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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Poetry Off the Shelf: Sonia Sanchez

@ Poetry Foundation
The Neighborhood Writing Alliance and the Poetry Foundation are proud to present a reading with Sonia Sanchez.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Ashley Prentice Norton

@ Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center
Ashley Prentice Norton discusses her new novel, The Chocolate Money. This event is cosponsored by the Chicago Public Library Foundation.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Marie Tillman

@ Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center
Marie Tillman discusses her new book, The Letter: My Journey through Love, Loss, and Life.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Michael Childers

@ Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center
World-renowned photographer Michael Childers appears in conversation with Bill Zwecker to discuss his life, career and the Author, Author exhibition now on display at the Harold Washington Library Center.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Tariq Ramadan

@ Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center
Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University and President of the European Muslim Network in Brussels, discusses his new book, Islam and the Arab Awakening.

Maria Klawe: Giving Women the Access Code

@ Elmhurst College - Frick Center, Founders Lounge
When Maria Klawe became president of Harvey Mudd College in 2006, she was dismayed to find that the percentage of female computer science graduates from the college was stuck in the single digits. A renowned computer scientist and scholar, Klawe turned that figure around dramat

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Now Comes Governing: A Preview of the New Post-Election Political Landscape in Washington, D.C.

@ Congregation Solel
Norman Ornstein is a political scientist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington D.C. think tank.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Taking the Pulse of Health Care Reform: The Myths and Truths of The Affordable Care Act

@ Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy
Our panel of health care experts will examine the features of The Affordable Care Act, the progress of the provisions already in effect, what opponents dislike, what programs have yet to be enacted, alternative approaches to our system, and what the presidential election outcome could mean for

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