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Spring 2008
Finding Jefferson - The 1st Amendment in the Age of Terrorism
Alan Dershowitz is a Harvard Law Professor, an author, and an attorney whose career has been devoted to representing clients in criminal defense cases and civil liberty cases. He is also a Brooklyn College graduate (Class of 1959). His timely discussion will explore the line between dangerous speech and harmful conduct.
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GULAG - An Island in an Archipelago
This exhibit of Ivan Kovalev's photographs, personal letters, and artifacts takes you inside the Soviet network of Labor Camps which imprisoned millions of citizens. Unfortunately, this page of history is not yet closed.
Virtual Exhibit (or PDF)
Fall 2007
Library Concert Series
Marc Thorman will present a program of original works for solo piano on November 27, 2007, at 2 p.m. in the Woody Tanger Auditorium of the Library. Dr. Thorman is a composer, pianist, and a leading scholar in the music of John Cage. He currently teaches music history and theory at the City University of New York. Admission is free for this event.
Library Guitar Series
The Library Guitar series kicks off its 5th season with acclaimed classical guitar virtuoso Pia Gazarek Offeremann. Her performance of Baroque and modern pieces will take place at 2 PM on October 30th in the Woody Tanger Auditorium. Admission is free. Pia was a 1994 prize winner at the International Competition for Classical Guitar in Krakow. She currently teaches in Berlin.
Coney Island Creek: The Future of the Past
The Brooklyn College Library will be hosting a reception and lecture featuring Charles Denson, the Executive Director of the Coney Island History Project. Both events will take place at the Brooklyn College Library on Thursday, October 18. The reception will be held at 6:00 p.m. in the Archives and Special Collections Reading Room on the first floor of the Brooklyn College Library. Mr. Denson will speak on the topic “Coney Island Creek: The Future of the Past” at 7:15 p.m. at the Brooklyn College Library Woody Tanger Auditorium. He will discuss historic and environmental aspects of the creek over the years. Members of the Brooklyn College community as well as the public at large are invited to both these events.
Mr. Denson is a writer, photographer and art director who began his career in 1973 as the staff photographer of New York Magazine. He has served as art director and designer of numerous publications including San Francisco Magazine, New West Magazine, Golden State Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1999 Denson was awarded the prestigious Chronicle Journalism Fellowship at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. His first book “Coney Island: Lost and Found,” was named “New York Book of the Year” at the 2002 New York Society Library’s New York Book Awards.
There will be an accompanying exhibit of photographs and artifacts on view in the Library from October 18 through November 2, 2007.
 A SWINGING EVENING OF STANDARDS:
THE AMBASSADOR CHORUS, A CONTINGENT OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS NEW YORK CITY GAY MEN’S CHORUS, TO TAKE THE STAGE AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE LIBRARY
The Ambassador Chorus will be performing at Brooklyn College Library’s Woody Tanger Auditorium on Wednesday, October 10th at 6 PM. Among the jazz and Broadway favorites to be sung will be “Take the A-Train” and “New York, New York.” This concert is presented as part of the Diversity Series of the Brooklyn College Office of Affirmative Action, Compliance and Diversity. Admission is free.
About the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus: Two hundred-fifty voices strong, the chorus was founded in 1980 as a non-profit organization. Fostering the ideas of diversity, the chorus routinely plays world-class venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to sold-out audiences.
Brooklyn Book Festival
The Library, in concert with the English Department, is organizing a Brooklyn College presence at the 2nd annual Brooklyn Book Festival to take place on September 16th from 10 AM - 6 PM at Borough Hall. MFA students will be reading from their works from noon until 1 PM and twelve Brooklyn College faculty authors will be staffing the Brooklyn College table to discuss their latest books. A member of Enrollment Services will also be on hand to talk about the College. Last year over 10,000 people attended the Festival. There will be panel discussions in Borough Hall, readings on the steps, and book vendors on the lawn. The location of the Brooklyn College table is 5 see attached (map). For more information about the festival, check out www.brooklynbookfestival.org <http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/>
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