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Tuesday, 04 September 2012
Psycholinguistics Supper: Dr. Ofer Tchernichovski
Vocal Learning in Songbirds and Human Infants
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 7102
6:30 - 8pm, $0
The Crushing Burden of Debt
Andrew Ross, Anya Kamenetz, George Caffentzis, Mark Crispin Miller
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Wednesday, 05 September 2012
On the Legacy of Massimo Osti
Nick Sullivan and Daniela Facchinato Osti
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th Street, Tishman Auditorium
6pm, $0
Thursday, 06 September 2012
Current Challenges facing German Universities
With Hamburg University president Dieter Lenzen
New York University, Deutsches Haus - 42 Washington Mews
6:30pm, $0
A Tribute to Chris Marker
Rarities and Early Works
Spectacle Theater, 124 S. 3rd Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $5
Friday, 07 September 2012
Going Gaga: Anarchy, Chaos and the Wild
Judith Jack Halberstam
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 4406
4pm, $0
Hollywood's Wars
Elisabeth Bronfen
New York University, Deutsches Haus - 42 Washington Mews
6:30pm, $0
Saturday, 08 September 2012
Comradely Objects: Art Against Reification
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Floor Two
12 - 5pm, $0
Sunday, 09 September 2012
La Région centrale by Michael Snow
Introduced by Chantal Akerman
Light Industry - 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn
3pm, $7
Monday, 10 September 2012
Nonfiction Forum: Cathy Davidson
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th Street, Room 510
6:30pm, $5
Paul Auster: Winter Journal
Barnes & Noble - Union Square 33 East 17 Street
7pm, $0
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Every Public Has a Form
Paul Ramírez Jonas
New School, Johnson Design Center - 66 Fifth Ave, Kellen Auditorium
6:30pm, $0
Junot Diaz: This Is How You Lose Her
Barnes & Noble - Union Square 33 East 17th Street
7pm, $0
Josh Cohen and Steve Stern in Conversation
The Center for Fiction - 17 East 47th Street
7pm, $0
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Richard Foreman in Discussion with Jay Sanders,
Paul Chan and Robert Hullot-Kentor
School of Visual Arts, Theory and the Arts - 209 East 23 Street, MA Seminar Room
6pm, $0
Rethinking the "Latino Vote" in 2012
Political Heterogeneity in a Two-Party System
Barnard University, Sulzberger Parlor - 3009 Broadway, Floor 3 Barnard Hall
6pm, $0
Old Weird America: Music as Democratic Speech
Stanley Crouch with Greil Marcus
New School, Lang Building - 65 West 11 Street, Floor 5, Wollman Hall
6:30pm, $5
Edith Wharton: Old and New New York
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Elebash Recital Hall
6:30pm, $10
The House I Live In: Screening and Conversation
a film by Eugene Jarecki
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
6:30pm, $0
Wobble: On Architecture
with Peter Eisenman and Mark Wigley
Columbia University, Wood Auditorium - 1172 Amsterdam Avenue
6:30pm, $0
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Mariam Ghani
New School, Johnson Design Center - 66 Fifth Avenue
7pm, $0
Violence and Legitimacy in the Occupy Movement
A Debate Between Chris Hedges and the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue
7pm, $0
Why Trickle-Up Economics Won’t Work
Andrew Kliman
500 8th Avenue, between 35th and 36th Streets
7pm, $0
Kathleen Alcott & John Wray
Greenlight Books - 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $0
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Respect and the City
Race, Class, and Development in Detroit... and NYC
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Arnhold Hall, Floor Two
8:30 - 10:30am, $0
After the Crisis: Housing Policy and Finance in the US and UK
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Arnhold Hall, Floor Two
1:30 - 6pm, $0
Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Aden Kumler
Institute of Fine Arts - 1 East 78th Street
5:30pm, $0
The Politics of Fracking
One Bernard Baruch Way (55 Lexington Ave. at 24th St)
6pm, $0
Forty Years Later: Now Can We Talk?
Barnard University, The Diana Center - 3009 Broadway, Event Oval
6:30pm, $0
Readings in Contemporary Poetry
Judith Malina and Filip Marinovich
Dia:Chelsea, 5th Floor - 535 West 22nd Street
6:30pm, $0
Tamara Faith Berger in conversation with Kate Zambreno
Bluestockings - 172 Allen Street
7pm, $0
Zadie Smith: NW
Barnes & Noble - Union Square 33 East 17th Street
7pm, $0
Hacking the Future: Privacy, Identity, and Anonymity on the Web
Cole Strker
Housing Works Bookstore - 126 Crosby Street
7pm, $0
Travis Mathews: "I Want Your Love"
Screening
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th Street, Tishman Auditorium
7pm, $0
Debut Novelists Reading
Paula Bomer and Justin Torres
NYU Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House - 58 West 10th Street
7pm, $0
Kathryn Harrison, Victor LaValle, Jay Kang, and Karl Greenfeld
Behind the Book
KGB Bar - 85 East 4th Street
7 - 9pm, $0
Friday, 14 September 2012
Amartya Sen, Burma in Transition:
Minorities, Human Rights and Democratic Process
Columbia University, Low Memorial Library - 535 West 116th Street, Rotunda
3 - 5:30pm, $0
Irvine Welsh: Skagboys
Barnes & Noble - Union Square 33 East 17th Street
7pm, $0
Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism
David Featherstone
Bluestockings - 172 Allen Street
7pm, $0
Saturday, 15 September 2012
Corrected Slogans
A Publication in Four Acts
Triple Canopy - 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn
2 - 6pm, $5
A Tribute to Phillip K. Dick: Quick Dick-A-Thon
Gary Indiana, Dale Peck, Lisa Dierbeck
Jimmy's No. 43, 43 E 7th St
6 - 6:45pm, $0
Thomas Hirschhorn and Hal Foster
Discussions in Contemporary Culture
Dia: Chelsea - 535 West 22nd Street, Floor Five
6:30pm, $0
An Evening with Irvine Welsh
R Bar - 218 Bowery Street
8:15pm, $0
Monday, 17 September 2012
The Polish Debate About Dealing with the Past
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118th Street, Room 1219
12 - 1:30pm, $0
What a Strange Idea: To be a Writer in the Arab World!
Anouar Benmalek
Columbia University, Buell Hall - 515 West 116th Street, East Gallery
6 - 7:30pm, $0
Shop: Walmart and Its Discontents
Liza Featherstone, Fox Piven, Michael Sorkin, Stacey Sutton
Columbia University, Wood Auditorium - 1172 Amsterdam Avenue
6:30pm, $0
Who Gives a Sh*t About Literary Magazines?
With Lorin Stein, Rob Spillman, John Freeman, and Randy Rosenthal
BookCourt - 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Strategies for Difficult Political Conversations
Dian Killian
Bluestockings - 172 Allen Street
7pm, $5
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Salman Rushdie
Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Barnes & Noble - Union Square, 33 East 17th Street
7pm, $0
Staging the People: Jacques Rancière and Bruno Bosteels
The Kitchen - 512 West 19 Street
7 - 8pm, $0
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
From Academia to Entrepreneur:
How to Start Your Own Company
Columbia University, Hammer Health Sciences - 701 West 168th Street, Room LL203
12:30 - 1:30pm, $0
A New Queer Agenda: Lisa Duggan, Kenyon Farrow,
Amber Hollibaugh, Richard Kim
NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis - 20 Cooper Square, Floor Four
6pm, $0
The Educated Eater
What's Behind the Label?
New School, Lang Building - 65 West 11 Street, Floor 5, Wollman Hall
6pm, $0
Economics and Theology
A conversation with Joseph Stiglitz hosted by Serene Jones
Union Theological Seminary, James Memorial Chapel - 3041 Broadway at West 121 Street
6pm, $0
Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art
Jacques Rancière
Columbia University, Buell Hall - 515 West 116th Street, East Gallery
6 - 8pm, $0
Creating Change with Spofford-Market
Majora Carter
Columbia University, Wood Auditorium - 1172 Amsterdam Avenue
6:30pm, $0
Thursday, 20 September 2012
Addressing Author Misconduct: The Role of Researchers, Journals, and Institutions
Columbia University, Faculty House - 400 West 117 Street, Seminar Rooms
12 - 2pm, $0
Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide
Dr. Joshua Goldstein
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118th Street, Room 1302
12:15 - 2pm, $0
A Beautiful Mind Revisited
with Sylvia Nasar
Columbia University, Alumni Auditorium - 650 West 168th Street, Floor One
4:30 - 5:30pm, $0
Failed Evidence: Why Law Enforcement Resists Science
David A. Harris
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New Building - 524 West 59th Street, Room L.61.00 NB
5:30 - 6:30pm, $0
John Lie: What is the "K" in K-Pop?
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118th Street, Room 914
5:30 - 7pm, $0
Jonathan Galassi: Left-Handed
Queens College, Italian American Institute - 25 West 43 Street, Floor Seventeen
6 - 8pm, $0
Harvey Molotch: How We Go Wrong at Airports,
Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger
SUNY Global Center - 116 East 55 Street
6:15pm, $0
An Evening with Pete Hamill
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism - 219 West 40 Street, Room 308
6:30 - 9pm, $15
Padgett Powell
You and Me
192 Books - 192 10th Avenue at 21 Street
7pm, $0
Marco Roth with Keith Gessen
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
James Lasdun and Ben Lerner
NYU Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House - 58 West 10th Street
7pm, $0
“Plot,” with Tirdad Zolghadr,
Richard Sieburth, and D. Graham Burnett
Cabinet - 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
7 - 9pm, $0
Friday, 21 September 2012
Daniel Javitch: Thinking about Tragedy in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9205
2pm, $0
Any Time but Now: Default Temporality in the Post-1960s Novel
James F. English
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 4406
4 - 6pm, $0
Cinema and the Legacies of Critical Theory (Day One)
Columbia University, Deutsches Haus - 420 West 116th Street
6 - 8pm, $0
New York City: An Island of Vice?
Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt and Photographer Jacob Riis
The Cooper Union - 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium
6:30pm, $0
Shadows and Outlines: An Incomplete Portrait of Reanimation Library
Andrew Beccone, Sarah Gentile, Sarah Giovanniello, and John Reed.
Independent Curators International Curatorial Hub - 401 Broadway, Suite 1620
6:30pm, $0
How Can Art Affect Political Change?
Panel discussion
New School, Johnson Design Center - 66 Fifth Ave, Kellen Auditorium
6:30pm, $0
Neomaterialism: on the Subjectivity and Vitality of Things
Joshua Simon and Noam Yuran
New School - 66 West 12th Street, 7th floor, Orozco Room
6:30pm, $0
Krazy Kat: Stephen Burt and Monica Youn
Singularity & Co. - 18 Bridge Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Saturday, 22 September 2012
Cinema and the Legacies of Critical Theory (Day Two)
Columbia University, Deutsches Haus - 420 West 116th Street
9am - 5:45pm, $0
Sunday, 23 September 2012
Brooklyn Book Festival: The Novel and the City
Alvaro Enrigue, Christine Smallwood, Adam Shatz
Brooklyn Borough Hall Community Room - 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY
10am, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: The Geek Squad
Josh Cohen, Andrew Blum, Jessica Grose
St. Francis McArdle - 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY
10am, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: The Personal in Fiction
Siri Hustvedt, Karl Ove Knausgård, Sheila Heti, and Phillip Lopate
Brooklyn Borough Hall Courtroom - 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY
11am, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: Artisanal Everything
David Rees and Sam Anderson
Borough Hall Plaza - 209 Joralemon Street, Main Stage, Brooklyn, NY
11am, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: Do Identity Politics Still Matter?
Baratunde Thurston, Wes Yang, Rebecca Walker
St. Francis McArdle - 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY
12pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: Coming of Age in America Today
Andrew Delbanco, Andrew Hacker, Kimberley L. Phillips, and Richard Greenwald
Brooklyn Historical Society Library - 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY
12pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: From the Ruins of Empire
Pankaj Mishra, Siddhartha Deb, and Parul Sehgal
Brooklyn Borough Hall Community Room - 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY
1pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: Twilight of the Elites
Chris Hayes, Michelle Goldberg, and Richard Kim
St. Francis McArdle - 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY
1pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: Let’s Talk About Sex
Naomi Wolf, Carlos Andres Gomez, Kate Bornstein, and Hanna Rosin
Borough Hall Plaza - 209 Joralemon Street, Main Stage, Brooklyn, NY
2pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: Bookforum Presents Money in Fiction
Christian Lorentzen, Clancy Martin, and Michael Miller
Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge - 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY
2pm, $0
Into the Equilibrium: Understanding the Changing World From an Eastern Perspective
Mami Kataoka
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
3pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: On Truth (and Lies) in Conversation
Simon Critchley and Paul Holdengräber
Brooklyn Law School - 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY
4pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: NYC Creative Life in the 70s and 80s
James Wolcott, Nile Rodgers, Cynthis Carr, and Will Hermes
Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge - 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY
4pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: Campaigns, Character and Messing with Texas
Gail Collins, Jodi Kantor, John MacArthur, and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Brooklyn Law School - 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY
5pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: Enduring Unlikable Women
Elissa Schappell, Gilbert Hernandez, and Dana Spiotta
Saint Francis Screening Room - 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY
5pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: The Poet Novelist
Ben Lerner, Eileen Myles, Sapphire, and Camille Rankine
St. Francis McArdle - 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY
5pm, $0
Brooklyn Book Festival: Marriage and Monogamy
Dan Savage, Christopher Ryan, Eric Klinenberg, and Kate Bolicka
St. Francis McArdle - 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY
5pm, $0
Ecovillages as Models for Sustainable Living
Bluestockings - 172 Allen Street
7pm, $5
Monday, 24 September 2012
Capturing the Gains from Globalization:
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains
New School, Wolff Conference Room - 6 East 16 Street, D-1103
6pm, $0
Smellwalk NYC
Walking tour with Dr. Victoria Henshaw
Meeting in downtown Manhattan (details with RSVP)
6 - 7pm, $0
The Constitution, the Court, and America's Promise
Joanne Freeman and Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr.
Columbia University, Casa Italiana - 1161 Amsterdam Ave
6 - 7:30pm, $0
Carmen Boulloso with Jeffery Renard Allen
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th Street, Room 510
6:30pm, $5
Carol Bove on Donald Judd
Dia: Chelsea - 535 West 22 Street, Floor 5
6:30pm, $6
Transportation and Regional Economies
What are the challenges facing transportation investment today?
Columbia University, Avery Hall - 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, Wood Auditorium
6:30pm, $0
From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
Pankaj Mishra in conversation with Ian Buruma
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Arnhold Hall, Floor Two
7 - 8:30pm, $0
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
The Net and Chinese Narratives
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118th Street, Room 918
12 - 1:30pm, $0
Zoe Coombes
Dirt from Glass Cages
School of Visual Arts, Design Criticism - 136 West 21 Street, Floor 2
6pm, $0
Recent Work by BIG: With Bjarke Ingles
On Architecture and Urbanism
Columbia University, Wood Auditorium - 1172 Amsterdam Avenue
6:30pm, $0
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Richard Beard: Lazarus is Dead
192 Books - 192 10th Avenue at 21st Street
7pm, $0
Translating Salvador Espriu’s Ariadne and the Grotesque Labyrinth
Rowan Ricardo Phillips with David Haglund
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Laurie Penny and The New Inquiry Magazine
Bluestockings - 172 Allen Street
7pm, $5
Photography, Narrative and the Book
Christian Patterson, Luc Sante, Michael Mack
School of Visual Arts Theatre - 333 West 23 Street
7pm, $0
The Moiré Effect, with Lytle Shaw
Cabinet - 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
7 - 9pm, $0
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Nara Milanich: A Global History of the Paternity Test
Barnard, BCRW - 3009 Broadway, 101 Barnard Hall
12pm, $0
Beyond Representation Symposium (Day One)
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things
Bard Graduate Center - 38 West 86th Street
1:30 - 6pm, $0
Benjamin Schiff on the International Criminal Court:
Ten Years On, Accessing its Promise, Problems, and Potential
Bard Globalization and International Affairs - 36 West 44 Street, Suite 1011
6:15pm, $0
Are We Still Innovating in America?
Ashlee Vance, Bre Pettis, Andrew McLaughlin, Romesh Ratnesar
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
6:30 - 8:15pm, $0
Pierluigi Serraino: Out of Focus
When Photographic Archives Disappear
Columbia University, Buell Hall - 515 West 116th Street, Room 200
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0
Spectres: Sven Augustijnen
Screening and Conversation
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
6:30 - 9:30pm, $5
Abject Future: Marcus Boon on Tyler, the Creator, Azealia Banks,
and the Politics of Vibration
School of Visual Arts Theatre - 333 West 23 Street
7pm, $0
Zadie Smith: NW
New York University, Kimmel Center Auditorium - 60 Washington Square South
7pm, $0
The Creative Writing Lecture Series: Sheila Heti
Columbia University, Dodge Hall - 2960 Broadway
7 - 9pm, $0
Friday, 28 September 2012
Beyond Representation Symposium (Day Two)
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things
Institute of Fine Arts - 1 East 78th Street
9am - 6pm, $0
NY Art Book Fair: Sound and Text
Experiments in Transmedia Object Making
PS1 Courtyard - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
11:30am - 12:30pm, $0
Dredgefest: The Human Acceleration of Sediments
Studio-X New York - 180 Varick Street
1 - 6pm, $0
NY Art Book Fair: Appropriation and Intellectual Property
PS1 Courtyard - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
2 - 3:30pm, $0
NY Art Book Fair: Pecha Kucha
Artists' Publications
PS1 Courtyard - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
4 - 5pm, $0
Dorothea Lasky and Eileen Myles
NYU Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House - 58 West 10 Street
5pm, $0
NY Art Book Fair Keynote: Paul Chan
PS1 Courtyard - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
5:30 - 7pm, $0
Saturday, 29 September 2012
NY Art Book Fair: Graphic Notation and Artists' Books
PS1 Courtyard - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
11:30am - 1pm, $0
NY Art Book Fair: Focus on East Asia
Artists’ Books in Tokyo, Taipei and Seoul
PS1 Courtyard - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
2 - 3:30pm, $0
NY Art Book Fair: Furthering the Critical Dialogue
Criticism in Relation to Artists' Books
PS1 Courtyard - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
4 - 5:30pm, $0
NY Art Book Fair Keynote: Lucy Lippard
PS1 Courtyard - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
6 - 7:30pm, $0
Beyond Representation Symposium (Day Three)
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things
Institute of Fine Arts - 1 East 78th Street
9:30 - 1:15pm, $0