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Thursday, April 10 |
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Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries
New Museum: 235 Bowery
7:30pm, $12.
Paulina Lasa and Cuauhtémoc Media discuss "Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries"
Artist Paulina Lasa and art historian/curator Cuauhtémoc Medina discuss Museo Tamayo’s Museum as Hub presentation “Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries.” Tlatelolco has been a significant cultural site since the Aztec period, closely identified in the twentieth century with modernist, urban planning ambitions of Mexico and student demonstrations and killings at the time of the Olympics in 1968. A site rich in the complex layering of constructed histories that define contemporary Mexico, and a current active context for cultural production, Tlatelolco inspires consideration of the construction of future possibilities for Mexico, as it looks to define its place within an increasingly globalized world.
Paulina Lasa was born in 1980. Her public interventions and performances feature her interest in hope and optimism as subjects. Lasa has participated in various collective exhibitions including “Declaraciones,” Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and “A Place in Time,” Tobin Building-Camp Street, San Antonio. Her solo shows include: “I´m going to change the world,” at ART&IDEA, New York (2007); “Voy a cambiar al mundo,” Aldaba Arte, Mexico City (2007); “Voy a cambiar al mundo,” Santiguo, Torreón, México (2007); and “Monsters´ Ink,” ART&IDEA, Mexico City (2006). Lasa received the first prize for best documentary at the AluCine festival 2006 in Toronto. Since 2004, Lasa has been part of the Bordermates collective, with whom she produces events in public spaces and collaborates with emerging artists. Lasa studied Visual Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, UNAM. She lives and works in Mexico City.
Cuauhtémoc Medina (b. Mexico City, 1965) is an art critic, historian, and curator. He is as a full-time researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at UNAM, Mexico City, and Associate Curator of Latin American Art Collections at Tate Gallery, London. He recently co-curated “La Era de la Discrepancia” at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (2007), and curated “Francis Alÿs. Diez cuadras alrededor del estudio,” Antiguo Palacio de San Ildefonso (2006). Medina has recently co-published books on Francis Alÿs (Phaidon Press, 2007) and on Melanie Smith, Ciudad Espiral y Otros Placeres Artificiales (A&R, 2006), among many others. He is a regular collaborator of “El Ojo Breve,” Reforma. He lives and works in Mexico City.
*This event is free, but tickets are required. Please request a ticket for this event in person at the Visitor Services Desk the day of the event. Advance reservations are not available.
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On "May '68 and Its Afterlives" with Kristin Ross
Columbia University Maison Française: Buell Hall, South Gallery
12 - 2pm.
In honor of the 40th anniversary of May 1968, the Maison Française has invited Kristin Ross to lead a discussion of her book, May ’68 and Its Afterlives. The book is an historical study of the way in which the political upheavals of the 60s and early 70s in France have been interpreted, forgotten, debated, flattened, trivialized, buried under commemorations, and prey to endless ideological manipulations - a study, in other words, of the memory of May '68 in France and the way in which the event has been overtaken by its own representations. Luncheon seminar attendees are encouraged to read the book before the seminar.
Kristin Ross is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988), reissued this year by Verso, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995), and May '68 and Its Afterlives (2002). All three books have been translated into French.
Part I of the Maison Française's Cycle on Legacies of May '68
For further information regarding this event, please contact Maison Events by sending email to maisoncoordinator@columbia.edu .
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Utopia: Leopold Senghor's Untimely Vision of Decolonization without National Independence
Columbia University: Amsterdam & 116th St, Jerome Green Hall, Case Lounge
4 - 6pm.
The Institute of African Studies (IAS) presents a lecture and discussion by Professor Gary Wilder, featuring Professors Souleymane Bachir Diagne (University of Chicago) and Brent Edwards (Rutgers University).
Gary Wilder is Associate Professor of History at Pomona College. He is spending 2007-2008 as a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School in association with a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship. Wilder is the author of The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled: Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, Utopia.
This talk examines Leopold Senghor's postwar project to transform France into a postcolonial federal republic through constitutional acts. It treats his federalist vision of decolonization without national independence as a strategic attempt to ground African self-determination in a non-national political form and a utopian attempt to anticipate a cosmopolitan global order that did not yet exist.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Ginger Baker by sending email to gkb2104@columbia.edu .
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Forceful Engagement: The Role of Force in US Foreign Policy
New School: Kellen Auditorium, Johnson Design Center, 66 5th Ave
1 - 5pm, RSVP required.
The Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School, in collaboration with the Security Policy Working Group, presents a forum on the militarization of U.S. foreign policy.
Speakers include: Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. Dr. Bacevich books include The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005) and The Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire (2003);
Carl Conetta, co-director, Project on Defense Alternatives and author of the reports, Pyrrhus on the Potomac: How America's Post-9/11 Wars Have Undermined U.S. National Security and Disappearing the Dead: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Idea of a "New Warfare";
David Gold, Associate Professor of International Affairs, The New School, and author of GPIA Working Paper 2007–03 "Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of the U.S. War on Terror;"
Bill Hartung, New America Foundation, former Director, Arms Trade Resource Center, The World Policy Institute, The New School, and author of How Much Are You Making on the War, Daddy? A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the Bush Administration (2003).
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Writing Women 1700-1800: Literary History at the Crossroads
NYU Fales Library: 70 Washington Sq S, 3rd Fl
4 - 5:45pm.
This day and half symposium asks how our understanding of women, women's writing, and writing about women has been transformed by the emergence of digital databases of 18th-century writing and a shift, in the last few decades of criticism, toward a broader (and more historically accurate) conception of 'literature' and its readers.
Paula R. Backscheider, Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar, Auburn University
Toni Bowers, English, University of Pennsylvania
Joanna Brooks, English, San Diego State University
Simon Dickie, English, University of Toronto
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, English, Northeastern University
Paula McDowell, English, NYU
Mary Poovey, Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities, NYU
Catherine Stimpson, Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Science, NYU
Jane Tylus, Vice Provost, NYU
Bryan Waterman, English, NYU
For more information: bryan.waterman@nyu.edu/212-998-8800.
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Lacoue-Labarthe Conference: Keynote by Jean-Luc Nancy
NYU Cardozo Law School: 55 5th Ave
6:30pm, RSVP/212-998-8750.
Catastrophe and Caesura: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Today
Conference organized by Denis Hollier and Avital Ronell
April 10 - 12
Introduction by Peter Goodrich
Keynote Lecture by Jean-Luc Nancy "Après la tragédie - After Tragedy."
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Friday, April 11 |
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Election '08: How the Internet is Re-shaping National Politics
New Museum: 235 Bowery
7:30pm.
Grassroots organizations like MoveOn.org and Meetup.com played a significant role in the lead-up to the 2004 presidential election. Campaign '08 has thus far been a very different project, with some of its most crucial points playing out across YouTube.com, viral marketing, and blogs. For Election '08, leading critics, artists, and media strategists will address the increasing role the Internet and digital technologies have come to play in national politics and focus specifically on the ways new media have been used for advocacy in the run-up to the election.
The panel will be moderated by Jason Pontin, Chief Editor of the MIT Technology Review; Panelists include Farai Chideya, host of NPR's News and Notes, and founder of PopandPolitics.com; Jonathan Askin, a strategist on Barack Obama's Technology Advisory Board and Professor at Brooklyn Law School; Beka Economopoulos, artist and founder of The Change You Want To See; and Liza Sabater, founder and publisher of Culture Kitchen and Daily Gotham.
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Korean Contemporary Art in the Global Era
School of Visual Arts: 209 East 23 Street, 3rd floor
7pm, $7.
Artists Talk on Art Presents: Korean Contemporary Art in the Global Era
Panelists Robert C. Morgan, international critic and author; Richard Vine, senior editor, Art in America; and Jonathan Goodman, independent author and critic, will discuss the impact of globalization on contemporary Korean art.
Admission is free for SVA students, faculty, staff and ATOA members; $7 regular admission; $3 for SVA alumni, non-SVA students and seniors.
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After the Revolution? Artists Respond to the Second Wave
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center: 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City
3pm.
As it celebrates and examines feminist art from the 1970s, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution fosters dialogue about feminism's impact on successive generations of women artists. How does the legacy and mythos of women's liberation movements inform, influence, inspire, and provoke artists born "after the revolution"? What residual effect has this seminal work had on later generations of artists and with second wave feminism? Artists and filmmakers Johanna Fateman, Sharon Hayes, Liza Johnson, Laura Parnes, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi will explore issues of generationalism, cross-influences, and problems of passing the torch in a panel organized and moderated by Elisabeth Subrin.
Johanna Fateman is a member of feminist punk electronic band Le Tigre, as well as the DJ/production/remix team MEN. She is co-owner of the New York West Village hair salon Seagull.
Sharon Hayes's work moves between multiple mediums-video, performance, installation—in an ongoing investigation into the interrelation between history, politics and speech. She employs conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from practices such as performance, theater, dance, anthropology and journalism.
Liza Johnson's work has been exhibited widely in film festivals, galleries, and museums, including the Walker Art Center, the Pompidou Center, and the ICA Philadelphia. Her film South of Ten was selected to open the New York Film Festival in 2006 and most recently, she is producing the feature film, Return.
Laura Parnes's video and installations are informed by traditions and genres in both narrative film and video art. She has screened and exhibited her work widely in the US and internationally, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and at The Museum of Modern Art.
Elisabeth Subrin's film and video projects examine relationships between history and female subjectivity, and the nature of evidence. Her trilogies of experimental biographies have exhibited in solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art and The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and in group shows including The Whitney Biennial and The Guggenheim Museum.
Ginger Brooks Takahashi is co-founder of LTTR, a queer and feminist art journal, and the MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project, a traveling exhibit of artist books and zines. Her work has recently been shown in Shared Women at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Exile of the Imaginary at the Generali Foundation, Vienna.
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Writing Women 1700-1800: Literary History at the Crossroads
NYU Fales Library: 70 Washington Sq S, 3rd Fl
9:15am - 5:30pm
This symposium asks how our understanding of women, women's writing, and writing about women has been transformed by the emergence of digital databases of 18th-century writing and a shift, in the last few decades of criticism, toward a broader (and more historically accurate) conception of 'literature' and its readers.
Paula R. Backscheider, Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar, Auburn University
Toni Bowers, English, University of Pennsylvania
Joanna Brooks, English, San Diego State University
Simon Dickie, English, University of Toronto
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, English, Northeastern University
Paula McDowell, English, NYU
Mary Poovey, Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities, NYU
Catherine Stimpson, Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Science, NYU
Jane Tylus, Vice Provost, NYU
Bryan Waterman, English, NYU
For more information: bryan.waterman@nyu.edu/212-998-8800.
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Lacoue-Labarthe Conference
NYU La Maison Française: 16 Washington Mews
10am - 5:30pm.
Catastrophe and Caesura: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Today
Conference organized by Denis Hollier and Avital Ronell
April 10 - 12
Schedule:
10am - 12pm (In French)
Discussion:
Marie-Hélène Huet, moderator (Princeton)
Richard Sieburth (NYU); François Rigolot (Princeton); Claire Nancy (Paris);
Michel Deutsch (Strasbourg); Michel Deguy (Paris)
2:30 - 5:30 pm
Micaela Kramer, moderator (NYU)
Anthony Vidler (Cooper Union); Sam Weber (Northwestern); Jeff Fort (UC Davis); Jean-Christophe Bailly (Paris)
Contact Francine Goldenhar: maison.francaise@nyu.edu/212-998-8750.
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Gender and Film: Resituating the Past in the Present
MoMA: 11 W 53rd St, Titus Theater 2
5:30pm, $10.
Building upon the landmark two-day symposium The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts, which was held at The Museum of Modern Art in January 2007, The Feminist Future Series brings together international leaders in contemporary art, art history, and other disciplines who have shaped current thinking on art, gender, and related topics.
This program addresses gender and film, emphasizing the exploration of feminist issues through filmmaking from the 1970s to the present. Through presentations and discussion, Chantal Akerman, filmmaker, Trinh Minh-ha, filmmaker, writer, composer, and professor of rhetoric and of gender and women's studies, University of California, Berkeley, and Laura Mulvey, critic and professor, Department of History of Art, Film, and Visual Media, Birkbeck, University of London discuss their own practices, the historicization of feminism and film, and the cultural and social contexts that inform the creative process of filmmaking.
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Saturday, April 12 |
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Lacoue-Labarthe Conference
NYU La Maison Française: 16 Washington Mews
10am - 2pm.
Catastrophe and Caesura: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Today
Conference organized by Denis Hollier and Avital Ronell
April 10 - 12
Schedule:
10am - 12pm
Anthony Abiragi, moderator (NYU)
Susan Bernstein (Brown); Kevin McLaughlin (Brown); Shireen Patell (NYU);
John Hamilton (NYU); Eduardo Cadava (Princeton)
12:30pm
Concluding Remarks
Peter Banki, moderator (NYU); Ann Smock (UC Berkeley); Christopher Fynsk (Aberdeen).
Contact Francine Goldenhar: maison.francaise@nyu.edu/212-998-8750.
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Sunday, April 13 |
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Joseph Leo Koerner: Dürer's Hands
The Frick Collection: 1 East 70 St
6pm.
Dürer's Hands, Joseph Leo Koerner, Professor of Art History, Courtauld Institute of ArtFrom his first extant sketch through his late-career investigations of human proportion, Albrecht Dürer often used himself as a model. The lecturer, the author of a landmark book on self-portraiture, will focus on the earliest sketches Dürer made of his hands, examining the emergence of a quintessentially modern concept in art: the artwork as personal expression of its creator.
This lecture is the fourth in an annual series sponsored by the Council of The Frick Collection.
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Monday, April 14 |
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Ernest Tollerson: The Future of NYC Transit
Cooper Union, Nerken School of Engineering: 51 Astor Pl, Wollmann Lounge
6pm.
Ernest Tollerson, M.T.A. director of policy and media relations, presents the M.T.A.'s Sustainability agenda for the coming years. Though mass transit itself supports our environment by keeping billions of car trips off the roads, how can MTA operating agencies cut their own carbon footprints and reduce their energy consumption? Join us for this talk and question/answer period.
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Challenges to Transform the Ethnicity Regime in Turkey-Alevi and Kurdish Electoral Behavior and Demands for Recognition, 1946-2007
Columbia University, International Affairs Building:
420 W 118 St, Room 802
12:30 - 2pm.
The Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR) and the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) present a paper entitled, "Challenges to Transform the Ethnicity Regime in Turkey: Alevi and Kurdish Electoral Behavior and Demands for Recognition, 1946-2007."
This paper examines the electoral behavior of the Alevis and the Kurds, as the two largest ethnic-sectarian minority groups in Turkey since the transition to multiparty politics in 1946 until the present day.
A reception will follow the talk.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Ahmet Kuru by sending email to ak2840@columbia.edu or by calling 206-788-6292.
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Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
New York Public Library: 42nd St & 5th Ave
7pm, $15.
Join us at NYPL for this special symposia, where artists, curators, and critics discuss how archival documents are used to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss.
This program is presented in conjunction with the ICP exhibition, Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art.
Special guests: Christian Boltanski; Paul Holdengräber, Director of Public Programs, "Live from the NYPL"; Okwui Enwezor, Adjunct Curator at ICP; George E. Lewis; Luc Sante; and Lorna Simpson.
Contact the ICP Education Department at (212) 857-0001 for more information.
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Solar Sailing for Human Survival
NYC College of Technology: 300 Jay St, Atrium Amphitheater, Brooklyn
5pm.
Matloff is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, a Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Astronautics, and an American Museum of Natural History Hayden Fellow. He is co-author of the books "The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel" and of "Living Off the Land in Space," among other publications.
Contact: 718.260.5277.
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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on "Race"
Pace University: One Pace Plaza, Lecture Hall North
5:30 - 7pm.
In order to understand the complex issues associated with the concept "race," it is essential to cross disciplinary boundaries. This presentation will briefly review the spread of humans out of Africa and around the planet over tens of thousands of years, and the spread of the race concept out of Europe and around the planet over a few hundred years. One surprising discovery is that people can change their race simply by traveling from one country to another. What changes is not what they look like, or their genes, or ancestry - but rather the cultural concepts used to classify them.
Speaker: Jefferson Fish, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology, St. John's University
For more information, contact Dr. Richard Velayo by email at rvelayo@pace.edu
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Artists Speak: Conversations on Contemporary Art with Glenn D. Lowry
MoMA: 11 W 53rd St, Cullman Education and Research Bld, Bartos Theater 3
6:30pm, $10.
Artists Matthew Buckingham and Eve Sussman discuss how they use history, history painting, and avant-garde cinema to create provocative multimedia installations about contemporary life.
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Tuesday, April 15 |
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East Coast Europe
New School: Theresa Lang Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th St, 2nd Fl
6:30pm, $8.
East Coast Europe: Roundtable is a public debate in which participants discuss perceptions of contemporary European identity and the relation to spatial practices and international politics.
Introduction by Alenka Suhadolnik, Consul General of the Republic of Slovenia and Carin Kuoni, Director of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. The roundtable will be moderated by Markus Miessen, architect/researcher/educator/writer and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, architect and founder of NAO (Normal Architecture Office). Participants include Reinier de Graaf, partner, Office for Metropolitan Architecture; Aaron Levy, founding Executive Director and a Senior Curator at Slought Foundation in Philadelphia; Dan Perjovschi, artist/writer/cartoonist/curator; Marjetica Potrc, artist and Vera List Center Fellow.
This roundtable is part of the East Coast Europe series of events, co-sponsored by the Slovenian Consulate General in New York, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, the EUNIC network New York, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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Development, Epigenetics and the "Diabesity" Epidemic
New York Academy of Sciences: 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St, 40th Fl.
8:30am - 5pm, $20, RSVP Required.
Speakers: Sebastien Bouret, University of Southern California; Patrick Catalano, Case Western Reserve University; Jeremy Coplan, SUNY Downstate Medical Center; Rudolph Leibel, Columbia University; Barry Levin, UMDNJ; Tanja Kral, University of Pennsylvania; John Kral, SUNY Downstate Medical Center; Peter Nathanielsz, University of Texas Health Science Center; Andreas Plagemann, University of Medicine Berlin; Robert Waterland, Baylor College of Medicine; Robert Whitaker, Temple University.
The Diabetes and Obesity discussion group explores the correlation between the growing trend of obesity and rising number of those diagnosed with diabetes.
For the complete meeting agenda, please click here.
For abstracts, click here.
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Wednesday, April 16 |
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Votes, Values and Religion Go to the Primaries
New School: Theresa Lang Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th St, 2nd Fl
7pm, $8.
Randall Balmer, Barnard College, and Jacques Berlinerblau, Georgetown University, share their expertise on the intersection of faith and politics in the United States, with specific reference to the current election cycle. Professor Balmer has written extensively about evangelical politics, a subject he addresses in his latest book, God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush. The topic is also central to Professor Berlinerblau's forthcoming book, Thumpin' It: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Today's Presidential Politics. Sponsored by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs.
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Design Heroix: Dean Corren, Verdant Power
Center for Architecture: 536 LaGuardia Pl
12 - 2pm, RSVP.
Join us for the fourth event of the monthly Design Heroix series.
Dean Corren, Director of Technology Development, Verdant Power.
Dean Corren leads Verdant Power's technology development efforts, having been the original designer of the Kinetic Hydropower System (KHPS) during his time as a Research Scientist at New York University. Before Verdant Power, he consulted on diverse energy and technology projects, as well as researching a wide range of energy technologies at NYU. He also chaired the Burlington Electric Commission, which governs Vermont's largest public utility, and served four terms in the Vermont House of Representatives. He holds an MS in Energy Science from New York University and a BA, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Middlebury College.
Design Heroix: The speakers in this grand rounds series treat design as the critical opportunity to address one or several challenging contemporary technical issues. While working in different material realms their entrepreneurial activity draws designability into realms that have been closed to reimagination - thought solved or inevitable. These speakers have individually reinvented the laptop, the window, the map, fundamental electrical connections, the structure of competitive markets and other devices that previously seemed so complete and unchangeable. In so doing, they explore the opportunities for social change that technical changes present, change the scope of design and our chance at significantly redesigning our urban environmental future.
Contact: 212.358.6121
http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/designheroix/
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