Please join us for the launch of Marvine Howe’s new book, Al Andalus Rediscovered: Iberia’s New Muslims and a roundtable conversation with the author,  Marvine Howe, a former New York Times foreign correspondent and author of books on Turkey and Morocco; Jose Moya, Professor of History at Barnard College; Michele Wucker, President of the...

A conversation with Wallace S. Broecker, the “Grandfather of Climate Science,” on the subject of climate change, natural disasters, and apocalyptic visions and predictions. Wally Broecker is the Newberry Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. He is also a scientist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty...

A wide-ranging discussion with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, the legendary civil rights leader and first major African American presidential candidate, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, the acclaimed social critic and publisher of The Nation magazine, on matters of race, religion, and politics in America today. With the election just days away, this timely discussion will...