Columbia School of Arts Dean Carol Becker speaking with visual artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat about her work, specifically her recent film “Women Without Men.”

Bodies on the Line was a 9-day colloquium at New York University, bringing together 9 artists and writers from across genres and around the world to share work, ideas and process. The subject was borders. There are the real borders, such as the ones that are the focus in debates about immigration policy in this country and around the world. There are also political and ideological borders that divide us. On the one hand, borders limit us, and make us vulnerable. On the other hand we want to look at the possibilities and opportunities at border lines.

Bodies on the Line considered the border as a point of energy and creativity in different regions and spheres of life. The goal of the colloquium was to create new artistic partnerships, to inspire future projects, and to use artistic practice as a way of investigating new and historical ideas. Artists together to discuss, in their own unique ways, and with their own unique creative resources, some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Recorded Saturday, November 6, 2010 at Union Theological Seminary. Total runtime: 99 minutes.

A three-person panel discusses how 9/11 sparked a greater movement of volunteerism across the United States and led to President Obama’s declaration of Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service. The esteemed panelists include Jay Winuk of MyGoodDeed, Bill Keegan of H.E.A.R.T. 9/11 and Jeff Parness, Chairman of the New York Says Thank You Foundation. These nonprofit groups are committed to providing volunteer services across New York City, the country, and abroad.

Recorded on December 8, 2010 at The National September 11 Memorial & Museum Preview Site.

To learn more about the 9/11 Memorial Museum Preview Site, click here.

Musician Michael Fitzpatrick calls out for compassion and world peace with his cello. He shares his music and discusses the power of good vibrations with Rabbi Irwin Kula.

Bodies on the Line was a 9-day colloquium at New York University, bringing together 9 artists and writers from across genres and around the world to share work, ideas and process. The subject was borders. There are the real borders, such as the ones that are the focus in debates about immigration policy in this country and around the world. There are also political and ideological borders that divide us. On the one hand, borders limit us, and make us vulnerable. On the other hand we want to look at the possibilities and opportunities at border lines.

Bodies on the Line considered the border as a point of energy and creativity in different regions and spheres of life. The goal of the colloquium was to create new artistic partnerships, to inspire future projects, and to use artistic practice as a way of investigating new and historical ideas. Artists together to discuss, in their own unique ways, and with their own unique creative resources, some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Recorded Saturday, November 6, 2010 at Union Theological Seminary. Total runtime: 99 minutes.

Claudia Bernardi, artist, printmaker and human rights activist presents samples of her work and has a conversation with award winning journalist and author, Mark Danner as part of Anna Deavere Smith’s colloquium on borders, Bodies on the Line.

Bodies on the Line was a 9-day colloquium at New York University, bringing together 9 artists and writers from across genres and around the world to share work, ideas and process. The subject was borders. There are the real borders, such as the ones that are the focus in debates about immigration policy in this country and around the world. There are also political and ideological borders that divide us. On the one hand, borders limit us, and make us vulnerable. On the other hand we want to look at the possibilities and opportunities at border lines.

Bodies on the Line considered the border as a point of energy and creativity in different regions and spheres of life. The goal of the colloquium was to create new artistic partnerships, to inspire future projects, and to use artistic practice as a way of investigating new and historical ideas. Artists together to discuss, in their own unique ways, and with their own unique creative resources, some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Recorded Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 20 Cooper Square. Total runtime: 99 minutes.

9/11 Memorial architect Michael Arad details what inspired him to design a national tribute to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the World Trade Center terror attacks in 2001 and 1993 as part of the “9/11, Today and Tomorrow” speakers series. Arad shares early designs of the memorial.

Arad, a partner of Handel Architects, was working as an architect for the New York City Housing Authority when he entered and won the 9/11 Memorial design competition.

His design for the memorial, which is called “Reflecting Absence,”was picked by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation in early 2004. Two years after winning the design contest, Arad was one of six recipients of the American Institute of Architect’s Young Architects Award.

The award honors architects license ten years or less and have shown “exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession early in their careers.”

In 2006, Arad was one of six recipients of the American Institute of Architects’ Young Architects Award. The award honors architects licensed for ten years or less “who have shown exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession early in their careers.”

Recorded on November 10, 2010 at The National September 11 Memorial & Museum Preview Site.

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New York Times best-selling author Peter Balakian reads a powerful selection of 9/11-themed poems at the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site’s “Today and Tomorrow” speakers series. The poems conjur feelings and imagery of the World Trade Center before and after the attacks.

Balakian, a professor in humanities and English at Colgate University, has authored five books of poems and three prose works, including the Times best seller “The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response.” His new book, titled “Ziggurat,” wrestles with the aftermath and reverberations of 9/11. Balakian shares some of these September 11-themed works and explains the inspiration behind his words.

Recorded on October 13, 2010 at The National September 11 Memorial & Museum Preview Site.

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Queen Latifah conducts a conversation with a group of outstanding urban high school students and invites them to share their perspectives on school, community, peers, family, and future.

The Celebration—presented by THIRTEEN and WLIW21—is a premier professional development conference that brings together the world’s best thinkers, practitioners, and more than 8,500 educators to share their passion for teaching and learning. This two-day experience for educators happens March 5-6, 2010 at the Hilton New York in New York City. For more information, visit http://thirteencelebration.org/.

Alan Alda moderates as leading physicists Lisa Randall (Harvard) and Michael Tuts (Columbia), join CERN’s Emma Sanders to explain new science coming from the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. In particular, they share details of the ATLAS Experiment, a particle physics experiment that began earlier this year searching for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons of extraordinarily high energy.

ATLAS will learn about the basic forces that have shaped our Universe since the beginning of time and that will determine its fate. Among the possible unknowns are the origin of mass, extra dimensions of space, unification of fundamental forces, and evidence for dark matter candidates in the Universe.

Voyage to the Heart of Matter is a pop-up book that Sanders has authored with pop-up engineer and illustrator Anton Radevsky about the science of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, focusing on the ATLAS experiment. In this unique collaboration, 7,000 tons of metal, glass, plastic, cables, and computer chips leap from the page in miniature pop-up, to tell the story of CERN’s quest to understand the birth of the universe.

This event is presented with the support of the Consulate General of Switzerland. Deputy Consul General Sabine Ulmann Shaban, representing the home country of the Large Hadron Collider, will make opening remarks.

Recorded on May 25 at the New York Academy of Sciences.  Total runtime: 98 minutes.

David Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer prize winning reporter for The New York Times, has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and other countries. From November 2008 to June 2009, he was held captive by the Taliban before escaping. He is the co-author of the forthcoming book “A Rope and A Prayer: The Story of A Kidnapping.” A five-part series that Rohde wrote on his captivity and escape for The New York Times was recently awarded the 2009 George Polk Award for foreign reporting.

Recorded on June 23, 2010 at The National September 11 Memorial & Museum Preview Site.

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Vice President of Content for WNET.org Stephen Segaller speaks with Robert McCrum, author and associate editor of Britain’s Observer.

Robert McCrum is the author of the newly-released book Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language, about how the language of the Anglo-American imperium has become the world’s lingua franca. In fascinating detail, McCrum describes the ever-accelerating changes wrought on the language by the far-flung cultures claiming citizenship in the new hegemony. “In the twenty-first century,” writes the author, “English + Microsoft = Globish.”

McCrum is also the author with Robert MacNeil, former host of the The MacNeil Lehrer Newshour, of The Story of English, the 1986 PBS series and book. MacNeil attends the conversation.

Recorded on June 7 at WNET.org’s Lincoln Center studios.  Total run time: 58 minutes.

Together artist and astrobiologist construct an organism and a conversation using ZOOB, a building toy designed by Michael Joaquin Grey and inspired by biological and social networks.

For the past twenty years, Michael Joaquin Grey has been creating work that extends and plays with the boundaries of art, science, and media. His investigations revolve around the development and the origins of life, language, and form-as related to natural and complex systems. Critical moments in natural phenomena and culture are objects in his work, as are the prepositional states of change between matter, energy, behavior, and meaning. Grey’s artistic exploration led to the invention of Zoob, a modeling system and toy that emulates dynamic and living systems. Michael Joaquin Grey’s work has been exhibited and collected internationally, including Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.
Chris Impey is a University Distinguished Professor and Deputy Head of the Department, in charge of all academic programs. His research interests are observational cosmology, gravitational lensing, and the evolution and structure of galaxies. Impey is a past Vice President of the American Astronomical Society. He has also been an NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar, a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, and the Carnegie Council on Teaching’s Arizona Professor of the Year. Impey has written over thirty popular articles on cosmology and astrobiology and co-authored two introductory textbooks. His first popular book “The Living Cosmos,” was published in 2007; his second, called How It Ends, will be published in 2010. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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THIRTEEN presents the third lecture in The National September 11 Memorial & Museum’s series, “9/11, Today and Tomorrow.”

As the FBI program manager and instructor at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center, Bill Braniff conducts cutting-edge research in counterterrorism and trains law enforcement on how to “understand the enemy.” Braniff’s expertise helps officials to battle terrorism with a fresh perspective and greater understanding of Islamic ideology.

Recorded on May 19, 2010 at The National September 11 Memorial & Museum Preview Site.

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Paul and Me is an intimate account by the bestselling author A. E. Hotchner of his remarkable, enduring, fifty-three year friendship with Hollywood legend Paul Newman. Hotchner shares their adventures: From travels across the globe to jointly owning fishing boats to coping with the loss of Newman’s son, Scott, to starting their food company, Newman’s Own, as a prank which has given all of its $300 million of profits to charities.

A. E. Hotchner is the author of the international bestsellers Papa Hemingway, Doris Day: Her Own Story, Sophia, and his own memoir, King of the Hill. He has adapted many of Hemingway’s works for the screen.

This event will be moderated by Mark Singer, whose books include Funny Money, Mr. Personality, Citizen K, Somewhere in America, and Character Studies.   He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1974.

This event was a presentation of the Patron Network of THIRTEEN and WLIW21, in cooperation with The New York Society Library. For more information on the Patron Network and its many benefits for supporters, please click here.

An advanced preview of NOVA’s “Mind Over Money” is followed by a panel discussion featuring:

David Adler, Producer, “Mind Over Money”

Evan Hadingham, Senior Science Editor, NOVA

Myron Kandel (moderator), Founding Financial Editor, CNN

Jennifer Lerner, Ph.D., Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Harvard Decision Science Laboratory

Howard Swartz, Executive Producer, NOVA

About NOVA’s “Mind Over Money”
In the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, NOVA presents “Mind Over Money” — an entertaining and penetrating exploration of why mainstream economists failed to predict the Crash of 2008 and why we so often make irrational financial decisions. It’s a show that reveals surprising, hidden money drives in us all and explores controversial new arguments about the world of finance. Before the current crash, most Wall Street analysts believed that markets are “efficient” — that investors are reasonable and always operate in their own self-interest. Most of the time, these assumptions of classical economics work well enough. But in extreme situations, people panic and conventional theories collapse.

In the face of the recent crash, can a new science that aims to incorporate human psychology into finance – behavioral economics — do better? “Mind Over Money” will recreate some of the new field’s most compelling experiments. We’ll see how the brains and bodies of Wall Street traders respond as they buy and sell stocks. We’ll watch as an ingenious experiment reveals how too many spending choices and the way they’re framed can overwhelm consumers’ ability to make rational decisions. Through entertaining real-life scientific experiments, NOVA will show how mood, decision-making, and economic activity are all tightly interwoven. By delivering unexpected insights from leading analysts and powerful experiments, “Mind Over Money” will reveal the mysterious and surprising nature of the two most powerful forces on our planet: the human mind and money. NOVA’s “Mind Over Money” will premiere on Tuesday, April 27, at 8pm on Thirteen/WNET.

About the Museum of American Finance
The Museum of American Finance, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is the nation’s only public museum dedicated to finance, entrepreneurship and the open market system. With its extensive collection of financial documents and objects, its seminars and educational programming, its publication and oral history program, the Museum portrays the breadth and richness of American financial and economic history. For more information, visitwww.moaf.org. To contribute to the Museum’s Recessipedia wiki on the current financial crisis, please visit www.recessipedia.org.

A panel offers a dialogue with multiple perspectives on a complex subject – trying terror suspects in civilian courts and military tribunals, with a discussion regarding the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial. Panelists include Karen Greenberg, the executive director New York University’s Center on Law and Security, and Dennis Farrell, a nationally recognized security expert with more than three decades in law enforcement, and New York State Supreme Court Judge Edward McCarty, an expert in military tribunals.

Recorded on April 38, 2010 at The National September 11 Memorial & Museum Preview Site.  Total runtime: 61 minutes.

To see other lectures from the 9/11 Memorial Museum and upcoming events, click here.

At the third event in the Science & the City Girls Night Out series, world-renowned ichthyologist Eugenie Clark, founding director and senior research scientist at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, describes her fantastic and distinguished 60-year career studying deep sea sharks and tropical fish. Dr. Clark, popularly known as the Shark Lady, captivates with stories from her more than 70 deep sea dives studying the behavior, physiology, and ecology of marine life, especially deep sea sharks and poisonous fish. A member of the Woman Divers Hall of Fame, Dr. Clark speaks just a day after receiving the 2010 Diving Pioneer Award from Beneath the Sea at their Conference in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Her appearance at the Academy also occurred 35 days before her 88th birthday and just after the release of the latest edition of her book, The Lady and the Sharks, Peppertree Press, 2010.

About The New York Academy of Sciences

The New York Academy of Sciences is a membership organization with over 24,000 members in 140 countries. They include research scientists at universities and industry, as well as representatives of business, government, and policy organizations. Our Board of Governors and President’s Council include 26 Nobel laureates and other prominent leaders of academia and industry, based in New York and around the world.

Recorded on March 29 at the New York Academy of Sciences.  Total runtime: 46 minutes.

Writer Stephen Batchelor + neurophilosopher Owen Flanagan

The author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist argues that the Buddha was a radical innovator. What is it in our brains that makes some of us upend tradition and most of us follow the herd?

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Recorded at the Rubin Museum of Art on March 7, 2010. Total running time: 82 minutes.

Tee & Charles Addams Foundation Director Kevin Miserocchi presents his new book, The Addams Family: an Evilution, in conjunction with The Museum of the City of New York’s current exhibit Charles Addams’s New York.

Charles Addams’s New York is an exhibition of original artworks by the legendaryNew Yorker cartoonist that capture Addams’s quintessentially idiosyncratic and slyly subversive view of the city, depicting his signature macabre characters, twisted situations, and distorted reimaginings of the cityscape. The works in the exhibition include watercolors, preliminary pencil sketches, completed cartoons, and examples of published work from the cover of the New Yorker. The subjects are gleefully varied, ranging from charming to creepy; they include depictions of life on New York’s subways and buses, in offices, department stores, museums, parks, streets, and homes.  A special section will look at the evolution of the creepy assemblage of characters who were dubbed “the Addams Family” as they developed as mainstays of Addams’s cartoons, moving through the streets of his New York and adding to the sense of mischief and deviancy that characterized the world as he saw it.

About the Museum of the City of New York
Among the city’s major museums, there is only one with the words “New,” “York,” and “City” in its name, and this is precisely what gives the Museum of the City of New York its unique mandate: to explore the past, present, and future of this fascinating and particular place and to celebrate its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation. A variety of exhibitions, public programs, and publications all investigate what gives New York City its singular character.

THIRTEEN presents the first lecture in The National September 11 Memorial & Museum’s series, “9/11, Today and Tomorrow.”

Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps—a national initiative documenting stories of everyday Americans—has received numerous broadcasting honors including five Peabody Awards for his work. He is the author of four books including New York Times bestseller “Listening Is an Act of Love.” Isay will discuss the StoryCorps September 11th Initiative, and he’ll feature a selection of intimate and personal recordings related to the events of 9/11.

Recorded on March 31, 2010 at The National September 11 Memorial & Museum Preview Site.

To see other lectures from the 9/11 Memorial Museum and upcoming events, click here.

THIRTEEN presents a lecture by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of “Worse than War” and writer of the upcoming PBS series of the same name, which premieres Wednesday, April 14 at 9pm on THIRTEEN. Goldhagen presents to members of the U.N. his controversial call for a fast-acting, military-empowered response to threats of genocide and other forms of “eliminationism.”

About the Film

WORSE THAN WAR (based on Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s book of the same title) is the first documentary to step back and focus on the general phenomenon of genocide: offering viewers profound insights about its dimensions, its patterns and causes, and its tragic role in politics and human affairs. In this epic documentary, Goldhagen travels, listens to witnesses, and confronts perpetrators in nine countries around the world, bringing viewers on an unprecedented journey of insight and analysis. He speaks with victims, perpetrators, witnesses, religious leaders, politicians, diplomats, historians, humanitarian aid workers and journalists.

Recorded on November 19, 2009 at the Singapore Mission to the U.N.  Total runtime: 43 minutes.

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is the not-for-profit corporation created to oversee the design, raise the funds, and program and operate the Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center site. The Memorial & Museum will be located on eight of the 16 acres of the site.

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum today announced the upcoming debut of “9/11, Today and Tomorrow,” a dynamic new public program exploring issues relevant to 9/11 and its continuing impact on the world in which we live. Speakers will cover topics including challenges of post-9/11 security, the trial of 2001 attack mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other current subjects related to the ongoing implications of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Each of the first four events will be filmed in HD for THIRTEEN Forum and available the following week for streaming or podcasting (in both video and audio-only).

Event Schedule for “9/11, Today and Tomorrow.”

Sharing our Humanity through Shared 9/11 Remembrances – Wednesday, March 31, 6:30 p.m.
Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps—a national initiative documenting stories of everyday Americans—has received numerous broadcasting honors including five Peabody Awards for his work. He is the author of four books including New York Times bestseller “Listening Is an Act of Love.” Isay will discuss the StoryCorps September 11th Initiative, and he’ll feature a selection of intimate and personal recordings related to the events of 9/11.  Watch now.

9/11 and Trials of Terror – Wednesday, April 28, 6:30 p.m.
A panel will offer a dialogue with multiple perspectives on a complex subject – trying terror suspects in civilian courts and military tribunals, with a discussion regarding the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial. Panelists include Karen Greenberg, the executive director New York University’s Center on Law and Security, and Dennis Farrell, a nationally recognized security expert with more than three decades in law enforcement, and New York State Supreme Court Judge Edward McCarty, an expert in military tribunals.  Watch now.

Understanding the Enemy: Counterterrorism and al Qaeda – Wednesday, May 19, 6:30 p.m.
As the FBI program manager and instructor at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center, Bill Braniff conducts cutting-edge research in counterterrorism and trains law enforcement on how to “understand the enemy.” Braniff’s expertise helps officials to battle terrorism with a fresh perspective and greater understanding of Islamic ideology.  Watch now.

Escaping the Taliban – Wednesday, June 23, 6:30 p.m.
David Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer prize winning reporter for The New York Times, has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and other countries. From November 2008 to June 2009, he was held captive by the Taliban before escaping. He is the co-author of the forthcoming book “A Rope and A Prayer: The Story of A Kidnapping.” A five-part series that Rohde wrote on his captivity and escape for The New York Times was recently awarded the 2009 George Polk Award for foreign reporting.

These events are free, but with limited capacity.  For more information click here, or stay up to date with The Memo Blog.

To see more THIRTEEN coverage of 9/11, visit the New York Voices collection Remembering 9-11.

Journalist and business writer Kirstin Downey celebrates her latest book, a portrait of this devoted public servant, a woman who changed the landscape of American business and society. Frances Perkins was this country’s first female cabinet secretary, and her work and actions greatly affected the New Deal and the whole of American politics at the time. Kirstin Downey explains Perkins’ influential role in economics and politics, including her appointment as Secretary of Labor in 1933.

Tenement Talks is an evening series of lectures, readings, panel discussions and programming that provides perspective on New York City’s rich culture.

Free & held at the Tenement Museum 108 Orchard unless otherwise noted.

RSVP to events(at)tenement.org.

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About the Tenement Museum

We tell the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was home to nearly 7000 working class immigrants.They faced challenges we understand today: making a new life, working for a better future, starting a family with limited means.

In recognizing the importance of this seemingly ordinary building, the Tenement Museum has re-imagined the role that museums can play in our lives.

Recorded at the Tenement Museum on March 9, 2010.  Runtime: 67 minutes.

Arjia Rinpoche + Bruce S. McEwen

A survivor of the Chinese Cultural Revolution talks to the Rockefeller University neuroendocrinologist about how stress hormones act on the brain and if Buddhist practice has anything to teach us about how we can control stress levels.

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Recorded on March 3, 2010 at the Rubin Museum of Art. Total runtime: 82 minutes.

Total runtime: 34 minutes.

Marion Nestle contends that the modern grocery store is a place where the giants of agribusiness compete for your purchases with profits—not health or nutrition—in mind. Her acclaimed book, What to Eat, helps readers navigate the supermarket aisles and make sensible food choices, from produce to packaged foods. Is organic food better? Are carbohydrates bad? What are “functional foods?”

Nestle has helped millions learn how to decode food labels, nutrition and health claims, and portion sizes, and make decisions about food on the basis of freshness, taste, nutrition, and health, as well as social and environmental issues and, of course, price.

Marion Nestle will addresses the science of nutrition, explaining how hard nutrition science is to do and to interpret, and yet how easy it is for food marketers to confuse the science to sell products. She discusses the hot topics of sponsored science, functional foods, health claims, and self-endorsements, with audience questions following.

This event is part of the Girls Night Out at The New York Academy of Sciences series.

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Recorded at the New York Academy of Sciences, New York City, on February 16, 2010.  Total runtime: 89 minutes.

About The New York Academy of Sciences

The New York Academy of Sciences is a membership organization with over 24,000 members in 140 countries. They include research scientists at universities and industry, as well as representatives of business, government, and policy organizations. Our Board of Governors and President’s Council include 26 Nobel laureates and other prominent leaders of academia and industry, based in New York and around the world.

In the spirit of RMA’s exhibition The Red Book of C.G. Jung, personalities from many different walks of life will be paired on stage with a psychoanalyst and invited to respond to and interpret a folio from Jung’s Red Book as a starting point for a wide-ranging conversation.  This week features Matthew Weiner and Morgan Stebbins.

About Matthew Weiner
Matthew Weiner is the series creator and executive producer for Mad Men, soon entering its fourth season.  Weiner was an executive producer and writer on The Sopranos.  Before The Sopranos, Weiner wrote for various television series, including The Naked Truth, Becker, and Andy Richter Controls the Universe.  He also wrote and directed the independent feature, What Do You Do All Day?

About Morgan Stebbins
Morgan Stebbins, MDiv, LMSW, studied comparative religion at UC Berkeley where he was also a member of the San Francisco Zen Center sangha.  He received his divinity degree from Union Seminary and social work degree from Columbia, before training in Jungian psychoanalysis at the New York Jung Institute.  He has a private practice in New York and is a faculty member and Director of Training of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Institute.

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Recorded at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York on February 6, 2010. Runtime: 90 minutes.

About Hannah Pakula
Hannah Pakula is the author of The Last Romantic: A Biography of Queen Marie of Roumania, which Graham Greene called one of the three best books of the year, and also of An Uncommon Woman: The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm, which was a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist.

This event was a presentation of the Patron Network of THIRTEEN and WLIW21, in cooperation with The New York Society Library. For more information on the Patron Network and its many benefits for supporters, please click here.

Speakers

Laurence Bergreen, Author
Hannah Pakula, Author, The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China

Recorded at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, New York City on January 27, 2010.

An interesting look at the origins of the “modern surveillance state” – author Jennifer Fronc discusses her book, “New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era.” It was relatively common, it turns out, for “social activists” to send private investigators into gambling parlors, brothels, and meetings of criminal gangs and radical political organizations. These amateur sleuths – often journalists or social workers – were employed by organizations like the National Civic Federation and the Committee of Fourteen. The groups used the information gathered to “combat behavior they viewed as sexually promiscuous, politically undesirable, or downright criminal.” In Fronc’s book, she demonstrates how the strategy enabled the government to strengthen “a federal state that grew increasingly repressive in the interest of pursuing a national security agenda.”

Tenement Talks is an evening series of lectures, readings, panel discussions and programming that provides perspective on New York City’s rich culture.

Free & held at the Tenement Museum 108 Orchard unless otherwise noted.

RSVP to events(at)tenement.org.

http://twitter.com/tenementmuseum
http://twitter.com/tenementtalks

About the Tenement Museum

We tell the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was home to nearly 7000 working class immigrants.They faced challenges we understand today: making a new life, working for a better future, starting a family with limited means.

In recognizing the importance of this seemingly ordinary building, the Tenement Museum has re-imagined the role that museums can play in our lives.

Recorded at the Tenement Museum on January 12, 2010.  Runtime: 56 minutes.

Museum professional and School of Visual Arts faculty member David Ross leads a discussion with Thelma Golden, Hou Hanru, Susan Hefuna and Vasif Kortun on the impact of the global art scene on modernism. Golden is executive director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem; Hanru is the director of exhibitions and public programs at the San Francisco Art Institute; Hefuna is an artist based in Egypt and Germany; Kortun is the director of the Platform Garanti Contemporary Arts Center in Istanbul; and Ross is editor-at-large for the online magazine FLYP, former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a faculty member in the BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA.

Presented by the School of Visual Arts BFA Fine Arts Department in conjunction with the exhibition “Octet.”

Recorded on December 1 at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Running time: 92 minutes.

About Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts

With a faculty of approximately 100 active artists, critics and curators, a distinguished roster of guest lecturers and various exhibition opportunities, the BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA offers direct and multifaceted engagement with the largest art community in the world. From coursework in anatomy, figure drawing and color theory, to interdisciplinary workshops in digital and photo-based media, the curriculum provides the broadest possible means of expression.

She screens her non-fiction works Seeing Red (2005) and Odds of Recovery (2002) and answers questions about the films and her other work. Fore more information about the event and the films screened, click here.

Union Docs presents this program in partnership with The Standby Program.

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Recorded November 17, 2009 at Union Docs, Brooklyn.  Running time: 40 minutes.

About Su Friedrich
Su Friedrich began filmmaking in 1978 and has produced and directed eighteen 16mm films and videos. Her work is screened and distributed widely throughout the US, Canada and Europe. She teaches film & video production at Princeton University. Her DVD collection is distributed by Outcast Films.

About Union Docs
Based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, UnionDocs is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization. Our mission is to present a broad range of innovative and thought-provoking non-fiction projects to the general public, while also cultivating specialized opportunities for learning, critical discourse, and creative collaboration for emerging media-makers, theorists, and curators.

Our local screenings, exhibitions and lectures attract people from New York City and beyond, promoting dialogue about significant social questions and expanding popular awareness of the documentary arts. Expert panels and discussions from these events are recorded, archived, and made available online to growing national and international audiences. For individuals in their early careers, The UnionDocs Collaborative is a program that deeply engages current modes of non-fiction and facilitates the annual production of a group project.

UnionDocs seeks to support compelling, creative work in this field because we believe that documentary art, when paired with thoughtful context and open debate, is an invaluable tool for understanding the complexities of contemporary life and creating a better society.

About The Standby Program
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I first met Helen Fisher in 2006, when I visited her Upper East Side apartment to interview her for a Science & the City podcast about the science of love. Helen, who is a professor at Rutgers University and author of five books, had recently become Chief Scientific Advisor to Chemstry.com, which was touting a scientific new method she had developed for determining romantic compatibility. Based on more than 30 years of biological anthropological research into the nature and chemistry of romantic love, Helen had devised an online questionnaire that would enable the matchmaking site to take a scientific approach to pairing up its romance-seeking customers. Answers to an odd variety of questions—such as, Which in a series of doodles is most similar to your own? Or, How does the length of your index finger compare to your ring finger?—would give Chemistry.com a clue about the respondent’s levels of the four hormones that Fisher says are the keys to successful relationships.

Four years later, Helen was one of the first people to come to mind when I began recruiting women doing fascinating research to speak in a Girls Night Out series. At the New York Academy of Sciences on Tuesday night, more than 300 people crowded into the 40th floor conference center for the first event in our series to hear Helen explain the science behind her personality test and her research into how brain chemistry influences the success of our romantic attachments and our choices of partners. Some of her research is based on studies in which she observed the brains of people in love, or recently rejected in love, though functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Check out the video to learn which hormones are best in similar doses and which make opposites attract, and to find out what Helen thinks about humans’ tendency toward monogamy, and why love is like cocaine to the brain. She shares information that might help you to find love if you’re looking for it, or to better understand the partner you already have.

The Museum of American Finance hosts “Did Economists Get It Wrong?” – an expert panel on the different explanations of the current crisis on the 80th anniversary of the Crash of 1929.

Speakers
David Adler, Economic journalist and author of Snap Judgment (Financial Times Press, 2009)
Justin Fox, Economics and business columnist for Time magazine
Teresa Ghilarducci, Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor in Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research and the Director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA)
Robert Shiller, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management

About the Museum of American Finance

The Museum of American Finance, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is the nation’s only public museum dedicated to finance, entrepreneurship and the open market system. With its extensive collection of financial documents and objects, its seminars and educational programming, its publication and oral history program, the Museum portrays the breadth and richness of American financial and economic history. For more information, visit www.moaf.org. To contribute to the Museum’s Recessipedia wiki on the current financial crisis, please visit www.recessipedia.org.

Recorded on October 20, 2009 at the Museum of American Finance.  Runtime: 65 minutes.

What happens when you fall in love? Helen Fisher says it begins when someone takes on special meaning. “The world has a new center,” she says, “then you focus on him or her. Your beloved’s car is different from every other car in the parking lot, for example. People can list what they don’t like about their sweetheart, but they sweep these things aside and focus on what they adore. Intense energy, elation, mood swings, emotional dependence, separation anxiety, possessiveness, a pounding heart and craving are all central to this madness. But most important is obsessive thinking.” As Fisher says, “Someone is camping in your head.”

A biological anthropologist who has conducted fMRI studies on the brains of people in love, Fisher maintains that humans have evolved three core brain systems for mating and reproduction: lust, romantic attraction, and attachment to a long term partner. Fisher and her colleagues have put 49 people into a brain scanner (fMRI) to study the brain circuitry of romantic love: 17 had just fallen madly in love; 15 had just been dumped; 17 reported they were still in love after an average of 21 years of marriage. One of her central ideas is that romantic love is a drive stronger than the sex drive. She says, “After all, if you causally ask someone to go to bed with you and they refuse, you don’t slip into a depression, or commit suicide or homicide; but around the world people suffer terribly from rejection in love.” She also maintains that taking serotonin-enhancing antidepressants (SSRIs) can potentially dampen feelings of romantic love and attachment, as well as the sex drive.

Fisher has looked at marriage and divorce in 58 societies, adultery in 42 cultures, patterns of monogamy and desertion in birds and mammals, and gender differences in the brain and behavior. In her newest work, she reports on four biologically-based personality types, and using data on 28,000 people collected on the dating site Chemistry.com, she explores who you are and why you are chemically drawn to some types more than others.

Recorded at The New York Academy of Sciences on January 5, 2010.  Runtime: 87 minutes.

This event is part of the Girls Night Out at The New York Academy of Sciences series.

Follow @sciandthecity to learn more about Girls Night Out.

Explore human emotions on THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE.

Read The New York Academy of Science’s Public Outreach Director Helen Fisher’s blog post about meeting Helen Fisher and bringing her to NYAS.

About The New York Academy of Sciences

The New York Academy of Sciences is a membership organization with over 24,000 members in 140 countries. They include research scientists at universities and industry, as well as representatives of business, government, and policy organizations. Our Board of Governors and President’s Council include 26 Nobel laureates and other prominent leaders of academia and industry, based in New York and around the world.

Nobel Laureate and neurobiologist Gerald Edelman, psychologist Paul Ekman, and anthropologist Terrence Deacon tell us how Charles Darwin has influenced science and their own research.

Presented by The New York Academy of Sciences, November 24, 2009. Runtime: 2 hours 37 minutes.

Learn more about Darwin and Origin of Species from NOVA.

About The New York Academy of Sciences

The New York Academy of Sciences is a membership organization with over 24,000 members in 140 countries. They include research scientists at universities and industry, as well as representatives of business, government, and policy organizations. Our Board of Governors and President’s Council include 26 Nobel laureates and other prominent leaders of academia and industry, based in New York and around the world.

Tenement Talks is an evening series of lectures, readings, panel discussions and programming that provides perspective on New York City’s rich culture.

Free & held at the Tenement Museum 108 Orchard unless otherwise noted.

RSVP to events(at)tenement.org.

The Lower East Side Stories series invites professionals and up-and-comers from the storytelling circuit to tell New York tales around a particular theme. This is the last event in the “Lower East Side Stories” series which features stories related to the holidays.

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Storytellers
H.R. Britton, Host
Suzie Sims-Fletcher
DJ Hazard
Rajeev Varma
Martin Dockery
James Braly
Rob Hollander

Recorded at the Tenement Museum, December 17, 2009. Runtime: 74 minutes.

About the Tenement Museum

We tell the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was home to nearly 7000 working class immigrants.They faced challenges we understand today: making a new life, working for a better future, starting a family with limited means.

In recognizing the importance of this seemingly ordinary building, the Tenement Museum has re-imagined the role that museums can play in our lives.

An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century is a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms, from one of the greatest living humanitarian activists.  Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering and evil we hope never to encounter, and faced deep personal torment, James Orbinski, M.D. still believes in “the good we can be if we so choose.”  Through his stories, he provides us with lessons in how we can inject humanitarian activity into our lives.   Dr. James Orbinski is past international president of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for MSF in 1999 and is the founder of Dignitas International, an organization committed to community-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS in the developing world.

This event was a presentation of the Patron Network of THIRTEEN and WLIW21, in cooperation with The New York Society Library.  For more information on the Patron Network and its many benefits for supporters of THIRTEEN and WLIW21 throughout the year, please click here.

Speakers

Sara Eliott Holliday, The New York Society Library
James Orbinski, M.D., Author, An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century

Recorded at Merkin Concert Hall, September 24, 2009. Runtime: 93 minutes.

Christopher Allen, founder and director of UnionDocs, independent producer and new head of programming at UnionDocs, Steve Holmgren, Rich Siegmeister and Bob Morris of Reel13, and Keith Boynton and Mike Lavoie of 12films12weeks met at DCTV for a New York Film/Video Council discussion about low-cost filmmaking, exploring how filmmakers with low budgets can produce valuable work.

Read moderator Pamela Cohn’s related blog entry If You’ve Got the Content We’ve Got the Airtime (and the Audience).

Speakers

Howard Weinberg, President, New York Film/Video Council
Ginger Brown, New York Film/Video Council
Pamela Cohn, Moderator
Christopher Allen, Union Docs
Steve Holmgren, Union Docs
Rich Siegmeister, Reel13 WNET.org
Bob Morris, Reel13 WNET.org
Keith Boynton, 12films12weeks.com
Mike Lavoie, 12films12weeks.com

Recorded at DCTV, New York, October 27, 2009. Runtime: 88 minutes.

About the New York Film/Video Council

This season the New York Film/Video Council celebrates more than a half century of service to the New York independent film and video community. We would like to invite you to become a member.

From September to June, the Council offers monthly programs organized by our volunteer board of directors. The events include screenings, seminars and panel discussions on topics such as: production funding, new media technologies, distribution, exhibition, as well as a variety of issues facing film and video producers. Each event features an informal reception.

One of the best aspects of the Council is the opportunity to informally meet other professionals in the New York media community. Our members include independent film and video producers and artists, writers, crafts people, cable television programmers, film and video distributors, media librarians, museum curators, festival coordinators and others. There is a real sense of community at the meetings, and members are often able to share information and support each other’s work.

See the Reel13 shorts competition featuring films from 12films12weeks.

THIRTEEN visits the Scholastic Auditorium for a screening and discussion of Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think.  The film from Unity Productions Foundation follows the international Gallup poll of Muslim opinion on matters from which their voices are often excluded.

This event was sponsored by Intersections International, Change the Story, Americans for Informed Democracy, Islamic Relief USA, and the Mecca Center.  Partners included the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Council for the Advancement of Muslim Professionals, and the Interfaith Center of New York.

Speakers

Alex Kronemer, Co-Founder, UPF
Zeba Iqbal, Board Member, Muslim Public Affairs Council
Reverend Robert Chase, Founding Director, Intersections International
Shamil Idriss, CEO, Soliya
Fatima Shama, Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs, City of New York
Rob Gardner, Director & Producer

Recorded at the Scholastic Auditorium, New York, November 10, 2009.

About the Film

Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think, a new documentary film from Unity Productions Foundation, explores the expertly gathered opinions of Muslims around the globe as revealed in the world’s first major opinion poll, conducted by Gallup, the preeminent polling organization.

Gallup researchers began by asking the questions on every American’s mind. Why is there so much anti-Americanism in the Muslim world? Who are the extremists and how do Muslims feel about them? What do Muslims like and dislike about the West? What do Muslim women really want?

Crucial policy decisions hang on these questions. They continue to generate passionate disagreements in the public square. Yet for all the heat and controversy, the actual views of the world’s Muslims have been conspicuously missing from this debate.

Now, we have the missing answers and statistics, gathered, parsed, and analyzed not by pundits but by professional researchers.

Read a blog post about the event at Intersections.

The story of the Trojan War is immortalized in Homer’s epic of epic poems, The Iliad and brought to life in Caroline Alexander’s The War That Killed Achilles – a work that Ken Burns calls “a triumph.” Through the hero Achilles, The Iliad draws on the true nature of what it means to be a soldier, to fight a conflict whose hallmarks are hardly honor and glory, but rather deception, betrayal, pride, violence, and the inescapability of fate. The War That Killed Achilles is a poignant dissection of the epic poem that is relevant to all wars, from ancient Greece through today’s Iraq.

Caroline Alexander is the author of the international bestsellers The Endurance and The Bounty and has written for The New Yorker, Granta, Smithsonian, Outside, and National Geographic. She studied philosophy and theology at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and has a doctorate in classics from Columbia University.

This event was a presentation of the Patron Network of THIRTEEN and WLIW21, in cooperation with The New York Society Library.  For more information on the Patron Network and its many benefits for supporters, please click here.

Speakers

Benita Eisler, Author
Caroline Alexander, Author, The War That Killed Achilles
Simon Prebble, Narrator and Voice Actor

Recorded at Temple Israel, October 29, 2009. Runtime: 60 minutes.

Read the related blog post by Sara Elliott Holliday from the New York Society Library.

Sara Elliott Holliday, The New York Society Library

THIRTEEN and The New York Society Library have four to six Author Series events a year since 1997. The lectures are created with the Patrons of these two instutions in mind, cultivating a large base of literate and socially conscious New Yorkers who make a focused and stimulating audience for the speakers.

Most Author Series events focus on recently published nonfiction books, plus the occasional novel. Speakers include both established authors, like Caroline Alexander, and people notable for varied accomplishments, such as Renée Fleming. Other past speakers include Benita Eisler, Shirley Hazzard, Walter Isaacson, Erica Jong, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Wendy Wasserstein, Robert A. Caro, Tom Wolfe, Dr. James Orbinski, and Bill Moyers. Topics have covered everything from the history of Manhattan (Russell Shorto, 2005) to the genocide in Rwanda (Paul Rusesabagina, 2007).

Audience members appreciate the chance to hear and meet an author they’ve enjoyed or gain a little education on a new subject. They don’t hesitate to ask demanding questions or even to disagree with the speaker; sometimes the question-and-answer session goes on for almost as long as the lecture.

Caroline Alexander’s event on The War That Killed Achilles was a particularly ideal one because it combined the classic of classics, Homer’s Iliad, with a trenchant application of its message to contemporary warfare. It is revealing to see how relevant Homer’s sense of tragedy is to today’s conflicts across the globe. The evening was also enriched by the beautiful voice of Simon Prebble, reading of the death of Hector.

For twelve years the Author Series has brought together recently published authors and appreciative audiences, and we are enjoying another excellent season in 2009-2010.

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Director Victoria Pitt, Executive Producer Jared Lipworth, author Mira Kamdar (@MiraKamdar), and Al Jazeera correspondent Todd Baer join Columbia Journalism School’s Sree Sreenivasan (@sreenet) for a discussion about the making of Secrets of the Dead: Mumbai Massacre and the events surrounding the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai. Presented in partnership with SAJAforum.

Read Journalist Todd Baer’s Forum blog post, Revisiting the Mumbai Massacre.

Speakers

Victoria Pitt, director
Jared Lipworth, executive producer
Mira Kamdar, author, Planet India
Todd Baer, Al Jazeera

Recorded at The Journalism School, Columbia University, November 17, 2009. Runtime: 67 minutes.

About Secrets of the Dead: Mumbai Massacre

Timed for broadcast on the first anniversary of the attacks, THIRTEEN’s Secrets of the Dead: Mumbai Massacre brings viewers first-hand survivor accounts, closed-circuit footage of the chaos from within the hotels and actual words spoken by both victims and terrorists. The film premieres nationally Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Actor Liev Schreiber (Taking Woodstock and X-Men Origins: Wolverine) narrates. Secrets of the Dead is a production of THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG – one of America’s most prolific and respected public media providers.

Todd Baer, correspondent, Al Jazeera English

The panel at Columbia University almost 1 year to the day since the Mumbai attacks was an engaging discussion and analysis of what happened in one of the world’s greatest cities on November 26, 2008.

The film that was presented, Secrets of the Dead: Mumbai Massacre by director Victoria Pitt, gave us a personal and compelling account of how the survivors managed to get away. We heard for the first time the chilling phone calls between the attackers and their handlers in Pakistan, as senior members of Lashkar-e-Taiba ordered the attackers to inflict as much damage as possible.

The film and panel discussion also brought up something that as been a source of contention since the world’s media converged on Mumbai to cover the story.

Was this an attack on foreigners staying in high-end hotels? Was this a religious attack aimed at Mumbai’s Jewish community at Nariman House? Was this an attack on India, the Indian people and Indo/Pak relations?

The short answer is all of the above, but the story presented enormous challenges to the media because there were so many layers. The panel discussion allowed me to give some insight into how I was able to cover the story for Al Jazeera English.

I had the advantage of having lived in Mumbai. I had stayed at the Oberoi Hotel and frequently visited Colaba District, where the attacks happened. In addition to this, I previously worked as a correspondent in both India and Pakistan, so naturally, I had a good understanding of what happened, where it was happening and who may be behind such a brazen attack.

Before leaving for Mumbai, my editor Richard Lewis offered what I consider to be the most commendable guidelines I have ever had on a story. He said in his notable Australian drawl, “Hey mate, let’s not make this an attack on Brits and Americans in expensive hotels. Be sure to emphasize that this was an attack on India and on the people of Mumbai.”

It made good sense. Of the more than 170 people who died, most of them were Indian citizens just going about their daily routines at Victoria station and dining at Leopold Café or the Taj and Oberoi Hotels.

Al Jazeera English had five teams of correspondents, producers and cameramen in Mumbai to cover the story. I think we probably had more manpower and more resources than any TV network in the world; this allowed me to tell the part of the story that most of the international media overlooked.

But this wasn’t just about manpower and resources. This was an example of exemplary editorial judgment from our bosses in Doha, Qatar, where Al Jazeera English is based. We knew that most of the media, no matter how many reporters they had on the ground, would run with the headline that this was an attack on foreigners and forget the Indian story.

No journalist feels good about covering a story like this, but it is our job to explain awful events to the world. I can’t think of a better assignment than getting a chance to tell the Indian part of this story.

The editorial decision allowed me to tell stories that no other international media outlet covered. We traveled to Gujarat to tell the story of Balwant Bi Tandel, one of the first casualties of the Mumbai attacks. Tandel was a fisherman on the trawler that was hijacked before the attackers reached Mumbai. We told the story of how Vishnu Ratta Van Zende, the train announcer at Victoria Station, saved dozens of lives. And we traveled to Kashmir to report on Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group behind the attacks.

Producing short news segments and making a film are different things that present unique sets of challenges.

Secrets of the Dead’s film Mumbai Massacre did an excellent job of touching on all aspects of the attack, while focusing on the stories of the survivors caught up in the siege.

This was the most compelling story that could be told in a film format because the survivors’ struggle lasted for three harrowing days, and they spoke in detail about the fear and panic inside of the hotels.

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Taped at The Jewish Theological Seminary, April 1, 2009
Speakers:
Russell G. Pearce: Edward & Marilyn Bellet Professor of Legal Ethics, Morality, and Religion
running time: 48 minutes 49 seconds

Today, the legal profession faces a crisis of ethics and professionalism. Will the values that sustained lawyers in the past continue to support them, or is there a need for new ways to think about the role of lawyers? In particular, can and should religious perspectives come into play? If so, under what conditions?

Russell G. Pearce, Edward & Marilyn Bellet Professor of Legal Ethics, Morality, and Religion and codirector of the Louis Stein Center for Ethics and Law at Fordham University School of Law, discusses “Do Lawyers and Faith-Based Values Belong Together? A Guide to the Perplexing Issues of Legal Ethics and Professionalism” at the Bernard G. Segal Memorial Lecture in Law and Ethics at The Jewish Theological Seminary.

Taped at Temple Israel, May 13, 2009
Speakers:
Lynne Sharon Schwartz: Author: Not Now, Voyager
running time: 1 hour 4 minutes

Lynne Sharon Schwartz in Not Now, Voyager presents a provocative memoir exploring the meaning of travel—what we seek, what we find, and how we learn about who we really are. Schwartz, who has published critically acclaimed fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, and translations from Italian, takes us on a voyage of self-discovery as she traces how travel has shaped her sensibilities from childhood through adulthood. This event was a presentation of the Patron Network of THIRTEEN and WLIW21, in cooperation with The New York Society Library. For more information on the Patron Network and its many benefits for supporters of THIRTEEN and WLIW21 throughout the year, please click here.

Taped at The New York Academy of Sciences, January 21, 2009
Speakers:
Mark Duvall: Director, Electric Transportation, Electric Power Research Institute
Arthur Kressner: Director, Research and Development, Power Supply, Consolidated Edison Company of New York
and
Richard L. Drake, P.E.: Program Manager, Transportation & Power Systems, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
running time: 1 hour 52 minutes

Current hybrid cars use gasoline to generate all of their electric power. In contrast, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) get their electric power primarily from the grid. So in most of the country, they will not require a new infrastructure–unlike other alternative-fuel vehicles. But in cities like New York, many car owners do not park in personal garages, so there is no readily available place to charge a PHEV. What can New York City do to smooth the transition to PHEVs? Mark Duvall, of the Electric Power Research Institute, presents the technological and economic issues that must be addressed to make PHEVs commercially viable. Arthur Kressner, director of research and development for Power Supply at Con Edison, discusses what changes are needed in the electrical supply system in order for it to successfully accommodate PHEVs. And Richard Drake, program manager at New York State Energy Research & Development Authority for alternative-fuel vehicle technology, focuses on working towards large scale deployment of PHEVs in New York State’s own fleet, in this fascinating discussion of the next step in green technology, brought to you by the New York Academy of Sciences.

Taped at Temple Israel, March 5, 2009
Speakers:
William F. Baker, Ph.D. :Author, Leading with Kindness; President Emeritus, THIRTEEN
and
Michael O’Malley, Ph.D.: Co-author, Leading with Kindness
running time: 1 hour

By now, many leaders have realized that when it comes to business, nice guys often finish first. Old-fashioned images of corporate callousness and greed have been replaced by a gentler, more human conception of great leadership. But how does one define “kindness” in the context of business? This realistic book shows leaders how they can use sincerity, honesty, and respect for the good of their organizations. As the authors demonstrate in the case studies of Google and the Juilliard School, today’s business leaders must instill four qualities in their successors to ensure success: self-confidence, self-control, self-awareness, and self-determination. Compelling and realistic, Leading With Kindness leads the way to a prosperous and proud future for American business. This event was a presentation of the Patron Network of THIRTEEN and WLIW21, in cooperation with The New York Society Library. The Patron Network provides benefits for supporters of Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21 throughout the year.

This Forum is part two of a four part series.

This Forum is part one of a four part series.

Panelists convened to assess the situation in Burma, including: Sir John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator; The Hon. Henrietta Fore, Administrator, US Agency for International Development and Director of US Foreign Assistance (via teleconference); Ambassador Vanu Gopala Menon, Permanent Representative of Singapore to the UN, and; a local volunteer relief worker in Burma (via teleconference). This event was held by the Asia Society and the Open Society Institute.

George C. Biddle (Moderator), Senior Vice President, International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Join columnists Amity Shlaes and Jonathan Alter as they square off with strikingly different interpretations of the New Deal and its meaning for both Election 2008 and the country’s future.

Shlaes is the author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (2007), and a columnist for Bloomberg; Alter is the author of The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope and a senior editor for Newsweek.

This event was held by the New-York Historical Society.

She is the author of a two-part biography of Darwin, Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, which recently won both the National Book Critics Circle Prize and the Heinemann Award.

This event was presented by the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program as part of the MALS Bioethics, Science, and Society Lecture Series at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Panelists include artists and engineers who collaborate to produce software and hardware applications that access and visualize data usually obscured from public view; artists whose projects have questioned the rhetoric of surveillance by intervening more playfully in the expected aesthetics or power dynamics; and activists who monitor post-9/11 surveillance by intelligence agencies and its effects on immigrant and dissenting communities. This event was held by The New School.

Where will this new housing go, what will it look like, and who will be living there?

Shampa Chanda, Assistant Commissioner for Planning for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, outlines the Bloomberg administration’s housing initiatives as part of its comprehensive plaNYC.

This event was held at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York.