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Monday, 01 April 2013
Memory, Violence and Reconciliations in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam
NYU Institute for Public Knowledge - 20 Cooper Square, Floor 7
4pm, $0
Boom: The Future of the Museum in China
Columbia University, Avery Hall - 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, Wood Auditorium
6:30pm, $0
A Conversation with Gary Shteyngart
NYU Journalism School - 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor
7pm, $0
Tuesday, 02 April 2013
Food, Sex and Smell: the Neurogenetics of Innate Behavior
Barnard University, Lehman Auditorium - 3009 Broadway, (202 Altschul Hall)
6pm, $0
On the Helsinki School
Scandinavia House - 58 Park Avenue
6:30pm, $0
Translating One Another: Marie Chaix, Harry Mathews, Emmanuelle Ertel
New York University, Maison Français - 16 Washington Mews
7:30pm, $0
Wednesday, 03 April 2013
On Pan-Arab News Networks: Sky News Arabia
NYU - 19 Washington Square North
5 - 7pm, $0
The Disappearance of Darkness:
Robert Burley, Alison Nordström, Arezoo Moseni
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, Berger Forum
6 - 8pm, $0
Book Talk with Richard Hell
Fales Library, Bobst Library, NYU, 70 Washington Square South, Third Floor
6:30pm, $0
Bullying in the Age of Facebook: with Emily Bazelon and Dave Cullen
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
6:30pm, $0
L is for Lion: an Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Martin E. Segal Theater (Room 1218)
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Fiona Maazel: "Woke Up Lonely" Reading
Powerhouse Arena - 37 Main Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Celebrating 50 Years of the New York Review of Books
Ian Buruma, Andrew Delbanco, Alma Guillermoprieto, Zoë Heller, Joseph Lelyveld
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, Bartos Forum
7 - 8pm, $0
Thursday, 04 April 2013
Ecological Exceptionalism at the Border: The Nature of the Korean Demilitarized Zone
New York University - 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
6pm, $0
The Ancient Sense: Louis Kahn and Modern Monumentality
CUNY Spitzer School of Architecture - 141 Convent Avenue, Sciame Auditorium
6 - 8pm, $0
Converse: Memory and Reality
Columbia University, Avery Hall - 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, Wood Auditorium
6:30pm, $0
Marie Chaix and Harry Mathews
New School, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th Street, room 510
6:30pm, $5; free for New School students
Kari Kraus: Experiments in Design Fiction
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6421
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0
The Big Squeeze: The Past, Present and Future of Housing in NYC
Tenement Museum - 103 Orchard Street
7pm, $0
Freshly Minted: A Discussion on Post-BFA Life
SVA Theatre - 333 West 23rd Street
7pm, $0
Benjamin Lytal: "A Map of Tulsa" Reading
Powerhouse Arena - 37 Main Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Politicos, Prostitutes, and Scoundrels: Rethinking Latin American History and Myth
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 802
7pm, $0
Puns, Proper Names, and Filthy Jokes in the New Translation of the Poems of François Villon
New York University, Maison Français - 16 Washington Mews
7:30pm, $0
Friday, 05 April 2013
Roundtable: 1968 in Latin America
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, room 1512
5pm, $0
Reading: Vikram Chandra
NYU Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House - 58 West 10 Street
7pm, $0
Critical Themes in Media Studies: Digital Effect
Keynote Address by Mark Hansen
New School, Lang Building - 65 West 11 Street, Floor 5, Wollman Hall
7 - 8:30pm, $0
Saturday, 06 April 2013
Nordic Outbreak
Scandinavia House - 58 Park Avenue
10am - 6pm, $0
Critical Themes in Media Studies: Digital Effect
New School - 66 West 12 Street, Room 510
10:30am - 8:30pm, $0
Fifteen Years of the World Socialist Web Site:
The Working Class and Socialism in a New Revolutionary Epoch
University Settlement at Houston Street Center - 273 Bowery
4pm, $0
Monday, 08 April 2013
The Digitization of the Art World: Are New Media Artists
Transforming Art Practice and How We Think About Art Itself?
School of Visual Arts Theater - 333 West 23 Street
6 - 8:15pm, $0
Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris
Readings in Contemporary Poetry
Dia: Chelsea - 535 West 22 Street, Floor 5
6:30pm, $6
Constance Lewallen and Phong Bui in conversation
ICI Curatorial Hub - 401 Broadway, Suite 1620
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Ashton Applewhite: How Ageism Warps Our View of Long Life
Cooper Union - 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0
From Vienna to London: Sigmund Freud 1938-39
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute - 247 East 82 Street, Young Auditorium
8pm, $0
Tuesday, 09 April 2013
Aurignacian Genius: Art, Technology, and
Society of the First Modern Humans in Europe
New York University, Kimmel Center - 60 Washington Square South, Room 914
1 - 4pm, $0
Lincoln Center Inside Out
Barry Bergdoll, Liz Diller, Ric Scofidio, Charles Renfro
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, South Court Auditorium
6 - 8pm, $0
Maggie Koerth-Baker on Krakens, Unicorns, and Blogging for BoingBoing
NYU Journalism School - 20 Cooper Square, Floor 7
6 - 8pm, $0
Looking Down on Modernity:
Aerial Photography and the Science of Social Space
Columbia University, The Heyman Center - 2960 Broadway
6:15pm, $0
Pixelated Politics: Still & Moving Images in the Digital Age
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Martin E. Segal Theater
6:30pm, $0
n+1 Launch: with Moira Weigel, Bruce Robbins, Marco Roth, Nikil Saval
St. Mark's Bookshop - 31 Third Avenue
7pm, $0
Blogging & the New Public Intellectual: David Frum
Bard Graduate Center - 38 West 86 Street
7pm, $0
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
The Photographic Universe (Day One)
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Floor Two
9am - 5pm, $0
Gender, Race, and the Political Economy of Feminist Blogging
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6112
12 - 2pm, $0
Boris Groys: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, James Gallery
6pm, $0
Thursday, 11 April 2013
The Photographic Universe (Day Two)
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Arnhold Hall, Floor Two
12 - 7pm, $0
Crime and Sensationalism in Early Modern Germany
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9207
6 - 7:30pm, $0
A reading by Uzodinma Iweala
Columbia University, Earl Hall - 2980 Broadway, Auditorium
6:15pm, $0
Mind the Gap: Transit Lessons from New York and London
Columbia University, Casa Italiana - 1161 Amsterdam Avenue
6:30pm, $0
Experiments in Extra-Institutional Education
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9206
6:30pm, $0
Camera Club Talk: Justine Kurland
School of Visual Arts, Ampitheater - 209 East 23 Street, Floor 3
7pm, $5
Shelley Rice: Blogging for the Jeu de Paume
SVA Theater - 333 West 23rd Street
7pm, $0
Reading: John Ashbery
NYU Global Center - 238 Thompson St, Level C Auditorium
7pm, $0
The Crisis in Europe: Why History Matters in Journalism
NYU Journalism School - 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor
7pm, $0
Francisco Pacifico: "The Story of My Purity" Reading
Powerhouse Arena - 37 Main Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
1-800-SUC-CESS: Cross Cultural Labor and Representation
Mario Pfeifer and Radhika Subramaniam
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $5
Comedy in Fiction: with Sam Lipsyte, Jason Diamond, Sam Shepard and Fiona Maazel
The Center for Fiction - 17 East 47 Street
7:30pm, $0
Friday, 12 April 2013
Conference: Hegel to Russia and Back (Day One)
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, James Gallery
9am - 6pm, $0
What Happened to Secular Shakespeare?
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 4406
4 - 6pm, $0
Museum as Hub: How Do You Feel (About Institutions)?
New Museum - 235 Bowery
4:30pm, $8
Values in Technological Design
New York University - The Great Room, 19 University Place
6pm, $0
Museum as Hub: Choosing Your Neighbors
New Museum - 235 Bowery
7pm, $8
A Performative Lecture on the History of Car Design
Artists Institute - 163 Eldridge Street
7pm, $0
Kenneth Slawenski: J.D. Salinger and Vedanta
The Morgan Library and Museum - 225 Madison Avenue
7:30pm, $0
Saturday, 13 April 2013
Conference: Hegel to Russia and Back (Day Two)
The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia - 19 University Place, Great Room
9am - 6pm, $0
Conference: Universities for a New Economy
New School, Johnson Design Center - 66 Fifth Avenue, Kellen Auditorium
9:15am, $0
Museum as Hub: Networked Institutions/Institutionalized Networks
New Museum - 235 Bowery
2pm, $8
Bernard Steigler: Social Networking and Neuropower
New York University, Labowitz Theatre - 1 Washington Place
4pm, $0
Museum as Hub: Institutions After Art
New Museum - 235 Bowery
4pm, $8
Monday, 15 April 2013
Preserving Postwar Los Angeles
Columbia University, Avery Hall - 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, Wood Auditorium
6:30pm, $0
Andrew J. Bacevich: The New American Militarism
Cooper Union - 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Green Growth as a response to the European Crisis
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 417
12 - 1:30pm, $0
Daphne Koller on the Online Revolution: Education for Everyone
Columbia University, Butler Library - 535 West 114 Street, Room 203
2 - 3pm, $0
Form Follows Function: Structure and Architectural Concept
Cooper Union, Foundation Building - 7 East 7 Street, The Great Hall
6 - 8pm, $0
A Conversation with Andrew Solomon
NYU Journalism School - 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor
6:30pm, $0
Kurt Andersen on Spy (magazine)
School of Visual Arts, Design Criticism - 136 West 21 Street, Floor 2
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Renata Adler: Speedboat and Pitch Dark
The Center for Fiction - 17 East 47 Street
7pm, $0
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Anthropology of Brazilian Cinema
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 802
4pm, $0
Founding Mothers: Women in Architecture Criticism
Bard Graduate Center - 38 West 86 Street
6 - 8pm, $0
Petra Giloy Hirtz and Marin Hopper on Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, Berger Forum
6 - 8pm, $0
Greatly Reducing Poverty: Is it possible? How can we do it?
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 1501
6:10 - 8pm, $0
Poetry Forum: Wayne Koestenbaum
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12 Street, Room 510
6:30pm, $5
Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 1201 (Elebash Recital Hall)
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Steven Holl: Time Light
Columbia University, Baker Athletics Complex - 218 Street and Broadway (Campbell Sports Center)
7pm, $0
Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Nayland Blake
New School, Johnson Design Center - 66 Fifth Avenue, Kellen Auditorium
7pm, $0
Thursday, 18 April 2013
The Curator's Perspective: Rifky Effendy
New School, Lang Building - 65 West 11 Street, Floor 5, Wollman Hall
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Is Wall Street Still Broken?
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
6:30 - 8:15pm, $0
Civil / Rights / Act: Art and Activism in the 1960s
Columbia University, Prentis Hall - 632 West 125 Street, Room 101
7pm, $0
Friday, 19 April 2013
A Conversation on America's Future: Joe Scarborough and Jeffrey Sachs
Columbia University, Miller Theatre - 2960 Broadway
2 - 3:30pm, $0
Galleries, Books and Political Allegory in 17th France
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 4202
5pm, $0
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images
Columbia University, Buell Hall - 515 West 116 Street, East Gallery
6:30pm, $0
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Samantha Hunt, Michael Helm and Colum McCann
KGB Bar - 85 East 4 Street
7 - 9pm, $0
Monday, 22 April 2013
Michael Woolford on Fedspeak: Does It Matter
How Central Bankers Explain Themselves?
Columbia University, Low Memorial Library - 535 West 116 Street, Rotunda
6 - 7pm, $0
Let's Talk About Drones
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 1302
6 - 8pm, $0
Women, Peace & Security: A Kosovo/Serbia Case Study
in Women's Activism across Borders
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 801
6:15 - 8pm, $0
Who Builds Your Architecture? Sustainability and Sustaining Human Life
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Arnhold Hall, Floor 2
6:30pm, $0
Trevor Paglen and Laura Kurgan: Mapping, Technology, and Politics
Columbia University, Avery Hall - 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, Wood Auditorium
6:30pm, $0
Monday Night Poetry: Michael Dickman
KGB Bar - 85 East 4 Street
7 - 9pm, $0
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Microgrids: A Smart Solution for Energy Efficiency and Resiliency
Columbia University, Low Memorial Library - 535 West 116 Street
6 - 8pm, $0
What, Ultimately, for?
Trilling, Leavis, and the Limits of Cultural Criticism
Columbia University, The Heyman Center - 2960 Broadway
6:15pm, $0
Artists at the Institute: Julie Mehretu
Institute of Fine Arts - 1 East 78 Street
6:30pm, $0
Degrowth: Giorgos Kallis
Cooper Union, Foundation Building - 7 East 7 Street, Room 315
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Robert Persic and Buzz Poole: Our Man in Iraq Book Launch
Housing Works Bookstore - 126 Crosby Street
7pm, $0
Oliver Ressler: Spatial Occupations
Cooper Union - 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium
7 - 8pm, $0
Phillip Lopate, Margo Jefferson: Essay is Both Noun and Verb
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 1218 (Martin E. Segal Theater)
7 - 9pm, $0
Original Copies: The Limited Edition in Film and Video
Light Industry - 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $0
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
The Brain, Truth, and Underwear:
The Clinical Management of Gender in Children
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6112
12 - 2pm, $0
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: On Witnessing
Cooper Union - 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium
3:30 - 5:50pm, $0
“Marriage for All!” : The French Debate on Same-Sex Marriage
New York University, Maison Français - 16 Washington Mews
6:30pm, $0
Rachel Kushner and Joshua Ferris in Conversation
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Malkit Shoshan on Seamless Territory
Studio-X NYC - 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610
6:30pm, $0
"Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War"
Perry O’Brien, Matt Gallagher, and Roy Scranton
NYU Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House - 58 West 10 Street
7pm, $0
Conversations in American Menswear: Shayne Oliver
Museum of Arts and Design - 2 Columbus Circle, Floor 2 Galleries
7pm, $0
Thomas Bayrle with Kevin Slavin
Goethe-Institut, Wyoming Building - 5 East 3rd Street
7pm, $0
Le Cinema, une pensee de la litterature?
Guillaume Soulez
New York University, Maison Français - 16 Washington Mews
7:30pm, $0
Friday, 26 April 2013
Studying Whiteness: The Only White Woman in the Village
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality - 41-51 East 11 Street, Room 741
12:30 - 2pm, $0
Architecture and Conflict of Interests
Columbia University, Avery Hall - 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, Wood Auditorium
2pm, $0
Translating / Writing Caribbean Literature
New York University, Maison Français - 16 Washington Mews
2 - 6pm, $0
Why and How to Apply for a PhD:
A Candid Panel on Doctoral Studies
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room C197
4 - 6pm, $0
Peggy Ahwesh on the Art of PixelVision
Lecture and Screening
New Museum - 235 Bowery
7pm, $10
Saturday, 27 April 2013
Ignorance and Curiosity
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute - 247 East 82 Street, Young Auditorium
2:30 - 4:30pm, $0
A Proposition by Montserrat Albores Gleason
New Museum - 235 Bowery
3pm, $8
Anywhere or Not at All: Peter Osborne in Conversation with Suhail Malik
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $0
Anywhere or Not at All:
Peter Osborne in Conversation with Suhail Malik
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $0
Monday, 29 April 2013
Okwui Enwezor on Intense Proximity:
Concerning the Disappearance of Distance
Stony Brook Manhattan - 101 East 27th Street, Floor 3
6:30pm, $0
Shame and Love, Secrets and Families
with Deborah Cohen and Andrew Solomon
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, South Court Auditorium
7pm, $0
French Literature in the Making: Katherine Pancol with Olivier Barrot
New York University, Maison Français - 16 Washington Mews
7:30pm, $0
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Daniel Libeskind on the Art of Memory
Cooper Union, Foundation Building - 7 East 7 Street, The Great Hall
6 - 8pm, $0
Alex Hubbard: Screening and Artist Talk
Electronic Arts Intermix - 535 West 22 Street, Floor 5
6:30pm, $7
The Passion of Bradley Manning
St. Joseph's College - 245 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Financial Crisis As Conversion Experience:
Did Wall Street Journalists Change Their Views?
NYU Journalism School - 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor
7pm, $0
Artist's Lecture with Alice Aycock
NYU Silver Center - 32 Waverly Place, Room 300
7pm, $0
Branden W. Joseph on Object Worshipping: Notes on Claes Oldenburg’s Films,
or the Ballad of the Turning Woman
Light Industry - 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $0