Books
The Big Thaw: Ancient Carbon, Modern Science, and a Race to Save the World
The Explorer's Club 46 E 70th Street, New York, NY, United StatesPermafrost—dark, ice-flaked, permanently frozen ground that lies under tundra and boreal forests across our northern regions—covers more than 12 percent of the earth’s land surface. It exists in places that seem otherworldly and unimaginably remote to most of us, but the changes taking place in the permafrost layer may ultimately affect the lives of every […]
TIGHTROPE: Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center 1 East 65th Street, New York, NY, United StatesNicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn on America’s Working Class Crisis $36 includes a copy of the book For almost two decades, The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has traveled the globe to put human faces on the devastating problems plaguing the planet — from disease and poverty to violence and exploitation — and on the […]
Philippe Lançon on Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo
The Center for Fiction 15 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesWriter and Charlie Hebdo columnist Philippe Lançon survived the last day of his life—January 7, 2015. But his jaw, mangled by a terrorist’s bullet, required countless operations and long hospital stays to repair. Throughout months of reconstructive surgeries, he turned to Kafka, Mann, and Proust to better understand who he’s become and remember who he was before […]
How We Watch in the Age of Social Media: Andrew Marantz + Emily Nussbaum in Conversation
Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan 334 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, United StatesThe New Yorker's Andrew Marantz and Pulitzer Prize-winner Emily Nussbaum address how social media has changed the way we watch television and presidential debates, as well as the parallels in each of their new books, Marantz's Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation and Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution. […]
Jamieson Webster and Adrienne Harris on Conversion Disorder
Wolff Conference Room, Room D1103 6 East 16th Street, New York, NY, United StatesJoin Jamieson Webster, author of Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis, and Adrienne Harris, Faculty and Supervisor at New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, for a philosophy workshop on conversion disorder. Presented by The New School for Social Research and Philosophy Department and it is co-sponsored with the Ferenczi Center.