November 23, 2009

*The New York Public Library

The Glow Show

3:30 PM

320 City Island Avenue, Bronx

Amazing discoveries will come to light in this class on things that glow bright in the dark. Probe the properties of light and explore some unusual applications of glow-in- the-dark technology—including the printing of money. This will be presented by Mad Science of Westchester and Manhattan for children ages 5 to 12.

FREE For more information, please call

(718) 885-1703 or visit

www.NYPL.org

Columbia University

Cafe Social Science

6:00 PM

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

International Human Rights Lawyer and Sociologist Yasmine Ergasd discusses "Transnational Baby Making." Babies are increasingly being "made" across national borders. A U.K. "mother" may commission an Indian "mother" to bear her a child with the eggs provided by a Columbia University student. What happens if the Indian mother does not want to give up the child? A woman in New Zealand has casual sex with an American. What happens if he claims paternity rights? Is the mother the woman who bears the child? The woman who donates the eggs? The woman who hires the surrogate? Is the casual lover more like a marriage partner or a sperm donor? Is the United Kingdom obligated to recognize the child born in India as its citizen? What if the contracting mother comes from the United States or Germany? Come hear how courts worldwide are grappling with these problems. What happens to the children and their families if courts disagree?

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

(212) 851-7438 or visit

www.cafesocialscience.columbia.edu

*The New School

Chile: Life Under and After the Dictator

6:00 PM

80 Fifth Avenue, Room 802, Manhattan

The Janey Program in Latin American Studies and the Observatory on Latin America will present a conversation with Ambassador Heraldo Muñoz on his award-winning memoir “The Dictator’s Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet” and on the forthcoming presidential elections in Chile.

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 229-5905 or visit

www.NewSchool.edu