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Audio Recordings, Videos, and Transcripts of Past Conversations from the Cullman Center
 Novelist and former Cullman Center Fellow Danzy Senna discusses Where Did You Sleep Tonight?, her forthcoming memoir of life in an interracial family with writer Rebecca Walker, editor, most recently, of One Big Happy Family. Listen to the Program (.mp3)  Watch the Program (.wmv) 
 In this new, musical tragicomedy by cartoonist and former Cullman Center Fellow Ben Katchor and composer, musician and vocalist Mark Mulcahy, one man’s casual obsession with the architecture and culture of coat checkrooms ensnares him in a desperate struggle between employment agents, maitre ’ds, lovesick podiatrists, low-budget contractors, and paraphilic playboys. A Check-Room Romance was commissioned by the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Don’t miss this world premiere! Listen to the Program (.mp3) Watch the Program (.wmv)
 T. J. Stiles talks about his compelling new biography The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, with novelist Kevin Baker. Stiles is the author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War. He worked on The First Tycoon while he was a Cullman Center Fellow, in 2004. Kevin Baker’s acclaimed novels include the ,“New York, City of Fire,” trilogy: Dreamland, Paradise Alley, and, most recently, Striver’s Row. This event was co-presented by the Museum of American Finance. Listen to the Program (.mp3) Watch the Program (.wmv)
 Current Cullman fellows Akeel Bilgrami and Hari Kunzru, Montclair State University professor Fawzia Afzal-Khan, and journalist Basharat Peerdiscuss the connections between the recent attacks in India and radical Islamist ideology, the link with Kashmir, and the prospect for future relations between India and Pakistan. This event was co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University and the Asia Society. Listen to the Program (.mp3) Watch the Program (.wmv)
 The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker writer Frances Fitzgerald delivers three lectures on the history and evolution of the evangelical movement in the United States: Who Are the Evangelicals? (March 11); The Religious Right and Why it Grew (March 18); and The New Evangelicals (March 25). Listen to the Program - Who Are the Evangelicals? (.mp3) Watch the Program - Who Are the Evangelicals? (.wmv)
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 As The New York Review of Books turns 45, the evening will feature some of the publication's most illustrious contributors including former Cullman Center Fellow and Melville scholar Andrew Delbanco; journalist, essayist, and novelist Joan Didion; author and economistJeff Madrick; writer Darryl Pinckney; journalist Michael Tomasky; historian Garry Wills; and others. Moderated by The New York Review of Books editor Robert B. Silvers. This event was co-presented with LIVE from the NYPL. Listen to the Program (.mp3) Watch the Program (.wmv)
 Roy Blount, Jr., the mischievous and gifted wordsmith, talks with Jean Strouse, director of the Cullman Center, about his book Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof: Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts.... Blount's 20 previous books include Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South and Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story. Strouse is the distinguished author of Morgan, American Financier and Alice James, A Biography. Listen to the Program (.mp3) Watch the Program (.wmv)
 A conversation about the culinary future of New York, a famously food-critical city. Moderated by Mitchell Davis, vice president of the James Beard Foundation, the discussion featured food historian and former Cullman Center fellow Paul Freedman; Josh Ozersky, a.k.a., “Mr. Cutlets,” senior editor of Citysearch; Krishnendu Ray, assistant professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University; and the journalist Laura Shapiro. Listen to the Program (.mp3) Watch the Program (.wmv)
 Former Cullman Center Fellow Andrew Meier and Sam Tanenhaus discuss The Lost Spy, Meier's forthcoming biography of Soviet secret agent Isaiah Oggins. Meier was a Cullman Fellow in 2005-2006. He is the author of Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall and Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict. He contributes to Harper's, The Financial Times Magazine, and National Geographic, among other publications, and is a writer-in-residence at the New School University. Sam Tanenhaus is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and Week in Review sections. His books include Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Louis Armstrong. Listen to the Program (.mp3) Watch the Program (.wmv)
Mark Morris in Conversation with Wendy Lesser, May 5, 2008
 To celebrate the publication of Michael Kinsley's Please Don't Remain Calm: Provocations and Commentaries, a collection of witty and trenchant columns, the distinguished editorial writers Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich join Kinsley to discuss the pleasures and challenges of their craft. Kinsley is a columnist for Time and a past editor of The New Republic, Harper's, and Slate, which he founded. Maureen Dowd is a New York Times Op-Ed columnist and the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. Her most recent book is Are Men Necessary: When Sexes Collide. Frank Rich is a New York Times Op-Ed columnist and the author, most recently, of The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth. Sean Wilentz, a former Fellow of the Cullman Center, is George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, and his award-winning books include The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. Listen to the Program (.mp3) Watch the Program (.wmv)
 A symposium on the history, science and perennial romance of the leviathan in America, presented in conjuction with the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Humanities Initiative at New York University. Part I: "Cetology and the City: Studying the Whale in Nineteenth-Century New York." Participants include Tom Bender, University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History, NYU; D. Graham Burnett (session curator), Associate Professor of History, Princeton University and author, most recently, of Trying Leviathan: The Ninteenth Century Court Case that Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature; Joyce Chaplin, James Duncan Philips Professor of Early American History, Harvard University, and author of The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius; Stuart Frank, curator, New Bedford Whaling Museum; and Cyrus Patel, Associate Professor of English, NYU, and author of Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology. Listen to the Program - Part One (.mp3) Part II: "The Song of the Humpback Whale." Participants include Sal Cerchio, Associate Scientist, Cetacean Conservation and Research Program (CCRP) Marine Program, Wildlife Conservation Society; Scott McVay, founding director (retired), Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; Roger Payne, founder and president of the Ocean Alliance, best known for his discovery (with Scott McVay) that humpback whales sing songs and for his theory that the sounds of fin and blue whales can be heard across oceans; and David Rothenberg (session curator), composer, jazz clarinetist, professor of philosophy and music, New Jersey Institute of Technology and author, most recently, of Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound. Discussion moderated by Elizabeth Bradley, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Music performance by Lukas Ligeti, percussion; Michelle Makarski, violin; David Rothenberg, clarinet. Listen to the Program - Part Two (.mp3)
Joseph O'Connor and Colum McCann, November 14, 2007
 A conversation about the work of the late writer Leonard Michaels, featuring the award-winning short story writer David Bezmozgis, translator, literary critic and former Cullman Center Fellow Wyatt Mason, Poet Laureate Emeritus Robert Pinsky, and New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman. Moderated by Wendy Lesser, founding editor of the Threepenny Review and a former Fellow of the Cullman Center. Download Transcript Listen to the Program (.mp3)
Edmund White in Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates, October 16, 2007 Julia Child in America: A Panel with Dan Barber, David Kamp, Molly O'Neill,
Melanie Rehak and Laura Shapiro, October 10, 2007 |