Latest Past Events
Films of My Life with Laurie Anderson and Nicole Krauss
The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue, New YorkJoin us for an evening celebrating the relationship between art, literature, performance, and film. Renowned multimedia artist, composer, poet, instrumentalist, and filmmaker Laurie Anderson (Habeas Corpus, Homeland, Songs and Stories from Moby Dick) and Nicole Krauss, award-winning author of Forest Dark, Great House, and The History of Love, discuss the films that have inspired their lives and […]
Atheism & Morality: Mapping the Game with Andrew Dennis
New York Society for Ethical Culture 2 W 64th St, New YorkAndrew Dennis's talk focuses on the issues resulting from an atheist worldview. He starts by introducing a custom-made framework that utilizes game theory to identify and analyze players in what he calls “The Values Game.” He then divides the concept of atheism into three components and uses this stratification to explain how conversations in atheist […]
CBFS: The Black Athlete in the Freedom Struggle
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New YorkCONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIES Black athletes have long propelled the quest for racial equality and social justice; and long been criticized for their freedom fighting. Join sportswriter Dave Zirin, historian Louis Moore, and legendary athlete and activist Wyomia Tyus in a discussion of the last half century of black male and female athletes in the freedom […]