University, Nador... Peoples Into Nations: Writing Eastern European History WELCOME REMARKS / Michael Ignatieff / President and Rector, CEU ABSTRACT... 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Learn More
18 February 2020 Kathleen Graber The River Twice Campus Center Carroll Room, Smith... All of The Poetry Center at Smith College main schedule readings are free and open to the public and begin at 7:30 p.m. Books can be purchased... 7:30 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
19 February 2020 Diane Coyle Markets, State, and People: Economics for Public Policy Lecture Theatre 2, Newton building... Distinguished Lecture Series - New rules for the digital economy More than a quarter of a century into the digital revolution, and... 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Learn More
20 February 2020 Nicholas Buccola The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America Town Hall Seattle, 720 Seneca St... On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd in Cambridge, England gathered to witness a televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading... 7:30 pm Ticketed Learn More
20 February 2020 Phillipa Chong Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times Toronto Public Library , 789 Yonge... Phillipa K. Chong talks about her book, Inside the Critics' Circle which takes a look inside the politics of book reviewing, from the assignment... 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Learn More
23 February 2020 Robert Frank Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015... Robert H. Frank - Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work — in conversation with Jonathan Chait Frank’s book explores... 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
23 February 2020 Taína Caragol, Dorothy Moss, Richard Powell, and Kim Sajet The Obama Portraits Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015... The first commissioned presidential portraits by African American artists, the paintings of Barack and Michelle Obama, by Kehinde Wiley and... 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Free and Open to the Public Learn More
23 February 2020 Naomi Oreskes Why Trust Science? 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue... Naomi Oreskes, the Harvard Science Historian and author of the bestseller, Merchants of Doubt, talks about her timely new book. In a time when... 7:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
24 February 2020 Nitsan Chorev Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa Global Development Policy Center... GEGI Seminar: Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa This week, we welcome Nitsan Chorev of... 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Learn More
24 February 2020 Jack Wertheimer The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today The Temple Emanu-El Streicker... Create Meaning or Fade Away: The Dilemma Facing American Jews Monday, February 24 6:30 PM $36 includes 1 book (given at... 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
25 February 2020 Michael Gordin Einstein in Bohemia 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue... In the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor... 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
25 February 2020 Nitsan Chorev Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa Watson Institute International &... Join author Nitsan Chorev, and panelists Adam Levine, Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies and Associate Professor of... 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Learn More
26 February 2020 Diana S. Kim Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia Munk School, University of Toronto... Opium was once integral to colonial rule in Southeast Asia. The drug was a major source of revenue for European colonizers, who also derived moral... 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Learn More
26 February 2020 Tarek El-Ariss Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age Brown University, Joukowsky Forum... Emerging from Tarek El-Ariss' recently published book, Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton University... 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Learn More
27 February 2020 Eric Weitz A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States The Graduate Institute , chemin... Organised by the “The Myth of Homogeneity" research project with the collaboration of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and the support... 10:00 am - 1:30 pm Learn More
27 February 2020 Robert Frank Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work Hyatt Regency, 601 Loyola Ave, New... This preconference will explore the psychology of judgment and decision making and how it intersects with social and personality psychology... 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Learn More
27 February 2020 Ahmed El Shamsy Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition Hay Festival Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al... REDISCOVERING THE ISLAMIC CLASSICS Thursday 27 February 2020, 4pm – Venue: Tolerance Majlis Islamic book culture dates back to late... 4:00 pm Ticketed Learn More
27 February 2020 Victoria Smolkin A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism Fordham University, Lincoln Center... The O’Connell Initiative on the Global History of Capitalism is delighted to bring Dr. Victoria Smolkin (Wesleyan University) to Fordham... 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Learn More
28 February 2020 Eric Cline 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe... For more than three hundred years during the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500 BC to 1200 BC, the Mediterranean region played host to a... 7:00 pm Learn More