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Lunch & Learn: The Queen of Bohemia
Online (Zoom)
Tuesday, January 13 - 1:00-2:00pm
Join the NYC Department of Records & Information Services (DORIS) each month for our virtual Lunch & Learn Series – an intimate conversation with agency staff and special guests focusing on the collections of the Municipal Archives and Library and the history of New York City.
On Tuesday, January 13, join independent scholar and New York Times contributor Eve M. Kahn for an in-depth discussion of her new book, Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death: Gilded Age Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris.
Zoe Anderson Norris was a Kentucky belle turned restless Kansas housewife who became a celebrated writer, reformer, and publisher on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Through her bimonthly magazine, The East Side, she chronicled the hardships of immigrant life, often reporting undercover dressed as a pauper. Guided by her motto, “To fight for the poor with my pen,” Zoe boldly confronted corrupt landlords, charity officials, xenophobic Ellis Island guards, and garbage collectors who ignored the unsanitary conditions that spread disease.
Queen of Bohemia retraces Zoe’s path across the city, bringing to life a New York where many of the buildings that witnessed her activism still stand today. Along the way, Kahn reveals a journalist who blended incisive social critique with a love for the city’s beauty and a deep passion for community.
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Lunch & Learn: Language City
Online (Zoom)
Wednesday, January 21 - 1:00-2:00pm
Join the NYC Department of Records & Information Services (DORIS) each month for our virtual Lunch & Learn Series – an intimate conversation with agency staff and special guests focusing on the collections of the Municipal Archives and Library and the history of New York City.
Today, half of the world’s 7,000-plus languages are growing increasingly endangered, while contemporary cities - supported by migration - are more linguistically diverse than ever before. As speakers migrate across the globe, linguists and language activists are racing against time to map and document lesser-known, minority, endangered, and Indigenous languages.
Join us on Wednesday, January 21, as Ross Perlin, author of Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York, examines the past, present, and future of the world’s most linguistically diverse city, New York. He will also discuss multilingualism, language policy, and the role technology plays in the evolution and documentation of languages.
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Lunch & Learn: The Village Voice
Online (Zoom)
Tuesday, January 27 - 1:00-2:00pm
Join the NYC Department of Records & Information Services (DORIS) each month for our virtual Lunch & Learn Series – an intimate conversation with agency staff and special guests focusing on the collections of the Municipal Archives and Library and the history of New York City.
On Tuesday, January 27, Tricia Romano, the author of The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture, will discuss the symbiotic relationship between New York City and the alternative weekly - the Village Voice - and how this relationship benefited both entities.
First issued in 1955, the Voice showcased the city as a hub for artists, poets, musicians, politicians, and activists, inspiring people to move here. The alt-weekly covered topics such as the environment, government corruption, housing, hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, Off-Broadway, and the AIDS epidemic with gravitas, revolutionizing journalism.
Discover how the Village Voice became not just a local, but also a national and global influence, and how this highly acclaimed oral history came to be.
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