The society will do they honor. I just wanted to take a moment to greet everyone. [applause] a terrific number of programs. Including some definitive conversations how to begin. This is a book about lifetime work. A career based in the strong premise that cities are important. Vital to civilization. Vital to this world. I will let her tell you about the book. I will tell you the first time i met my first week at the appropriation, they had left. Primary for mayor. I never met him although i knew the Agency Working there to graduate school. It happened on a very odd day. We were working on the 46 floor the building. We were the only at the time. A very difficult time. They were reluctant to sign the lease with the state agency because god knows what that might feel like. It was only between paper or obligations. That particular day, everybody was carrying around a copy of the New York Post. A story. This private building on no lower floor than the 46th floor. Fatally, it was not like a
Enigma of Clarence Thomas. As some of you know the kallman center selects 15 fellows a year for a nine month term. Fellows receive an office in the Center Access to our collections and a stipend so they can focus exclusively on their work during their fellowships. The fellows are some of the very best and most promising academics independent scholars poets playwrights journalists dramatists artists and fiction writers at work today. They come here from around the country in the world to use the unparalleled collections housed at this library to write the books of tomorrow. The program was founded in 1899 and to date it has supported the work of gordon 300 fellows. The deadline for applications of next year is friday. [laughter] its free. I encourage you to come back in november for free new exhibition that will open on the third floor of this Building Made at the New York Public Library will feature more than 30 works written right here with the support of this librarys collections, th
So, today we are going to be of course, revealing and discussing section that really talks about malcolms views, malcolm x is views on africa and even the middle east. Of course, we read a few of the letters that he sent home when he was traveling in 1959, as well as in 1964 in africa, as well as in the middle east. We will also talk about some speeches that he made, won in 1959, and another in 1965 before he was killed, that really sort of talked about his views on africa. And a critical interview that he gave when he attended the organizational, organization of African Unity conference in late july of 1964, in which he sort of discussed his strategy and the reason why he came to that conference and was appealing to these african heads of state. Hopefully everyone has read and listened to these speeches. So we can really get a sense of malcolm x viewpoints on africa. I think in order for us to really understand why malcolm expressed some of the things he did in these letters, in many
A defining feature of our humanity so are we perhaps at the end of an era and can i be truly creative these are questions well attempt to answer with a Diverse Group of guests give them around of applause please ladies and gentlemen. And please allow me to introduce them bethlehem dessie is here all the way from. Today touted as the youngest pioneer in ethiopias fast emerging tech scene so her focus is on training women in ai she does this that i called labs which is one of the involved in developing the famous humanoid robot sophia who is over here on my right give her a round of applause. Mock. The german philosopher and bestselling author says that its precisely human imperfection that will be our greatest strength and our stupidity makes us clever. Raghav r k k is a multidisciplinary artist from india hes also a curator and cofounder of 641 thats a collective that focuses on ais place in the realm of contemporary art welcome all the way from india. Karen calmer here to my left ales
And how creative can really be the arts 21. 00 talks at the global media forum. Algorithms are everywhere and they are increasingly changing the way art is mate so what does this mean if the successors to some of our greatest Creative Minds shakespeare rembrandt or even beethoven are in fact High Performance machines art has always been a defining feature of our humanity so are we perhaps at the end of an era and can i be truly creative these are questions well attempt to answer with a Diverse Group of guests give them around of applause please ladies and gentlemen. And please allow me to introduce them bethlehem dessie is here all the way from. Today touted as the youngest pioneer in. Ethiopias fast emerging tech scene so her focus is on training women in ai she does this at i called labs which is one of the ai labs involved in developing the famous humanoid robot sophia who is over here on my right give a round of applause. My close gabriella the german philosopher and bestselling au