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Events: http://www.nyas.org/events (updated February 14)

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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel (March 18 at 6:00pm)

Michio Kaku discusses Physics of the Impossible.

In Physics of the Impossible, the renowned physicist Michio Kaku explores to what extent technologies and devices deemed impossible today might become commonplace in the future.

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Lyceum Society's Annual Book Discussion (May 22 at 1:00pm)

Miriam Hecht.

The Lyceum Society is comprised of the Academy's retired and semiretired members, but any Academy member is welcome. Talks cover various scientific fields.

Lyceum Society's Annual Book Discussion
"The book that changed my life."
Bring a favorite book and tell us how it has profoundly affected you.

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Lyceum Society: Smashing Boxes: 'Carbon Science' as the New Paradigm for Scientific Literacy (November 20 at 1:00pm)

Eric Roston discusses The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat.

Eric Roston is a science writer in Washington, DC, and author of The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat. The book traces the dynamic, fundamental science that unifies seemingly disparate parts of our experience: Climate, energy, health, industry—the fastest ... (more)way to learn the most about the world is through the carbon atom.

The Lyceum Society is comprised of the Academy's retired and semiretired members, but any Academy member is welcome. Talks cover various scientific fields.

All Lyceum meetings (except December) are Brown Bag lunches.
Brown Bag: 11:30 am; Lecture & Discussion: 1pm to 3 pm.

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Working Rich, Working Poor - Thirty Years after Sex/Gender (December 8 at 6:00pm)

Kath Weston discusses Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor.

Thirty-odd years after Gayle Rubin coined the term "sex/gender system," the study of work, gender, and sexuality remains deeply indebted to a distinction that associates "sex" with immoveable biology and "gender" and "sexuality" with the kind of social malleability that offers hope for a more equitable ... (more)future. Researchers continue to focus on disparities in wealth and income, discrimination, and exploitation (as well they might), be it in matters of wage parity, sexual harassment, race/class/gender effects in hiring decisions, divisions of labor, sex work, AIDS discrimination in employment, or ceilings made of glass.

Yet much has changed with respect to both biology and global finance since those early days when scholars mapped out new objects of study in response to thriving social movements. In an era of gene splicing, cyborgs, plastic surgery, and transgender politics, biology now appears more mobile. In an era when "the widening gap between rich and poor" incorporates gendered differences, power differentials configured through gender sometimes appear more intransigent. "Working Rich, Working Poor" explores how the new biology is intimately associated with economic innovations such as securitization in ways that are critical to understand in order to confront the acceleration of inequality in nations such as the United States.

Kath Weston is Professor of Anthropology and Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia. She is also a longtime member of the National Writers Union. Her areas of specialization include political economy, political ecology, historical anthropology, kinship, gender and sexuality, surveillance, political theory, history of science in the social sciences, and class relations. She is the author of numerous publications, including Gender in Real Time, Families We Choose, and "Escape from the Andamans: Tracking, Offshore Incarceration, and Ethnology in the Back of Beyond." Her latest book is Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor (Beacon, 2008).

Discussant Janet Jakobsen is Professor of Women's Studies at Barnard College.

The dinner reception will precede the discussion and will start at 6:00 pm.

Event location: Wenner-Gren Foundation, 470 Park Avenue South, New York, NY

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