Talks and Events: 2025-2026

Four construction workers standing silhouetted on a beam during construction of the Empire State Building with the New York City skyline in the background. Cover art for Glenn Kurtz's book "Men at Work."

February 13, 2026, 2:00pm ET

Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities

New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Lenox & Astor Room (Room 216)  

Four construction workers standing silhouetted on a beam during construction of the Empire State Building with the New York City skyline in the background. Cover art for Glenn Kurtz's book "Men at Work."

November 11, 2025 7:00pm ET

Book Culture            536 W. 112th St., New York, NY

December 6, 2025, 11:00am PT

Book Passage            51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA

Four construction workers standing silhouetted on a beam during construction of the Empire State Building with the New York City skyline in the background. Cover art for Glenn Kurtz's book "Men at Work."

February 2026

USModernist Radio, hosted by George Smart    

March 14 & 15, 2026

Tucscon Festival of Books

December 9, 2025, 6:00pm ET

The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place, New York

November 19, 2025

Virtual Memories Show, hosted by Gil Roth

Poster for the Tucson Festival of Books, March 14-15, 2026, featuring author Glenn Kurtz with a photo of him and a book cover titled 'Men at Work' about the Empire State Building.
Four construction workers standing silhouetted on a beam during construction of the Empire State Building with the New York City skyline in the background. Cover art for Glenn Kurtz's book "Men at Work."

Selected Talk & Event Archive

Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (Aug. 7, 2020)

Ghetto Fighters’ House, Israel (Dec. 20, 2020)

University of California, Santa Barbara (Sept. 8, 2015)

Taube Center for Jewish Life and Learning, Warsaw, Poland (Nov. 25, 2021)

Conversation with Bianca Stigter, moderated by Stephen Galloway, at the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, Chapman University (Sept. 27, 2022)

Virtual Memories podcast with host Gil Roth (Feb. 1, 2022)

Conversation with Roberta Grossman, sponsored by the Taube Center for Jewish Life and Learning, Warsaw (Jan. 8, 2022)

Conversation with Dan Mariaschin for B’nai B’rith (Jan. 18, 2023)

Talking Movies with Tom Brook (BBC) (Aug. 25, 2022)

ABC Prime News with Kayna Whitworth (Jan. 27, 2022)

NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday with Rachel Martin (Nov. 16, 2014)

NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon (Aug. 18, 2007)