A Conversation With Helen Epstein About The Second Generation
In 1979, Helen Epstein published Children of the Holocaust, one of the first books to examine the intergenerational transmission of trauma from...
Architectural Acupuncture: How Design and Innovation Are Saving China’s Villages—and America’s Cities, too
How can design and innovation bring life back to an ailing community? It’s a global challenge. Join us as XU Tiantian, one of China’s most...
Pen Parentis April Salon
This Pen Parentis Literary Salon features readings and a roundtable with the writers Marion Winik, Melanie Hatter and Marian Fontana. The theme is...
Know Before You Vote: Who Does What
Every four years, New Yorkers get to vote for the mayor, public advocate, and city comptroller. During the same election, voters in each borough get...
Are We All Represented (Equally) in the House?
This is part of a series called Debate Defends Democracy. The Constitution intends the House to reflect the political will of each state’s...
Pivot to China: How Jin Mao Portended Future Supertalls
Skyscraper Museum webinar. Mark Sarkisian is the structural and seismic engineering partner in SOM's San Francisco office. He holds fourteen U.S. and...
“The Light Of Days” Book Talk
Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in...
Stories Survive: Mark Schonwetter
Mark Schonwetter was a young child in Brzostek, Poland when Germany invaded and his family was forced out of their home. After his father was taken...
Women In Investment Management (Part 1): The Gender Short Situation
Webinar. Diversification is a core principle of investing. Yet money managers have not applied it to their own ranks. Only around 10% of portfolio...
Pieces of China: Julia Lovell on the Monkey King
A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is the unforgettable protagonist of Journey to the West, one of China’s...
