Symposia

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(palisades people) Sunday Symposia: The Quack’s Daughter and The Charmed Line

Sunday, September 30, 2018, 4:30 – 6:00 pm at the Tappan Manse Barn

Greta Nettleton, Palisades Resident, local author, and recipient of the Library Association of Rockland County’s 2018 Book of the Year Award, will discuss The Quack’s Daughter, an entertaining tale about a spirited, bi-sexual Victorian college girl named Cora Keck, filled with unexpected insights about real life at Vassar during the Gilded Age. Ms. Nettleton, a 2017 fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a featured speaker for the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society, will also share new material from her forthcoming book, The Charmed Line, about the life and career of Cora’s controversial mother, Mrs. Dr. Rebecca J. Keck. Nyack author Bethany Ball (What to Do About the Solomons) will join in for a conversation about The Quack’s Daughter and the writing process.
 
Tickets: $10 ($5 STUDENTS) at the door to benefit the Palisades Free Library. 
This program will be held at: Tappan Manse Barn, 32 Old Tappan Road, Tappan, NY.  

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(palisades people) Sunday Symposia: Silencing the Bomb with Dr. Lynn Sykes

Sunday, January 21, 2018, 4:30 – 6:00 pm at the Palisades Community Center

Palisades resident Lynn Sykes is Higgins Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Renowned for his contributions to the science of seismology, especially plate tectonic theory, he has dedicated his career to halting nuclear testing and is a key figure in the formation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. In this talk Dr. Sykes will be discussing his new book, Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist’s Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing, in which he tells the inside story behind the quest for disarmament.

Tickets: $10 ($5 STUDENTS) at the door to benefit the Palisades Free Library. 
This program will be held at: Palisades Community Center, 675 Oak Tree Road, Palisades, NY

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(palisades people) Sunday Symposia: Altered Traits with Daniel Goleman 

Sunday, December 10, 2017, 4:30 – 6:00 pm at the Tappan Manse Barn

Palisades resident and internationally known psychologist, science journalist, and New York Times bestselling author, Daniel Goleman is credited with introducing the world to the revolutionary idea of emotional intelligence, a concept which has transformed how people think about ability, leadership, and success in business.

In this talk he will discuss his latest book, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body, in which the award-winning writer, along with co-author Richard Davidson, uses cutting–edge research and current data to show the truth about what meditation can really do, and how to derive the greatest benefits from the increasingly popular practice.

Tickets: $10 ($5 STUDENTS) at the door to benefit the Palisades Free Library. 
This program will be held at: Tappan Manse Barn, 32 Old Tappan Road in Tappan, NY. 

A recording of the event is available on the library’s YouTube channel.

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(palisades people) Sunday Symposia: The Hostage’s Daughter

Sunday, September 17, 2017, 4:30 pm at the HNA Premier Conference Center

Sulome Anderson, former Palisades resident, conflict reporter, and daughter of one of the world’s most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, will discuss war,   journalism and politics in this talk based on her eye-opening memoir, The Hostage’s Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East. 

In 1991, six-year-old Sulome met her father for the first time. While working as the Middle East bureau chief for the AP covering the long and bloody civil war in Lebanon, Terry was kidnapped by a Shiite Muslim militia associated with the Hezbollah movement. Years later Sulome investigated her father’s kidnapping for her memoir.

Offering an intimate look at the effect of the Lebanese Hostage Crisis, this event is recommended for anyone interested in international relations and America’s role in its fate.

This program will be held at the: HNA Palisades Premier Conference Center, 334 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964. There will be a $10 ($5 for students) charge at the door to benefit the library. 

A recording of the event is available on the library’s YouTube channel.

Tickets: $10 ($5 STUDENTS) at the door to benefit the Palisades Free Library. 
This program will be held at: Palisades Community Center, 675 Oak Tree Road, Palisades, NY

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(palisades people) SUNDAY SYMPOSIA: I’ll Never Leave This Place Alive

Sunday, May 7, 4:30-6:00 pm at the Palisades Community Center

I’ll Never Leave this Place Alive: A Pioneering Female Geologist Explores South America and the Shifting Landscape of Women in the Sciences

Travel memoirs to exotic regions infrequently feature women as protagonists, rarely combine laugh-out-loud misadventures with insights about the pioneering efforts of women to enter the almost exclusively male branches of field sciences.

Margaret Winslow is a field geologist with over thirty years of wilderness experience and the award-winning author of Over My Head: Journeys in Leaky Boats from the Strait of Magellan to Cape Horn and Beyond (2012) and The Cusp of Dreadfulness (2016). Margaret’s book is like Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle, but set in a dictatorship located at the tip of South America during the turbulent 1970’s through 1990’s.

This program will be held at: The Palisades Community Center, 675 Oak Tree Road, Palisades, NY. FREE ADMISSION. Registration is requested.

This symposium is made possible through a generous donation from the estate of Dorothy S. Davis.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2015 @ 4:30 PM

Palisades resident Sean Scully is one of the world’s leading abstract painters. The artist, represented in the collections of the MoMA, MMoA, and Tate Museums and twice nominated for the Turner Prize, will present his work and discuss his career in a conversation with Ken Carbone, the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Director of the Carbone Smolan Agency. Tickets ($10 for Adults, $5 for Students) are required. Please stop by the library or call 845.359.0136. This program will be held at: the IBM Palisades Executive Conference Center, 334 Route 9W, Palisades, NY.