February 2013 Events
Friday, Feb. 1 / 3:00pm
Tuesday, Feb. 5 / 6:00pm
Friday, Feb. 8 / 3:00pm
Tuesday, Feb. 12 / 7:00pm
Vivek Bald
Bengali Harlem and the Lost
Histories of South Asian America
Daniel H. Pink
To Sell Is Human:
The Surprising Truth About
Moving Others
Amy Richards
I Still Believe Anita Hill
in conversation with ANITA HILL
and JUDITH RESNIK
David Roberts
Alone on the Ice:
The Greatest Survival Story in
the History of Exploration
@ Brattle Theatre | 40 Brattle St.
@ Harvard Book Store
@ Harvard Book Store
$5 Tickets
Friday Forum
To Sell Is Human offers a fresh
look at the art and science of
selling, as Pink draws on a trove of
social science to reveal the new
ABCs of moving others.
This collection brings together
three generations to analyze
Hill’s impact on the confluence
of race, class, and gender, the
persistent questioning of
women’s credibility, and current
cases of sexual harassment.
Award-winning author Roberts
tells the story of Douglas
Mawson, the leader of the
Australasian Antarctic Expedition
who lost his companions and
barely survived himself after his
food and supplies vanished.
Roberts restores Mawson to his
rightful place as one of the
greatest polar explorers and
expedition leaders.
@ Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum
“Vivek Bald’s extraordinary
account persuasively places
these first Bengali migrants at
the heart of our multiracial
American experience. A virtuoso
act of recovery.” —Junot Díaz,
author ofThe Brief Wondrous Life
of Oscar Wao
Friday, Feb. 1 / 7:00pm
Amy Wilentz
Farewell, Fred Voodoo:
A Letter from Haiti
Tuesday, Feb. 5 / 7:00pm
Christoph Irmscher
Louis Agassiz:
Creator of American Science
@ First Parish Church |
3 Church St.
Maria Konnikova
Mastermind:
How to Think Like Sherlock
Holmes
Cambridge Forum
@ Harvard Book Store
@ Harvard Book Store
Journalist Wilentz describes
Haiti’s struggle after the 2010
earthquake and its relationship to
outsiders who come to help out.
Wilentz traces the country’s
history from its slave plantations
through its turbulent
revolutionary history, its guerrilla
movements, its totalitarian
dynasty that ruled for decades,
and its long, troubled relationship
with the United States.
Wed., Feb. 6 / 7:00pm
The Graywolf Press Poetry Tour
featuring Nick Flynn, Dobby
Gibson, and Mary Szybist
@ Harvard Book Store
To amplify the awareness and
appreciation of poetry, Graywolf
Press is launching a Poetry Tour,
featuring dynamic readings
around the country.
Monday, Feb. 4 / 7:00pm
Scott Haas
Back of the House:
The Secret Life of a Restaurant
@ Harvard Book Store
Food writer and psychologist
Haas spent eighteen months
immersed in the kitchen of
Craigie on Main, in Cambridge,
to find out what goes on inside
the mind of a top chef—and
what kind of emotional dynamics
drive the fast-paced interactions
inside a great restaurant.
Friday, Feb. 8 / 7:00pm
Thursday, Feb. 7 / 7:00pm
Susan Cain
Quiet:
The Power of Introverts in a
World That Can’t Stop Talking
@ Harvard Book Store
Cain shows how dramatically we
undervalue introverts, and how
much we lose in doing so. Quiet
charts the rise of the Extrovert
Ideal in the twentieth century and
explores its far-reaching effects.
No fictional character is more
renowned for his powers of
thought than Sherlock Holmes.
But is his intellect merely a gift of
fiction, or can we learn to
cultivate these abilities ourselves?
We can, says psychologist
Konnikova, and in Mastermind
she shows us how.
Monday, Feb. 11 / 7:00pm
Anna Summers
There Once Lived a Girl Who
Seduced Her Sister’s Husband,
and He Hanged Himself:
Love Stories
@ Harvard Book Store
Translator Summers discusses
her translation of Russian author
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s book
of fables, which blends macabre
spectacle with transformative
moments of grace and shows
just why she is Russia’s
preeminent contemporary
fiction writer.
Wed., Feb. 13 / 7:00 pm
Jennifer Haigh
News from Heaven:
The Bakerton Stories
@ Harvard Book Store
In this collection of
interconnected stories, bestselling author Haigh returns to
the vividly imagined world of
Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a
coal-mining town rocked by
decades of painful transition.
Thursday, Feb. 14 / 7:00pm
Garry Wills
Why Priests?:
A Failed Tradition
@ Harvard Book Store
Pulitzer Prize–winner Wills spent
five years as a young man at a
Jesuit seminary and nearly
became a priest himself. But
after a lifetime of study and
reflection, he poses some
challenging questions: Why do
we need priests at all? And why
did the priesthood arise in a
religion that began without
it-–and opposed it?
February 2013 Events, continued
Friday, Feb. 15 / 3:00pm
Wed., Feb. 20 / 7:00pm
Friday, Feb. 22 / 7:00pm
Wed., Feb. 27 / 7:00pm
Allan A. Ryan
Yamashita’s Ghost:
War Crimes, MacArthur’s Justice,
and Command Accountability
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here:
Poets and Writers Respond to
the March 5th, 2007, Bombing
of Baghdad’s “Street of the
Booksellers.”
with Meena Alexander and Romy
Ruukel
Teddy Wayne
The Love Song of Jonny
Valentine
Steven M. Southwick and
Dennis S. Charney
Resilience:
The Science of Mastering Life’s
Greatest Challenges
@ Harvard Book Store
Jonny Valentine, eleven-year-old
icon of bubblegum pop, knows
that the fans don’t love him for
who he is. The singer’s image
has been relentlessly packaged
by his L.A. label and his hard
partying manager-mother, Jane.
Wayne explores with humor and
empathy the underbelly of
success in 21st-century America.
in conversation with
JOSHUA RUBENSTEIN
@ Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum
Harvard scholar and lawyer Ryan
reopens the case against Japan’s
most accomplished military
commander to illuminate crucial
questions and controversies that
have surrounded his trial and
conviction. Co-sponsored by
Facing History and Ourselves.
In 2007, a car bomb exploded
on al-Mutanabbi Street in
Baghdad—the historic center of
Baghdad bookselling. This
anthology includes the writing of
Iraqis as well as a wide swath of
international poets and writers
who were outraged by the attack.
Wed., Feb. 20 / 7:30pm
Friday, Feb. 15 / 7:00pm
Carl Rollyson
American Isis:
The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath
The Philosophy Café
at Harvard Book Store
Discussion Topic: “Is Moral
Reasoning a Waste of Time?”
@ Harvard Book Store
@ Harvard Book Store
Baruch College’s Rollyson
presents the first Plath biography
benefitting from the new Ted
Hughes archive at the British
Library, which includes forty-one
letters between Plath and
Hughes as well as a host of
unpublished papers.
Thursday, Feb. 21 / 7:00pm
Karen Russell
Vampires in the Lemon Grove:
Stories
@ Harvard Book Store
Receive a 20% discount
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“An eight-tale adrenaline-delivery
system packed with longmarried, problem-beset
monsters . . . teens with creepy
sixth senses, and masseuses
with inexplicable healing powers.
. . . Darkly inventive, demonically
driven narratives set in the
author’s inimitable imaginative
disturbia.” —Elle
Tuesday, Feb. 19 / 7:00pm
Friday, Feb. 22 / 3:00pm
Leana Wen and Josh Kosowsky
When Doctors Don’t Listen:
How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and
Unnecessary Tests
John Burt
Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism:
Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral
Conflict
@ Harvard Book Store
@ Harvard Book Store
In this examination of the
doctor-patient relationship, Drs.
Wen and Kosowsky of Brigham &
Women’s Hospital argue that
diagnosis—once the cornerstone
of medicine—is becoming a lost
art, with grave consequences.
Friday Forum
Monday, Feb. 18 / all day
Presidents’ Day Sale
@ Harvard Book Store
Brandeis University’s Burt argues
that the unresolvable ironies at
the center of liberal politics led
Lincoln to discover liberalism’s
tragic dimension—and ultimately
led to war.
in conversation with
CHRIS MONKS
@ Harvard Book Store
@ First Parish Church |
3 Church St.
Cambridge Forum
Thursday, Feb. 28 / 7:00pm
Phil Lapsley
Exploding the Phone:
The Untold Story of the
Teenagers and Outlaws who
Hacked Ma Bell
@ Harvard Book Store
Monday, Feb. 25 / 7:00pm
The Harvard Square Book Circle
discusses David Grossman’s
To the End of the Land
@ Harvard Book Store
Just before his release from the
Israeli army, Ora’s son Ofer is
sent back to the front for a major
offensive. In a fit of preemptive
grief, so that no bad news can
reach her, Ora sets out on an
epic hike in the Galilee.
Tuesday, Feb. 26 / 7:00pm
Cory Doctorow
Homeland
@ Harvard Book Store
Young adult novelist Doctorow
presents the sequal to his
hacker-rebellion tale Little
Brother, a paean to activism,
courage, and the drive to make
the world a better place.
Wed., Feb. 27 / 7:00pm
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Blindspot:
Hidden Biases of Good People
@ Harvard Book Store
Psychologist Banaji explores the
hidden biases we all carry from a
lifetime of exposure to cultural
attitudes about age, gender,
race, ethnicity, religion, social
class, sexuality, disability status,
and nationality.
Before smartphones, back even
before the Internet and personal
computer, a misfit group of
technophiles, blind teenagers,
hippies, and outlaws figured out
how to hack the world’s largest
machine: the telephone system.
Tech entrepreneur Lapsley tells
this story in full for the first time.
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