The New York Public Library Announces 2007 Programming at Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Orhan Pamuk, Ken Burns, George Soros, Umberto Eco, Edmund White, Molly O’Neill, and Robert Pinsky Among Those To Participate in Fall Events
The New York Public Library’s Fall 2007 programming brings a stellar group of award-winning writers, editors, historians, and experts in various fields through the doors of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library located at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Below are the public programming schedules for LIVE from the NYPL and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
LIVE from the NYPL
LIVE from the NYPL will kick off the season with Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, on Wednesday, September 19. Critically acclaimed author Naomi Klein (author of No Logo) discusses her new book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism on Monday, September 24. In the following weeks, Ken Burns, talks about his latest film The War, on Thursday, September 27. James Geary explores the eight different “species” of aphorists on Tuesday, October 9. The Moth, a New York City-based storytelling organization, will host a captivating story night on Friday, October 12. Beloved illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her artistic vision and personal worldview on Tuesday, October 23. Ben Kunkel, founding editor of n+1 magazine, will talk about the politics of fear on Tuesday, October 30. Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich makes an appeal for the environment on Thursday, November 1. On Wednesday, November 7, George Soros will join a discussion entitled There You Go Again: Orwell Comes to America, exploring the current state of political discourse and journalism’s response to it. Five journalism schools will also participate. On Friday, November 9, contemporary Hungarian novelist Péter Nádas appears in a discussion of his career. And celebrated author Umberto Eco comes to the library on Thursday, November 15 in a conversation concerning the history of ugliness with LIVE’s Paul Holdengräber. Dutch author Cees Nooteboom will be appearing at LIVE on Monday, November 19. The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof appears on Friday, November 30 in a discussion on the tragedies ongoing in Darfur, Sudan.
Events are either in the Celeste Bartos Forum or the South Court Auditorium. Both of these rooms are inside The New York Public Library building on Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Street, adjacent to Bryant Park. All events start at 7pm unless otherwise indicated.
Tickets are $15 for the General Public and $10 for Library Donors, seniors and students with valid ID. Tickets are available through SmartTix at http://www.smarttix.com or (212) 868-4444. SmartTix will charge an additional $1.50 ticket processing fee for all advanced sales.
For further information, please see http://www.nypl.org/live.
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
In the fall of 2007 the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers will continue its successful series of “Conversations from the Cullman Center” with interviews and discussions featuring new work by past and current Fellows.
On Wednesday, October 3 the Cullman Center begins the season with Edmund White discussing Hotel de Dream, a novel he wrote while in residence as a Cullman Fellow. On Wednesday, October 10, the Center will host Julia Child in America, a panel discussing the legendary appeal of this iconic figure with former Cullman Fellow Melanie Rehak and culinary historians Laura Shapiro, Molly O’Neill and David Kamp . On Monday, October 22, the Center will co-present with Makor, a conversation about the writer Leonard Michaels, with Wendy Lesser and Wyatt Mason, along with Robert Pinsky and David Bezmozgis. Former Fellow and Yale Professor David Blight (Cullman Fellow 2006–2007) talks about his new book A Slave No More, which includes two previously unpublished narratives by escaped slaves, on Wednesday, October 31. The novelists Joseph O’Connor and Colum McCann launch O'Connor's latest book, Redemption Falls, which he wrote while in residence at the Center, on Wednesday, November 14 in an event co-sponsored by New York University's Glucksman Ireland House. November 28 brings Science and Shams in Nineteenth Century New York, a panel with former Fellow and Princeton Professor Graham Burnett and NPR's Robert Krulwich.
All events are in South Court Auditorium, located in The New York Public Library building on Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Street, adjacent to Bryant Park. All events start at 7pm unless otherwise indicated.
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is an international fellowship program open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. The Center appoints 15 Fellows a year for a nine-month term at the Library, from September through May. In addition to working on their own projects, the Fellows engage in an ongoing exchange of ideas within the Center and in public forums throughout the Library. For more information, please see http://www.nypl.org/csw.
About The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library was created in 1895 with the consolidation of the private libraries of John Jacob Astor and James Lenox with the Samuel Jones Tilden Trust. The Library provides free and open access to its physical and electronic collections and information, as well as to its services. It comprises four research centers – The Humanities and Social Sciences Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; and the Science, Industry and Business Library – and 86 Branch Libraries in Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx. Research and circulating collections combined total more than 50 million items. In addition, each year the Library presents thousands of exhibitions and public programs, which include classes in technology, literacy, and English as a second language. The New York Public Library serves over 15 million patrons who come through its doors annually and another 21 million users internationally, who access collections and services through its website, www.nypl.org.
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