Unnameable Books: Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

Unnameable Books 615 Vanderbilt, New York, New York, United States

Join author Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani for a book launch event at Unnameable Books in NYC.

Free

Gary Marcus with Julia Angwin: Taming Silicon Valley

The New York Public Library-Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 42nd Street & 5th Avenue, New York, New York, United States

Gary Marcus discusses with journalist Julia Angwin what we need to do as a society, and as individual citizens, to safeguard our democracy and our future to create a thriving, AI-positive world.... READ MORE

Free

Democracy in a Hotter time with David Orr and Steve Scher

Congregational Church on Mercer Island 4545 Island Crest Way, Mercer Island, Washington, United States

Democracy in a Hotter Time calls for reforming democratic institutions as a prerequisite for avoiding climate chaos and adapting governance to how Earth works as a physical system. To survive in... READ MORE

Free

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

The Toadstool Bookshops: Anna Von Mertens

A portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention in scientific observation, artistic creation, and the making of meaning.

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

Green Apple Books 9th Ave: Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

Green Apple Books 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, California, United States

This event will be held at Green Apple Books' 1231 9th Ave location in the Inner Sunset.  An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our... READ MORE

Free – $39.95