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Contact: Raul Ramos 212.704.8600 (rramos@nypl.org)

Herb Scher 212.704.8600 (hscher@nypl.org)

Schedule

Nancy Rose Marshall
Painters of the Lost Ark: James Tissot’s Biblical Art
Tuesday, March 9 at 6:30 p.m.
South Court Auditorium

For this year’s Joy Gottesman Ungerleider Lecture, the Library celebrates its long association with the Jewish Museum, where Ms. Ungerleider served as director and which celebrates its centennial this year. Nancy Rose Marshall’s slide lecture revisits the extravagant “biblical” gouaches that were the principal achievement of the Paris and London society painter James (Jacques-Joseph) Tissot’s spiritually illuminated final years.

Introduction by Norman Kleeblatt, Susan and Elihu Rose Curator of Fine Arts, The Jewish Museum.

Nancy Rose Marshall teaches art history at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She curated the recent major survey exhibition of Tissot’s work, James Tissot: Victorian Life/Modern Love at the Yale Center for British Art in 1999.

The annual Joy Gottesman Underleider Lecture explores themes represented in the holdings of The New York Public Library’s Dorot Jewish Division. This series has been made possible by a generous grant from the Dorot Foundation.


Carlos Eire in Coversation with Mary Karr
Wednesday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m.
Celeste Bartos Forum

Carlos Eire is Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. His books include War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin, From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-century Spain, and, most recently, Waiting for Snow in Havana, a memoir of childhood during the Cuban Revolution that received the 2003 National Book Award for Non-Fiction.

Mary Karr is the author of two acclaimed memoirs, The Liar’s Club and Cherry, and three books of poetry, including, her recent volume, Viper Rum. For her work, which has appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Parnassus, she received the Pushcart Prize and the Whiting Award. A former Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College, she currently serves as the Jesse Truesdale Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.


Leslie H. Gelb
Machiavelli in the 21st Century: What the Devil is Power Today?
Tuesday, March 16 at 6:30 p.m.
Celeste Bartos Forum

Leslie H. Gelb is President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization devoted to improving America’s understanding of foreign policy. Prior to his tenure at the Council, he had a distinguished career at The New York Times, where he served variously as columnist, deputy editorial page editor, and editor of the op-ed page. From 1981 to 1986, he was National Security Correspondent for the Times, receiving the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1986.

Mr. Gelb has also served in the United States government: he was the Assistant Secretary of State for Political/Military Affairs in the Carter Administration, and Director of Policy Planning and Arms Control for International Security Affairs at the Department of Defense, where he also directed the Pentagon Papers Project.

He is the author of several acclaimed books on foreign policy, including Anglo-American Relations, 1945–1950: Toward a Theory of Alliances, and is the co-author of Claiming the Heavens (on Star Wars), Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy, and The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has been honored with the American Political Science Association’s Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book on international relations.

Mr. Gelb’s talk is the Richard D. Salomon Distinguished Lecture made possible by an endowed fund established by the friends and associates of the late Richard D. Salomon. This year the lecture is given in honor of the centenary of the life of Ralph J. Bunche, scholar, international statesman, civil rights activist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.


Samuel Dillon
Julia Preston
Opening Mexico: Lessons From A Neighbor on the Making of Democracy
Tuesday, March 23 at 6:30 p.m.
South Court Auditorium

Samuel Dillon is a national correspondent for The New York Times who has also served as that paper’s Mexico City bureau chief. He has been awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, for coverage of the Iran-Contra Affair (for the Miami Herald) and for a series on drug corruption in Mexico. He has also received the Tom Wallace Award, the Inter-American Press Association’s top prize for political reporting. His books include Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua’s Contra Rebels and, with Julia Preston, Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy.

Julia Preston is deputy investigations editor for The New York Times. She previously served as United Nations Bureau Chief and was for six years a Times correspondent in Mexico, where she shared in that paper’s 1998 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on international affairs. She received the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for distinguished coverage of Latin America and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Humanitarian Journalism. Opening Mexico, which she co-wrote with Samuel Dillon, is her first book.


Laura Shapiro in Conversation with Molly O’Neill
Tuesday, April 13 at 6:30 p.m.
Celeste Bartos Forum

Laura Shapiro is the author of Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century. She formerly served as a dance critic, book reviewer, and food writer for Newsweek, where her work earned her the James Beard Award for Excellence in Journalism. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Granta, and Gourmet. Her latest book, Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America, has just been published by Viking.

Molly O’Neill is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She was the longtime food columnist for The New York Times Magazine, and her award-winning cookbooks include The New York Cookbook, A Well-Seasoned Appetite, and The Pleasure of Your Company. She has been honored with the Bon Appetit America’s Food Hall of Fame Award and the James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award.


Susan Jacoby
Freethinkers: A Celebration of America’s Embattled Secularist Heritage
Wednesday, April 14 at 6:30 p.m.
South Court Auditorium

Susan Jacoby, is the author of Half-Jew: A Daughter’s Search for Her Family’s Buried Past and Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge, which was short-listed for the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Newsday. Her latest book, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, will be published by Metropolitan Books in April. Jacoby is a 2001–2002 Fellow of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Each year current and former Fellows of the Cullman Center talk about their work in individual lectures, on panels with distinguished guests and interviewers, and in conversation with each other.

Made possible by a generous endowment from Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman in honor of Brooke Russell Astor, with major support provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Estate of Charles J. Liebman, Sue Ann and John Weinberg, The Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, William W. Karatz, and additional gifts from Mel and Lois Tukman and Margaret and Herman Sokol.


Orlando Patterson and Rachel Manley
The Manleys of Jamaica
Wednesday, April 21 at 6:30 p.m.
South Court Auditorium

Professor Orlando Patterson will interview Rachel Manley about the politics and cultures of Jamaica, her remarkable family, and her work.

Orlando Patterson is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He has written about slavery, freedom, ethnicity, and socioeconomic underdevelopment in Jamaica and Caribbean Basin, as well as problems of race and multiculturalism in contemporary America. His publications include Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1991, as well as novels, short stories, reviews, and critical essays. He served as Special Advisor for Social Policy and Development under Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley from 1972 to 1980.

Rachel Manley, the granddaughter and daughter of two of Jamaica’s national leaders, is the author of two memoirs, Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, which received Canada’s Governor General’s Award for nonfiction, and Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers. She has been a fellow of the Bunting Institute and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and is currently a Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow of the Cullman Center.


Adam Nicolson in Conversation with Peter Gomes
Wednesday, May 5 at 6:30 p.m.
Celeste Bartos Forum

Adam Nicolson is an author, naturalist, and columnist for the Sunday Telegraph Magazine. His award-winning travelogues and histories include Two Roads to Dodge City, Restoration: The Rebuilding of Windsor Castle, and Sea Room. His latest book, God’s Armies: The Making of the King James Bible, has just been published in paperback by HarperCollins.

Peter Gomes is Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School, and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University. His books include Strength for the Journey: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living, The Good Life: Truths That Last in Times of Need, and The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Heart and Mind. He is an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College at Cambridge University, where the Gomes Lectureship was established in his name.


When Germs Travel: A Roundtable On Perceptions and Realities of Global Public Health
Wednesday, May 12 at 6:30 p.m.
Celeste Bartos Forum

Three distinguished experts will discuss the past and present of epidemic diseases and the current state of global public health in general. This program is part of a series in which current and former Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers talk about their work in individual lectures, on panels with distinguished guests and interviewers, and in conversation with each other.

Dr. Margaret Hamburg is Vice President for Biological Programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington, D.C. She has served as Commissioner of Health for the City of New York, for which she designed and implemented an internationally recognized tuberculosis control program, and as the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Howard Markel, the George E. Wantz Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the University of Michigan, is the author of several books, including When Germs Travel and Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892. He was a member of the inaugural class of Cullman Center Fellows (1999–2000), and writes frequently for The New York Times.

Dr. Kent Sepkowitz, Director of Infection Control and Member of the Infectious Disease Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, is also a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He has written on a wide variety of topics and is a member of national committees on tuberculosis, AIDS, and bioterrorism.

Robert Krulwich (Moderator) is a producer for ABC’s Nightline and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. His many awards include an Emmy for an investigation of privacy on the Internet, and the first Extraordinary Communicators Lecture Series and Award from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute.

Made possible by a generous endowment from Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman in honor of Brooke Russell Astor, with major support provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Estate of Charles J. Liebman, Sue Ann and John Weinberg, The Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, William W. Karatz, and additional gifts from Mel and Lois Tukman and Margaret and Herman Sokol.


Marilyn Yalom
Birth of the Chess Queen: How Medieval Queenship Transformed the Game of Chess
Tuesday, May 18 at 6:30 p.m.
South Court Auditorium

Marilyn Yalom is a senior scholar at the Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University. She is the author of A History of the Wife, A History of the Breast, Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women’s Memory, and, most recently, Birth of the Chess Queen: A History (HarperCollins).


Francisco Goldman and Colm Toibin
Writing the Historic Novel
Wednesday, May 19 at 6 p.m.
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (Room 227)

Two novelists whose previous works have been set in the contemporary world have now applied their skills to the past: Francisco Goldman, in The Divine Husband, follows the youthful José Martí from Central America to New York City, and Colm Tóibín, in The Master, dramatizes five years in the life of Henry James. Each year current and former Fellows of the Cullman Center talk about their work in individual lectures, on panels with distinguished guests and interviewers, and in conversation with each other.

This program is free to the public though reservation will be required. To reserve or for more information, call 212.930.0084 or send an e-mail to CSW@nypl.org.

Francisco Goldman’s first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; his second was The Ordinary Seaman. His books have been translated into nine languages. He received a 1998 Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.

Colm Tóibín’s books include The Story of the Night and The Blackwater Lightship, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1999 and filmed for Hallmark starring Angela Lansbury and Dianne Wiest.

Made possible by a generous endowment from Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman in honor of Brooke Russell Astor, with major support provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Estate of Charles J. Liebman, Sue Ann and John Weinberg, The Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, William W. Karatz, and additional gifts from Mel and Lois Tukman and Margaret and Herman Sokol.


Elizabeth Kolbert
Profiles in Power: How Rebels, Renegades, Celebrities, and Demagogues Run the City
Tuesday, May 25 at 6:30 p.m.
South Court Auditorium

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She previously served as the Albany Bureau Chief for The New York Times, where she also wrote the “Metro Matters” column. For her reporting, she has received a George Polk Award and a Walter T. Brown Award. Her work has also appeared in Vogue, Mother Jones, and The New York Times Magazine. A collection of her New Yorker columns, entitled Prophet of Love: And Other Tales of Power and Deceit, will be published in May by Bloomsbury USA.


Edmund Morgan in Conversation with Lewis Lapham
Wednesday, May 26 at 6:30 p.m.
Celeste Bartos Forum

Edmund Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught for 30 years. He is the author of more than 15 works on early American history and culture, including the seminal texts Birth of a Republic and The Puritan Dilemma. His scholarship has been recognized with the Distinguished Service Award from the American Historical Association, and the National Humanities Medal in 2000.

Lewis Lapham is the editor of Harper’s Magazine, to which he contributes the monthly “Notebook” column. He is the author of numerous acclaimed works of nonfiction, including Money and Class in America, Waiting for the Barbarians, Theater of War, and, most recently, Gag Rule: On the Stifling of Dissent and the Suppression of Democracy, just published by The Penguin Press. He has been honored with a National Magazine Award, and his articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and Fortune, among other publications.

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Contact: Raul Ramos or Herb Scher, 212.704.8600.