November 16, 2009

NYCHires

NYC Job Fair

11:00 AM

Radisson Martinique On Broadway Hotel, 49 West 32nd Street, Manhattan

Meet face-to-face with top employers at the NYCHires Job Fair! Attendance is free for job seekers! Register and you will receive the company list and our online job fair guide. Free resume reviews will be available at the event from our two local career experts.

FREE For more information and to register, please call

(877) 561-5627 or visit

www.NYCHires.com

Columbia University

Cafe Humanities

6:00 PM

Picnic Market Café, 2665 Broadway, Between 101st and 102nd Streets, Manhattan

Ever since a number of publishers first rejected Swann’s Way on the basis that no one wants to read 50 pages of description of someone turning over in bed, Proust has elicited violently opposing responses among readers and critics. This talk, given by literary historian Elizabeth Ladenson ("Proust Wars"), will trace the history of readings of Proust, including battles over his style, depictions of homosexuality in his vast novel and competing translations.

Admission: $10 (cash only), includes one drink. For more information, please call

(212) 851-7438 or visit

www.cafehumanities.columbia.edu

The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

Talk and Tour: "American Beauty"

6:00 PM

The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Seventh Avenue at 27th Street, Manhattan

Join exhibition curator Patricia Mears for an illuminating tour of the MFIT special exhibition American Beauty. This exhibition highlights innovation and creativity in fashion design in the United States, and features the work of designers such as Claire McCardell, Halston and Rodarte. A signing of the companion book to the exhibition will follow.

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 217-4585 or visit

www.fitnyc.edu/335.asp#AmericanBeauty

The CUNY Graduate Center

Who Cares About Family?

6:30 PM

Proshansky Auditorium, 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan

Despite radical changes in family formations, domestic labor still remains raced, gendered and otherwise devalued. This panel brings together experts from various fields to examine not only who cares about the family, but who does not, who should, and why. Panel includes Patricia Hill Collins, Joan Williams and Rachel Salazar Parrenas.

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 817-2005 or visit

www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Rediscoveries: Long-Lost Treasures of Cooper Union History

6:30 PM

The Cooper Union, Library, 7 East 7th Street, Between 3rd and 4th Avenues, Manhattan

Archivists at The Cooper Union and the Passaic County Historical Society have reunited a historic collection of documents. On display are essential documents of Cooper Union’s history and letters and papers from distinguished members of society - a gold mine for those interested in NYC’s mid-to-late 19th century history.

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 353-4187 or visit

www.cooper.edu

*New York City Department of Parks & Recreation *New York City Department of Parks & Recreation

Watch the Leonids Meteor Shower

7:30 PM

Fort Totten Park, Front gate, intersection of 212nd Street and Cross Island Parkway, Queens

This is the best time to view the Leonids Meteor Shower, peaking at 40 meteors per hour. The moon has moved out of the way for excellent views of this extremely rare event, which last occurred in 2001.

FREE For more information, please call

(718) 352-1769 or visit

www.NYCGovParks.org