[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
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conversationan : center of our h anniversary year corey robbins will discuss his new book theor enigma of clarence thomas with their times : this jim but wait. mymy name is salvador director of the dorothy lewis b : center for scholars and writers here at the library. estimate you know the : center select 15 fellass a year for a nine month term. fellas receive an office in the center, access to our collections and a stipend so they can both stick exclusively over (think independent scholars, playwrights, girls, dramatist, a fictional writer s today predicament from around the country inn the world using unparalleled collections house this leverage the book tomorrow.ou the program was founded in 1999 and today has supported the work of more than 300s fellows. the deadline for applications for next year is friday. three. i encourage you to come in november exhibition about third floor of this building made of the net public library will feature 30 works written right here the s
Bring to you one of our most prestigious speakers and one of his cleverest biographers. Dresser and it gordon reed is the one who definitively cracked the case as our speaker on tuesday mightve said. On one of American History both conflict and now expunged stories which is the relationship between the jeffersons and the hemmings. Is theor gordon reed trolls warren professor of american legal history at Harvard Law School and professor of history at harvard university. She has a jawdropping list of honors. Fellowship from the Dorothy Lewis b Coleman Center for scholars and writers at the new york public library, a guggenheim fellowship, a , and awardellowship from the National Organization for women in new york city. On both seen and unseen americans, including a biography of Andrew Johnson in her most recent book is most blessed of the patriarchs. It comes to jefferson, were fortunate to have her here. No one knows the public and private jefferson quite as well as she does. The relati
Bring to you one of our most prestigious speakers and one of his cleverest biographers. Dresser and it gordon reed is the one who definitively cracked the case as our speaker on tuesday mightve said. On one of American History both conflict and now expunged stories which is the relationship between the jeffersons and the hemmings. Is theor gordon reed trolls warren professor of american legal history at Harvard Law School and professor of history at harvard university. She has a jawdropping list of honors. Fellowship from the Dorothy Lewis b Coleman Center for scholars and writers at the new york public library, a guggenheim fellowship, a , and awardellowship from the National Organization for women in new york city. On both seen and unseen americans, including a biography of Andrew Johnson in her most recent book is most blessed of the patriarchs. It comes to jefferson, were fortunate to have her here. No one knows the public and private jefferson quite as well as she does. The relati