Tag: talks-readings
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...
Women In Investment Management (Part 2): The Gender Short Situation
Webinar. How have women succeeded in investment management? Katrina Dudley, co-author of Undiversified: The Big Gender Short in Investment...
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...
