Stories Survive: Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff
As a small child, Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff fled her Nazi-occupied hometown of Kosice, Slovakia (then Czechoslovakia) along with her parents and infant brother. They remained on the run and […]
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Lost in The Desert Sky: Kayhan Kalhor in Memory of Mohammad Reza Shajarian
Brookfield PlaceLost in The Desert Sky: Kayhan Kalhor in Memory of Mohammad Reza Shajarian was filmed in the spectacular Mahinistan Palace in Kashan, Iran and features all new music by Kayhan […]
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Core Value
Skyscraper MuseumSkyscraper Museum webinar. Peter Weismantle spent 31 years in the Chicago office of SOM before moving in 2008 to AS+GG as Director of Supertall Building Technology where he has been […]
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Digital Trivia Tuesday
Brookfield PlaceTest your trivia IQ at home with your friends and family! Follow along on Zoom and enter your answers via Kahoot, as you compete for a variety of fun BFPL […]
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Isabel Wilkerson And Rabbi Angela Buchdahl On “Caste”
Museum of Jewish HeritageWhile working on her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Warmth of Other Suns, about the Great Migration of African Americans out of the Jim Crow South, Isabel Wilkerson realized that the […]
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ReImagining Place
Gibney DanceThe Deeper Lecture Series is a new talk + Q&A program on Zoom designed to acquaint Gibney’s community of artists and audiences with the most provocative, influential and inspiring minds […]
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Speak with Influence and Advocate for Yourself
Even for the experienced speaker, keeping an audience engaged and connected can be a challenge, especially while remote. In this session, we’ll read the (Zoom) room and build a toolkit […]
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Pieces of China: Ben Wang on Qi Baishi’s Chicks
China InstituteQi Baishi, who lived from 1864-1959, is one of the most revered Chinese painters of all time. One of his paintings sold for $144 million in 2017, breaking world records. […]
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“Plunder” Book Talk With Menachem Kaiser And Stephanie Butnick
Museum of Jewish HeritageMenachem Kaiser’s new book Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure is the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing […]
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Tavern Trivia Night
Fraunces Tavern MuseumJoin Fraunces Tavern Museum for another virtual trivia night! Challenge your history-loving friends and test your knowledge of the American Revolution. Brush up on your revolutionary history and compete to […]
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Pure Bearing Wall
Skyscraper MuseumSkyscraper Museum webinar. Structural engineer Robert Sinn is a Principal in the Chicago office of Thornton Tomasetti. Before joining TT in 2007, Bob spent more than two decades at SOM, […]
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The Abbottabad Papers
9/11 MuseumThe U.S. Navy SEALs who killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in his compound in Pakistan also gathered valuable intelligence on al-Qaeda. Nelly Lahoud, a senior fellow in New America’s […]
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