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Friday, 01 March 2013
Directions In Latin American Art:
The Mid-Twentieth Century
Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall - 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 612
2 - 5pm, $0
Media Archaeology: Matt Kirschenbaum and Wendy Chun
New York University - 19 University Place, Great Room
4:30 - 6pm, $0
Spatialities of Translation:
Bruno Bosteels and Tom Conley
Barnard University, Barnard Hall - 3009 Broadway, Sulzberger Parlor (Floor 3)
6pm, $0
The Selfish Gene: Ben Smith on Richard Dawkins
P! - 334 Broome Street
6:30pm, $0
Dancing on a Rope:
Celibacy and Child Abuse in the Catholic Church
New York University, Deutsches Haus - 42 Washington Mews
6:30pm, $0
Saturday, 02 March 2013
On Copying: Discussion with Sarah Schulman
P! - 334 Broome Street
3 - 5pm, $0
Sunday, 03 March 2013
David Shields: How Literature Saved My Life
BookCourt - 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Monday, 04 March 2013
A Brief Overview of the Museum and its Archive
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 1219
12 - 1pm, $0
Calle Tomada: The Street in Latin America
Luis Camnitzer, Isabela Villanueva, Ana Paula Cohen, others
Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall - 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, Floor 8
3 - 9pm, $0
Ron Silliman and Robert Fitterman
Readings in Contemporary Poetry
Dia: Chelsea - 535 West 22 Street, Floor 5
6:30pm, $6
Public Art Fund Talks: Thomas Schütte
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Arnhold Hall, Floor Two
6:30pm, $10
Tuesday, 05 March 2013
Women Leaders of the Arab Spring
The CORE: Club - 66 East 55 Street
8 - 9:30am, $0
Scholarly Societies in the Humanities: New Models and Innovation
Columbia University, Faculty House - 400 West 117 Street, Presidential Rooms 2 and 3
12 - 2pm, $0
Enemies of the State:
Pussy Riot and the New Russian Protest Rock
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 1219
6 - 8pm, $0
Painting and Representation
Americas Soceity - 680 Park Avenue
6:30 - 8:30pm, $10
Liam Gillick: Creative Disruptions in the Age of Soft Revolutions
1963 Herman Kahn and Projection
Columbia University, Miller Theatre - 2960 Broadway
7pm, $0
Sam Lipsyte: The Fun Parts
BookCourt - 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
The Haunting: Poverty Pornography, Humanitarianism, and Neoliberal Globalization
TJ Demos on Renzo Martens' Enjoy Poverty
Cooper Union - 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium
7 - 8:30pm, $0
Wednesday, 06 March 2013
Joseph Stiglitz and Ramin Bahrani on
Oliver Stone’s classic Wall Street
Columbia University, Miller Theatre - 2960 Broadway
6 - 8pm, $0
Fifty Years of The Feminine Mystique
Ariel Levy, Anne Roiphe, Katie Roiphe and Gail Sheehy
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
6:15pm, $0
More Powerful than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats,
Progressives and New York’s Year of Anarchy
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Elebash Recital Hall (Room 1201)
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music
Book Culture - 536 West 112th Street
7pm, $0
The Lady with the Whip: Gendered Violence and Social Death in Manderlay and Django Unchained
Barnard Center, Diana Center Event Oval - 3009 Broadway, Lower Level 1
7 - 9pm, $0
Thursday, 07 March 2013
The Psychology of Consumerism
Alvin Hall, Liz Magic Laser, Eric Shiner, Felix Salmon
The Armory, Media Lounge - Pier 94, West 54 Street and Twelfth Avenue
1pm, $0
The Web That Wasn't:
Forgotten Forebears of the Internet
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, Allen Room
1:15 - 2:30pm, $0
To Present and Collect Performance, Ephemeral and Interdisciplinary Art
Heather Corcoran, Nancy Spector, Glenn Wharton, Tim Griffin
The Armory, Media Lounge - Pier 94, West 54 Street and Twelfth Avenue
3pm, $0
Thinking Feminism at the Limits (Day One)
Judith Butler, Patricia Williams, Robyn Wiegman, Heather Love, others
Columbia University, Faculty House - 64 Morningside Drive
6pm, $0
Dirty Care: Violence, Feminism, and Subjectivity
NYU, Labowitz Theatre - 1 Washington Place
6 - 8pm, $0
Kenneth Frampton: Modernity and Monumentality in the works of Louis Kahn
CUNY, Spitzer School of Architecture - 141 Convent Avenue, Sciame Auditorium
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Insuring the City: The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape
The Skyscraper Museum - 39 Battery Place
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Racecraft: Barbara Fields and Ta-Nahesi Coates
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9100 (Skylight Room)
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Liam Gillick: Creative Disruptions in the Age of Soft Revolutions
1974 Volvo and the Mise-En-Scene
Columbia University, Miller Theatre - 2960 Broadway
7pm, $0
Friday, 08 March 2013
Thinking Feminism at the Limits (Day Two)
Judith Butler, Patricia Williams, Robyn Wiegman, Heather Love, others
Columbia University, Shapiro Center - 530 West 120 Street, Davis Auditorium
10am - 5pm, $0
But Is It Art? (Day One)
New York University, Maison Français - 16 Washington Mews
10am - 5:30pm, $0
The Armory Show 1913: Myths and Misconceptions
Marilyn Kushner, Francis Naumann, Gail Stavitsky, Robert Storr
The Armory, Media Lounge - Pier 94, West 54 Street and Twelfth Avenue
1pm, $0
The Popular Front: Pulp Magazines as Anti-Fascist Propaganda
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 4406
4 - 6pm, $0
A More Perfect History:
Celebrating International Women's Day
New School, Lang Building - 65 West 11 Street, Floor 5, Wollman Hall
4 - 9pm, $0
Posterity Will Have a Word To Say
Carlos Basualdo, Daniel Birnbaum, Paul Chan, Molly Nesbit, Jan Ã…man
The Armory, Media Lounge - Pier 94, West 53 Street and Twelfth Avenue
5pm, $0
The Internet Before the Web: Preserving Early Networked Cultures
New Museum - 235 Bowery
7pm, $8
Ned Beaumann: The Teleportation Accident
BookCourt - 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
documenta-Archive and The Getty Research Institute in Conversation
Goethe-Institut New York Library - 72 Spring Street, Floor 11
7pm, $0
Saturday, 09 March 2013
But Is It Art? (Day Two)
New York University, Maison Français - 16 Washington Mews
10am - 6pm, $0
The Biennial Factor
Dan Cameron, Gunnar Kvaran, Tirdad Zolghadr, Jonathan T.D. Neil
The Armory, Media Lounge - Pier 94, West 53 Street and Twelfth Avenue
12:30pm, $0
Comissioning Work in an Art Fair Context
Gianni Jetzer, Sarah McCrory, Fatima Al Qadiri, Sarah Douglas
The Armory, Media Lounge - Pier 94, West 53 Street and Twelfth Avenue
2pm, $0
Why Collect? With Alexandra Peers
The Armory, Media Lounge - Pier 94, West 53 Street and Twelfth Avenue
3:30pm, $0
The World’s First Tumblr Art Symposium
319 Scholes Street, Brooklyn
6pm - 1am, $0
Surviving, Uniting, Anger, and the Plague
David France and Jim Hubbard
New School, Johnson Design Center - 66 Fifth Avenue, Kellen Auditorium
6 - 9:30pm, $0
Agnès Varda and Molly Nesbit
Screening and Conversation
e-flux - 311 East Broadway
7pm, $0
Sunday, 10 March 2013
The Question of Regionalism
Stuart Horodner, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Ruba Katrib, Dominic Molon, Isolde Brielmaier
The Armory, Media Lounge - Pier 94, West 53 Street and Twelfth Avenue
1pm, $0
The "Alternative" in American Culture?
John Bowe, Lia Gangitano, Alec Soth, Eric Shiner
The Armory, Media Lounge - Pier 94, West 53 Street and Twelfth Avenue
3pm, $0
Monday, 11 March 2013
Nothing can happen nowhere: The Biographer in
Elizabeth Bowen’s Hythe, England
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9204
4 - 5:30pm, $0
Exposing the Impacts of Labor and Co-Infection: AIDS, Treatment and Research
The New School, Bark Room - 2 West 13 Street
6 - 9:30pm, $0
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
NYU, The Humanities Initiative - 20 Cooper Square, Floor 5
5 - 7pm, $0
Paul Schwaber: The Fate of Tragedy
School of Visual Arts - 133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
6pm, $0
Portrait Sequences 1975:
Gary Schneider and Deborah Martin Kao
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, Berger Forum
6 - 8pm, $0
Should Business Schools Have a Future?
Columbia University, The Heyman Center - 2960 Broadway, Common Room (Floor Two)
6:15pm, $0
Artists at the Institute: Haim Steinbach
Institute of Fine Arts - 1 East 78 Street
6:30pm, $0
Talk by Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland
Cooper Union, Foundation Building - 7 East 7 Street, The Great Hall
6:30pm, $0
Vince Aletti on the Face of Fashion:
Fashion Photography, Art Direction, and Magazine Design
School of Visual Arts, Design Criticism - 136 West 21 Street, Floor 2
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Blogging and the New Public Intellectual
Walter Russell Mead, Amy Davidson, Dylan Byers
Bard Graduate Center - 38 West 86 Street
7pm, $0
Marcel Duchamp, the Afternoon Interviews:
Calvin Tomkins and Paul Chan
192 Books - 192 10th Avenue at 21 Street
7pm, $0
A Conversation About Fact-Checking with the New Yorker
NYU Journalism - 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor
7pm, $0
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Cartographies and Cartouches: A Geographical Imagination of
Accumulation and Dispossession
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6112
12 - 2pm, $0
Reconsidering “Opposition”: Historical, Activist, Literary, and Theoretical Perspectives
Columbia University, The Heyman Center, Second Floor - 2960 Broadway
6:30pm, $0
Cheryl Donegan: Artists + Models
Electronic Arts Intermix - 535 West 22 Street, Floor 5
6:30pm, $7
Looking to the Future: Latino Marketplace as American Marketplace
SVA - 209 West 23rd Street, Room 503
7pm, $0
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Documentary Activism and the Films of Anand Patwardhan
721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Michelson Theater
6:15pm, $0
Antigone's Example: Early Modern Women's Political Writings and War
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 4108
6:15 - 7:30pm, $0
The Sirens Go Silent (Day One)
A Commemorative Colloquium for Freidrich Kittler
New York University, Deutsches Haus - 42 Washington Mews
6:30pm, $0
Dana Levy: belonging/s
ICI Curatorial Hub - 401 Broadway, Suite 1620
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Mark Goulthrope: Phototropic Implication
Cooper Union - 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Holland Cotter on Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal
School of Visual Arts Theatre - 333 West 23 Street
7pm, $0
Friday, 15 March 2013
The Sirens Go Silent (Day Two)
A Commemorative Colloquium for Freidrich Kittler
New York University, Deutsches Haus - 42 Washington Mews
9am, $0
Transnational Conceptualisms between Latin America and the U.S.
Hunter College, North Building - 695 Park Avenue, Room 1527
1 - 6pm, $0
The Revolution Recodified: Digital Culture and the Public Sphere in Cuba (Day One)
New York University, Hemmerdinger Hall - 100 Washington Square East
4 - 10pm, $0
Tying Up the Phone Lines:
Bulletin Board Systems and Networks before the Internet
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $0
Saturday, 16 March 2013
The Revolution Recodified: Digital Culture and the Public Sphere in Cuba (Day Two)
The New School - 55 West 13 Street, Room 5311
12 - 8pm, $0
Panel Discussion: Eva Hesse 1965
Brooklyn Museum - 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn (Cantor Auditorium)
2pm, $0
The Sirens Go Silent (Day Three)
A Commemorative Colloquium for Freidrich Kittler
New York University, Deutsches Haus - 42 Washington Mews
9:30pm, $0
Sunday, 17 March 2013
The Revolution Recodified: Digital Culture and the Public Sphere in Cuba (Day Three)
The New School - 55 West 13 Street, Floor 2
12 - 5pm, $0
China in Revolt: A Labor-Community Roundtable
Joseph S. Murphy Institute - 25 West 23 Street, Floor 18
4 - 6pm, $0
Monday, 18 March 2013
Philip Roth and the Modern Jewish Predicament
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Arnhold Hall, Floor Two
6:30pm, $0
Virginia Postrel: Meaning and Value in Commercial Culture
School of Visual Arts, Design Criticism - 136 West 21 Street, Floor 2
6:30 - 8pm, $0
A Land Ethic for the Urban Era
Cooper Union, Foundation Building - 7 East 7 Street, The Great Hall
6:30 - 8pm, $0
The Future of 3D Manufacturing
Brooklyn Law School - 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn (Moot Court Room)
7 - 9:30pm, $0
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Meaning and Value in Commercial Culture
School of Visual Arts, Design Criticism - 136 West 21 Street, Floor 2
6:30pm, $0
Jill Lepore: A History of Secrecy, Part One — Mystery
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, South Court Auditorium
7pm, $0
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Kenneth Goldsmith: My Career in Poetry, or
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institution
Museum of Modern Art - 11 West 53 Street, Titus 3 Theatre
6pm, $10
Art and Politics: Dominique Nahas, Margaret Evangeline, Jonathan Goodman, Lily Wei
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, South Court Auditorium
6 - 8pm, $0
The Middlebrow: with Ruth Franklin, Christine Smallwood,
Jennifer Szalai and Christopher Beha
New School, Lang Building - 65 West 11 Street, Floor 5, Wollman Hall
6:30pm, $0
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Reflections and Readings from Estimating Emerson: An Anthology of Criticism from Carlyle to Cavell
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, South Court Auditorium
1:15 - 2:30pm, $0
Gina Pollara: History as Content
CUNY Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture - 141 Convent Avenue, Scaime Auditorium
6pm, $0
Zero Degree of Representation: Jelena Tomasevic and Jovana Stokic
Residency Unlimited - 360 Court Street, Brooklyn (Green Door)
6:30pm, $0
Life as Live-Stream: Douglas Rushkoff and Rachel Rosenfelt
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Maggie Nelson & Wayne Koestenbaum with Ben Fama
St. Mark's Bookshop - 31 Third Avenue
7pm, $0
“Talk Show V,” with David Levine, Eben Klemm, and guests
Cabinet - 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Friday, 22 March 2013
Authoritarianism and Beyond? Lessons from Postsocialist Societies
(Day One)
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 403
9am - 5pm, $0
Minds at Work: On Cognitive Cultural Studies
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 4406
4pm, $0
The Urbanization of Economic Shock Therapy
Two Decades Later
New School, Johnson Design Center - 66 Fifth Avenue
5 - 7pm, $0
Saturday, 23 March 2013
Authoritarianism and Beyond? Lessons from Postsocialist Societies
(Day Two)
Columbia University, Hamilton Hall - 1130 Amsterdam Ave, Room 602
9am - 5pm, $0
Germania: Hans Haacke and Irving Sandler in Conversation
New Museum - 235 Bowery
3pm, $8
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Aesthetics of Installation Art: Juliane Rebentisch and Douglas Crimp
MoMA PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
3pm, $0
Monday, 25 March 2013
Pets as Social Relations in Twentieth Century China
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 918
12 - 1:30pm, $0
Shannon Ebner on the Bechers
Artists on Artists Lecture Series
Dia: Chelsea - 535 West 22 Street, Floor 5
6:30pm, $6
An Evening with Electronic Literature Organization
The Kitchen - 512 West 19 Street
7pm, $0
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Multimedia Storytelling
SVA Amphitheater - 209 East 23 Street, 3rd Floor
7pm, $0
On Roberta Williams: How We Write Women into Video Game History
New York University, Game Center - 721 Broadway 9th Floor
7pm, $0
Screening and Talk with Tom Rhoads
The Kitchen - 512 West 19 Street
7pm, $0
Jill Lepore: A History of Secrecy, Part Two - Privacy
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, South Court Auditorium
7 - 8pm, $0
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
A Country Without Artists: Commodification and National Representation in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118 Street, Room 1219
12 - 1pm, $0
Douglas Gale: Lessons from the Financial Crisis
New York University, Silver Center - 100 Washington Square East, Room 101A
5pm, $0
Transat: The Big Little World of Franco-American Artistic Interchange
Before, During, and After the Armory Show, 1913
Columbia University, Buell Hall - 515 West 116 Street, East Gallery
6 - 7:30pm, $0
Revising Labrouste in the Digital Age
Alberto Kalach: Keynote Address
Columbia University, Avery Hall - 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, Wood Auditorium
6:30pm, $0
Brian Martin on Queer Napoleon: from Napoleonic Friendship to Gays in the Military
New York University, Maison Français - 16 Washington Mews
6:30 - 8pm, $0
Jerry Kelly on Zapf’s Alphabets
Cooper Union - 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0
Transportation Alternatives: Four decades of Transportation Advocacy
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12 Street, Tishman Auditorium
7 - 9pm, $0
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Revising Labrouste in the Digital Age
Museum of Modern Art - 11 West 53 Street, Titus 3 Theatre
10am - 5pm, $0
Lisa Cohen with Hilton Als, Heather Love
Columbia University, Pulitzer Hall (formerly Journalism Hall) - 2950 Broadway, Room 301
6:15pm, $0
Cynthia Wade: Documentary Subjects Talk Back
New York University - 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor
6:30pm, $0
Why Everyone Should Learn to Code (And How to Make That Happen)
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
6:30 - 8:15pm, $0
Camera Club Talk: Steven B. Smith
School of Visual Arts, Amphitheater - 209 East 23 Street, Floor 3
7pm, $5
Reading: Paul Muldoon
NYU Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House - 58 West 10 Street
7pm, $0
Richard Ford
BookCourt - 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Friday, 29 March 2013
Credulity: Enchantment and Modernity in the 19th-Century U.S. (Day One)
Columbia University, The Heyman Center - 2960 Broadway, Floor 2 (Common Room)
10am - 5:15pm, $0
Assess: Chile at Columbia
Columbia University, Avery Hall - 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, Wood Auditorium
1pm, $0
A Conversation with Aleksander Hemon and Colum McCann
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Rosalind Krauss in conversation with Hal Foster & Yve-Alain Bois
192 Books - 192 10th Avenue at 21 Street
7pm, $0
Instant Culture: Time/Site/Agency
Storefront for Art and Architecture - 97 Kenmare Street
7 - 9pm, $0
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Credulity: Enchantment and Modernity in the 19th-Century U.S. (Day Two)
Columbia University, The Heyman Center - 2960 Broadway
9:45am, $0
Stand Up: Laughter as Subversion and Mourning?
A Proposition by Cathy Park Hong
New Museum - 235 Bowery
2 - 5pm, $8
1933: Transforming Weimar Cinema into Nazi Cinema
New York University, Deutsches Haus - 42 Washington Mews
5pm, $0