Tag: talks-readings

Native American Code Talkers: A Lasting Legacy

Native American Code Talkers: A Lasting Legacy

During World War I and World War II, American Indians made a unique contribution to the U.S. Armed Forces by using their tribal languages in secret...

The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race

The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race

Skyscraper Museum webinar. In her book The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race (JHUP, 2019), Adrienne Brown examines works...

Dr. Henry Kaufman on “The Day the Markets Roared”

Dr. Henry Kaufman on “The Day the Markets Roared”

Webinar. How have women succeeded in investment management? Katrina Dudley, co-author of Undiversified: The Big Gender Short in Investment...

Mother Tongue Film Festival 2021: The Healing Power of Storytelling Roundtable

Mother Tongue Film Festival 2021: The Healing Power of Storytelling Roundtable

Exploring the 2021 theme, the healing power of storytelling, this panel will highlight the unique ability of film to project stories to places they...

Bootstrap Your Way to a Million-Dollar Business

Bootstrap Your Way to a Million-Dollar Business

The road to turning a brilliant idea into a thriving business can feel insurmountable. But with persistence and preparation, you can find both an...

Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen: Featuring Patricia Spears Jones

Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen: Featuring Patricia Spears Jones

Person Place Thing is an interview show based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about...

Know Before You Vote: Ranked Choice Voting

Know Before You Vote: Ranked Choice Voting

Did you know that there has been a major change to the voting structure and strategy for this election cycle? Ranked-choice voting, accepted by NYC...

Pen Parentis May Salon

Pen Parentis May Salon

Season finale of the Pen Parentis literary salon features readings and a roundtable with the writers Alice Elliott Dark, Sergio Troncoso, and Joshua...

Growing Up Jewish: Art And Storytelling

Growing Up Jewish: Art And Storytelling

Jacqueline Kott-Wolle is a contemporary artist in Highland Park, Illinois whose paintings explore the people and experiences that have shaped her...

What is Fueling Anti-Asian Hate?

What is Fueling Anti-Asian Hate?

Anti-Asian racism is skyrocketing in the United States. Sadly, this is not a new phenomenon: for centuries, American views of China have oscillated...

Building Brands: Corporations and Modern Architecture

Building Brands: Corporations and Modern Architecture

Skyscraper Museum webinar. As the first in-depth book to explore the role of branding in the design of corporate modernism, Building Brands re-tells...

Stories Survive: Elizabeth Bellak

Stories Survive: Elizabeth Bellak

Elizabeth Bellak (née Ari­ana Spiegel) was born in 1930 in Staw­ki, Poland. Known as “the Shirley Temple of Poland,” she was a prominent child...