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Barry Lewis is available for lectures, conferences, seminars and other types of speaking engagements.

Possible lecture topics
Past speaking engagements

Barry Lewis
Credits: Courtesy of Morgan Library;
photo by Susan Hoehn.

Barry Lewis speaking at the Morgan Library and Museum on Bohemia Before Bob Dylan: Greenwich Village in the 1910s and 20s

Upcoming events for the public:

The City Transformed Part Two, New York in the 20th century
Wednesdays 6:30pm-8pm Feb 3 to Mar 3
8 lectures / no lecture Mar 1
Cooper Union Continuing Education

New York, its buildings, its planning, its growth, thru every era of the last 100 years: the Beaux-Arts, the Art Deco, the Modern Movement, the post-Modern to the glass condos and office towers of the 21st century.


The Upper West Side and Lincoln Center
Sunday April 11th, 2010, 3pm
Manhasset Public Library (limited seating for non-residents)

The ups, downs and ups of the Upper West Side since its first development after the Civil War. Included will be Lincoln Center's role in the neighborhood's revival of the late 20th century.

London and New York
Thursday April 15th, 2010, 6:30pm
New-York Historical Society (Venue at Ethical Culture Society while the N-YHS is under renovation)

London's evolution, from the Middle Ages to the 19th century gave us, here in New York, an example of a city built by capitalist adventurers. Theirs was the template for the city built by private enterprise and venture capitalism. We're going to look at that close relationship.


Orientalism and New York
Friday April 30th, 6pm
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Middle East as a major root of modernism, seen in 19th century New York architecture and interior design


New York in the 1850s
Dinner and lecture
Union League Club (members and their guests only)

New York on the eve of the Civil War: the city as it was when the Union League Club was founded.


Greenwich Village: the First Bohemia
Thursday May 20th, 2010, 6:30pm
New-York Historical Society

The first generation that gave "Bohemia" a zipcode. The hipsters of the 1910s—like Edna St. Vincent Millay & John Soane—pioneered not only "alternative lifestyles" but the concept of a "hip neighborhood" that would identify them as true bohemians.