at the 92Y Tribeca
92Y Tribeca Lecture Hall
200 Hudson St. New York, NY 10013
Ted Anton, author of The Longevity Seekers: Science, Business, and the Fountain of Youth, will lecture on new discoveries at the frontier of longevity science.
For more information and to purchase tickets navigate to the 92Y Tribeca website.
at Warwick's
7812 Girard Avenue
La Jolla, CA 92037
Seth Lerer, Dean of Arts and Humanities at the UCSD, will be at Warwick's on Tuesday, May 7th at 7:30pm to discuss and sign his memoir Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater.
For more information navigate to the Warwick's website.
Frick Center, Founders Lounge
190 Prospect Avenue
Elmhurst, Illinois 60126-3296
Keith Koeneman will speak about his new book First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley.
Admission is $10. Tickets may be purchased online or at the door. Free for Elmhurst College students, faculty, staff and alumni.
For more information contact Lu Aiello at lua@elmhurst.edu or (630) 617-3390.
at the AIA Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
NY, NY 10012
Architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio in conversation with Edward Dimendberg, author of Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images, Anthony Vidler, Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union, and Dana Polan, Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University, on the topic of their new book Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account.
Free for AIA members; $10 for non-members
at the Center for Southern Folklore
123 S. Main Street
Memphis, TN 38103
Billy Boy Arnold will perform songs from his Big Bill Broonzy tribute CD, and will share his first hand recollections of Big Bill Broonzy and the Chicago blues world of the 1940s and 1950s with author Robert Riesman author of I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy.
at the Book Cellar
4736-38 N Lincoln Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60625
Keith Koeneman will speak about his new book First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley. A book signing follows.
For more information contact Ellen Gibson at (773) 702-3233.
at PINC.14
Theater Figi
Het Rond 2
Zeist, Netherlands
Chris Linder, author of Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions, will lecture alongside a selection of photographs captured during his many expeditions exploring the earth's remote polar regions and the lives of the scientists that work there–offering a rare behind the scenes portrait of how scientists explore nature.
Part of the People, Ideas, Nature, Creativity conference held annually in the Netherlands.
For more information and to purchase tickets navigate to the PINC.14 website.
at the Seminary Co-op
5751 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637-1507
Marshall Sahlins, the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, will discuss his groundbreaking study of what constitutes kinship in his new book What Kinship Is-And Is Not.
For more information navigate to the Seminary Co-op events calendar.
811 Elm Street
Winnetka, Illinois 60093
Keith Koeneman will speak about his new book First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley. A book signing follows.
For more information contact Ellen Gibson at (773) 702-3233.
at the Women's Athletic Club
626 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Keith Koeneman will give a luncheon talk about his his fascinating look at the life and career of Chicago's most iconic Mayor in First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley.
To make reservations please call: 847.446.8880 or for more information contact Ellen Gibson at (773) 702-3233.
at the Newberry Library
60 W. Walton Street
Chicago,IL 60610
Carl Smith discusses his new book City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, at a Meet the Author event at the Newberry Library in downtown Chicago.
For more information contact Jeffrey Waxman at (773) 702-0279.
One South Wacker Drive #2740
Chicago, Illinois 60606
Keith Koeneman will give a luncheon talk about his fascinating look at the life and career of Chicago's most iconic Mayor in First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley.
To register for the event navigate to the Heartland Institute website.
For more information contact Ellen Gibson at (773) 702-3233.
at the Asia House
63 New Cavendish Street
London, W1G 7LP
11 West Jones St.
Raleigh, NC 27601
Steven Vogel author of The Life of a Leaf will speak on how leaves interact with, and adapt to their environments in a talk titled The Physical Fitness of Leaves.
For more information contact Levi Stahl at (773) 702-0289.
at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium
1600 Ocean Front Walk
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Lisa-ann Gershwin, author of Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean, lectures on the recent jellyfish population bloom and its relation to the tragic state of the world’s ocean waters, while also revealing many interesting and unusual facts about jellyfish behaviors and their remarkable ability to adapt to a rapidly changing marine ecosystem.
For more information contact Carrie Adams at (773) 702-4216.
at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps
2300 Expedition Way
La Jolla, CA 92037
Lisa-ann Gershwin, author of Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean, will describe how jellies are benefitting from warmer ocean waters, fewer predators, and more places for their larvae to grow, and will explain how these favorable conditions have led to armadas of stinging jellies in our coastal waters and fishing grounds.
Public $8, Free for members.
For more information contact Carrie Adams at (773) 702-4216.
at the Union League Club
65 W Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604
Keith Koeneman will give a luncheon talk about his fascinating look at the life and career of Chicago's most iconic Mayor in First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley.
For more information contact Ellen Gibson at (773) 702-3233.
at the University Club of Chicago
76 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603
Join Alice Kaplan, author of Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis for a luncheon talk at the University Club of Chicago.
For more information contact Levi Stahl at (773) 702-0289.
at the Blackstone Branch Library
4904 S. Lake Park Ave.
Chicago, IL 60615
In the Auditorium
Alice Kaplan, author of Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis will speak for the Despres Family Memorial Lecture Series presented by Friends of Blackstone Branch Library.
For more information contact Levi Stahl at (773) 702-0289.
at the 92Y Tribeca
92Y Tribeca Lecture Hall
200 Hudson St. New York, NY 10013
Keith Koeneman will give a talk about his fascinating look at the life and career of Chicago's most iconic Mayor in First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley.
For more information contact Ellen Gibson at (773) 702-3233.
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Lisa-ann Gershwin, biologist, jellyfish expert, and author of the new book Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean, will discuss how the beautiful but dangerous jellyfish is taking over the oceans as a result of changes in our marine ecosystem.
For more information contact Carrie Adams at (773) 702-4216.
at the Niles Public Library
Large Meeting Room A&B
6960 W Oakton St.
Niles, IL 60714
Chicago journalist and Huffington Post contributor, Keith Koeneman, discusses his treatment of the legendary Mayor in First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley.
For more information contact Ellen Gibson at (773) 702-3233.
125 Arborway
Boston, MA 02130-3500
Steven Vogel author of The Life of a Leaf will speak on how leaves interact with, and adapt to their environments in a talk titled The Physical Fitness of Leaves.
Register for the event on te Arboretum website.
For more information contact Levi Stahl at (773) 702-0289.
at the 92Y Tribeca
92Y Tribeca Screening Room
200 Hudson St. New York, NY 10013
Donald S. Lopez Jr., author of From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha, will speak on the evolution of the Buddha as a historical and religious figure, from his origins in the East, to his more recent incarnations in modern Western culture.
Navigate to the 92Y Tribeca website for more information and to purchase tickets.
