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Category: Events & Exhibitions
An Evening with Amiri Baraka
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 6:00 p.m. at the Union Theological Seminary’s Social Hall, 3041 Broadway at 121st Street. Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and political activist who has read and lectured on […]
%@#$**?!: From a Ten-Cent Plague to a Ninth Art in 90 Minutes
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Some Afterthoughts on the Age of Reagan
A Herbert Lehman Lecture co-sponsored by the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History and the Friends of the Columbia Libraries Thursday, September 18, 2008, 6:00 p.m. Sean Wilentz Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of History, Princeton University Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor Journalism Building 2950 Broadway Reception immediatly following. To attend, please register by sending […]
Conference: Lionel Trilling and His Legacy
Sponsored by Columbia University Press, the Friends of the Columbia Libraries, the Lionel Trilling Seminars of the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Department of English & Comparative Literature, and the Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts, City College, CUNY Friday, October 3, 2008, 1:30–7:00 p.m. Graduate Student Lounge, 301Philosophy Hall […]
4th Annual New York Times “Great Read” on Oct. 5th
Join us for a free day of fun and books, plus live entertainment, on-site children’s bookstore, readings, book signings and giveaways. The New York Times has partnered with children’s libraries from the three public library systems of New York City – Brooklyn Public Library, The New York Public Library and Queens Library – to establish […]
The Social Gospel in Black and White: Reverdy Ransom and the Politics of the Color Line
Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 6:00 p.m. Gary Dorrien Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics Union Theological Seminary Social Hall, Union Theological Seminary 3041 Broadway at 121st Street Reception at 6:00, panel at 6:30 To attend, please register by sending an e-mail to cul-events@columbia.edu or visiting www.alumni.libraries.columbia.edu […]
Scholarly Communication Series to Feature Harvard’s Stuart Shieber on Open-Access Initiatives
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Conference: Saving the History of Printing
Sponsored by the American Printing History Association and Columbia University Libraries. Friday, October 10-Sunday, October 12, 2008 Events held at both the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, and Columbia University’s Kellogg Center, 420 West 118th Street. Note: There is a fee for attending, and registration is required. For more information, including the complete conference […]
“Reflections on George Arthur Plimpton: The Man and the Collection”
Sponsored by the Friends of the Columbia Libraries Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 6:00 p.m. Robert A. McCaughey Professor of History, Barnard College Jennifer B. Lee Librarian for Public Services & Programs, Rare Book & Manuscript Library Butler Library, Room 523 535 West 114th Street Reception and viewing of the exhibition, “The Tools of Learning: George […]