Ruggles Hall
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610
The Newberry Library hosts a Meet the Author event with Keith Koeneman speaking about his new book First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley. A book signing follows.
For more information navigate to The Newberry Library website.
320 S Plymouth Ct
Chicago, IL 60604
Join Keith Koeneman for a luncheon talk at the Standard Club on his insightful new biography of the sometimes Shakespearean, sometimes Machiavellian career of Richard M. Daley in First Son.
To make reservations for the luncheon, please call: 847.446.8880.
at the 92Y Tribeca
92YTribeca 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.
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.
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 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 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.
at the Asia House
63 New Cavendish Street
London, W1G 7LP
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.
