GALLERY TALK: Melville in New York

Thursday, November 12, 2009

gallery talk and reception

$25 general
$17 seniors and students

Andrew Delbanco, cultural historian and biographer of Herman Melville, will talk with Peter Miller about New York during the first half of the nineteenth century and the ways in which Melville’s experience of the great maritime city informed the writing of Moby-Dick, his oceanic masterpiece.

Andrew Delbanco is Levi Professor in the Humanities and director of American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of Melville: His World and Work.

Peter N. Miller is dean and chair of academic programs at the
Bard Graduate Center.

To register, please call 212.501.3011 or email: programs@bgc.bard.edu

Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Bard Graduate Center, 18 West 86th St, NY, NY
Contact: 212-501-3011
E-mail: programs@bgc.bard.edu
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