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PLATFORM FOR PEDAGOGY
Platform for Pedagogy
26 March - 1 April 2009
In Brief: Michael Taussig, Girlhood in America, Celluloid Idylls, The Public Framing of Science, Darby English, Six Months Later, Oulipo in New York.
 Thursday, 26 March
  Georgia's "Uncertain Democracy" and the Future of U.S. Democracy Assistance
Columbia University, Int'l Affairds Building - 420 W. 118 St, Rm 1501
12 - 2pm, $0.
  Murder in the Public Sphere in Contemporary Mexico
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, Room 9206/9207
4 - 7pm, $0.
  Visiting Critic Talk: Michael Taussig
NYU Steinhardt - 34 Stuyvesant Street, Einstein Auditorium
5 - 6pm, $0.
  Saviors and Survivors: A Discussion about Darfur
Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary - 3041 Broadway, Social Hall
6 - 8pm, $0.
  Girls, Girls, Girls: Girlhood in America
Eugene Lang, Wollman Hall - 66 W. 12 St, 5th Fl
6pm, $0.
  Larent Dubois: Zidane and the Empire of Soccer in Algeria
Columbia University, Maison Français - 515 West 116th St.
6:30 - 7:30pm, $0.
  Shahzia Sikander and Glenn Lowry in Conversation
Cooper Hewitt Design Museum - 2 East 91st St
6:30pm, $15, Rsvp.
  Teaching Robots to See: An Evening with Yann LeCun
NYU Woolworth Building - 15 Barclay Street, 4th floor
7 - 9pm, $20, Register.
 Friday, 27 March
  Shlomo Ben Ami, Wounds of Peace: The Arab-Israeli Conflict After Gaza
Columbia University, Int'l Affairs Building - 420 W. 118 St, Rm 1512
1 - 3pm, $0.
  Darby English: Spectacle of Affinities
NYU Institute of Fine Arts - 1 East 78th Street
4pm, $0.
 Saturday, 28 March
 Sunday, 29 March
  Celluloid Idylls: Swords, Sandals & Sex, or How the Movies Made My Career
Anthology Film Archive - 32 2nd Avenue
10am - 6pm, $8.
 Monday, 30 March
  Atlantic Port Cities in the Age of Discovery
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, History Lounge, Room 5114
4pm, $0.
  The Public Framing of Science: A Conversation
Wenner-Gren Foundation - 470 Park Avenue South near 32nd St, 8th Floor
6 - 9pm, $0, Rsvp required.
  Jonathan Brent, Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
Columbia University, Int'l Affairds Building - 420 W. 118 St, Rm 707
6:15 - 8:15pm, $0.
  The Story of 42nd St: The Theatres, Shows, Characters and Scandals of the World's Most Notorious Street
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, Recital Hall
6:30pm, $0, Rsvp required.
  Franco Berardi and MacKenzie Wark in Conversation
The Change You Want to See - 84 Havemeyer St, Brooklyn
7:30 - 9:30, $0.
 Tuesday, 31 March
  Master Class in Sustainable Design: Architectural Interpretations of Natural Phenomena
Haworth Showroom - 125 Park Ave (enter on 42nd street)
11:30am - 1:30pm, $10.
  Darwin Anniversary Lecture with Douglas J. Futuyma:
Evolutionary Ecology and Evolutionary Constraints

Columbia University, Warren Hall - 1125 Amsterdam Avenue, Rm 207
4 - 5pm, $0.
  Andrew Rumbach, Only by the Grace of God: The Political Ecology of Urban Disasters
School of Visual Arts - 136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
6 - 8pm, $0, Rsvp.
  The Financial Crisis Six Months Later: Impacts on Developing Countries
Columbia University, Int'l Affairds Building - 420 W. 118 St, Rm 1501
6 - 8pm, $0.
  Stuart M. Bernstein: Is Chapter 11 Dead?
Fordham Law School, James McNally Amphitheatre - 140 West 62nd Street
6:30pm, $0.
 Wednesday, 1 April
  Oulipo in New York: A Workshop of Experimental Literature
The New School - 66 West 12th Street, Johnson/Kaplan Hall, Tishman Auditorium
7pm, $0.
  Why Do Scientists Go to Antarctica to Study Mars?
Secret Science Club at Bell House - 149 7th Street, Brooklyn
8pm, $0.

Platform for Pedagogy is an initiative to advance a culture of cross-disciplinary public lecture attendance and to develop the lecture as form. Platform Mailer is a weekly events e-mail promoting public lectures in and around New York City.

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