Talks
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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.
FAITH AND RATIONALITY Philosopher Daniel Dennett talks with a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University, Robert Thurman, about the evolution of organized religion and why it is such a potent force today. Mr. Dennett contends that “belief in belief” has fogged attempts to rationally consider the existence of God and the relationship between divinity and human need. He is the author of the new book “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon” (Viking). Monday, 8 p.m., Columbia University, Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway at 116th Street, 212-854-7799, $15.
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