Counting Feminicide Book Launch & Signing Party

Samuel Tak Lee Building 105 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Samuel Tak Lee Building (MIT Building 9, Room 255). Counting Feminicide documents the creative, intellectual, and emotional labor of feminicide data activists across the Americas who are at the forefront of... READ MORE

Free

The Promise and Peril of AI: Gary Marcus and Raffi Krikorian in Conversation

P&T Knitwear Bookstore, Coffee, & Podcast Studio 180 Orchard Street, New York, New York, United States

P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome the Sustainable Media Center for a thought-provoking discussion on the future of artificial intelligence, featuring Gary Marcus, author and renowned technologist, in conversation with Raffi Krikorian, Chief Technical Officer of Engineering at Emerson Collective and... READ MORE

Free – $54.29

Shropshire Humanists – Lecture with Christ French

Thursday 19th September 2024 Arrive 6.30pm for 7.00pm startSpeaker Meeting‘The Science of Weird Stuff: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal’ by Professor Christopher FrenchHead of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Goldsmith... READ MORE

The Cities We Need

Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave, New York City, New York, United States

Join us for a conversation with photographer and urbanist Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani and interdisciplinary scholar Judy Pryor-Ramirez exploring the themes of Bendiner-Viani’s new book The Cities We Need, which reveals through photographs and stories how everyday places... READ MORE

Free

Gary Marcus: Taming Big Tech and AI

The Commonwealth Club of California 110 The Embarcadero; Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, California, United States

On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? Proponents of the new technology say AI could revolutionize science, medicine, and technology, and deliver us a world of abundance and... READ MORE

$10 – $30

Books Inc. Berkeley feat. author Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

Books Inc. 1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, California, United States

An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging. Where would you take someone on a guided tour of your... READ MORE

Free

A Gilded Afternoon: Fairytales and Fashions

Enjoy Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Jewels Variations from Act III of Sleeping Beauty, performed by the Canton Ballet, and period pieces performed by a Canton Symphony Orchestra String Quartet. Following the program, Gilding Northeast Ohio Guest Curator... READ MORE

 Anna Von Mertens – Attention is Discovery

Fivesparks Gallery 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, Massachusetts, United States

Visual artist and author Anna Von Mertens will talk about her book Attention Is Discovery:The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt (to be released September 17th by theMIT Press), which tells... READ MORE

Free

Ethical Matters: Public Art and Resistance in the City

Conway Hall 25 Red Lion Square, London, United Kingdom

What is graffiti—vandalism, ornament, art? In this Ethical Matters talk, curator and anthropologist Rafael Schacter explores public art, citizenship, and the city today. His book, ‘Monumental Graffiti’ unpacks today’s iconoclastic moment, showing... READ MORE

$7 – $10

Other Influences: A Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry Reading

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

The Woodberry Poetry Room is honored to present an electrifying constellation of poets--Carla Harryman, Erica Hunt, Tracie Morris, Hoa Nguyen, Prageeta Sharma and Anne Tardos--coming together to honor their radical, visionary lineages and the forthcoming publication of OTHER... READ MORE

Free