[applause] thanks all of you for coming out on this balmy evening for a conversation on the history of a very cold place. We are proud to present jon gertners new book the ice at the end of the world an epic journey into greenlandb buried past and our perilous future which tells the story of how people have encountered, muddied, settled and then unsettled by the great ice sheet thatcovers greenland , the World Largest island and of what changes to the ice sheet and tell us about the ongoing impact of Global Warming on sea levels and what it threatens the future of civilization. My name is, horse kimono, director of the Coleman Center. Take this moment to silence your cell phones. Before we begin tonight program we really must take a moment to reflect on some recent news. Last friday as many of you know, louis coleman, our founding benefactor and friend died. He was 100 years old. It was his and his wifes dorothys ingenious generosity that made this center possible. It was in fact dorot
The author of viera mrs. Vladimir nabokov, which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and saintexupery a biography which was a finalist the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent include cleopatra a life and the witches, salem 92. Shes received from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the humanities. As well as a fellowship from. The Common Center in 2002 to 2003. Martha hodes is professor of history at New York University and the author also of morning lincoln the sea captains wife a true story of love, race and war in the 19th century and white women, black men, illicit sex in the 19th century south. Shes the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the nih, Harvard University and the whiting foundation. She was a fellow here, the Common Center in 2018 to 2019. We owe her i owe her a special debt of gratitude for serving really wonderfully for two years as the interim director of the Common Center. Until last month. Please help me. Welcome back
Shes received from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the humanities. As well as a fellowship from. The Common Center in 2002 to 2003. Martha hodes is professor of history at New York University and the author also of morning lincoln the sea captains wife a true story of love, race and war in the 19th century and white women, black men, illicit sex in the 19th century south. Shes the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the nih, Harvard University and the whiting foundation. She was a fellow here, the Common Center in 2018 to 2019. We owe her i owe her a special debt of gratitude for serving really wonderfully for two years as the interim director of the Common Center. Until last month. Please help me. Welcome back to the center martha hodes and stacy schiff. Thank you, salvator martha, im so delighted to join you here. No one. What . No one tells you about the Cullman Center is that when you have the feeling that you have been expelled from pa
The author of viera mrs. Vladimir nabokov, which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and saintexupery a biography which was a finalist the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent include cleopatra a life and the witches, salem 92. Shes received from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the humanities. As well as a fellowship from. The Common Center in 2002 to 2003. Martha hodes is professor of history at New York University and the author also of morning lincoln the sea captains wife a true story of love, race and war in the 19th century and white women, black men, illicit sex in the 19th century south. Shes the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the nih, Harvard University and the whiting foundation. She was a fellow here, the Common Center in 2018 to 2019. We owe her i owe her a special debt of gratitude for serving really wonderfully for two years as the interim director of the Common Center. Until last month. Please help me. Welcome back
The author of viera mrs. Vladimir nabokov, which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and saintexupery a biography which was a finalist the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent include cleopatra a life and the witches, salem 92. Shes received from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the humanities. As well as a fellowship from. The Common Center in 2002 to 2003. Martha hodes is professor of history at New York University and the author also of morning lincoln the sea captains wife a true story of love, race and war in the 19th century and white women, black men, illicit sex in the 19th century south. Shes the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the nih, Harvard University and the whiting foundation. She was a fellow here, the Common Center in 2018 to 2019. We owe her i owe her a special debt of gratitude for serving really wonderfully for two years as the interim director of the Common Center. Until last month. Please help me. Welcome back