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Tuesday, 03 September 2013
Junot Diaz: This Is How You Lose Her
Barnes and Noble, Union Square - 33 East 17 Street
7pm, $0
Thursday, 05 September 2013
Is Food Art?
New School, Lang Building - 65 West 11 Street, Floor 5, Wollman Hall
6 - 7:30pm, $0
Social Television-Making and Colab TV:
Coleen Fitzgibbon and Andrea Callard
New Museum - 235 Bowery
7pm, $8
Ben Davis: 9.5 Theses on Art and Class
Housing Works Bookstore - 126 Crosby Street
7pm, $0
Timothy Hyde, Jorge Otero-Pailos: Constitutional Modernism
Van Alen Books - 30 West 22 Street, Ground Floor
7pm, $0
For Allan Sekula: Noël Burch and Monika Szewczyk
The Forgotten Space, Screening and Discussion
e-flux - 311 East Broadway
7:30pm, $0
Saturday, 07 September 2013
Always Already Obsolete: Considering the Convergence of
Analog and Digital Media in XFR STN
New Museum - 235 Bowery
1pm, $6
Born Digital: Conservation in the Computer Age
New Museum - 235 Bowery
3pm, $6
Sunday, 08 September 2013
Tasting Places: American Origin Food Products and Consumers
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Room I202
2 - 4pm, $0
Helen DeWitt
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $5
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Prakash Loungani: Does One Law Fit All?
Cross-Country Evidence on Okun's Law
New School, Vera List Center - 6 East 16 Street, Room D1009
4 - 5:30pm, $0
China and the Silk Roads: Trade, Migration, and Cultural Transformation
Barnard University, Barnard Hall - 3009 Broadway, Floor 3 (Sulzberger Parlor)
6 - 8pm, $0
David Bomford and Carlo Ginzburg: Conservation Conversations
Bard Graduate Center - 38 West 86 Street
6 - 8pm, $0
Battle for Ground Zero: Inside the Political Struggle
to Rebuild the World Trade Center
New School, Lang Building - 65 West 11 Street, Floor 5, Wollman Hall
6 - 8:30pm, $0
Damion Searls on Robert Walser
192 Books - 192 10th Avenue at 21 Street
7pm, $0
Andrew Hetherington on his work
SVA Theatre - 136 West 21st Street, Room 418F
7pm, $0
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Estelle Freedman on Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation
New School, Lang Building - 65 West 11 Street, Floor 5, Wollman Hall
6 - 8pm, $0
Harry Reicher: The Nazi Obsession with Legalizing the Holocaust
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue
6:15pm, $0
Public Art Fund Talks at The New School: Iran do Espírito Santo
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12 Street, Tishman Auditorium
6:30 - 8:30pm, $10
The White Review launch: Siri Hustvedt, Lauren Elkin, Kate Zambreno
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Gayatri Spivak: Democracy and Representation
New York University, East Building - 239 Greene Street, Floor 8 Commons
5 - 7pm, $0
INSIDE (hi) STORIES: Allan Wexler on the Art of Building in Ten Books
New School - 25 East 13 Street, Room 206
6 - 7pm, $0
Kio Stark: Don't Go Back to School
Studio-X NYC - 180 Varick St #1610
6:30pm, $0
McSweeney’s Presents: An Apocalypse Variety Show
Nelly Reifler, Justin Taylor, Shelley Jackson, Lucy Corin
Housing Works Bookstore - 126 Crosby Street
7pm, $0
Anne Carson
New York University, Kimmel Center - 60 Washington Square South, Rosenthal Pavilion
7pm, $0
Fugitivart: Made to Fade
School of Visual Arts, Ampitheater - 209 East 23 Street, Floor 3
7 - 9pm, $0
Two Biographies: One Fat, One Thin
D.T. Max and Blake Bailey
Powerhouse Arena - 37 Main Street, Brooklyn
7 - 9pm, $0
Friday, 13 September 2013
Beyond North: Architectural Engagements in the Arctic
Studio-X NYC - 180 Varick St #1610
7pm, $0
Sunday, 15 September 2013
Reading: Norman Rush with Marco Roth
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
6pm, $0
Sex Worker Literati
KGB Bar - 85 East 4 Street
7 - 9pm, $0
Refresh, Refresh, Refresh: Reihan Salam,
Louisa Thomas, David Shapiro, Others
Cake Shop - 152 Ludlow St
8pm, $3
Monday, 16 September 2013
Mareike Kleine: Informal Governance
in the European Union
285 Mercer St., 7th Floor
3:30pm, $0
Risk, Uncertainty, and the Financial Crisis of 2008
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 1512
4:30 - 6pm, $0
For The Records: The Legacy and Lessons
of Bleecker Bob’s: Screening and Discussion
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Arnhold Hall, Floor Two
6:30pm, $0
Nicholas Negroponte: Redefining Literacy
Cooper Union, Foundation Building - 7 East 7 Street, The Great Hall
7pm, $0
Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit
and Bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America
NYU Law School, Vanderbilt Hall - 40 Washington Square South, Greenberg Lounge
7 - 8:30pm, $0
Lawrence Block, Lorin Stein, and Chip McGrath on John O’Hara
Powerhouse Arena - 37 Main Street, Brooklyn
7 - 9pm, $0
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Screening and Discussion
Columbia University, Northwest Corner Building - 550 West 120 Street, Room 501
7:15pm, $0
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
The Prophecy of Karl Polanyi on the Nature of Neoliberalism
New School, Vera List Center - 6 East 16 Street, Room D1009
4 - 5:30pm, $0
Thierry de Duve: Kant's Free Play... in Light of Minimal Art
NYU Institute of Fine Arts - 1 East 78 Street
6pm, $0
Andrew Solomon: Far From the Tree talk
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
6:30pm, $0
Maryam Borjian: English in Post-Revolutionary Iran
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9204
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0
Lizzie Skurnick with Lois Duncan
Powerhouse Arena - 37 Main Street, Brooklyn
7 - 9pm, $0
Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Thought Police: The FBI and French Philosophers
Columbia University, Buell Hall - 515 West 116 Street, East Gallery
6 - 7:30pm, $0
John McWhorter: Evolution, Devolution and
Revolution in 21st Century American English
Columbia University, Schapiro Hall - 605 West 115 Street, Davis Auditorium
6 - 8pm, $0
Cinemechanics: An Anthropology of Creation
Columbia University - 963 Schermerhorn Extension, Room 465
6:10pm, $0
One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the 21st Century
Tenement Museum - 103 Orchard Street
6:30pm, $0
Theaster Gates: A Way of Working
Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12 Street, Tishman Auditorium
7pm, $0
Bill McKibben: Oil and Honey
Powerhouse Arena - 37 Main Street, Brooklyn
7 - 9pm, $0
Chris Kraus
New York University, Kimmel Center - 60 Washington Square South, Room 912
7:30pm, $0
Thursday, 19 September 2013
School of Constructed Environments Faculty Works in Progress
New School - 25 East 13 Street, Room 206
6 - 7pm, $0
A Celebration of the Life of Aristide R. Zolberg
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Arnhold Hall, Floor Two
6 - 8:30pm, $0
Is There Still Alternative Culture in New York?
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Martin E. Segal Theater
6:30pm, $0
A Celebration of Alexander Cockburn and "A Colossal Wreck"
Powerhouse Arena - 37 Main Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Re-Thinking Literature (Day One)
Tom Bishop, Peter Schjeldahl, Boris Groys, others
New York University, Silver Center - 100 Washington Square East, Hemmerdinger Hall
7 - 9:30pm, $0
Friday, 20 September 2013
Re-Thinking Literature (Day Two)
Hélène Cixous, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, others
New York University, Silver Center - 100 Washington Square East, Hemmerdinger Hall
10:30am - 8pm, $0
The Politics of Religious Freedom
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 1302
12:15 - 2pm, $0
Art Book Fair: On Michael Snow's "Cover to Cover"
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
12:30 - 2pm, $0
Art Book Fair: Text Engines
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
2:30 - 4pm, $0
Art Book Fair: Designers' Books and Publications
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
4:30 - 6pm, $0
Reading: Paul Harding with Thessaly La Force
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Re-Thinking Literature (Day Three)
Avital Ronell, Simon Critchley, Emily Apter, others
New York University, Silver Center - 100 Washington Square East, Hemmerdinger Hall
10:30am - 6pm, $0
Art Book Fair: Pedagogy in the Expanded Field
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
12 - 1:30pm, $0
Art Book Fair: The Book Is No Image
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
2 - 3:30pm, $0
Art Book Fair: Contemporary Experimental Comics and/as Artists’ Books
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
4 - 5:30pm, $0
Alien Resurrection: Chris Kraus, Emily Gould, Ariana Reines, Kate Zambreno, others
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Sunday, 22 September 2013
Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza - 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn
10am - 6pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: The So-Called 'Post-Feminist, Post-Racial' Life in Publishing
Brooklyn Borough Hall Courtroom - 209 Joralemon Street
10am - 11:30pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: Personal Stories, National Memory
Alexander Maksik, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Oonya Kempadoo
Brooklyn Borough Hall Community Room - 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn
11am, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: Who? New!
A.X. Ahmad, Caleb Crain, Ursula DeYoung, Michele Forbes, Ayana Mathis
Brooklyn Borough Hall Courtroom - 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn
11am - 12pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: On Truth (and Lies) in Beauty
Hilton Als, Alexander Nehamas, Simon Critchley
Brooklyn Borough Hall Courtroom - 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn
12pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: To Have and Not Have In America Today
Brooklyn Historical Society Library - 128 Pierrepont Street
1pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: André Aciman and Claire Messud
Brooklyn Borough Hall Community Room - 209 Joralemon Street
2pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: As the World Turns...
David Graeber, Moustafa Bayoumi, Astra Taylor and Nathan Schneider
Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge - 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn
2pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: The Legacy and Significance of Prince
Brooklyn Borough Hall Main Stage - 209 Joralemon Street
4pm, $0
Celebrating Kingsley Amis: Edwin Frank, Katie Roiphe,
Lucas Wittman, Christian Lorentzen
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
6pm, $0
Martha Rosler with Stephen Squibb
e-flux - 311 East Broadway
7:30pm, $0
Monday, 23 September 2013
Jutta Koether on Agnes Martin
Dia: Chelsea - 535 West 22 Street, Floor 5
6:30pm, $0
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Geoff Dyer and Brenda Wineapple
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12 Street, Klein Conference Room (Room A510)
6:30pm, $5
What is the State of New York's Creative Economy?
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Elebash Recital Hall (Room 1201)
6:30pm, $0
Foreign Law Bans in a State Near You: Legal Difficulties, Practical Problems
Brennan Center for Justice - 161 Avenue of the Americas, 12th Floor
6:30pm, $0
Liz Magic Laser: New Cycles
Screening and Talk
Electronic Arts Intermix - 535 West 22 Street, Floor 5
6:30pm, $7
Dark Trajectories: Politics of the Outside
Reza Negarestani: Augmented Rationality and its Cognitive Technologies
ICI Curatorial Hub - 401 Broadway, Suite 1620
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Art Spiegelman on CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics and Scraps
Housing Works Bookstore - 126 Crosby Street
7pm, $0
Guy Debord: An Evening with Grey Room
Light Industry - 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $7
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Charles M. Blow and Greil Marcus
New School, Lang Building - 65 West 11 Street, Floor 5, Wollman Hall
6:30pm, $5
The Voices of Leopardi’s Zibaldone
Columbia University, Italian Academy - 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, Teatro
6:30pm, $0
Juan Gabriel Vásquez: "The Sound of Things Falling"
Housing Works Bookstore - 126 Crosby Street
7pm, $0
Secret Admirer #3: A Reading Series
Emma Cline, Alex Eichler, Elizabeth Greenwood, Eric Linsker, Erin Sheehy
Harbor Gallery - 17-17 Troutman #258, Ridgewood (Queens)
8pm, $0
Thursday, 26 September 2013
David Trubridge Lecture
New School - 25 East 13 Street, Room 206
6 - 7:30pm, $0
Sam Daley-Harris: Do You Want to Make a Profound Difference on
Global Poverty and Climate Change?
Columbia University, Earl Hall - 2980 Broadway, Auditorium
6 - 7:30pm, $0
The Smartest Kids in the World
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
6:30pm, $0
Too Dangerous for Words:
Life and Death Reporting the Mexican Drug Wars
New York University, Carter Journalism Institute - 20 Cooper Square, Floor 7
6:30pm, $0
Daniel Wolff: Listening to New Orleans
Columbia University, 509 Knox Hall - 606 W. 122nd St.
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0
Stuart Bailey: The Truth About Hollis
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $5
Giuseppe Longo and Benedict Singleton:
Perspective, Alienation, Escape
Miguel Abreu Gallery - 36 Orchard Street
7:30pm, $0
Friday, 27 September 2013
The Founding of the Food Network: A 20 Year Retrospective
New School, Lang Building - 65 West 11 Street, Floor 5, Wollman Hall
6 - 7:30pm, $0
Jerry Levitan: The Politics of Film
New School, Johnson Design Center - 66 Fifth Avenue, Kellen Auditorium
6 - 9pm, $0
Uwe Wirth and Oswald Egger:
Strategic Dilettantism and Knowledge in the Arts
New York University, Deutsches Haus - 42 Washington Mews
6:30pm, $0
Dreaming the Encyclopedic Palace: Lynne Cooke,
Massimiliano Gioni, Hal Foster, D. Graham Burnett
Cabinet - 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
7 - 9pm, $0
Said is Dead. Long Live Said!
The Intellectual as Outsider
CUNY Spitzer School of Architecture - 141 Convent Avenue
7 - 9pm, $0
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Ben Dolnick and Joshua Foer:
Getting to the Bottom of Everything
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Monday, 30 September 2013
Exploding Socialism: East German Society Facing Industrial Disasters
Columbia University, The Heyman Center - 2960 Broadway, Floor 2 (Common Room)
6:15pm, $0
Strategy: A History
Lawrence Freedman
Cooper Union, Foundation Building - 7 East 7 Street, The Great Hall
6:30pm, $0
Covering Syria
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
6:30 - 8:15pm, $0