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VIRTUAL - Amy Klobuchar | Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
Mon, May 17, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $10.00 General Admission; $39.00-Signed Book with Ticket
PURCHASE TICKETS In conversation with Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics The senior United States Senator from Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar chairs the Senate Rules Committee; the Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights; and the Democratic…
VIRTUAL - Marc Bookman | A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays
Thu, May 20, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Reggie Shuford, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania. The Executive Director of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, Marc Bookman is an internationally renowned expert on death penalty law. He served…
VIRTUAL - Sinéad O'Connor | Rememberings
Fri, June 4, 2021
5:00 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $34.25-Book with Ticket
PURCHASE TICKETS Note: This is a U.S. only event. All other ticket purchases will be cancelled or refunded. Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor rose to fame in 1987 through her debut album, The Lion and the Cobra , and in 1990 with her iconic cover of Prince’s…
VIRTUAL - Carol Anderson | The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
Thu, June 10, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $10.00 ticket or $33.50-Signed Book with ticket
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning journalist and broadcaster In appreciation of the George S. Pepper Society Carol Anderson is the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner White Rage , “a riveting and disturbing history” ( The Nation…
VIRTUAL - Paul Farmer | Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
Mon, June 14, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
RESCHEDULED FROM APRIL 27, 2021 AT 7:30 P.M. PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS AND LINKS ARE STILL VALID. REGISTER HERE Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture In conversation with Dr. Steven Larson, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.…
VIRTUAL - Laura Raicovich | Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest
Tue, June 22, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Seph Rodney, PhD, opinions editor and managing editor of the Sunday Edition for Hyperallergic , author of The Personalization of the Museum Visit , and winner of the 2020 Rabkin Arts Journalism Prize. The interim director of New York’s Leslie-Lohman…
VIRTUAL - Joshua Cohen | The Netanyahus with Rivka Galchen | Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Mon, June 28, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Joshua Cohen ’s acclaimed novels include Moving Kings , Witz , and Book of Numbers , “a fascinating look at the dark heart of the Web” and “one of the best novels ever written about the Internet” ( Rolling Stone ). One of Granta ’s Best of Young…