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New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Trustees' Room
© R. Cramer, 2008

New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library

5th Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018
United States

Web site: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/

Description: The Central Building will undergo large scale reconstruction over the next few years and the space will absorb the lending collections now in the Mid-Manhattan Library. At the end of the process in 2014, the building will be renamed The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.

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New York Technical Services Librarians Annual Reception for Librarians, Information Professionals and Library School Students (March 7 at 3:00pm)
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 ... (more)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 (March 7 at 7:00pm)
"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 ... (more)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 (March 12 at 7:00pm)
$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 (March 18 at 7:00pm)
"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 ... (more)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 (March 20 at 7:00pm)
Nicholson Baker discusses Human smoke : the beginnings of World War II, the end of civilization.
"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 ... (more)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 (March 21 at 4:30pm)
"Beginning at 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Astor Hall will be alive with the sound of teens playing video games during a free and open gaming session. The event celebrates Game On @ The Library!, a New York Public Library initiative bringing video games to public libraries. Wii, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3 ... (more)will be available, and teen gamers of all experience levels are invited. Library staff will be on hand to help those unfamiliar with the systems and games who want to learn."
Event location: Astor Hall
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Class: Cooked Books (April 4 at 3:15pm)
"Explore the delicious world of all things culinary at the New York Public Library. The Library’s cookery collection is vast and interdisciplinary. In this class we will investigate sources in the Library, around the city, and on the web. Rebecca Federman’s popular blog covers cookbooks and graphics, ... (more)restaurants and recipes, and arcane culinary history."
Event location: South Court Classrooms
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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 (April 4 at 7:00pm)
"In October 2001, nineteen year old Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany, traveled to Pakistan to learn more about his Muslim faith. A few weeks later, on the day he was to return to Germany, Kurnaz was arrested at a police checkpoint without explanation. Kurnaz was then handed ... (more)over to the U.S. military and transported to a U.S. military base in Afghanistan. After two months, Kurnaz was taken to Guantanamo and held prisoner for five years.

This evening will bring together the lawyers in Germany and the U.S. who fought for Murat’s release, an ex-Guantanamo chaplain who was wrongly accused of espionage and imprisoned, and Guantanamo experts. Together they will help us understand the political and legal context, give us the perspective from the “other side of the wire,” and deliver a picture of life in Guantanamo today. Wallace Shawn will read from Murat Kurnaz's memoir." $15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification (Event held in South Court Auditorium)
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‘Written to Aftertimes’: Milton and the Durability of Verse (April 5 at 2:15pm)
"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."
Event location: South Court Classroom
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Milton in Germany: From the First Translations to Goethe's Faust (April 8 at 2:15pm)
"Paradise Lost, Milton's "wondrous" creation, had a revolutionary effect on German poetics. It led writers away from the "imitation of nature" to more exalted concepts of the poet's role. Two beneficiaries of the revolution in poetry were Klopstock and Goethe, creators of major epics."
Event location: South Court Classrooms
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Milton's Areopagitica and the Idea of Freedom (April 9 at 6:00pm)
Milton's great essay on freedom of the press, ignored in his own time, became an iconic document of the civil liberty tradition as it developed in the 18th and 19th centuries. This talk takes a fresh look at Milton's rhetoric of freedom and how that rhetoric was later used.
Event location: South Court Classrooms
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Research 101: The Basics (April 10 at 4:15pm)
Learn the ins and outs of effective research at the Library, including how to use and interpret CATNYP, the online catalog of The Research Libraries, as well as how to locate relevant journal articles and other types of information in a variety of electronic databases.
Event location: South Court Classrooms
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LIVE from the NYPL: AGAINST THE MACHINE: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob (April 10 at 7:00pm)
Lee Siegel, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob.; Nicholson Baker.; Heidi Julavits.
**$15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification**
Join Lee Siegel, Nicholson Baker, Heidi Julavits, and Paul Holdengräber, moderator, in a blistering and wide-ranging discussion of Siegel’s critique of the Internet and the social and cultural ... (more)conditions from which it sprang.
Event location: South Court Auditorium
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Egypt: A Cyber Journey (April 11 at 12:30pm)
"The Library’s Digital Gallery stores images of more than 650,000 primary sources. As part of an ongoing effort to make NYPL collections more accessible, Dr. Lundquist has compiled hundreds of images documenting archaeologists’ rediscovery of ancient Egypt to create the Library’s first-ever web-based ... (more)publication, Egyptian Ideas About the Afterlife, Illustrated through 19th-century Prints and Photographs. Join us as Dr. Lundquist discusses this exciting time in human history, gives us an intimate look at the actual materials used in this groundbreaking publication, and shows us how these items have been given immortal form through digitization."
Event location: South Court Classrooms
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LIVE from the NYPL : Pico Iyer in conversation with Paul Holdengräber (April 11 at 7:00pm)
Pico Iyer discusses The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.
"In his new book, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Pico Iyer gives us the first serious consideration of this worldwide leader’s work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher. Having been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama for the last three decades, ... (more)Iyer captures the paradoxes of the Dalai Lama’s position: though he has brought the ideas of Tibet to world attention, Tibet itself is being remade as a Chinese province; though he was born in one of the remotest, least developed places on earth, he has become a champion of globalism and technology. Iyer illuminates the hidden life, the transforming ideas, and the daily challenges of this global icon." $15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification (Event held in the Celeste Bartos Forum
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John Milton at 400: ‘A Life Beyond Life’ (April 12 at 12:00pm)
"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 ... (more)masque Comus in song, dance, and the visual arts."
Event location: South Court Classrooms
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Live from NYPL: Archive Fever (April 14 at 7:00pm)
**SOLD OUT
Standby tickets may be available at the door**
ARCHIVE FEVER:
Okwui Enwezor, Christian Boltanski, Luc Sante, Lorna Simpson, George Lewis & Paul Holdengräber
Event location: South Court Auditorium
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Jeffrey Eugenides (May 4 at 2:00pm)
Jeffrey Eugenides, Air Mail..
Jeffrey Eugenides and Daniel Kehlmann talk about making fiction out of fact.
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Digital Gotham (October 3 at 3:15pm)
Come and learn how to explore New York City history through online resources at the Library. This hands-on class will introduce myriad resources - from digitized newspapers, magazines, and books to photographs, menus, and maps, many of which are available from your own desktop.
Cost: "Free""
Event location: Classrooms
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On Display - "Michelangelo: La Dotta Mano" (December 8 at 6:00pm)
The first public viewing of Michelangelo: La Dotta Mano in the United States. The book is an Italian language celebration of his work, cost 100,000 euros to make in Italy and was donated on Monday to the library, where it will be on view through Monday.
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On Display - "Beedle the Bard" (January 4 at 6:00pm)
Fans visiting New York from December 4, 2008 to January 4, 2009, will be able to view one of only seven original hand-written and illustrated copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard that will be on loan for display at The New York Public Library. The original copy is made available for public viewing ... (more)by kind permission of Arthur A. Levine, American Editor of all seven books in the Harry Potter series. Arthur was one of only six people to receive an original Beedle – created, illustrated and hand-written by JK Rowling – as a personal gift from the author last year. The seventh copy was given to the Children’s High Level Group for the charity to auction and was acquired by Amazon for a winning bid of £1.95m / $4m in December 2007. In response to the many requests from fans who sought copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, three versions of the book will hit stores in the U.S., U.K. and online on December 4, 2008. One of the tales – The Tale of the Three Brothers – is recounted in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The remaining four stories are revealed for the very first time in The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
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Lethal Legacy: An Author Chat with Linda Fairstein (February 2 at 3:00pm)
Linda Fairstein reads from Lethal Legacy.
Rare books and maps worth killing for? Bibliomaniacs roaming secret tunnels and passageways throughout NYPL? Author Linda Fairstein joins us to read from her latest work, the suspense thriller Lethal Legacy which takes place at NYPL. Linda will discuss her work, as well as the intense research she did, ... (more)working with NYPL staff to supply the historical and factual detail to her novel. Registration required
Event location: South Court Auditorium
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LIVE from the NYPL: FATHER PATRICK DESBOIS in conversation with Paul LeClerc Holocaust by Bullets (March 3 at 7:00pm)
Patrick Desbois discusses The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews.
The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews is Father Patrick Desbois’ story of his heroic mission to investigate the murder of Ukrainian Jews by Nazis during World War II. His team visited the sites of these murders, and interviewed surviving ... (more)witnesses, many of whom were recruited by the Germans to assist in the executions. Father Desbois, secretary to the French Conference of Bishops for relations with Judaism and advisor to the Vatican on the Jewish Religion, will discuss with Paul LeClerc, President of The New York Public Library, the stories he has uncovered about the first mass killings of the Holocaust that most people know nothing about. $25 general admission and $15 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification
Event location: Berger Forum
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Old Books, Rare Books: Learning About the Value of Your Books at The New York Public Library (March 4 at 1:15pm)
The Library has many resources to help you develop an appreciation for antiquarian books. This class will teach you about tools that will help you to determine if your books are rare, as well as techniques for finding out as much as you can about an old book before buying or selling it.
Event location: South Court Classrooms
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Class: Preservation 101: Caring for Your Collection (March 5 at 2:15pm)
This class covers the best ways to care for books, photographs, papers, and other items in your personal collections. Learn what everyday objects are made of, how they age, why they break, and what you can do to keep them safe and in good repair. We also debunk some of the common myths about preservation ... (more)and make sure that you know what to look for in products and services.
Event location: South Court Classrooms
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Owen Sheers and Paul Watkins at the New York Public Library (March 5 at 6:30pm)
Owen Sheers.; Paul Watkins.
Prominent Welsh novelists Paul Watkins and Owen Sheers in conversation at Celeste Bartos, the New York Public Library. Paul Watkins has published 10 novels and two books of non-fiction, including the best selling, Stand Before Your God. His novels Calm at Sunset, won Britain's Encore Prize for best second ... (more)novel, and Archangel won the 1996 Holtby Prize from the Royal Society of Literature. The London Sunday Telegraph said: 'Paul Watkins has become the writer of his generation whose future course will be watched with most interest'. He is regularly compared to Hemingway and Conrad and his books have been translated into 9 languages. Owen Sheers, the winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the 1999 Vogue Young Writer’s Award, first collection of poetry, The Blue Book (Seren, 2000) was short-listed for the Welsh Book of the Year and the Forward Prize Best 1st Collection 2001. Owen's first novel, Resistance (Faber, 2008) won a 2008 Hospital Club Creative Award and was short-listed for the Writers Guild Best Book Award. Owen's recent collaboration with composer Rachel Portman, The Water Diviner's Tale, an oratorio for children, was premiered at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms 2007.
Event location: South Court Auditorium
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"Children's Literature Cafe" (March 7 at 2:00pm)
All adults with a love for children’s literature are invited to this informal, relaxed discussion of books, reading, and youth.
Event location: Children's Center at 42nd Street
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Women Designing for Live Performance: The Pioneers (March 9 at 4:15pm)
Lighting designers from the dawn of electricity? Set designers for groundbreaking modern-dress musicals? Chorus girls designing for chorus girls? Discover the first generations of women designers who shaped the visual culture of America. This illustrated presentation features breathtaking images from ... (more)the Library for the Performing Arts, including many artifacts too fragile to display in the exhibition Curtain Call.
Event location: South Court Classrooms
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Lecture: Who Are The Evangelicals? (March 11 at 7:00pm)
Frances FitzGerald.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker contributor Frances FitzGerald delivers the Joanna Jackson Goldman Lectures in American Civilization. FitzGerald will define American evangelicalism in religious and cultural terms, finding its origins in the First and the Second Great Awakenings, outlining ... (more)its distinctive characteristics, and showing where the split between evangelicals and mainline Christians began
Event location: South Court Auditorium
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Lecture: The Religious Right and Why It Grew (March 18 at 7:00pm)
Frances FitzGerald.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker contributor Frances FitzGerald delivers the Joanna Jackson Goldman Lectures in American Civilization. Using Jerry Falwell and the growth of the Moral Majority as a lens, FitzGerald will look at how the agenda and constituency of the religious right emerged ... (more)in relation to large social,economic, and philosophical forces during the twentieth century.
Event location: South Court Auditorium
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Lecture: The New Evangelicals (March 25 at 7:00pm)
Frances FitzGerald.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker contributor Frances FitzGerald delivers the Joanna Jackson Goldman Lectures in American Civilization. Using Jerry Falwell and the growth of the Moral Majority as a lens, FitzGerald will discuss the fundamental shift in cultural attitudes represented by a new ... (more)evangelical movement, led by pastors such as Rick Warren, Rich Cizik, and Joel Hunter. She will describe the origins of this new wave of Christian thought in colleges, seminaries, and suburban mega-churches, highlight the movement's debates with the religious right, and consider the prospects for its future.
Event location: South Court Auditorium
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British Author and Consciousness Theorist Anthony Peake (August 3 at 6:00pm)
Anthony Peake discusses Cheating the Ferryman Thesis.
Free Public Lecture and Reception with bar and buffet for British lecturer, author, and consciousness theorist, Anthony Peake. Peake will discuss his "Cheating the Ferryman" theory that human consciousness itself allows us to escape death. This July, he is honored platform lecturer at the National Theatre ... (more)in London. Fortean Times has lauded his binary theory as progressive and enlightening. Please join us. Hosted by Gnosis Arts Multimedia Communications, LLC.
Event location: The Roosevelt Hotel , Madison Ave @ East 45 th St.
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