UPCOMING EVENTS
Dr. Muhammad Yunus with Fareed Zakaria
Philanthropy in the 21st Century: Conversations on the Power of Giving
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
For all Conservators
What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? Impossible? The Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. As founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus has created an innovative banking program that provides poor people--mainly women--with small "microcredit" loans they use launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty.
The distinguished journalist, author, and CNN host Fareed Zakaria will join Dr. Yunus in a probing conversation on Yunus's groundbreaking work in social business--finding new ways to use the creative vibrancy of the marketplace to tackle social problems that range from poverty and pollution to inadequate health care and lack of education.
This is the second in the Conservators three-part series on Philanthropy in the 21st Century and is made possible through the generous support of The Bank of New York Mellon.
Preview Club
Thursday, March 6, 2008
For all Conservators
Princeton University historian and former Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellow Sean Wilentz will preview his highly anticipated new book, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008.
Computer Classes
Wednesday, March 12 and Monday, March 17, 2008
For all Conservators
Rare Books 101 offers an inside look at the world of rare book libraries, and will explore a wide range of topics of interest in the field of rare and antiquarian books using some of the latest electronic information resources for conducting rare books-related research.
Poetry at the Library: Josephine Hart & Friends
Monday, April 7, 2008
For all Conservators
Best selling author/theatrical producer Josephine Hart brings her sold-out British Library poetry evening to the United States for the first time to coincide with the publication of her new book with companion CD, Catching Life by the Throat: How to Read a Poem and Why.
Lenox & Astor Reading Group
May
For Lenox and Astor Conservators
Hosted in a private home, actor/writer Buck Henry will lead a discussion on his adaptation for the screen of Joseph Heller's 20th century American classic Catch 22.
RECENT EVENTS
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Wednesday, October 17
For Lenox and Astor Conservators
Morgan Entrekin, President and Publisher of Grove/Atlantic, Inc., has worked with some of the leading authors of our time, including the late Kurt Vonnegut, who was a close personal friend. Mr. Entrekin led a discussion of the Vonnegut classic, Slaughterhouse 5, in the intimate setting of a private home.
Preview Club
Tuesday, October 23
For all Conservators
Acclaimed author Simon Sebag Montefiore led a discussion of his newest work, Young Stalin, a brilliant prehistory of the USSR, chronicle of the Revolution, and intimate biography.
An Evening with the Mitford Sisters
Tuesday, November 6
For all Conservators
Author Charlotte Mosley, daughter-in-law of Diana Mitford, one of the famed daughters of the second Baron Redesdale, shared her unique perspective on the just published collection of letters, The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters.
Cocktail Reception
Thursday, November 15
For Tilden, Lenox and Astor Conservators
Library President Paul LeClerc will host a reception at his home exclusively for donors who give at the $2,500 level or above.
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