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In this lecture series, Saul Lilienstein traces the development of the most popular opera composer in the genre’s 400+ year history, Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). Learn more at https://www.levinemusic.org/event/lilienstein-2022-02-09/ February 9: […]
As part of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory's Neighborhood Lecture Series, speaker Dr. Michael L. Wong will present "The Science of Star Trek" Learn more at https://epl.carnegiescience.edu/news/neighborhood-lecture-series.
Learn about the Giant Magellan Telescope from the project's Chief Scientist, Carnegie astronomer Rebecca Bernstein. Get more details at https://carnegiescience.edu/events/lectures/pursuit-light-building-giant-magellan-telescope
In the tenth annual lecture honoring the legacy of Hillwood's former executive director, Frederick J. Fisher, hear from Sarah Schleuning, Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the Dallas […]
Author Kurt Bednar discusses his book Transatlantic Relations and the Great War, which explores the relations between the Danube Monarchy of Austria-Hungary and the modern US democracy and how that […]
The Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory (EPL) invites you to join astrobiologist, mineralogist, and author Dr. Robert M. Hazen, for a special presentation entitled, “Minerals: Earth’s Ultimate Time Capsules.” The free public lecture will take place on December 8, 2022, at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Broad Branch Road Campus in NW Washington, DC and […]
UDC's music program celebrates Women’s History Month with a lecture-recital on the piano music by Black women composers. Dr. Leah Claiborne, coordinator of UDC Keyboard Studies and Music of the African Diaspora, along with two of her piano students, Nicole Greene and Ronald Walton III, will perform and present. This event is free and open […]
Join the Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Laboratory for a talk with Staff Scientist Dr. Conel Alexander titled "A new golden age for sample return missions." During the talk, attendees will get firsthand updates on recent sample return missions from space and learn how they are enabling a new era of discovery. Dr. Alexander will […]
On June 29, at 6:30pm, the Earth and Planets Laboratory will host a special Neighborhood Lecture honoring the late Carnegie astronomer Vera Rubin, the "Mother of Dark Matter." Guest speaker Rachael Beaton, an astronomer from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and alumna of the Carnegie-Princeton Postdoctoral Fellowship program, will discuss Rubin's groundbreaking observation confirming […]
Tom Teasley and John Wubbenhorst present a lecture-performance focusing on the intersection of jazz and classical Indian music. John Wubberhorst is among the foremost experts in explaining Indian musical concepts to Western musicians having lived in India for several years. He is a disciple of the famed Bansuri flutist, Hariprasad Chaurasia. Tom Teasley is well […]
The Northwest Neighbors Village virtual speaker series presents Kevin Blackistone, Washington Post sports columnist, panelist on ESPN’s “Around the Horn,” professor of journalism at the University of Maryland, and an occasional contributor to NPR and PBS. He co-produced and co-wrote (with Forest Hills neighbor Aviva Kempner) Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting, […]
The Northwest Neighbors Village virtual speaker series presents Ariel Levinson- Waldman, founding president and director-counsel of Tzedek DC, and Stephen Jefferson, Sr., community outreach coordinator at Tzedek DC. They will speak on the racial wealth gap in DC, the problems it reflects and causes, and what can be done about it. When: Tuessday, November 7, […]
The Northwest Neighbors Village virtual speaker series presents Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a former State Department Middle East analyst and negotiator in Republican and Democratic administrations. He is a CNN global affairs analyst and the author of five books including his most recent, The End […]
Join the Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Laboratory on December 7, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. for a talk with EPL Staff Scientist Dr. Peter Driscoll: "Is Earth’s core young at heart? The search for inner core formation using paleomagnetism and dynamo theory." In this program, Driscoll will describe how researchers are homing in on the […]
The Northwest Neighbors Village virtual speaker series presents David Oldfield, who has been inviting older people to construct maps of their lives for many years. He will share stories and […]