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Reflections on History and Film
April 11, 2000
Ric Burns offered a talk illustrated with clips from his PBS special,
New York: A Documentary Film, and signed copies of the companion book,
New York: An Illustrated History(Alfred A. Knopf).
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Bohemian New York
May 4, 2000
Christine Stansell discussed her new book,
American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century(Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt).
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The Lindsay Mayoralty: An Assessment
May 17, 2000
A conversation with:
Fred Siegel [author,
The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities(Free Press)];
Richard Aurelio[Lindsay Deputy Mayor];
Vincent Cannato, author,
John Lindsay's New York and the Crisis of Liberalism(Basic Books, Fall 2000)]; and
Steve Isenberg [Lindsay Chief-of-Staff and currently President of Adelphi].
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William Randolph Hearst: The New York Years.
June 6, 2000
David Nasaw, Writer, Historian, Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY, read from his new book,
The Chief (Houghton Mifflin).
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The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy in New York City
June 6, 2000
Joshua Freeman, Professor, Queens College and The GC, CUNY, discussed his new book,
Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II(The New Press).
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Nueva York: Historical Reflections on Puerto Ricans in New York City from 1945 to the Present
September 22, 2000
This all-day mini-conference provided a critical overview of the historical,
political and cultural development of New York's Puerto Rican community. Bronx
Borough President Fernando Ferrer concluded with reflections on the current
and future status of this community.
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From Bomba to Hip-Hop: A History of Latino Music in New York City Since the 1920s
(With live music by
Nelson Gonzalez
and Son Mundano.)
September 28, 2000
Juan Flores, author of From Bomba to Hip Hop, and
Rene Lopez, musicologist, teamed up with Nelson Gonzalez and the band
Son Mundano. In alternate takes of talking and playing, they analyzed and illustrated the changes in Latino
music wrought by successive waves of immigrants, developments in the music industry, and larger transformations in
New York City.
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Sex and the City: An Illustrated Talk about the History of Sex in the Big Apple
October 12, 2000
New York's getting a hot new museum--one devoted to examining issues of sexuality over time.
Alison Maddex, Director of the Museum of Sex, looked at how and why the museum intends to display
erotic artifacts. Her talk, accompanied by slides, also laid out the current state of the museum's opening exhibition
on the History of Sex in New York City. CUNY Professor
Carol Groneman, author of the new book,
Nymphomania, commented on the Museum's evolving direction from the perspective of a leading historian of sexuality, and
Richard Rabinowitz reflected on the nascent institution from his 25 years of experience in museum exhibition design.
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Why Hasn't More Great Architecture Been Built in New York City in the Last 50 Year, and What Can Be Done About It?
October 26, 2000
Herbert Muschamp, architectural critic of The New York Times, has been vigorously protesting the paucity
of brilliant buildings in recent years, a problem that arguably dates back decades. Muschamp laid out his analysis
and proposals for change, and an all-star lineup spoke to the issues.
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From the Third Degree to Abner Louima: A History of Police Violence in New York City Since the 1880's
Novebmber 14, 2000
The term "police brutality" is seriously problematic, in that it implicitly suggests violent confrontations
between officers and civilians stems from characterological or psychological traits of the men and women in blue.
This evening's discussion attempted to shift the focus, and analyze the last hundred plus years of conflict in
terms of what the dominant forces of larger cultural, social, economic and political order have called upon police to
do. Historians and experts guided us from the late nineteenth century to the present.
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What's New About the New Immigrants?
December 12, 2000
CUNY Professor
Nancy Fonerdiscussed her new book,
From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration. The book compares today's new immigrants
in the city with those a hundred years ago. It reassesses the myths that have grown up around the earlier Jewish and
Italian immigration -- and that color the way today's Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean arrivals are seen. Among the
topics it explores: education, work, residential patterns, gender, race, and transnational ties.
Peter Kwong, Hunter College Professor of Asian-American Studies, and
Silvio Torres-Saillant, Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University and Interim Director of
the Dominican Studies Institute at CUNY, commented.
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