Tag: talks-readings
Pen Parentis
Abdul Ali, Hananah Zaheer and Rosalia Scalia read from their work during this month's virtual salon.
Wu Ying and the Palace Museum He Helped Found
Founded in 1420, the Forbidden City in Beijing had served as the center of Chinese royal power for five centuries. Following the collapse of the Qing...
Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise
Lecture. China’s growth over the past four decades has positioned state capitalism as a durable foil to the orthodoxy of free markets, to the...
South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City
Livestreamed. Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history – originally titled We're Still Here in a 1986 first edition – Jill Jonnes...
Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has impacted many industries around the world—banking and finance, pharmaceuticals, automotive, medical technology,...
Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War
Lecture. Between 1776 and 1783, Great Britain hired more than thirty thousand German soldiers to fight in its war against the American rebels....
The History of Antisemitism: The Alhambra Decree
Delve into the events leading up to the Alhambra Decree and what happened to the Jewish community in the wake of the edict in this panel discussion....
A Jewish Doctor in Auschwitz: Gisella Perl
Dr. Gisella Perl was a Hungarian Jewish gynecologist who was imprisoned at Auschwitz. While there, she acted to address the terrors that were visited...
Boneyarn
In this program, poet David Mills will read from and reflect upon the research behind his poetry collection, Boneyarn, a book of poems about slavery...
