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April 6, 2009

I Speak of the City Poetry Reading at the Tenement Museum

The Tenement Museum will be having a special reading with Stephen Wolf, editor of I Speak of the City: Poems of New York. This is becoming an annual event to celebrate National Poetry Month and Wolf will be joined by...

April 2, 2009

Event Reminders: Julia Kristeva and "The Resilent City: New York Facing Adversity"

For New Yorkers, there are two interesting events featuring Columbia University Press authors tonight: At the New School, Julia Kristeva will be speaking. The event will be at 6:30 and will take place at the Theresa Lang Student Center, 55...

February 27, 2009

More events with Donald Prothero on Evolution

Donald Prothero continues his whirlwind tour to spread the word about Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters. March 9, 2009, 7:30 PM University of Alabama The Biology Auditorium (room 127 Biology) Biology Building, 411 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa,...

February 6, 2009

Happy Birthday Charles!

February 12, 2009 marks Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of the birth of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. That’s a lot of candles on his cake. Donald Prothero, author of Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters is having...

January 26, 2009

Siddharth Kara at the Carnegie Council and in the Financial Times

Over the weekend, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, by Siddharth Kara was reviewed in the Financial Times. In the very favorable review, Jonathan Birchall writes: In India, [Kara] argues a bungalow brothel makes an average of $12,926...

January 22, 2009

Gastropolis Event

Contributors to Gastropolis: Food and New York City will be discussing the book and food in New York City at a special event at the National Arts Club on Monday, January 26 at 8:00 pm. The National Arts Club is...

January 5, 2009

Upcoming Author Events

For the week of January 5 three Columbia University Press authors will be reading from and discussing their book in the New York City area. Jeffrey B. Perry author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918: Thursday, January...

December 2, 2008

Columbia University Press Author Events for December

If you are looking for stimulating, lively and low-cost / free events this Holiday season, look no further than the various December events with Columbia University Press authors. Events include Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis discussing their book, The Measure...

November 12, 2008

Jerelle Kraus in Richard Nixon's Office

Jerelle Kraus is the former art director at the New York Times and her new book reveals the inner workings of the Times from the creation of the art for the Op-ed section to the decisions by Howell Raines and...

November 6, 2008

Meet the author Michael Fischbach

On Tuesday, November 18th, Michael Fischbach, the author of Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries will be speaking at the 92nd St Y in New York City on the claims of Mizrahi/Sephardic Jews who lost property during their exodus from...

October 6, 2008

October Author Events

From California to New York City and from the future of geopolitics to hogs and hominy, there is a plethora of Columbia University Press author events this month. Authors discussing their books this month include Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Frederick Douglass Opie,...

June 23, 2008

Looking for Peace and Enlightenment with Sri Aurobindo

Peter Heehs, co-founder of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives, and author of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo is traveling to the East Coast to talk about Sri Aurobindo and his new biography of the famed Indian yogi and philosopher. You...

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