Earlier this month, the GC’s Leon Levy Center for Biography hosted “Israel and Palestine Through the Lens of Biography & Memoir,” featuring Dan Ephron, the author of Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, and Sari Nusseibeh, the philosopher, former PLO representative in Jerusalem, and author of the memoir Once Upon a Country: [...]
On Tuesday, May 5, the GC’s European Union Studies Center will commemorate the end of World War II with the Otto and Fran Walter Memorial Lecture, “Victory in Europe: The 70th Anniversary of the Defeat of European Fascism." Moderated by John Torpey (Sociology/History), the discussion will feature several key scholars, among them Ira Katznelson, Ruggles [...]
The scandale militaire involving biographer Paula Broadwell and General David Petraeus has generated much handwringing over the ethics of biography in recent weeks. By all accounts, sleeping with your subject is unethical; keeping it a secret is worse. The Leon Levy Center for Biography (LLCB) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, will address these and related [...]
The Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has announced that Ron Chernow, the award-winning biographer of Alexander Hamilton and John D. Rockefeller, will give the 2010 Annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture. Chernow’s latest biography -- the highly anticipated Washington: A Life -- will be published by Penguin [...]
The Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has announced that Robert A. Caro, the award-winning biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon Baines Johnson, will give the 2009 Leon Levy Biography Lecture. Mr. Caro’s lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Tuesday, [...]