Talks
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IRISH INFLUENCE Columnist and jazz critic Stanley Crouch delivers the keynote address at the opening ceremony of the Institute for American Irish Studies at Pace University. In addition, the consul general of Ireland, Tim O’Connor, speaks and American Irish tenor Michael Londra performs. Today, 3-5 p.m., Pace University, Multipurpose Room, One Pace Plaza, across from City Hall, 212-346-1637, free.
BIG BOMBAY Writer Suketu Mehta discusses his book “Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found” (Knopf), a Pulitzer Prize finalist, with the editorial director of Nation Books, Carl Bromley. Tonight, 7 p.m., Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W. 17th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-620-5000 ext. 344, $10.
DRAWING HOMER In a lecture titled “The Poet and His Portrait: Representations of Homer in the 19th Century,” curator Roger Diederen investigates the ways in which artists in the 1800s depicted the Greek poet. Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Dahesh Museum of Art, 580 Madison Ave., between 56th and 57th streets, 212-759-0606, free with museum admission, $10 general, $8 seniors, $6 students, children under 12 free.
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