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New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library

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This reception is co-sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLlS/NA)/New York Chapter, Association of College & Research Libraries, New York Metropolitan Area Chapter (ACRL/NY), Jewish Library Association, Law Library Association of Greater New York, Medical Library Association/New ... (lisää)York-New Jersey Chapter, Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY), Visual Resources Association/Greater New York Chapter, REFORMA, Black Librarians Caucus, and SLA/New York. When: Friday, March 7, 2008, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Where: The New York Public Library, Trustees Room (206), Fifth Avenue & Forty-Second Street, New York, NY Why: This is an opportunity for librarians, archivists, and information professionals from the metropolitan area to meet informally. It is also a chance for library school students to learn about the various professional organizations in the metropolitan area and to meet future colleagues and employers.

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LIVE from the NYPL: Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, Fritz Haeg, Peter Sellars, Dolores Hayden, Frederick Kaufman, Shamim Momin & Paul Holdengräber (maaliskuu 7 klo 19:00)

"In 2005, Los Angeles architect and artist Fritz Haeg planted the first “edible estate” garden in Salina, Kansas—the geographic center of the United States. One front lawn at a time, the Edible Estate project is replacing the domestic front lawn with a highly productive, edible, organic garden ... (lisää)landscape. Three more prototype gardens have since been created in California, New Jersey, and England, with two more Edible Estates forthcoming in Texas and Maryland. The publication of Haeg’s new book, Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, marks the beginning of a concerted national campaign to dramatically overthrow an American institution, the front lawn. Gardens of food will be promoted to fill these toxic spaces that currently divide our neighborhoods, devour precious resources, and pollute our air and water. A public debate with project creator Fritz Haeg; theater director, Peter Sellars; author and Yale professor of architecture, Dolores Hayden; author of A Short History of the American Stomach, Frederick Kaufman; 2008 Whitney Biennial curator, Shamim Momin; and director of LIVE from the NYPL, Paul Holdengräber will engage the audience in an open discussion with the question, “What is wrong with an Edible Estate?" $15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification (Event held in Celeste Bartos Forum

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LIVE from the NYPL: Slavoj Žižek, a lecture—performance: They Live! : Hollywood as an ideological machine (maaliskuu 12 klo 19:00)

$15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification. Event held in the Celeste Bartos Forum

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LIVE from the NYPL : Colm Tóibín & others on James Baldwin (maaliskuu 18 klo 19:00)

"In addition to Baldwin’s praised work, Colm Tóibín, the author of five novels including The Master and Mothers and Sons, has been looking at the large body of Baldwin’s uncollected writing and speeches. Along with other guests, Tóibín leads a discussion examining James Baldwin’s lesser known ... (lisää)works to cast a new light on his views on writers and writing, his politics, and his vision for the future of the United States."$15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification (Event held in the South Court Auditorium

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LIVE from the NYPL : Nicholson Baker in conversation with Simon Winchester (maaliskuu 20 klo 19:00)

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"In Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker, author of The Size of Thoughts and Double Fold, weaves together a chronicle of the beginnings of World War II, and presents an indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and 40s. Through a running narrative of press clippings, Baker details ... (lisää)mankind's unstoppable descent into the madness of war from 1914 until 1941 and pierces the lies, hopes, fears, and legends we so easily imbibe on the road to war. Human Smoke offers a new perspective on the political, social, religious, and economic events in the years preceding World War II." Cost: $15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification (Event will be held in the South Court Auditorium)

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Game on @ the Library in Astor Hall (maaliskuu 21 klo 16:30)

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Class: Cooked Books (huhtikuu 4 klo 15:15)

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LIVE from the NYPL : An Innocent Man In Guantanamo: Five Years of My Life, Murat Kurnaz : An evening with Baher Azmy, Bernhard Docke, Philippe Sands, Michael Ratner, Wallace Shawn & James Yee (huhtikuu 4 klo 19:00)

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‘Written to Aftertimes’: Milton and the Durability of Verse (huhtikuu 5 klo 14:15)

"In the passages of Paradise Lost depicting God as Creator, Milton conveys an insight regarding the qualities by which human poetic works endure: that while the meanings of words may alter over time, verse poetry’s existence as a rhythm is established in a nearly unchanging dimension of language."

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Milton in Germany: From the First Translations to Goethe's Faust (huhtikuu 8 klo 14:15)

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Tapahtuman sijainti: South Court Classrooms

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Research 101: The Basics (huhtikuu 10 klo 16:15)

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LIVE from the NYPL: AGAINST THE MACHINE: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob (huhtikuu 10 klo 19:00)

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LIVE from the NYPL : Pico Iyer in conversation with Paul Holdengräber (huhtikuu 11 klo 19:00)

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John Milton at 400: ‘A Life Beyond Life’ (huhtikuu 12 klo 12:00)

"In this talk by the curator of the exhibition John Milton at 400: A Life Beyond Life (see page XX),John Milton is introduced as poet, man, and revolutionary. Dr. Moeck discusses images from the Library’s extensive holdings of materials related to Milton, as he also emphasizes adaptations of Milton’s ... (lisää)masque Comus in song, dance, and the visual arts."

Tapahtuman sijainti: South Court Classrooms

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Live from NYPL: Archive Fever (huhtikuu 14 klo 19:00)

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