Night School: Maria Lind and Tirdad Zolghadr

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Maria Lind was born in Stockholm in 1966. Since January 2008, Lind has been director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. From 2005-2007, she was director of Iaspis (International Artist Studio Program in Sweden) in Stockholm. From 2002-2004, Lind was director of Kunstverein München where together with a curatorial team consisting (at different times) of Sören Grammel, Katharina Schlieben, Tessa Praun, Ana Paula Cohen, and Judith Schwarzbart, she ran a program that involved artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno, and Marion von Osten. The format of a retrospective, or survey, was explored in a one-year long retrospective with Christine Borland 2002-2003, which exhibited one work at a time, and a retrospective project by Rirkrit Tiravanija in the form of a seven-day workshop. The group project "Totally motivated: A sociocultural maneouvre" was a collaboration between five curators and ten artists looking at the relationship between "amateur" and "professional" art and culture. From 1997-2001 Lind was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and, in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2, Europe's biennale of contemporary art. Responsible for Moderna Museet Projekt, Lind worked with artists on a series of twenty-nine commissions that took place in a temporary project space, or within or beyond the Museum in Stockholm. There she also curated "What if: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design," filtered by Liam Gillick. Lind has contributed widely to magazines including Index (where she was on the editorial board), and to numerous catalogues and other publications. She is co-editor of the recent books Curating with Light Luggage and Collected Newsletter (Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst), Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art (Blackdog Publishing), as well as the report European Cultural Policies 2015. She has been teaching and lecturing at different art schools since the early 1990s, including the University Colleges of Fine Art in Umeå and Stockholm, the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths College in London, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies in Annandale-on-Hudson, the Emily Carr Institute of Art in Vancouver, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and Munich.

Tirdad Zolghadr is a freelance writer and curator based in Berlin. He has organized events in a wide range of venues, writes regularly for frieze magazine and other publications, and is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine. Zolghadr is also a founding member of the Shahrzad Art & Design collective, has directed several documentary films, and has also published his first novel, Softcore, with Telegram Books London.

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The Goethe-Institut New York is pleased to present a discussion and exhibition of video art inspired by Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project (Passagenwerk), his intricate and haunting life's work contemplating the arcades of Paris.

Michael Taussig, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia Universtiy, and Stephan Wackwitz, Program Department Director at the Goethe-Institut New York, discuss Benjamin's masterpiece which continues to captivate artists and thinkers today.

For the exhibition Passages-passagen-pasáže eighteen international video artists pay tribute to Walter Benjamin's work. The exhibition is co-organized by the Gandy Gallery, Institut Français, Bratislava, and the Goethe-Institut New York.

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As is the case in many other countries, France has been inundated by a wave of memory-related studies over the past thirty years. These have put into question a widely shared version of the history of France, a version that schools have used as the common reference point for the French. In fact, one should speak of histories of memories stressing the plural, since what had been considered until recently as a vector of social and national integration and of integration into the citizenry, now leads to disagreements and dissensions that unfold right before our very eyes. Historians, confronted with a situation that they cannot fully manage (and in which they are doubtless no longer the primary voice of authority), should examine what their specific role can now be and how this new situation is transforming the conditions under which they exercise their profession.

Jacques Revel is a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and at NYU. His teaching and his research deal with the sociocultural history of Europe from the 16th century to the 18th century. He also works on the contemporary transformations of historiography. He is one of the editors of the Annales. His last publications include Penser par cas (ed., with Jean-Claude Passeron, 2005) and Un parcours critique. Douze exercices d'histoire sociale (2006).

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This spring marks the 40th anniversary of the 1968 student protests at Columbia University. A group of alumni participants, working with faculty and students, has developed a program for a three-day conference to reexamine those events from a wide range of viewpoints and in the context of what was happening in 1968 in the country and the world. The conference will provide a chance for people who lived through that period to reconnect, reconcile, and reflect. And it will engage current students in a discussion about issues of war, race, and the role of the university—issues that are still with us 40 years later. What follows is a preliminary schedule of events showing confirmed speakers. All events are on the Columbia University campus; see event for building location. For a map of the Columbia campus, go to www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/

8 p.m Columbia 1968 and the World (Casa Italiana) - A look at what was going on in the nation and the world in 1968, from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to the abdication of Lyndon Johnson, from the Tet Offensive in Vietnam to Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, from the Eugene McCarthy campaign to the tumultuous Democratic Party convention in Chicago. It was a truly remarkable year.

Robert Friedman (moderator) Journalist, former Columbia Spectator editor (1968)

Kathleen Cleaver - Former Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party and Senior Lecturer at Emory Law School and Yale University

Tom Hayden - Activist, principal author of the Port Huron Statement, former California state legislator.

Mark Kurlansky - Writer and author of "1968: The Year that Rocked the World."

William Sales - Member Hamilton Hall Steering Committee, Associate Professor, Africana and Diaspora Studies, Seton Hall University

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Caracas is home and the Global South their culture, Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, founders of Urban Think Tank (U-TT), have developed a subversive architectural practice that transgress with distinct ambitions in the urban reality. From systematic propositions of public spaces under highways to the construction of instant activist architectures that find no time for incubating in the traditional practice, U-TT negotiates legal and illegal zones, as a reminder of the pervasive control to which designers are all subject.

The new model proposes that architects work as connectors between the two opposite forces of top down planning and bottom up initiatives to make them interact powerfully and productively. U-TT works with politicians, policy makers, community groups and global corporations and international professionals. It believes that the opposition of 'legal' and 'peripheral' urban areas, the rich and the marginalised, are equally constitutive and therefore a new model of city visioning must be implemented for developing cities. Thus U-TT has deliberately shifted from the formal traditional master plans to a strategy of activist architect who operates as initiator, mediator and designer.

Speakers: Welcome: James McCullar, FAIA, President & Rick Bell, FAIA, Executive Director; Presenters: Alfredo Brillenbourg, Architect, Principal, Urban Think Tank, Caracas & Hubert Klumpner, Architect, Principal, Urban Think Tank, Caracas.

Organized by: AIA New York Chapter Global Dialogues.

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Art historians Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Johanna Burton, and Barbara Clausen discuss their research on performance from the 1960s to the 1980s and the place of performance art in the contemporary cultural landscape, moderated by Sharon Hayes, artist. They analyze the relationship between gesture and time, mediality and performativity, and appropriation and activism and the changing role of performance art in society over the last three decades. Carrie Lambert-Beatty is assistant professor in Harvard University's History of Art and Architecture and Visual and Environmental Studies departments. Johanna Burton, a doctoral candidate in Princeton University's Department of Art and Archaeology, writes on appropriation in American art of the 1980s. Barbara Clausen is a curator who lives in Vienna. Sponsored by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.

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Recent years have seen a rise in prominence of legislative issues that control how scientists work or that require scientific information for decision making. How do legislators receive this information, and what are the potential effects of distortion or misunderstanding of it on science in the United States? Join us for a discussion on how science-related think tanks and congressional science committees are involved in this process.

Speakers
Joanne Carney, Director of the American Association for the Advancement of Scientists (AAAS) Center for Science, Technology and Congress.
David Goldston, former chief of staff for the House Committee on Science and author of Nature's "Party of One"column on Congress and science policy.
Michael Stebbins, Director of Biology Policy for the Federation of American Scientists, President of the Scientists and Engineers for America Action Fund, and author of Sex, Drugs & DNA.

Attendance is FREE but limited to the first 70 registrants.

Reception to Follow.

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Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset pursue a conscious cultural position that abstracts from issues of power, sex, and marginalized or subcultural behavioural patterns in an alignment with architectonics and style — as ways of emphasizing the "private" as a reflection of the particular, singular, and non-generic in exploring social subject matters of class, privilege, gender, nationality. Molly Nesbit joins the artists Elmgreen & Dragset in this first time public presentation in New York City approaching their practice and production, as well as their role as theatre directors, assemblers and editors.

This event has been made possible with the support of the Danish Arts Council's Committee for International Visual Art and the Office for Contemporary Art Norway in relation to the selection of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset as artists/curators for the Danish and Nordic Pavilions in the 2009 Edition of the Venice Biennale in a project exploring a set of complex psychological structures based on devotion, desire, cultural ambitions, boredom, and vanity in relation to the sub-themes of "collecting" and "intimacy, sexuality, and queerness."

About the Speakers
Molly Nesbit is a Professor of Art History at Vassar College and a contributing editor of Artforum. Her books include Atget's Seven Albums (Yale University Press, 1992) and Their Common Sense (Black Dog, 2000). With Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija she has been organizing "Utopia Station", an ongoing book, exhibition, seminar, website and street project. She is currently the J. Kirk T. Varnedoe Visiting Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Michael Elmgreen (b. 1961) and Ingar Dragset (b. 1969) live and work in Berlin and have been collaborating since 1995. Through the last decade, they have been showing their works in numerous institutions including Tate Modern, Serpentine Gallery, MCA Chicago, New Museum, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Hamburger Bahnhof, MMK Frankfurt, Louisiana Museum, Moderna Museet, Bergen Kunsthall and Kunsthalle Zürich.

Free entrance. Fjellbekk and Hylleblomst to be served at all events in addition to other refreshments and food.

[OCA, NYC] is an experimental platform launched by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway to initiate projects, seminars, talks, screenings, and to host short-term residencies in New York City as an alternative and satellite space to OCA in Oslo, Norway. [OCA, NYC] is physically lodged within the historical Cunard Cruise Lines building (and former Police Museum), adjacent to Battery Park.

Office for Contemporary Art Norway
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is a private foundation and was founded by The Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs and The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in fall 2001. The main aim of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway is to develop collaborations in contemporary art between Norway and the international art scene. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway aims to become a profiled contributor to the discourses of contemporary art.

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Night School is an artist's project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international artists, writers, and theorists to conceptualize and conduct the program.

Maria Lind was born in Stockholm in 1966. Since January 2008, Lind has been director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. From 2005-2007, she was director of Iaspis (International Artist Studio Program in Sweden) in Stockholm. From 2002-2004, Lind was director of Kunstverein München where together with a curatorial team consisting (at different times) of Sören Grammel, Katharina Schlieben, Tessa Praun, Ana Paula Cohen, and Judith Schwarzbart, she ran a program that involved artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno, and Marion von Osten. The format of a retrospective, or survey, was explored in a one-year long retrospective with Christine Borland 2002-2003, which exhibited one work at a time, and a retrospective project by Rirkrit Tiravanija in the form of a seven-day workshop. The group project "Totally motivated: A sociocultural maneouvre" was a collaboration between five curators and ten artists looking at the relationship between "amateur" and "professional" art and culture. From 1997-2001 Lind was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and, in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2, Europe's biennale of contemporary art. Responsible for Moderna Museet Projekt, Lind worked with artists on a series of twenty-nine commissions that took place in a temporary project space, or within or beyond the Museum in Stockholm. There she also curated "What if: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design," filtered by Liam Gillick. Lind has contributed widely to magazines including Index (where she was on the editorial board), and to numerous catalogues and other publications. She is co-editor of the recent books Curating with Light Luggage and Collected Newsletter (Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst), Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art (Blackdog Publishing), as well as the report European Cultural Policies 2015. She has been teaching and lecturing at different art schools since the early 1990s, including the University Colleges of Fine Art in Umeå and Stockholm, the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths College in London, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies in Annandale-on-Hudson, the Emily Carr Institute of Art in Vancouver, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and Munich.

Tirdad Zolghadr is a freelance writer and curator based in Berlin. He has organized events in a wide range of venues, writes regularly for frieze magazine and other publications, and is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine. Zolghadr is also a founding member of the Shahrzad Art & Design collective, has directed several documentary films, and has also published his first novel, Softcore, with Telegram Books London.

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After decades of unsuccessful Western development  policies toward Africa, China's increasingly bold, no-strings approach to investment and aid in Africa is attracting both cautious praise and withering criticism. Can China's aid to Africa be seen as an new developmental model, a catalyst for prosperity, a neocolonialist gambit, or a combination of all three? Will the flow of Chinese money to Africa undermine efforts at accountability and effective aid by Western institutions, or can it induce innovation among traditional donors whose own track records are open to criticism? How should scholars, policy makers, and aid organizations view China's inroads into commerce, extractive industries, construction, and flows of manufactured goods, capital, and even labor? How do Africans and Chinese view the current efforts of their governments, private sectors, and civil societies to engage each other? What are the implications for bilateral and multilateral relations, governance, and the environment?

The New School's graduate program in International Affairs presents "China's Aid to Africa," a public panel discussion with leading scholars, government officials, and practitioners from China, Africa, the United States, and Europe. The panel will explore, inter alia, the history, implementation, and implications of China's aid policies toward Africa; the influence of China's experience as an aid recipient on its policies abroad; the impact of China's aid on African socioeconomic development and governance; and ways donors can respond to and engage with this new development. Case studies from Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola will inform the discussion, and a government official from Africa and an international NGO professional will share their experience working with Chinese representatives in negotiating aid terms and advocating for better environmental and governance standards.

Speakers include:
Deborah Brautigam, associate professor, School of International Service, American University
Sun Baohong, counselor, Policy Analysis Section, Chinese Embassy, Washington, D.C.
Mukenge Betu-Kabansu, Secretary of the Vice President, Democratic Republic of Congo
Zhang Jun, researcher, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
Peter Bosshard, policy director, International Rivers Network (IRN)
Daniel Large, research director of the Africa Asia Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Tang Xiaoyang, PhD candidate, Department of Philosophy, The New School
The discussion will be moderated by Jonathan Bach, associate director of the graduate program in International Affairs.

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This unique conference on April 25 and 26 presents a wide variety of perspectives on how economic research interacts with psychological intuition. Included among presenters and discussants are many of the leading economists of the generation. The conference coincides with the release of the first book in a series of Handbooks on Economic Methodology, The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics, edited by Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter of NYU, to be published by Oxford University Press in conjunction with the Center for Experimental Social Science at NYU.

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In partnership with the Center for Architecture, ICP will bring together photojournalist Lynsey Addario and writer Elizabeth Rubin for an evening conversation to discuss how conflict is covered in their respective fields.

Moderator: Kathy Ryan, picture editor of The New York Times Magazine

Lynsey Addario is a photojournalist based in Istanbul, Turkey, where she photographs for National Geographic, The New York Times, The NYT Magazine, Time, and Fortune, among others; recent bodies of work include women's issues in Saudi Arabia for The New York Times, social and political coverage in Iran in 2005; and the wars in Lebanon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Afghanistan.

Elizabeth Rubin is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. For the last decade, she has traveled extensively writing about Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. Her stories have appeared in The NYT Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Harper's, and The New Yorker.

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10 a.m. From Vietnam to Iraq (Journalism School) Forty years of U.S. intervention. What, if anything, have we learned?.

Michael Klare Author and Five College Professor of peace and World Studies, Hampshire College

Noon Feminist Legacies of 1968 (501 Schermerhorn) - A moderated discussion with women who were at Barnard and Columbia in 1968 and played important roles in the rise of the feminist movement. Sponsored by the Institute on Research on Women & Gender.

Louise Yelin (moderator) - Kempner Distinguished Professor of Literature, Purchase College, SUNY

Ti-Grace Atkinson - Feminist activist and author

Rosalyn Baxandall - Chair of American Studies and Distinguished Teaching Professor, SUNY College at Old Westbury

Christine Clark-Evans - Associate Professor of French, Penn State University

Elizabeth Diggs - Head of Playwriting and Associate Professor of Dramatic Writing, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Grace LeClair - Co-founder of Calvert Social Investment Fund, Executive Director, NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire

Sharon Olds - Poet, creative writing instructor New York University

Catharine Stimpson - University Professor, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University

2 p.m Political Action and Official Response (Journalism School) State and university officials regularly act to direct, limit, or oppose political activities by those under their authority. Their actions may range from providing opportunities for political expression and preventing unlawful conduct, to surveillance, harassment, prosecution, and violence. This session will explore the range of official responses to political activism in the late 1960s and today. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Culture.

Lee Bollinger - President, Columbia University

Ray Brown - Chair, White Collar Defense and Corporate Compliance Group, Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis

Samuel Gross - Thomas and Mabel Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan

Gustin Reichbach - New York State Supreme Court Justice

Kendall Thomas - Nash Professor of Law, Columbia University

4 p.m. Race at Columbia, Then and Now (Journalism School) - Forty years of struggle at Columbia, from opposing the gym in Morningside Park to demanding ethnic studies; from the anti-apartheid divestment campaign to hunger strikes. What are the common threads among the critiques made by people of color at Columbia? Is the campus still fragmented along color lines? Are the interventions of yesterday still viable today?

Thulani Davis - Writer, Barnard ‘70

Arnim Johnson - Attorney, Columbia College ‘71

Manning Marable - Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History, Columbia University

Johanna Ocana - Lucha, Columbia College

Claytoya Tugwell - Black Student Organization, Columbia College ‘10

Sudhir Venkatesh - Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, Director of the Center for Urban Research and Policy, Director of the Charles H. Revson Fellowship Program

8 p.m. What Happened? (Law School) - A large-scale, multi-media narrative of the events at Columbia in the spring of 1968 told by witnesses and participants on as many sides, and from as many points of view, as possible. Including, among others: Nancy Biberman, Ray Brown, Al Dempsey, Leon Denmark, Larry Frazier, Robert Friedman, Stuart Gedal, Juan Gonzalez, Michelle Patrick, Mark Rudd.

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Night School: Maria Lind and Tirdad Zolghadr Part of Night School Free but tickets are required* 3pm

Night School is an artist's project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international artists, writers, and theorists to conceptualize and conduct the program. Thursday, Apr. 24, 2008 7:30 PM

Maria Lind was born in Stockholm in 1966. Since January 2008, Lind has been director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. From 2005-2007, she was director of Iaspis (International Artist Studio Program in Sweden) in Stockholm. From 2002-2004, Lind was director of Kunstverein München where together with a curatorial team consisting (at different times) of Sören Grammel, Katharina Schlieben, Tessa Praun, Ana Paula Cohen, and Judith Schwarzbart, she ran a program that involved artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno, and Marion von Osten. The format of a retrospective, or survey, was explored in a one-year long retrospective with Christine Borland 2002-2003, which exhibited one work at a time, and a retrospective project by Rirkrit Tiravanija in the form of a seven-day workshop. The group project "Totally motivated: A sociocultural maneouvre" was a collaboration between five curators and ten artists looking at the relationship between "amateur" and "professional" art and culture. From 1997-2001 Lind was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and, in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2, Europe's biennale of contemporary art. Responsible for Moderna Museet Projekt, Lind worked with artists on a series of twenty-nine commissions that took place in a temporary project space, or within or beyond the Museum in Stockholm. There she also curated "What if: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design," filtered by Liam Gillick. Lind has contributed widely to magazines including Index (where she was on the editorial board), and to numerous catalogues and other publications. She is co-editor of the recent books Curating with Light Luggage and Collected Newsletter (Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst), Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art (Blackdog Publishing), as well as the report European Cultural Policies 2015. She has been teaching and lecturing at different art schools since the early 1990s, including the University Colleges of Fine Art in Umeå and Stockholm, the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths College in London, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies in Annandale-on-Hudson, the Emily Carr Institute of Art in Vancouver, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and Munich.

Tirdad Zolghadr is a freelance writer and curator based in Berlin. He has organized events in a wide range of venues, writes regularly for frieze magazine and other publications, and is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine. Zolghadr is also a founding member of the Shahrzad Art & Design collective, has directed several documentary films, and has also published his first novel, Softcore, with Telegram Books London.

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Marx and Engels argued that world capitalism was a necessary condition for Socialism. Thus, the current period of globalization may again put Socialism on the world agenda (especially given the atrophy of past "solutions" to class conflict such as the welfare state and state capitalisms). This possibility will seem preposterous to those who think capitalism is the natural end of human history. However, this seminar's presenters will argue that capitalism's globalization and the radical social changes associated with it (including current global economic and social crises) raise new questions about the permanence of the capitalist world order and new possibilities for a socialist alternative. After the presentations, discussion will be open to all.

John Manley, Professor Emeritus and former Chair, Department of Political Science, Stanford University.
Richard Wolff, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts.

Sliding scale: $10/$15/$25. Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers.

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Superintendent of School Building from 1891-1923 during the glory days of public education, Snyder designed nearly 400 schools and additions. Replacing unsafe, unsanitary factory-like buildings, his "palaces of the people" (Jacob Riis' phrase) convey Progressive and reform beliefs in light, play, health, good ventilation, schools as neighborhood anchors. His innovative designs sparked a decade or more of City Beautiful schools all over the country. This walk will look at six of his East Village schools.

Leader: Jean Arrington, Snyder scholar.

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This spring marks the 40th anniversary of the 1968 student protests at Columbia University. A group of alumni participants, working with faculty and students, has developed a program for a three-day conference to reexamine those events from a wide range of viewpoints and in the context of what was happening in 1968 in the country and the world. The conference will provide a chance for people who lived through that period to reconnect, reconcile, and reflect. And it will engage current students in a discussion about issues of war, race, and the role of the university—issues that are still with us 40 years later. What follows is a preliminary schedule of events showing confirmed speakers. All events are on the Columbia University campus; see event for building location. For a map of the Columbia campus, go to www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/

10 a.m. The Legacy of the Student Movement (Journalism School) - Forty years later, a battle is still being waged about how the events of 1968 are remembered.Did the student protests wreck Columbia or make the university a stronger institution? Did they lead to the election of Richard Nixon or help end the Vietnam War and inaugurate an era of profound social and cultural change?

Juan Gonzalez (moderator) - Author and columnist, New York Daily News

Lewis Cole - Professor of Film, Columbia University

. Todd Gitlin - Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University, and former president Students for a Democratic Society

Maurice Isserman - William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History, Hamilton College, and author of "America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s."

Peniel Joseph - Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, Brandeis University, and author of "Waiting Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America"

John McMillian - Lecturer in history and literature, Harvard University

Frances Fox Piven - Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, City University of New York

2 p.m. Ethics and Protest (Journalism School) - The ethics of protest movements, including those in universities. What is the responsibility of the citizen when the state breaks laws that have been enacted for the protection of its citizens? What are the moral and strategic limits of violence?

Akeel Bilgrami (Speaker) - Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

Frederick Neuhouser (Moderator) - Viola Manderfeld Professor of German & Professor of Philosophy, Barnard College.

Respondents:

Fred Block - Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis

Jamal Joseph - Assoc. Professor and Chair, Columbia University Graduate Film Division, Former New York Panther 21 defendant

Karl Klare - Matthews Distinguished University Professor, Northeastern University

Mark Rudd - Activist and president Columbia SDS, 1968

Eleanor Stein - Adjunct Professor, Albany Law School

Winnie Varghese - Episcopal Chaplain, Columbia University

4 p.m. Organizing, Activism, Engagement -- Then and Now (Journalism School) - An intergenerational dialogue between current student activists and veterans of 1968 about evaluating the changing dynamics of activism and how to move forward.

8 p.m. Voices of 1968 - (School of International and Public Affairs, Altschul Auditorium) Writers who were at Columbia read their work from and about 1968.

Paul Auster
Thulani Davis
Mary Gordon
Robert Holman
James Kunen
David Lehman
Hilton Obenzinger
Sharon Olds
Jonah Raskin
Kathy Seal
Ntozake Shange
David Shapiro
Paul Spike
Meredith Sue Wi

10 p.m. Live music and dancing at Havana Central, aka The West End The Druids of Stonehenge (Woody Lewis, Billy Cross, Billy Tracy, Tom Workman, Roger Kahn, Carl Hauser, and David Budge)

Join us in watching the classical documentary about the cane toad invasion of Australia. A professor from the EEEB department will field your questions about invasive species and their impact on endemic biodiversity following the film. Free and open to the Columbia community (CUID required).

Sponsored by Columbia University Environmental Biology Society (CUEBS).

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The Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy (ISERP) and the Workshop on Contentious Politics present a lecture entitled, "Political Activism in the Czech Republic," with critics Bleuwenn Lechaux and Olena Nikolayenko.

The Workshop on Contentious Politics has been running in various guises at various universities for thirty years. In its current guise, it reviews work in progress on contentious politics, broadly defined, mainly by faculty and graduate students in history and social sciences at Columbia and other New York Area institutions.

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The greater New York metropolitan area has become a leading center for research on chromosome biology and function, as well as for research at the interface between chromosome integrity and cell cycle regulation.

The Genome Integrity meetings are a part of the Frontiers of Science Program at the New York Academy of Sciences, under which the Academy is starting a series of discussion groups in many frontier areas of science. Meeting four to five times each year, this group provides an opportunity to exchange ideas and form research collaborations among investigators active in the field.

Speakers: Scott Keeney, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Patrick Sung, Yale University; Michael Glickman, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Yukinori Hirano, New Jersey Medical School (Sugimoto Lab); Titia de Lange, The Rockefeller University; Jerry Hurwitz, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Richard T. Pomerantz, The Rockefeller University (O'Donnell Lab)

Sponsored by: Genome Integrity Discussion Group

Program

2 - 2:05
Welcome
Rodney Rothstein; Columbia University Medical Center

2:05 - 2:35
Mechanism and Regulation of Meiotic Recombination
Scott Keeney; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

2:35 - 3:05
Mechanism of Eukaryotic Homologous Recombination
Patrick Sung; Yale University

3:05 - 3:35
Double Strand Break Repair in Mycobacteria
Michael Glickman; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

3:35 - 3:55
Inhibitory Roles of Rif1 and Rif2 in Localization of Tel1 to DNA Ends
Yukinori Hirano; New Jersey Medical School (Sugimoto Lab)

3:55 - 4:30
Break

4:30 - 5:00
Modeling The Telomere Disease Dyskeratosis Congenita in the Mouse
Titia de Lange; The Rockefeller University

5:00 - 5:30
Studies on Eukaryotic Replication
Jerry Hurwitz; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

5:30 - 5:50
The Replisome Jumps Over RNA Polymerase and Uses the mRNA as a Primer
Richard T. Pomerantz; The Rockefeller University (O'Donnell Lab)

Reception and Informal Discussion to Follow.

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This event will examine the historical relationship between torture and imperial power from multiple vantages. Participants will include Karen Greenberg, Executive Director of the Center on Law and Society, New York University, and the editor of The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib; Amy Kaplan, Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of numerous books and articles, including "Where is Guantanamo?"; and Marnia Lazreg, Professor of Sociology, the Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad.

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During its first wave of influence, thesinuous andsensuous curves of rococo rapidly spread across France, Holland, and Germany,developing a unique personality in each location. Cooper-Hewitt invites curators Henry Hawley, Reinier Baarsen, and Wolfram Koeppe to a panel discussionthat examines the diaspora of rococo during the eighteenth century, and the regional differences in its expression. Exhibition viewing to follow.
Members and students with valid ID: $5; non-Members: $10.

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Sexuality rights are rapidly becoming the focus of international human rights agencies. This talk looks at sexuality rights through the lens of global governance and argues that a distinct politics of sexuality is taking shape in the global political arenaa place far different than the state in which sexuality in normally negotiated. Who decides, when the rules are constructed in a global forum? How have international/global human rights agents conceived of and evaluated sexuality? Is there a dominance of values among global actors? If so, what values? In order to answer some of these questions, Nolutshungu uses the case of the development of the Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity to examine the role of international actors in shaping the politics of sexuality. She argues that one can map actor values and debates onto its outcome document; making who does international human rights considerably coextensive with who governs.

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Panelists are: Deborah Kapchan (Performance Studies, NYU), Christa Salamandra (Anthropology, Lehman), Suhail Shadud (translator and editor), Jonathan Shannon (Anthropology, Hunter College); moderated by Livia Alexander (Executive Director of ArteEast).

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This panel discussion features Irving Sandler, leading critic and historian of the New York School; Roni Feinstein, independent scholar and guest curator of the upcoming exhibition Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, organized by the Ackland Art Museum of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Pepe Karmel. They will discuss the art of the later 1950s and early '60s as the point of departure for pretty much everything that's happened since then. 

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Paul Chan lives and works in New York. Most recently, he collaborated with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and Creative Time to produce a site-specific outdoor presentation of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot in New Orleans. Other recent solo exhibitions have been presented at Serpentine Gallery, London (2007); Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong (2006); UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2005); and ICA Boston (2005); and "The 7 Lights" will have its U.S. premiere at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York from April 9 - June 29, 2008.

The Public Art Fund Talks is an ongoing series of discussions and presentations by some of today's most influential artists, critics and curators. The program is organized by the Public Art Fund in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.

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Christopher Brown will provide a visual survey of stations from St. Louis to Istanbul to trace the development of the urban train station from its beginnings in the 1820s to the end of the 20th century era of station-building in the 1950s. Andrew Whalley will draw on his experience as partner-in-charge of the Waterloo Eurostar and Paddington stations to discuss the design of today's train stations worldwide.

Moderator: Alex Washburn

Speakers: Christopher Brown, author, Still Standing: A Century of Urban Train Stations; Andrew Whalley, AIA, partner, Grimshaw Architects.

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