Over 125 years old, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine is the largest cathedral in the world. It is the “mother church” of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the seat of its Bishop. The church is chartered as a house of prayer for all people and as a unifying center of intellectual light and leadership.
While Cathedrals traditionally do not have their own congregations, St. John the Divine is home to the Congregation of Saint Saviour, which operates independently from the Cathedral. The congregation has approximately 400 members. Information about services and times can be found below. Furthermore, all those who would like to attend worship services and anyone seeking a place for prayer or meditation will be welcomed without charge. For sightseeing, visit the admissions page to learn more.
Like the great Medieval cathedrals and churches of the world, St. John the Divine is unfinished and will continue to be constructed over many centuries. Currently, funding is mostly directed towards maintaining the architectural integrity of the Cathedral and prioritizing serving the community through programming and social initiatives.
Some of St. John’s community initiatives include the soup kitchen (which serves roughly 25,000 meals annually), the distinguished Cathedral School (which prepares young students to be future leaders), Adults and Children in Trust (a renowned preschool, afterschool and summer program), and the outstanding Textile Conservation Lab (which preserves world treasures). The Cathedral also organizes several yearly concerts, exhibitions, performances and civic gatherings to allow for conversation, celebration, reflection and remembrance—such is the joyfully busy life of this beloved and venerated Cathedral.
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF
SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE
1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street
New York, NY 10025
(212) 316-7540
info@stjohndivine.org
stjohndivine.org
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Lent & Holy Week Schedule
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Cathedral Events
Distance Learning Master Class: Ruud Breuls, Jazz trumpet
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Manhattan School of Music
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Phone
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Website
http://www.msmnyc.edu
Venue
- Manhattan School of Music
- 120 Claremont Ave
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Most MSM performances are free. For ticketed performances - please note that all residents of the 10027 zip code can attend ticketed MSM performances free of charge. When a ticket order is placed by a patron in the 10027 zip code, the first two (2) tickets to any of MSM’s ticketed events are free. All additional tickets to the event will be charged at the regular price. For events with multiple performances, the promotion is limited to one performance date/time per event. Patrons must include their zip code in their MSM box office profile address or the promotion will not activate.
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
MAR 18 | MON
10 AM
MSM Distance Learning
Jazz Trumpet Master Class
Ruud Breuls
Presented in collaboration with the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Free, no tickets required
Myers Recital Hall
130 Claremont Avenue
New York, New York 10027
For more information about Distance Learning, please email David Marsh, Assistant Director, The Orto Center for Distance Learning and Recording Arts at dmarsh@msmnyc.edu.
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Book Talk. “In Visible Presence”
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Columbia University - Harriman Institute
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Phone
212-854-4623 -
Website
http://harriman.columbia.edu/
Please join the Harriman Institute for a book talk with Olga Shevchenko. Moderated by Yana Skorobogatov.
A faded image of a family gathered at a festively served dinner table, raising their glasses in unison. A group of small children, sitting in orderly rows, with stuffed toys at their feet and a portrait of Lenin looming over their heads. A pensive older woman against a snowy landscape, her gaze directed lovingly at a tombstone. These are a few of the evocative images in In Visible Presence by Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko, an exquisitely researched book that brings together photographs from Soviet-era family photo archives and investigates their afterlives in Russia. In Visible Presenceexplores the photographic images’ singular power to capture a fleeting moment by approaching them as points of contestation and possibility. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork and interviews, as well as internet ethnography, media analysis, and case studies, In Visible Presence offers a rich account of the role of family photography in creating communities of affect, enabling nostalgic longings, and processing memories of suffering, violence, and hardship. Together these photos evoke youthful aspirations, dashed hopes, and moral compromises, as well as the long legacy of silence that was passed down from grandparents to parents to children. With more than 250 black and white photos, In Visible Presence is an astonishing journey into domestic photography, family memory, and the ongoing debate over the meaning of the Soviet past that is as timely and powerful today as it has ever been.
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Law as a Moral Force: When President Truman and Chief Justice Warren Studied Talmud at JTS
Part of our spring learning series Timely Insights, Timeless Wisdom
Monday, March 18, 1:00–2:30 p.m. ET
Online
With Dr. Shira Billet, Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Ethics, JTS
In this lecture, we will uncover a fascinating moment in JTS history, a weekend in the 1950s when Chief Justice Earl Warren and Former President Harry S. Truman came to JTS to learn about what Judaism had to offer to a broader question concerning American judges and politicians at that time: Could law be a moral force in a society? We will consider the content of what Warren and Truman studied that weekend and its broader impact on both of them, as well as the way that this historical moment sheds light on other significant aspects of American Jewish history in the 1950s and 1960s.
If you have previously registered for another session in this series, your registration admits you to all sessions in the series, and you may attend as many as you’d like.
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Communications Roundtable
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Morningside Area Alliance
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Phone
2127491570 -
Email
jenn@morningsidealliance.org -
Website
https://morningside-alliance.org
Let’s Use CLIO (Online)
Learn how to use CLIO, the library catalog, for your courses and research. The session will cover the fundamentals of the information ecosystem at Columbia University and participants will learn how to find ebooks, databases, articles, and more. While designed for newcomers to the Columbia University Libraries, all are welcome.
Please register in advance to receive the Zoom link on the morning of the session. Registration will close at 10am on Monday, March 18.
Nicole Cowan
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Affirmations 8: Ecological Entanglements
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Columbia University GSAPP (Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation)
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Website
https://arch.columbia.edu/
Venue
- Columbia University - Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium
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Website
https://cgt.columbia.edu/locations/columbia-university-avery-hall-wood-auditorium-2/
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
Elizabeth Povinelli will present in the 8th AFFIRMATION, followed by a conversation with Filipa Ramos.
This lecture will be hosted in Wood Auditorium at Columbia GSAPP and live-streamed on GSAPP’s YouTube channel.
Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University, where she has also been the Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Culture. She is also Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a founding member of the Karrabing Film Collective. Povinelli’s academic work has focused on developing a critical theory of settler late liberalism and its aftershocks, elaborated across eight monographs and numerous essays. Geontologies, A Requiem to Late Liberalism was the recipient of the 2017 Lionel Trilling Award. She has also explored similar thematics in a series of artworks shown in galleries and museums, including Prometeo Gallery, Milan, ar/ge gallery, Bolzano, the Biennale Gherdëina, and MADRE, Naples. Her film, The Inheritance, made with Thomas Bartlett, premiered with Taxispalais, Innsbruck.
A series of her drawings reimagining prehistory as a series of colonial sedimentations was part of the reopening of the Museo delle Civiltà, Rome, in 2022. With her Karrabing colleagues, Povinelli has also participated in eight award winning films, prizes of which include the 2015 Visible Award and the 2021 Eye Prize from the Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam.
Filipa Ramos is a writer and lecturer based in London. She is Curator of Art Basel Film. Her research looks at human’s engagement with animals in the contexts of art and artists’ cinema. Her writing has been published in magazines and books worldwide. With Andrea Lissoni she founded and curates Vdrome, a programme of screenings of artists’ films. She is Lecturer at the MRes Arts at Central Saint Martins, London, and the Master Programme of the Arts Institute of Basel. She was Editor in Chief of art-agenda, Associate Editor of Manifesta Journal and contributed for Documenta 13 (2012) and 14 (2017). She edited Animals (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2016) and curated the group exhibition ‘Animalesque’ (Bildmuseet Umeå, Summer 2019, and BALTIC, Gateshead, Winter 2019/20). She curates the symposia series ‘The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish’ with Lucia Pietroiusti for the Serpentine Galleries.
AFFIRMATIONS is an eight-month series of discussions with designers, researchers, planners, preservationists, and activists to affirm and interrogate how to think and redesign the built environment at the intersection of climate, ecological, societal, bodily, and technological crises and defiance. As a project convened to interrogate and affirm how to think and practice the reworlding of societies and ecosystems now, AFFIRMATIONS is intended to align evidence and aspirations. It will summarize and state underrepresented histories and possible futures that emerge from the cracks in the structures of power built on the interdependency of carbonization, extractivism, colonization, racialization, anthropocentrism, inequality, patriarchy, and technocracy. GSAPP students and faculty, together with a cohort of respondents selected from all around the world through an Open Call, are participating in the discussion throughout the academic year. Learn more here.
AFFIRMATIONS is curated by Andrés Jaque, Dean, and Bart-Jan Polman, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programming and Curator of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia GSAPP.
This event content is equivalent to 1.5 AIA/CES total learning credit. Please contact events@arch.columbia.edu for more information.
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Film Screening & Discussion. “Solaris Mon Amour”
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Columbia University - Harriman Institute
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Phone
212-854-4623 -
Website
http://harriman.columbia.edu/
Please join the Harriman Institute and the Museum of the Moving Image for a screening of Solaris Mon Amour, followed by a discussion with Director Kuba Mikurda. Moderated by Christopher Caes.
The same year that Alain Resnais’s masterpiece Hiroshima mon amour was released, science fiction writer and theorist Stanisław Lem began writing his influential novel Solaris, an artistic confluence that inspires this wholly original and emotionally resonant found footage film, which underscores the theme of post-traumatic memory that informs both texts. Mikurda, editor Laura Pawela, and composer/sound designer Marcin Lenarczyk bring together clips from 70 films produced by the Educational Film Studio in Lodz in the 1960s, as well as the first radio adaptations of Solaris, to create an entrancing, spectral incantation of loss, mourning, and memory.
In Polish with English subtitles.
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Spring Yoga in the Field House
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Summer on the Hudson
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212-870-3089 -
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Website
https://riversideparknyc.org/organizer/summer-on-the-hudson/
Join Yoga instructor for a morning practice. Suitable for all fitness levels. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring your own mat.
This event takes place in the newly-renovated 102nd Street Field House. Enter the Park at 102nd Street and Riverside Drive, then descend to the promenade level. The stairs to the Field House are across the promenade at 102nd Street.
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Book Talk: Death, Domination, and State-Building
The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies presents:
Book Talk: Death, Domination, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention
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Event Details:
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
12pm-2pm
Room 1302, International Affairs Building
Moderated by Jack Snyder, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
With Roger Petersen, Author, Death, Domination, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Miltiary Intervention; Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, MIT
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In Death, Dominance, and State-Building, the eminent scholar of conflict Roger D. Petersen provides the first comprehensive analytic history of post-invasion Iraq. Although the war is almost universally derided as one of the biggest foreign policy blunders of the post-Cold War era, Petersen argues that the course and conduct of the conflict is poorly understood. He begins by outlining an accessible framework for analyzing complex, fluid, and violent internal conflicts. He then applies that framework to a variety of diverse case studies to break down the strategic interplay among the US military forces and Shia and Sunni insurgent organizations as it played out in Baghdad, Anbar, and Hawija. Highlighting the struggle for dominance between Shia and Sunni in Baghdad, Petersen offers a reconsideration of the Surge. He also addresses failures of state-building in Iraqi Kurdistan. Critically, he shows how the legacy of the US occupation and presence from 2003-2011 shaped Iraq’s political and security contours from 2011-2023.
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About the author:
Roger Petersen holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago. He has taught at MIT since 2001 and is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. Petersen focuses on within-state conflict and violence. He has written four books: Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and “Death, Domination, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention, (Oxford University Press, 2024).” He has taught classes on military intervention, civil war, civil-military relations, and emotions in politics, as well as classes focusing on regional conflicts in the Balkans and the Middle East.
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Bridging High-Level Goals and On-the-Ground Realities
After many years of research and activism about the climate resilience and nutritional benefits of increasing diversity of the dominant rice-wheat system in India, attention on millets is now receiving policy attention at the highest levels of government. The opportunity is ripe for research to contribute to achieving these goals based on an understanding of the ground realities. The seminar will highlight the work in one geography in central India to try to bridge the gap.
In this webinar, the Food for Humanity Initiative will discuss how it could have an impact on diversifying food systems in multiple places around the world.
Speaker: Ruth De Fries, Columbia Climate School
Please click here to register for this event; https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-PcQMRO3T6yiDoeiv7KQqg#/registration
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Women Human Rights Defenders Working in Conflict and Crisis Settings
Please join the Human Rights Institute for our first event as part of the Spring Event Series: Defending Human Rights in The Face of Armed Conflict. The event series will explore strategies for promoting rights, justice, and peace during armed conflict.
This event titled “Women Human Rights Defenders Working in Conflict and Crisis Affected Settings” will be a discussion on the role WHRDs play during armed conflict, with a particular focus on Armenia, Israel/Palestine, Mexico, and global trends.
Panelists:
- Yosra Sultan, Executive Director WHRDMENA (The Regional Coalition of Women Human Rights Defenders in South West Asia and North Africa)
- Anna Nikoghosyan, Executive Coordinator, Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition
- Guadalupe Marengo, Head of Global Human Rights Defenders Programme and of Global Relief Programme at Amnesty International
When: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 | 12:10pm to 1:10pm
Where: Columbia Law School | Jerome Greene Hall | Room 807
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Literary Readings & Conversation about Life & Art in Today’s Ukraine
Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for literary readings and a conversation with Iryna Tsilyk. Moderated by Mark Andryczyk.
During the meeting, Iryna Tsilyk will read some of her poems as well as excerpts from her essays, and talk about the life of Ukrainians—and, in particular, Ukrainian artists—in a time of war. Many of them are fighting, others have become medics and volunteers, while hundreds have already been killed. Does art have any power in times of war? What tools can artists use? What does Ukrainian culture tell us today about the past, present and future of Ukraine? These issues and other will be focused on during the event’s discussion and Q&A.