Phillip Lopate, Margo Jefferson: Essay is Both Noun and Verb

Phillip Lopate, Margo Jefferson: Essay is Both Noun and Verb

When: April 23, 2013 @ 11:00 pm – April 24, 2013 @ 1:00 am
Where: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 1218 (Martin E. Segal Theater)

The essay, a term derived from the French infinitive essayer, or to attempt, was first used in the sixteenth century by Michel de Montaigne to…

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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: On Witnessing

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: On Witnessing

When: April 24, 2013 @ 7:30 pm – 9:50 pm
Where: Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium

The School of Art’s Spring 2013 Menschel Visiting Professor, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, acclaimed curator and artistic director of dOCUMENTA (13), will present a free public lecture…

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Studying Whiteness: The Only White Woman in the Village

Studying Whiteness: The Only White Woman in the Village

When: April 26, 2013 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Where: Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, 41-51 East 11 Street, Room 741

http://platformed.org/2013/04/studying-whiteness-the-only-white-woman-in-the-village

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Why and How to Apply for a PhD:

Why and How to Apply for a PhD:

When: April 26, 2013 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Where: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room C197

A candid panel discussion of applying to Ph.D. programs. Are you interested in applying for a PhD and want to learn more about this process?…

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Peggy Ahwesh on the Art of PixelVision

Peggy Ahwesh on the Art of PixelVision

When: April 26, 2013 @ 11:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Where: New Museum, 235 Bowery

In this lecture and screening, artist Peggy Ahwesh will discuss the technology and aesthetics of PixelVision, a black-and-white video camera that recorded and played images…

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The Passion of Bradley Manning

The Passion of Bradley Manning

When: April 30, 2013 @ 10:30 pm – May 1, 2013 @ 12:00 am
Where: St. Joseph's College, 245 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn

Presented by The New Inquiry, Verso Books and Brooklyn Voices. Sarah Leonard and Chase Madar explore why whistleblowers are usually less popular than war criminals…

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Artist’s Lecture with Alice Aycock

Artist’s Lecture with Alice Aycock

When: April 30, 2013 @ 11:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Where: NYU Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place, Room 300

Offered in conjunction with the exhibition “Alice Aycock Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating,” on view at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery (100 Washington Square East)…

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Financial Crisis As Conversion Experience: Did Wall Street Journalists Change Their Views?

Financial Crisis As Conversion Experience: Did Wall Street Journalists Change Their Views?

When: April 30, 2013 @ 11:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Where: NYU Journalism School, 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor

Please join us for a conversation with James Stewart of The New York Times, Chrystia Freeland of Reuters, Megan McArdle of The Newsbeast, and Jesse…

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Neoliberal Reproductive Governance in the Americas: Bodies, Race, and Politics

Neoliberal Reproductive Governance in the Americas: Bodies, Race, and Politics

When: May 2, 2013 @ 10:00 pm – May 3, 2013 @ 12:00 am
Where: NYU, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, 20 Cooper Square, Floor 4

A talk with Laura Briggs, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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What, Ultimately, for?

What, Ultimately, for?

When: April 23, 2013 @ 10:15 pm – 10:15 pm
Where: Columbia University, The Heyman Center, 2960 Broadway

It is often observed that although cultural critics may be good at denouncing the instrumentalism and reductivism they identify as corroding the public discourse of…

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