Washington Post reporter Robert G. Kaiser exposes the protocols, players, and politics of the House and Senate, revealing the triumphs of the system and (more often) its fundamental flaws.
Robert G. Kaiser: How Congress Really Works—and Doesn’t
Monday, May 20, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Nathaniel Philbrick: A Fresh Look at Bunker Hill
Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Bringing a fresh perspective to every aspect of the story, National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Bunker Hill, reconstructs the revolutionary landscape—geographic and ideological—in telling the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America.
Temple Grandin: ‘The Autistic Brain’
Monday, May 20, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $5.
Time Top 100 Hero Temple Grandin, one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism, weaves her experience with new discoveries, introducing the neuroimaging advances and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, and even sharing her own brain scans.