Tag: talks-readings
Exploring Neuroscience And The Legacy Of The Holocaust
Neuroscientist Dr. Daniela Schiller, who leads the Affective Neuroscience Lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has spent years exploring...
Valcour: The 1776 Campaign That Saved the Cause of Liberty
During the summer of 1776, patriots worked frantically to head off a British invasion from Canada. Their effort culminated in a wild three-day naval...
Stories Survive: Manfred Ohrenstein
Manfred Ohrenstein was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1925. He grew up under increasingly restrictive Nazi rules, holding his Bar Mitzvah at age 13 on...
Navigating Workplace Transitions: How to Prepare for a Return to Office
As organizations prepare to welcome people back to their physical locations, they must incorporate learnings from the past year. New ways of working...
Pieces of China: Wendy Paulson on the Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Less than two months after hatching, the tiny Spoon-billed Sandpiper begins the long journey from Russia’s arctic tundra to the coast of China. No...
Hidden Meanings and Beyond in Chinese Painting
What does a Chinese artist do in a time of chaos and oppression? Flee to the mountains, to the wilderness, of course, to cultivate upright Confucian...
Chengdu Greenland: A Non-Coplanar Exoskeleton
Skyscraper Museum webinar. Supertall projects have been central to Dennis Poon’s career as a structural engineer. Poon worked on the teams for the...
Painting The Holocaust: Remembering Alfred Kantor And His Sketchbook
In December 1941, Alfred Kantor arrived at the Terezin Ghetto. An 18 year old artist from Prague with one year of study at the Rotter School of...
John Wasik on “Lincolnomics: Why the 16th President’s Vision for Economic Progress Still Rocks”
Webinar. Has there ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln has gone silent? Our immortal conscience on civil rights and individual freedom is speaking...
Kwibuka And Yom HaShoah: A Joint Remembrance
Gather with survivors of the Holocaust and the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda to commemorate Yom HaShoah and Kwibuka 27. As they discuss...
