LET’S TALK, NEW YORK! Join us to celebrate the power of Great Conversation. Choose from exciting topics to discuss with 6-8 other lively-minded New Yorkers. Share your thoughts, experiences, ideas, feelings, and insights. Please RSVP now to ​​
AOnderdonk@adelphi.edu, if you’d like to reserve a place — our space is limited and we will have to curtail registration when we fill up.

Looking forward to seeing you there,

Ron Gross,
for the Conversation Day Team
http://www.conversationsnewyork.com

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FOOD:

Feeding Our Bodies, Our Minds, and the World

Conversations Throughout NYC in January

FOOD will be the subject of conversations throughout New York City during the month of January, in a project sponsored by Conversations New York (CNY) and listed on its calendar at www.conversationsnewyork.com.

“Lively-minded New Yorkers will gather to share their ideas, experiences, and feelings,” says Ron Gross, founder of CNY. “Giving more thought to what and how we eat can help us understand ourselves, our world, each other more deeply. And it can save our lives.”

Conversations will take place in a myriad of public venues, anchored by a TED-New York Salon facilitated by Ron Gross on Fri., Jan. 15th at 5:00 at The Olivia, 315 West 33rd Street, and a CNYConversation hosted by Gross at the Manhattan Center of Adelphi University, 75 Varick Street, on Wed., Jan. 20th at 6:00.

Why not host such a conversation yourself – with whomever you like, wherever and whenever you like — to explore FOOD from your perspective?! It’s a great way to share experiences and ideas, make new friends, and deepen commitment to sustainability. See the CNY website for suggested venues including cafes and restaurants, the atriums of major business buildings like CitiGroup, IBM, and SONY, and churches and campuses.

Among the topics to be discussed at these conversations will be:

What does Food mean to you? (In your heritage, community, family, life history, current situation)

Are we thinking and talking about Food too much? Too little? In the right ways?

Do you feel any moral and ethical issues involved in your dietary choices?

Why do so many people have health issues with Food? What do you know about the science?

What role does eating (“dining”?!) play in your social, cultural, and professional life?

How can we be savvy about how, what, and where we eat in NYC? (How do you find, size up and choose places to eat, and how do you deal with problems with what you are served?)

What is our responsibility as citizens and consumers, for the Politics and Ideology of Food, e.g., feeding the world equitably, food production and Global Warming.

YOUR questions/experiences/reflections about FOOD.

Suggested Optional Reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, by Michael Pollan; Food Matters, by Mark Bittman; The Philosopher’s Diet: How to Lose Weight & Change the World, by Richard A. Watson; The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think, by Julian Baggini; and “Thus Ate Zarathrustra”, by Woody Allen.

Conversations New York (www.conversationsnewyork.com) is a community of volunteers devoted to enhancing the quality of life in NYC by promoting more and better conversations. CNY’s projects have included the first national conference on THE POWER OF CONVERSATION at Columbia University, annual CONVERSATION DAYS in Bryant Park, and promoting 1,000 conversation per year on its on-line calendar.

Conversation Rising  IN  NYC 

A city-wide, month-long celebration of the power of good talk,

coordinated by Conversations New York

during October,  2015

“Let’s Talk, New York!” will be the rallying cry as New Yorkers join exciting conversations during October, at over 100 events offered byConversations New York (www.conversationsnewyork.com).

The events will celebrate the publication of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle of M.I.T.   Media interviews and reviews of the book will occur throughout the month including the cover of the New York Times Sunday Review on 9/27, a review in the Times Book Review on 10/4, and an interview on NPR’s Weekend Edition on Saturday, 9/27. 

Conversations New York will offer, all free: 

                     100+ conversations conducted throughout the city in cafes, parks, public atriums, and other venues,  curated   and showcased on  the on-line calendar of Conversations New York (www.conversationsnewyork.com),

 A TEDxNY Salon on Fri., Oct. 9^th to view and discuss Prof. Turkle’s  acclaimed TED talk “Connected, But Alone?”, at The Olivia, 315 West 33^rd St. (two blocks from Penn Station), at 5:00 p.m.

 A Seminar exploring Prof. Turkle’s specific recommendations for Reclaiming Conversation,  on Wed., Oct. 14^th, at the Adelphi University Manhattan Center at 75 Varick Street, at 6:15 pm.

 A University Seminar on Reclaiming Conversation with Prof. Turkle, at  Faculty House, Columbia University,  on Tues., Oct. 20, at 7 pm. RSVP to grossassoc@aol.com.

REVIVING CONVERSATION IN NYC

A city-wide, month-long celebration of the power of talk,
coordinated by Conversations New York
during October, 2015

“Let’s Talk, New York!” will be the rallying cry as New Yorkers join exciting conversations during October, at events offered by Conversations New York (www.conversationsnewyork.com).

The events will celebrate the publication of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle of M.I.T.

Conversations New York will offer, all free:

100+ conversations conducted throughout the city in cafes, parks, public atriums, and other venues, curated and showcased on the CNY on-line calendar at the website below.

A TEDxNY Salon on Fri., Oct. 9th to view and discuss Prof. Turkle’s acclaimed TED talk “Connected, But Alone?”, will be held at The Olivia, 315 West 33rd St. (two blocks from Penn Station), at 5:30 pm.

A Seminar on how to have great conversations, on Wed., Oct. 14th, at the Adelphi University Manhattan Center at 75 Varick Street, at 6:15 pm.

A University Seminar on Reclaiming Conversation with Prof. Turkle will be held at Faculty House, Columbia University, on Tues., Oct. 20, at 7 pm.

For further information: http://www.conversationsnewyork.com ; e-mail grossassoc@aol.com.

Join us for a FREE film screening, and Artist’s talk….

“InContact”

11 July 2015, 4 pm

ApexArt

291 Church St (btw Walker and White St.)

Use this Link to join…

http://www.meetup.com/Conversations-NewYork/events/223592082/

InContact (2012) examines intimacy in our universal state of voyeurism, evoking an age of lost romance and melodrama. A love triangle unfolds through a fictional online platform called “InContact” – a hybrid of Facebook and reality TV that gives users a constant live video feed from their friends’ computers. Filmed entirely through the InContact network, iPhones, and surveillance cameras, InContact explores levels of spectatorship and exhibitionism in our everyday life. The screening will be followed by a Q+A session with Oren.

CNY Moderator: Laurence Mailaender

Join us for a FREE film screening and Q&A with the film’s Director….

THE LOOK OF SILENCE

7 July 2015, 6:30 pm

New America NYC

158, Fifth Ave, Second Flr

You must RSVP to New America, use this link

http://www.meetup.com/Conversations-New-York/events/223591352/

In 1965, the Indonesian government was overthrown by the military. Anybody opposed to the military dictatorship could be accused of being a communist, and in less than a year, over one million ‘communists’ were murdered – and the perpetrators still hold power throughout the country.

In 1965, the Indonesian government was overthrown by the military. Anybody opposed to the military dictatorship could be accused of being a communist, and in less than a year, over one million ‘communists’ were murdered – and the perpetrators still hold power throughout the country.

CNY Moderator: Laurence Mailaender

                   Thursday, June 18, 2015

     Adventures in Changing Our Minds

      A CNY Socratic Conversation with Ron Gross

6:15-7:45 pm

&

CNY Monthly Leadership and Team Building Meeting,

8:00 – 9:30 pm

Both at: Adelphi University Manhattan Center

75 Varick Street

Room 260-261 on the Second Floor

(75 Varick is between Watts and Grand Streets)

RSVP to grossassoc@aol.com

&

RSVP to  http://www.meetup.com/Conversations-New-York/events/222814774/

Please bring photo ID required for entree to building

DIRECTIONS

Subways: #1 to Canal, or   A, C. or E to Canal, exit next to the building.

 J, N, Q, R, W, Z or #6 to Canal, are about 5 blocks southeast at Broadway and Canal.

Bus: M20 stops at the front door.

COFFEE/FOOD/BEVERAGES/ETC.

Excellent take-out food can be purchased at The Mill (www.TheMilltoGo.com),

which is part of the same building, and brought to the meeting.

Conversation:

Adventures in Changing Our Minds

6:15 – 7:45

Q.:  What does it feel like to be wrong?

A.:   It feels like being right.

To err is human. Yet most of us go through life tacitly assuming (and sometimes noisily insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from the origins of the universe to how to load the dishwasher.

If being wrong is so natural, why are we all so bad at imagining that our beliefs could be mistaken – and why do we typically react to our errors with surprise, denial, defensiveness and shame?

Let’s explore why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken, and how this attitude toward error corrodes our relationships—whether between family members, colleagues, neighbors, or nations.  

Consider the range of human fallibility, from wrongful convictions to no-fault divorce, medical mistakes to misadventures at sea, failed prophecies to false memories, “I told you so!” to “Mistakes were made.”   Perhaps we need new ways of looking at wrongness.   Maybe error is both a given and a gift – one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and, most profoundly, ourselves.

At a time when economic, political, and religious dogmatism increasingly divide us,  we need to explore the seduction of certainty and the crisis occasioned by error.

Let’s learn to ask one of life’s most challenging questions:

What if I’m wrong?

Suggested Reading (optional): BEING WRONG , by Kathryn Schulz, CHANGING MINDS, by Howard Gardner; MISTAKES WERE MADE – BUT NOT BY ME: Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts,  by Carol Travis and Elliot Aronson

Conversations New York

(8:00 – 9:30)

 (www.conversationsnewyork.com)

       Our exciting Action Agenda will be  highlighted by:

• Semi-final planning for our 2nd Annual CONVERSATION DAY in Bryant Park on Sat., July 18th in collaboration with our trans-Atlantic partner Talk to Me London;

• Display of ten of the best books on Conversation

• Update on Fall symposium on “Reclaiming Conversation” with Sherry Turkel of MIT; Upgraded website features presence on the Internet; and

• Honoring an outstanding contributors with our prestigious Plato Awards (“…and this month’s award goes to….”)