Thursday, July 2:

All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir with Shulem Deen, the former blogger known as "Hasidic Rebel," and the founding editor of Unpious. 

This illustrated talk is a moving and revealing exploration of Hasidic life, and one man's struggles with faith, family, and community.

Monday, July 6:

Reclaiming Travel with Joshua Ellison , Executive Editor of Restless Books and the founding editor of Habitus, a journal of international Jewish literature. 

This illustrated lecture is a meditation on the meaning of travel from ancient times to the twenty-first century. The authors seek to understand why we travel and what has come to be missing from our contemporary understanding of travel. 

Tuesday, July 7:

Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City  with Robert W. Snyder, Associate Professor of Journalism and American Studies at Rutgers University–Newark.

This illustrated lecture chronicles the rise, fall, and rise of Washington Heights, a neighborhood populated with immigrants from around the world. It tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear.

Wednesday, July 8:

NY Through the Lens with Vivienne Gucwa, a fine art travel photographer and writer based in New York City.

This illustrated lecture showcases the author’s images of New York street photography and serves as a beautiful travel guide to the city.

Thursday, July 9:

Beneath the Streets: The Hidden Relics of New York City's Subway System with Matt Litwack, American photographer and graffiti artist.

Only a handful of transit workers, daring explorers, and graffiti writers have experienced the full scope of the New York subway system. Beneath the Streets opens up this subterranean maze to all with photographs captured from throughout the tunnels and byways of the subway.

Monday, July 13:

The Liar's Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons with Vicky Ward, a New York-based investigative journalist, columnist, and television commentator.

This illustrated lecture goes inside the world of the real Great Gatsby of New York real estate, Harry Macklowe, one of the most notorious wheelers and dealers of the real estate world, and tells  the story of the gamblers and thieves who populate his world. 

Tuesday, July 14:

Escape: The Heyday of Caribbean Glamour  with Hermes Mallea, an architect and a partner in M(Group), a design firm based in New York.

This illustrated lecture is a nostalgic celebration of the glamour of warm-weather destinations in the Caribbean and Florida, from the great estates of ambitious patrons to the most exclusive resorts of the mid-twentieth century.

Wednesday, July 15:

Kill City: Lower East Side Squatters 1992-2000 with Ash Thayer, a photographer and multimedia visual artist.

This illustrated lecture features extensive photography of the legendary squatting community in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Thursday, July 16:

Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth, with John Szwed, Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and critically acclaimed jazz writer.

This illustrated lecture explores Billie Holiday's music, her performance style, and the self she created and put into print, on record and on stage. It considers how her life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, a number of her signature songs, and her legacy.

Monday, July 20: 

Do the KIND Thing: Think Boundlessly, Work Purposefully, Live Passionately, with Daniel Lubetzky, founder of KIND Healthy Snacks and the KIND Movement, in conversation with Alexander Kaufman, an associate business editor at Huffington Post.

This  conversation about KIND’s journey from start-up to today, and the many mistakes made along the way will visit Daniel Lubetzky’s journey creating not-only-for-profit businesses that balance commercial success with social purpose, and will offer an unfiltered look at the experiences that sparked his interest in social entrepreneurship. 

Tuesday, July 21:

Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People with Matthew Diffee, an award-winning New Yorker cartoonist, in an illustrated conversation with two other iconic New Yorker cartoonists, Marisa Acocella, and George Booth.

This illustrated lecture and conversation showcases the first solo collection of a star cartoonist at The New Yorker, Matthew Diffee, heralded as "the de facto leader of a young generation of cartoonists" by the Wall Street Journal, and editor of the acclaimed volumes of The Rejection Collection.

Wednesday, July 22:

The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-first Century with DW Gibson, author of Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy.

This illustrated lecture offers a groundbreaking oral history that features the stories of New Yorkers effecting and affected by gentrification.

Monday, July 27:

The Kitchen Ecosystem: Integrating Recipes to Create Delicious Meals with Eugenia Bone, nationally known food writer and author of five books, including Mycophilia.

This illustrated lecture presents a new paradigm for cooking sustainably (minimal waste, kitchen efficiency, low carbon footprint) and includes recipes to support the author's approach in making the most of locally-sourced, fresh ingredients by utilizing small batch preservation techniques.

Wednesday, July 29:

The Rose Hotel: A Memoir of Secrets, Loss, and Love From Iran to America with Dr. Rahimeh Andalibian, an Iran-born author and a systemic psychologist, specializing in trauma and practicing New York City.

In this illustrated lecture the author tells her family's story: their struggle to survive the 1979 revolution, their move to California, and their attempts to acculturate in the face of teenage rebellion, murder, addiction, and new traditions.