Virtual Events
January 2024
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. ET: Notable New Yorkers of Bloomingdale: An Update
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. ET: FRIENDS of the Upper East Side Historic Districts | Jacob Wrey Mould and the Artful Beauty of Central Park
Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. ET: OHNY Stacks: South Bronx Rising
October 2023
Monday, October 30, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. ET: Online Celebration and Book Launch for Narrating Humanity
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. ET: Talking Books: Asian American Authors in Conversation—Paperback Book Launch Celebration of Alvin Eng’s Memoir, Our Laundry, Our Town
July 2023
Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. ET: Florida State Oriental Medical Association: Prescriptions for Virtuosity
May 2023
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. ET: Lunch & Learn: Our Laundry, Our Town with Alvin Eng
Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. ET: Word Thursdays Featuring Frank Haberle and Alvin Eng
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 2:15 p.m. ET: Book Talk: Punk, Plays, and Protest with Alvin Eng [Passcode: Passcode: AMST3143]
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. ET: Secrets of Riverside Park and Riverside Drive | Landmark West! Zoom Presentation with Stephanie Azzarone
Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. PST: Quenton Baker with Damien M. Sojoyner, author of Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice
April 2023
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 6:30 p.m.: Virtual Book Talk with Stevan Weine on Best Minds with the Columbia Alumni Association, Chicago
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. ET: Center for Brooklyn History Talk | “Never Far From Home,” Bruce Jackson and Ron Howell in Conversation
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. ET: Riverside Park and Riverside Drive with Stephanie Azzarone | The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. (Hybrid) In-person registration and Online Registration
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. ET: South Bronx Rising: Jill Jonnes, Virtual Book Talk & Conversation with The Skyscraper Museum
March 2023
Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.: ICJS Book Conversations with author Maeera Shreiver and ICJS Jewish Scholar Ben Sax
Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. ET: The Olmstead Network: Frank Kowsky on Jacob Wrey Mould
February 2023
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 12:30 p.m. ET: Online Speaker Series: New York Archives Magazine | A Bridge to Justice: The Life of Franklin H. Williams
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 6:15 p.m. ET: Utopia 7/13 | Concrete Utopianism (Hybrid)
January 2023
Monday, January 23, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. ET: Virtual Book Talk on South Bronx Rising with The Bronx Country Historical Society
December 2022
Tuesday, December 13 at 4 p.m. ET: Maeera Shreiber | Book Launch & Lecture on Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone - Hybrid Event
November 2022
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. CET: Boukary Sawadogo on Africans in Harlem at The American Library in Paris (HYBRID Event)
Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. ET: Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park
October 2022
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. EST: Alvin Eng at NYPL, Chatham Square Library | Asian American Authors in Conversation (Online and In-Person)
September 2022
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. EST: From Martin to Moses: A History of Riverside Park
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. PT: Berkeley Book Chats: Viking Mediologies: A New History of Skaldic Poetics
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. EST: "Transformative Architecture: Charles B.J. Snyder and NYC Public Schools" with the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative and East Village Community Coalition
June 2022
Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. PT: Stroke Book – Entanglements of Time, Healthcare and Queerness
Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. EST: Princeton Class of 1979 | What Spreads, What Breaks, What Mends: A Conversation with Angel Garcia and Richard Smith
Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. EST: Book Launch for Form and Foreskin, Hosted by the UCLA English Department
Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. EST: Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond | Literary Thursday Virtual Series with the Queens Public Library
Monday, June 13 at 10:00 a.m. EST: June 2022 ASC Service Symposium Series with Dr. Boukary Sawadogo
May 2022
Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. EST: Book Talk on Our Laundry, Our Town with Alvin Eng and Kew & Willow Books
Wednesday, May 25 at 4:00 p.m. CT: Asian-America Family Secrets: Hidden in Plain Sight: Virtual talk with Alvin Eng and genealogist and Think! Chinatown President of Board of Trustees, Amy Chin
Friday, May 20, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. EST: Book Launch: Part 1 | Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond | CUNY's Asian American/Asian Research Institute (AAARI)
Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. EST: Two Marys, a Gulp and a Swallow - The Peculiar Book Club
Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. EST: A Panel Discussion on Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision with the Bureau of General Studies, Queer Division
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 6 p.m. EST: Just Universities - Women’s Equality in the Corporatized University: A Challenge for Catholic Social Teaching
April 2022
Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. EST: Marilyn S. Greenwald, author of Eunice Hunton Carter will tell us The Story of a Life at the Ohioana Book Festival
Friday, April 15, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. EST: Book Launch for Richard Rechtman’s Living in Death: Genocide and Its Functionaries
March 2022
Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. EST: Queer Power of Prayer with Rev. Micah Bucey
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. CET: Evenings with an Author | Reading for the Planet with Jennifer Wenzel - Hybrid Event at The American Library in Paris
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. EST: Book Launch: Dear Queer Self by Jonathan Alexander
Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. EST: Books Sandwiched In: Virtual Author Talks at Noon with Drucilla Cornell & Jane Gordon
Thursday, March 10, 2022: Book Talk: New York After 9/11 at the University of Massachusetts Boston (Open to current and former students in the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution at UMB)
Tuesday, March 8, 2022: Nonfiction in Experimental + Poetic Form: Mary Cappello, Cassandra Lane, Yiyun Li, and Brigid Hughes
February 2022
Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. PST: Marginshift: Live Stream Poetry Reading with Sarah Mangold
Monday, February 7, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. EST: Book Talk | Trailblazer: Eunice Hunton Carter
Wednesday, February 2, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. PW: Care and Crisis in India with Vaibhav Saria | An SFU President’s Faculty Lecture
Wednesday, February 2, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. EST: Faculty Book Launch for Techno-Magism | Orrin Wang in Conversation with Scott Trudell
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. EST: Inaugural Eunice Carter Lecture Speaking Truth to Power: A Conversation with Nicole Hannah-Jones (Open Exclusively to the Fordham Community)
January 2022
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. EST: The Queer Power of Prayer with Rev. Micah Bucey
December 2021
Friday, December 17, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. EST: A Night with Micah Bucey and The Book of Tiny Prayer
Friday, December 3, 2021 at 5:30 p.m. EST: Low-keynote, Mary Cappello at NonfictioNOW
November 2021
Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. EST: AAR 2021 Panel: Just Universities Mean Just Economics with Gerald Beyer, author of Just Universities: Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education
Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. EST: Lecture by Dr. Gerald Beyer on his book Just UniversitiesÂ
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. EST: Cardiff BookTalk: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Tuesday, November 6, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. EST: Reading with Sarah Mangold and Stephanie Schlaifer at Elliott Bay Book Company
Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. EST: Cruising into Age—Getting Older Queerly
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 5:30 p.m. EST: Book Talk: Jini Kim Watson's Cold War Reckonings
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. EST: Poets at Diners: A Night Out w/ Wong, Mohabir, Nguyen, & Corfman
Monday, November 1, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.: Praying For & Praying With: Micah Bucey & Cláudio Carvalhaes in Conversation
October 2021
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. EST: Sound Art Revisited with Alan Licht and Julie Beth Napolin
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. EST: Meet the Press:Â A discussion with Cornell University Press, Fordham University Press, and Yale University Press
Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. EST: Celebrating Barnard Authors: Emily Sun, author of On the Horizon of World Literature
September 2021
Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. EST: 9/11's Aftermath: Connecting NYC's Calamitous Past with Present
Thursday, September 30, 2021: Book Talk with Emily Sun for On the Horizon of World Literature
Monday, September 27, 2021 at 1 p.m. EST: The Scalpel of Writing: Writers Read Louise DeSalvo
Friday, September 24, 2201: Book Launch for Anarchy and the Kingdom of God
Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 2 p.m. EST: Book Launch for Old Schools at the Critical Antiquities Workshop
August 2021
Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at 1:40 p.m. EST: 9/11 Legacy: Facts & Meaning
Thursday, August 26, 2021 at 10 a.m. EST: Book Launch for Living with Concepts
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. EST: Book Launch for Mixing Medicines
June 2021
Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 6:00 p.m.: Against Mastery: Anticolonial Modes of Unknowing, Reading, and Critique
June 2021
Friday, June 18, 2021 at 12:00 p.m.: Totality Inside Out Roundtable
Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 10:40 a.m.: 92nd Street Y Class Series with Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis: To be Buried like a Pharaoh: Woodlawn and Green-Wood Cemeteries
Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 1:00 p.m.: Roundtable on Geoffrey Bennington's Scatter 2: Politics in Deconstruction
Thursday, June 3, 2021 at 10:30 a.m.: 92nd Street Y Class Series with Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis: The Life of Luxury: The Lobster Palaces and Gilded Age-Residences
Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 2 p.m.: The New Humanitarians: Who are They and What are They Doing?
Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 12:00 p.m.: Writing the Mob: Chronicling Organized Crime in the 20th Century
Tuesday, June 1, 2021: The Skyscraper Museum
May 2021
Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 10:30 a.m.: 92nd Street Y Class Series with Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis: New York in Ruins: The Lost Buildings
Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 10:30 a.m.: 92nd Street Y Class Series with Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis: New York’s Forgotten Gems
Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 12:00 p.m.: Author Luncheon with Susan Celia Greenfield & Dennis Barton
Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 11:45 a.m. ET: Book Panel for Just Universities: Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education at the National Center for Collective Bargaining in Higher Education
Sunday, May 2, 20201 at 4:00 p.m. ET: Book Launch: Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice
April 2021
Friday, April 30, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. ET: A World in the Making: Reflections on Clara Han's Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War
Monday, April 26, 2021: Dylan Rodriguez, author of White Reconstruction will give the keynote at Abolitionist Imaginaries One-Day Symposium
Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. EST: Guestbook Symposium and Book Launch
Thursday, April 22, 2021: Just Universities - Faculty Union at St. John's Event
Wednesday, April 14, 2021: Round Table on Shell-Shocked: Feminist Criticism after Trump at Midwest Political Science Association
Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 7 p.m. EST: Poetry in Pajamas: My Daily Actions, or the Meteorites
Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 8 p.m.: Poetics Plus Reading with José Felipe Alvergue
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 7 p.m.: Pilsen Community Books: A Conversation with Rachel Ida Buff, Alejandra Oliva and iuscely flores about the new book A is for Asylum Seeker
Thursday, April 1, 2021: Book Launch for Banished Children of Eve at NYU's Glucksman Ireland House
March 2021
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 8:00 p.m.: Genevieve Yue Presents: Implicit Movies, Part 2
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 8:00 p.m.: Genevieve Yue Presents: Implicit Movies, Part 1
Monday, March 22, 2021 at 5:00 p.m.: Book Launch for Like a Lake at the Royal College of Art
Friday, March 19, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. CT: The Long 2020: Libby Anker, William Connolly, and Bonnie Honig
Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 10:40 PM Asia/Karachi: LUMS Live Session 70: Empire and Its Afterlives: Book Launch Revolutionary Pasts and A World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
Friday, March 12, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. GMT: Empire and Its Afterlives: Book Launch for Who is a Muslim?
Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 7 p.m.: Book Talk on The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico with the Curran Center for American Catholic StudiesÂ
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 7 p.m.: Just Universities? Practicing Solidarity in Difficult Times
February 2021
Friday, February 26, 2021 @ 1:10 p.m.: Adab Colloquium: Martyr/Mujahid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.: Is Queer Theory Erotophobic?
Thursday, February 18, 2021 @ 3:00 p.m.: World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth - J. Daniel Elam Book Talk
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 4:00 p.m.: Stroke Book: The Queer Story of a Blindspot
Friday, February 16, 2021 at 5:30 p.m.: Jim Mackin and Matthew Spady Discuss Their New Books with The Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group
January 2021
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 7 p.m.: Charla con autor Angel Garcia
Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 7 p.m.: Pop-up Theology - A Conversation with Author Angel Garcia on The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico: Neil Connolly’s Priesthood in the South Bronx
December 2020
Monday, December 14, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.: At Wit's End: The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke
Saturday, December 12, 2020 at 12:00 p.m.: Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan's Upper West Side: Bloomingdale-Morningside Heights
Saturday, December 11, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.: Book Launch for Arvo Pärt
Thursday, December 3, 2020: Book Launch for World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
November 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.: Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side: Bloomingdale-Morningside Heights
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.: Bishop Lecture: In the Shadow of Genius The Brooklyn Bridge and Its Creators
Friday, November 20, 2020: The Weekly Review on Mutiny Radio with Dylan Rodriguez
Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 4:00 p.m.: Literary Thursdays with Colin Davey, author of The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way: With a New Preface by the Author and a New Foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson
October 2020
Monday, October 26, 2020 at 4:00 p.m.: At Wit's End: The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke
Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.: Power of Political Ads: Buying Reality during Elections
Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 12:00 p.m.: The Shaker Moment: Why an 18th-Century Utopian Sect Appeals to Our Modern Age
Wednesday, October 7, 2020: A is for Asylum Seeker | Fall 2020: (Virtual) Refugee Crisis Workshop for Community-College Educators
Thursday, October 1, 2020: #RaiseUP: How University Presses Work for Overlooked Authors & Ideas
September 2020
Wednesday, September 30, 2020: Understanding Abolition Speaker Series, “Policing Past, Present, Future: Kickoff Event: A Conversation Between Dr. Dylan RodrĂguez and Dr. Alejandro Villalpando,” CSU Abolition Network and Cops Off Campus
Wednesday, September 23, 2020: That Further Shore: A Memoir of Irish Roots and American Promise | Brehon Law Society Fireside Chat with Dean Feerick
Friday September 18, 2020: A is for Asylum Seeker | UW System Lunch Talk @ Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW Madison
Friday, September 11, 2020: A is for Asylum Seeker | Virtual Event @ Wellfleet Public Library
Thursday, September 3, 2020: A is for Asylum Seeker | Boswell Book Launch with Rachel Ida Buff and Alejandra Oliva
August 2020
Friday, August 21, 2020: A is for Asylum Seeker | Virtual Event: Book Talk with Rachel Ida Buff and Alejandra Oliva@ UWM’s Center for 21st Studies
Wednesday, August 19, 2020: A is for Asylum Seeker | Osher Talks: Thinking Like a Caravan: People on the Move in Contemporary and Historical Movements
Wednesday, August 19, 2020: "Why Corporate Media Doesn’t Talk Honestly About Racism", The Real News
Wednesday, August 5, 2020: "Beyond Prisons: Dylan RodrĂguez, Part II: Police Accountability Is Casualty Management"
July 2020
Thursday, July 30, 2020: "Beyond Prisons, Part I: Abolition Is Our Obligation Featuring Dylan RodrĂguez"
Tuesday, July 14, 2020: Radical Ambivalence | Flannery O’Connor and Race: A Discussion of Radical Ambivalence
June 2020
Wednesday, June 24, 2020: Notable Residents of Morningside Heights in History
Monday, June 15, 2020: Augustine and the Orthodox: “The West” in the East
May 2020
Tuesday, May 19, 2020: “Asian and Black Solidarity and Struggle in the Time of COVID-19,” Daraja Press and Cooperation Jackson
APRIL 2020
MARCH 2020
Tuesday, March 31, 2020: “COVID-19 Pandemic Illuminates Anti-Chinese Racism and Xenophobia,” The Real News
NOVEMBER 2017