Talks
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WORKING ON THE RAILROAD Fergus Bordewich discusses his book “Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America” (Amistad). It includes the stories of whites such as Levi Coffin and Gerrit Smith, who helped hundreds of slaves reach safety, and blacks such as the Reverend Josiah Henson, a slave who carried his two children on his back across Kentucky and into Ohio. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West at 77th Street, 212-485-9205, $12 general, $6 seniors, teachers, students, and members.
LIVES IN JAZZ The discussion series Harlem Speaks continues with a conversation with tuba player Howard Johnson. Up next: Paul Robeson Jr., who will discuss his father’s legacy as a singer, actor, and activist (February 23). Tonight, 6:30-8 p.m., Jazz Museum in Harlem, 104 E. 126th St., between Park and Lexington avenues, 212-348-8300, free.
CHESS BOARD The Noguchi Museum’s Second Sundays program offers a panel discussion in conjunction with the exhibit “The Imagery of Chess Revisited.” The panelists include an expert on Man Ray’s chess-related artwork, Wendy Grossman; Marcel Duchamp scholar and chess player Francis Naumann, and curator Ingrid Schaffner, an expert on Julien Levy and his chess-playing art milieu. The exhibit’s curator, Larry List, moderates. Sunday, 3 p.m., Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Road at Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, 718-204-7088, free with museum admission, $10 general, $5 seniors and students, free for children under 12.
GENDER AT THE DOCTOR’S In her lecture “Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?” – sponsored by the Village Temple Sisterhood – the director of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University, Dr. Marianne Legato, discusses the relationship between gender and physiology. She examines doctors’ tendencies to treat patients as though they were all the same sex: male. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., the Village Temple, 33 E. 12th St., between University Place and Broadway, 212-674-2340, $5 suggested donation.
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