Lecture: New England’s Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford, 1753-1814)

Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018

5:30 p.m.

Third-floor Research Library

Athenaeum Proprietor Dr. Fred Schubert will give an illustrated talk on the life and scientific achievements of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. This talk will emphasize his pivotal scientific experiments concerning the nature of heat. His remarkable practical activities affecting the city of Munich in Bavaria will also be discussed. In considering these topics, other aspects of his singular life story will naturally arise.

Due to limited seating, please call the Athenaeum at (603) 431-2538 to reserve your spot(s) today.

[Image: Painting of Thompson by Thomas Gainsborough, 1783. Source: Wikipedia]

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Franklin Club
Franklin Club

September 4, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

The Junto, also known as the Leather Apron Club, was a club for mutual improvement established in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. The Leather Apron Club's purpose was to debate questions of morals, politics, and natural philosophy, and to exchange knowledge of business affairs.

The Athenaeum's newly formed Franklin Club was created with this mind. Please join us on the first Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. in the Sawtelle Reading Room. We loosely follow the list of questions from Ben Franklin’s club, and generally chat and share thoughts about current matters of life and town in a casual manner. The Franklin Club is a great opportunity to bring new members or potential new members who are looking for an opportunity to socialize and get to know other folks that are part of the Athenaeum.

Tour of Sawtelle Reading Room
Tour of Sawtelle Reading Room

September 5, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

The first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room in the 1805 building is open for tours. Donations accepted.

Art 'Round Town for exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020"
Art 'Round Town for exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020"

September 6, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

Please join us during Art 'Round Town for our current exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020" in the third-floor Randall Gallery.

CURRENT EVENTS LECTURE SERIES: "AI, the Technologies and the Challenges" with John Roese
CURRENT EVENTS LECTURE SERIES: "AI, the Technologies and the Challenges" with John Roese

September 13, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

The Current Events Lecture Series features a conversation with new Athenaeum member, John Roese, Chief Technology Officer of Dell Computers, discussing: “AI, the Technologies and the Challenges.”

Program begins at 5:30 pm in the Shaw Research Library of the Portsmouth Athenaeum at 9 Market Square in Portsmouth, NH. Reservations are required as seating is limited.

https://portsmouthathenaeum.org/event/current-events-lecture-series-ai-the-technologies-and-the-challenges-with-john-roese/

Attendance at programs is free for Athenaeum Proprietors, Subscribers and Friends. Guests and members of the public are welcome to attend the entire series by becoming a Friend of the Athenaeum for as little as $25 per year, payable at the door. Admission to an individual program is $15.

2024 LECTURE SERIES: "Misreading the Public: The Failed Promise of Public Opinion Polling" with David Moore
2024 LECTURE SERIES: "Misreading the Public: The Failed Promise of Public Opinion Polling" with David Moore

September 18, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

Polling expert, David W. Moore presents, Misreading the Public: The Failed Promise of Public Opinion Polling. He will explore the origins of “scientific” public opinion polling, with George Gallup being the iconic representative of the early pollsters whose goal was to provide the voice of the people between elections. Since then, it has become obvious that the public’s voice is not so easy to measure. It’s difficult to find samples of respondents who accurately represent the larger population. Question wording is tricky, which often influences the very opinions pollsters are trying to measure. Unfortunately, the news media have taken over the polling enterprise with less concern with the quality of the “public opinion” they report than producing compelling news stories. The net result is that most public opinion polls about policy issues produce the “illusion of public opinion” rather than a reasonable estimate of how engaged the public is and what it is thinking.

David Moore is a Senior Fellow with the Carsey School at the University of New Hampshire and a two time winner of the EPPY (Editors and Publishers) Award for his writing about polls on iMediaEthics. He is also a periodic contributor of polling critiques to FAIR.org. He is a former Managing Editor of the Gallup Poll, and author of The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls. Prior to working for Gallup, he was a professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, where he founded the UNH Survey Center.

Program begins at 5:30 pm in the Shaw Research Library of the Portsmouth Athenaeum at 9 Market Square in Portsmouth, NH. Reservations are required as seating is limited.

https://portsmouthathenaeum.org/event/lecture-series-david-moore-on-polling/

If unable to keep a reservation, please call again to release the seat for someone else. Attendance at programs is free for Athenaeum Proprietors, Subscribers and Friends. Guests and members of the public are welcome to attend the entire series by becoming a Friend of the Athenaeum for as little as $25 per year, payable at the door. Admission to an individual program is $15.

The lecture series this year is sponsored by Whole Wealth Management.

Portsmouth ArtsAthenaeum Presents Piano Trio Bäverstam
Portsmouth ArtsAthenaeum Presents Piano Trio Bäverstam

September 22, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
St. John's Episcopal Church, 101 Chapel St, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

Piano Trio Bäverstam will be the featured performer at the upcoming concert presented by Portsmouth Athenaeum’s ArtsAthenaeum classical music series. Sebastian Bäverstam recently formed the Trio with Jean Huang Bäverstam and Constantine Finehouse.

For more information, click here.

Tour of Sawtelle Reading Room
Tour of Sawtelle Reading Room

September 28, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

The first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room in the 1805 building is open for tours. Donations accepted.

Lecture: New England’s Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford, 1753-1814)

Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018

5:30 p.m.

Third-floor Research Library

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