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Wednesday, 01 October 2014
Origins of Environmental Law Lecture Series, The Clean Air Act: The Floor Debate
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 407
11am - 12:50pm, $0
Inside the Contemporary Chinese Art Market
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 918
6 - 7:30pm, $0
Dread Scott: Artist's Lecture
New School, Johnson Design Center - 66 Fifth Avenue, Kellen Auditorium
7 - 9pm, $0
Thursday, 02 October 2014
Liberalism and Its Critics
Columbia University, The Heyman Center - 2960 Broadway, Second Floor
6:15pm, $0
Trans-Atlantic Celebrity
H.G Wells, Elinor Glyn, and Sarah Bernhardt
Columbia University, Butler Library - 535 West 114 Street, The Studio
7pm, $0
Friday, 03 October 2014
Eileen McGann and Vincent Grande: Developing a Therapeutic Arts Community
School of Visual Arts - 133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
6 - 8pm, $0
Sunday, 05 October 2014
What's Next for Public Schools?
New School, University Center - 63 Fifth Avenue, Tishman Auditorium
5 - 7pm, $0
Monday, 06 October 2014
FIERCE: The Work and Life of Manuel Ramos Otero
Columbia University, Butler Library - 535 West 114 Street, Room 523
6:30pm, $0
Tuesday, 07 October 2014
The Historical Development of International Criminal Law, 1919-1950: Some Basic Arguments
Columbia University, Faculty House - 400 West 117 Street
4:30 - 6:30pm, $0
Black Feminist Futures and the Practice of Fugitivity
Barnard University, Barnard Hall - 3009 Broadway, Floor 4 (James Room)
6:30 - 8pm, $0
The Imaginary App: Paul D. Miller, Svitlana Matviyenko, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Robbie Cormier, Simon Critchley, Lev Manovich
Cabinet - 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Alvin Curran: Music Outside the Concert Halls
Cooper Union - 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium
7pm, $0
Screening: Kenneth Anger's "Puce Moment" and Alla Nazimova's "Salomé"
Light Industry - 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $7
Wednesday, 08 October 2014
Havana: Past, Present, and Future
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 802
12 - 1:30pm, $0
Rethinking Knowledge: Global Governance
Columbia University, The Heyman Center - 2960 Broadway, Floor 2 (Common Room)
1:30 - 3:30pm, $0
Around 1948: Human Rights and Global Transformation
Columbia University, Pulitzer Hall - 2950 Broadway, Floor 3 Lecture Hall
3 - 5pm, $0
The Chinese Economy: Boom or Bust
Columbia University, Pulitzer Hall - 2950 Broadway, Floor 3 Lecture Hall
5:30 - 8:30pm, $0
Suprematism, Unovis, and Lazar Khidekel
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 918
6 - 7:30pm, $0
John Lancaster and Felix Salmon: How to Speak Money
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Screening: The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins
Introduced by D. Graham Burnett
Cabinet - 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Thursday, 09 October 2014
The New Kings of Crude: China, Oil, and Civil War in Sudan and South Sudan
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 918
12 - 1:30pm, $0
From the Second to the Third World: Rethinking Eastern Europes Cold War
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 1201
12 - 2pm, $0
Venezuela: Petroleum, Economics, and Politics in the "Post-Chavez Era"
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 802
12 - 2pm, $0
Is there a Future for Museum Ethics?
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, South Court Auditorium
1:15pm, $0
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Contemporary Mali
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1000 Fifth Avenue
6pm, $0
The More Languages, The More English: On the Language Constellation in the European Union
Columbia University, The Heyman Center - 2960 Broadway, Floor 2 (Common Room)
6 - 7:30pm, $0
The Future of Media through Japanese Popular Culture: Crowd-Sourcing, Exploitation, and the New Economies of Work
Columbia University, 403 Kent Hall - 1172 Amsterdam Avenue
6 - 7:30pm, $0
Friday, 10 October 2014
The Economic Outlook for Asia
Columbia University, Uris Hall - 3022 Broadway, Room 330
12:30 - 2pm, $0
How to Build a Box: The Life and Art of Joseph Cornell (Day 1 of 2)
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12 Street, Orozco Room
7pm, $0
Cartographies of the Absolute: Alberto Toscano, Jeff Kinkle, Melanie Gilligan
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $0
Saturday, 11 October 2014
How to Build a Box: The Life and Art of Joseph Cornell (Day 2 of 2)
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12 Street, Orozco Room
1pm, $0
Monday, 13 October 2014
Perspectives of Global Development 2014: Boosting Productivity to Meet the Middle Income Challenge
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 1501
10:30am - 12pm, $0
How Fragile is Europe?
Columbia University, Buell Hall - 515 West 116 Street, East Gallery
6 - 8pm, $0
Arundhati Roy: Annihilation of Caste
Columbia University, Teacher's College - Cowin Center Auditorium, 525 West 120 Street, Horace Mann Building (Room 147)
7pm, $0
Amie Siegel: Black Moon
Screening and Conversation
New School, Johnson Design Center - 66 Fifth Avenue, Kellen Auditorium
7 - 8:30pm, $0
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Artists Talk: A.K. Burns
School of Visual Arts - 133 West 21 Street, Room 101C
6 - 8pm, $0
Bradley Samuels, Situ Research
Signal to Noise
Cooper Union - 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium
7pm, $0
Nicholson Baker: The Paul Chowder Chronicles
BookCourt - 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act: Who, What, Why?
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 407
11am - 12:50pm, $0
Destruction and Documentation: Saving Syria's Cultural Heritage
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room C198
6:30pm, $0
Nell Zink in Conversation with Jonathan Franzen
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Artifactualities: Derrida And The Hauntology Of Media
New York University - 239 Greene Street, Floor 8
4 - 8pm, $0
An Evening with Marilynne Robinson
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Monday, 20 October 2014
Cuba and its Exile: Political Generations
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Floor 9 (Skylight Room)
4pm, $0
The War in Syria: A View from the Ground Up
Columbia University - International Affairs Building, Room 1501
6 - 8pm, $0
The Believer presents Heidi Julavits, Leslie Jamison, and Lev Grossman
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Removal of Criminals? The Massive Deportations of Mexican Migrants from the U.S.
Barnard University, Barnard Hall - 3009 Broadway, Floor 3 (Sulzberger Parlor)
6 - 8pm, $0
Emmanuel Carrère: Limonov:
The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet
192 Books - 192 10th Avenue at 21 Street
7pm, $0
POSTPONED: Cornel West with Dr. Eddie S. Glaude
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Susan Howe reads from Spontaneous Particulars
192 Books - 192 10th Avenue at 21 Street
7pm, $0
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Legislative Networks in the Ukrainian Parliament: Will Any Key Players Survive After the Elections?
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 1219
12 - 1pm, $0
The Development of the United Nations Security System
Columbia University, Greene Hall - 435 West 116 Street, Room 102B
12:10 - 1:10pm, $0
Shifting Borders: Social Inclusion in Urban Europe
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5318
4 - 6pm, $0
The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil with Christine Bader
Columbia University, Havemeyer Hall - 3000 Broadway, Room 309
5 - 6pm, $0
Claudia La Rocco with Paul Chan: The Best Most Useless Dress
SVA MFA Art Criticism and Writing - 132 West 21 Street, Floor 7
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0
On the Question of the Gods
Columbia University, Casa Italiana - 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, Teatro
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0
Friday, 24 October 2014
Whose Voice? Global Populisms, Media and Political
Institutions in Uncertain Times (Day One of Two)
Baruch College Vertical Campus - 55 Lexington Avenue, Room 14-250
9am - 5pm, $0
A Long Strange Trip: Latin Americas Global Drugs
Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall - 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 457
12:10 - 2pm, $0
Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton: Women in Clothes
192 Books - 192 10th Avenue at 21 Street
7pm, $0
Saturday, 25 October 2014
Whose Voice? Global Populisms, Media and Political
Institutions in Uncertain Times (Day Two of Two)
Baruch College, Vertical Campus - 55 Lexington Avenue, Room 14-235
10am - 7pm, $0
Revolution From Within: Political Prisoners in the 45-year Narrative of U.S. Prisons

Interference Archive - 131 8th St, Brooklyn (Unit #4)
2 - 4pm, $0
Sunday, 26 October 2014
Close to Now
University Settlement - 184 Eldridge Street
1 - 6pm, $0
Monday, 27 October 2014
Artists at the Institute: Simon Fujiwara
Institute of Fine Arts - 1 East 78 Street
6:30pm, $0
India Beyond Technology and Yoga:
The Power of Literature in a Globalizing World
Columbia University, Miller Theatre - 2960 Broadway
7 - 8:30pm, $0
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Is Health a Human Right?: The European Perspective
Columbia University, The Heyman Center - 2960 Broadway, Floor 2 (Common Room)
6:15 - 8:15pm, $0
How’s the Revolution Going?
Rethinking Architectural Education from ‘68 to Today
Grimshaw Architects - 637 W 27th St, New York, NY
6:30 - 8pm, $4
Current Work: O’Donnell and Tuomey
Cooper Union, Foundation Building - 7 East 7 Street, The Great Hall
7pm, $15
Jace Clayton: Nonlinear Time, Contemporary Space, Digital Faith
Cooper Union, Foundation Building - 7 East 7 Street, The Great Hall
7pm, $0
Screening: Kathy Acker and Alan Sondheim's Blue Tape
Light Industry - 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $7
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
The Cultural War on Terror: Race, Art and America Public Diplomacy
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 1501
12:15 - 2pm, $0
History's Ghosts: Raqs Media Collective
Barnard Center for Research on Women - 3009 Broadway, Diana Center
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Historys Ghosts: Raqs Media Collective
Barnard College, Diana Center - 3009 Broadway, Event Oval
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Artists After Occupy: Chris Kraus with Thomas Gokey and Yates McKee
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $5
Thursday, 30 October 2014
Arts in the Cuban Diaspora
Barnard University, Barnard Hall - 3009 Broadway, Floor 3 (Sulzberger Parlor)
6 - 8pm, $0
Bosnia's 2014 General Elections: New Possibilities
and Challenges Going Forward
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 1219
6 - 8pm, $0
Why American Restraint Makes Sense in a World Going to Hell
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street
6 - 8pm, $0
The Space Between: Redefining Public and Personal in Smartphone Photography
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Arnhold Hall, Floor Two
6:30 - 8pm, $0
The Changing World of Contemporary International Art Today
Barnard University, Barnard Hall - 3009 Broadway, Room 304
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Quasi-Events: Building and Crumbling Worlds
e-flux - 311 East Broadway
7pm, $0
Friday, 31 October 2014
The EU Response to Deadly Conflict: Iraq, Syria, Libya and Ukraine
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street
12:30 - 2pm, $0