Calendar: October 20 – November 21, 2008
EXHIBITS
GREY ART GALLERY “The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art.” On view until December 6.
GULF & WESTERN GALLERY “1968: Then and Now.” Multimedia exhibit. On view until November 22.
80 Washington Square East Galleries “S&M: Shrines and Masquerades in Cosmopolitan Times.” Featuring contemporary work reinterpreting the legacy of African shrines and masquerades. On view until December 6.
ROSENBERG GALLERY An art exhibition by Jen Gustavson and Tracey Goodman. From October 22-November 1. 1st floor, BARNEY BLDG.
CASA ITALIANA “Giorgio Morandi: Etchings 1912-1956.” On view through October 31. (See page 11.)
Department of Social & Cultural Analysis Gallery Space “Africa: See You, See Me.” Juxtaposing colonial postcards with anti-colonial and post-colonial re-imagining of African spaces and people, this exhibition also includes video projections and texts. On view through December 6. 7th floor, 41 East 11th St.
FILMS
Thurs., Oct. 23-Sat., Oct. 25 CortoCircuito V Short Film Festival. Acclaimed and controversial Latin American shorts produced in the last decade. Screenings begin at 7 pm, with additional 2 pm and 4 pm screenings on Saturday. English subtitles. Closing party after last Saturday screening. For more information visit www.nyu.edu/kjc/cortocircuito. KING JUAN CARLOS CTR.
Fri., Oct. 24 The Ascent of Chimborazo (Die Besteigung des Chimborazo). East Germany. 1989. 110 min. English subtitles. Presented as part of the Rainer Simon Film Series. Exhibition opening of director’s work to follow screening. 6 pm. DEUTSCHES HAUS.
Thurs., Oct. 30 Memories of Underdevelopment. Cuba. 1968. 97 min. Written and directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea. Following the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, the film’s protagonist endeavors to maintain his pre-revolutionary style of living. Spanish with English subtitles. Discussion to follow. 6 pm. CTR FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS.
Fri., Nov. 7 The Colors of Tigua (Die Farben von Tigua). Documentary, Germany. 1994. 43 min. English subtitles. Talking with Fish and Birds (Mit Fischen und Vögeln reden). Documentary, Germany. 1999. 43 min. English subtitles. Both films presented as part of the Rainer Simon Film Series. 6 pm. DEUTSCHES HAUS.
Wed., Nov. 12 Paris: Vélo Liberté. Kontentreal. 2008. 30 min. By Karena Albers and Tad Fettig. Post-screening discussion to follow. 6:30 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Thurs., Nov. 13-Tues., Nov. 18 Documenta Brazil 2008: Rhythms of Brasilidade. This documentary film series showcases a new generation of filmmakers who are changing Brazilian cinema. Screenings at 3 pm, 4:30 pm, 6:15 pm, and 8:15 pm. KING JUAN CARLOS CTR.
Fri., Nov. 14 In the Land of the Head Hunters. 1914, 2008. 78 min. By Edward S. Curtis. A restored copy of this landmark film of early cinema. 6-9 pm. American Museum of Natural History, 77th St. at Central Park West.
Wed., Nov. 19 Lover Other. 2006. 55 min. By Barbara Hammer. The story of surrealist writer, photographer, French World War II Resistance fighter, and lesbian Claude Cahun, and her partner Marcel Moore. 6-8 pm. Room 648, 721 Broadway.
Thurs., Nov. 20 Secrecy. By Peter Galison and Robert Moss. 5 pm. The Jerry Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, 715 Broadway.
PERFORMANCES
Mon., Oct. 20 “NYU Repertory Orchestra.” With Roger Mahadeen, conductor. 8 pm. FREDERICK LOEWE THEATRE.
Tues., Oct. 21 “Artist Faculty Recital: Anthony De Mare.” Pianist De Mare is renowned internationally as a champion of contemporary music. 8 pm. FREDERICK LOEWE THEATRE.
Wed., Oct. 22 “Distinguished Brass Faculty Concert.” With Sean Reed, trombone and NOVUS, NYU Artists in Residence. 8 pm. FREDERICK LOEWE THEATRE.
Thurs., Oct. 23 “NYU MIX: Compositions by NYU student composers.” NYU composers and NYU Percussion Ensemble collaborate. 8 pm. FREDERICK LOEWE THEATRE.
Thurs., Oct. 23-Fri., Oct. 24 “Tisch Dance Showing I.” Featuring work choreographed and performed by students in the Tisch Dance Department. For more information and reservations call 212-998-1982. All performances 8 pm. Fifth Floor Theater, 111 Second Ave.
Fri., Oct. 24-Sun., Oct. 26 & Thurs., Oct. 30-Sun., Nov. 2 “The Class Project.” Directed by Joe Salvatore. $5 with valid NYU ID; $10 general admission. For more information and ticket reservations call 212-998-5281. Performances at 8 pm except Sundays 3 pm performance only. BLACK BOX THEATRE.
Mon., Oct. 27 “Interactive Arts Performance Series.” A co-production with the Electronic Music Foundation. Esther Lamneck, clarinet, and Elizabeth McNutt, flute. 8 pm. FREDERICK LOEWE THEATRE.
Thurs., Oct. 30-Fri., Oct. 31 “Tisch Dance Showing II.” Featuring work choreographed and performed by students in the Tisch Dance Department. For more information and reservations call 212-998-1982. All performances 8 pm. Fifth Floor Theater, 111 Second Ave.
Fri., Oct. 31 “Coming here to be alone.” An English/German word-performance. 6:30 pm. DEUTCHES HAUS.
Fri., Oct. 31-Sat., Nov. 1 “Beauty and the Beast.” By Vittorio Giannini. $5 general admission. For more information and ticket reservations call 212-998-5281. Performances at 8 pm with an additional 2 pm performance on Saturday. Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal St.
Sun., Nov. 2 “Blue Note/NYU Sunday Brunch.” Featuring NYU Jazz Studies Artists/Faculty. $24.50 admission includes music and brunch. For more information visit www.bluenotejazz. com. Sets at 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. Blue Note Jazz Club, 131 West 3rd Street.
Mon., Nov. 3-Fri., Nov. 7 “Teatro Vivo/Live Theater: A Festival.” A festival consisting of five readings of plays in Spanish written by award-winning women writers, and staged by emergent Latino directors. All performances at 7 pm. KING JUAN CARLOS CTR.
Thurs., Nov. 6 “Distinguished String Faculty Concert.” Stephanie Chase, violin, with the NYU String Virtuosi plays the concerti of Vivaldi. 8 pm. FREDERICK LOEWE THEATRE.
Thurs., Nov. 6-Fri., Nov. 7 “Tisch Dance Showing III.” Featuring work choreographed and performed by students in the Tisch Dance Department. For more information and reservations call 212-998-1982. All performances 8 pm. Fifth Floor Theater, 111 Second Ave.
Sun., Nov. 9 “Storytelling.” Free for children/students w/ NYU ID; $5 general admission. For more information call 212-998-5281. 3 pm. Shorin Auditorium, room 802, KIMMEL CTR.
Wed., Nov. 12 “The Pianists of NYU Steinhardt.” Cocktail-hour concerts featuring NYU Steinhardt’s pianists, with music ranging from classical to contemporary. Presented as part of the Steinhardt at Saklad Series. 6:30 pm. Saklad Auditorium, 24th Street and 1st Avenue.
Thurs., Nov. 13-Fri., Nov. 14 “King David.” Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics and book by Tim Rice. $5 w/ NYU ID; $10 general admission. Purchase tickets at www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu or call 212-352-3101. Gala performance Friday evening honoring Alan Menken and Sir Tim Rice. Both performances at 8 pm. SKIRBALL.
Fri., Nov. 14 “The Blarney Star Concert Series: Sean Quinn and Gabe Donohue.” $15 general admission. 9 pm. GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE.
Thurs., Nov. 20-Sat., Nov. 22 “Aurélia’s Oratorio.” Aurélia Thiérrée in a display of acrobatics, dance, puppetry, and dazzling stage invention. $40 general admission. For tickets visit www.
skirballcenter.nyu.edu or call 212-352-3101. All performances at 8 pm with an additional 2 pm performance on Saturday. SKIRBALL.
Thurs., Nov. 20-Sat., Nov. 22 “Tisch Dance Faculty Performance Workshop.” Featuring works choreographed by faculty members Gerald Casel, Deborah Jowitt, James Martin, Pamela Pietro, and Gus Solomons Jr. For more information and reservations call 212-998-1982. All performances 8 pm. Fifth Floor Theater, 111 Second Ave.
Thurs., Nov. 20-Mon., Nov. 24 “Icarus of Ohio.” By Rob Ackerman. Directed by Fritz Ertl. $6 students/seniors; $12 adults. To purchase tickets visit www.smarttix.com. Performances at 8 pm with an additional 2 pm performance on Saturday. The Abe Burrows Theatre, 1st floor, 721 Broadway.
Fri., Nov. 21 “Evenings of Chamber Music.” 8 pm. Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th St.
Fri., Nov. 21-Sat., Nov. 22 “New Student Cabaret.” Tickets available at the theatre beginning 90 minutes prior to curtain. Performances at 8 pm with an additional 3 pm performance on Saturday. BLACK BOX THEATRE.
Fri., Nov. 21-Sun., Nov. 23 “2008 Masters Dance Concert.” $5 students/seniors; $10 general admission. Program A: 8 pm performance on Friday; 2 pm performance on Saturday. Program B: 8 pm performance on Saturday; 2 pm performance on Sunday. FREDERICK LOEWE THEATRE.
READINGS
Thurs., Oct. 23 “Debut: New British Poets.” A reading and conversation with three emerging British poets: Paul Batchelor, Frances Leviston, and Kathryn Simmonds. 7 pm. LILLIAN VERNON HOUSE.
Fri., Oct. 24 A fiction reading and conversation with author Todd Hasak-Lowy and Israeli writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret. 5 pm. LILLIAN VERNON HOUSE.
Fri., Oct. 31 “The Emerging Writers Reading Series.” Featuring author Steve Almond. 7 pm. KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street.
Thurs., Nov. 6 “State-to-State Poets Exchange.” A program connecting New York and the Twin Cities will feature a reading by an emerging Twin Cities poet followed by a moderated discussion. 7 pm. LILLIAN VERNON HOUSE.
Fri., Nov. 7 A fiction reading and conversation with author Walter Mosley. 5 pm. LILLIAN VERNON HOUSE.
Fri., Nov., 14 “The Emerging Writers Reading Series.” Featuring author Aimee Nezhukumatathil. 7 pm. KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street.
Thurs., Nov. 20 A fiction reading and conversation with author Edward P. Jones and Chuck Wachtel. 7 pm. LILLIAN VERNON HOUSE.
Fri., Nov. 21 Acclaimed New York poets read selections from the Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2009 and their own work. 7 pm. LILLIAN VERNON HOUSE.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Fri., Oct. 24 “Mercè Rodoreda, Seen From a Distant Shore.” A symposium in celebration of the centennial of the birth of Rodoreda, acclaimed to be “one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century.” For more information email ml153@nyu.edu or call 212-998-8255. KING JUAN CARLOS CTR.
Wed., Oct. 29-Sat., Nov. 1. Gallatin hosted workshop production of Ellen McLaughlin and Sarah KirklandSnider’s theatre/music piece, Penelope. 7 p.m. on Oct. 29-31, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Nov. 1. Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, 715 Broadway.
Fri., Oct. 31 “America in the World: Is the U.S. Becoming a Second-Rate World Power?” With Arthur R. Miller, NYU School of Law. RSVP by emailing scps.global.affairs@nyu.edu. 12 pm. CTR FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS.
Sat., Nov. 8 “70th Anniversary of La Despedida.” Celebration of the 70th anniversary of the departure (La Despedida) of the surviving American men and women who went to Spain in 1937 to help fight for democracy in the Spanish Civil War. For more information visit www.alba-valb.org. 6 pm. KING JUAN CARLOS CTR.
Thurs., Nov. 13 “Academic Freedom and the Law.” With Norman Dorsen, NYU; Robert Post, Yale University; and Robert M. O’Neil, University of Virginia. Reception to follow. For more information or to RSVP, email zk3@nyu.edu. 2-5 pm. Room 914, KIMMEL CTR.
Fri., Nov. 14 “Making the Connection.” A conference on transit-oriented development organized by the NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation and Policy Management. RSVP at http:// wagner.nyu.edu/rudincenter/conferences/. 8:30 am. Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, 4th floor, KIMMEL CTR.
SPORTS
Fri., Oct. 24 Men’s Wrestling Alumni Match. 7:30 pm. COLES.
Sat., Oct. 25 Men’s Soccer Alumni Game. 7:30 pm. HOME (At Pier-40).
Sun., Oct. 26 Women’s Soccer vs. Montclair State University. 12 pm. HOME (At CSI).
Fri., Oct. 31 Women’s Soccer vs. Carnegie Mellon University. Tear it up event. 11 am. HOME (At Gaelic Park).
Fri., Oct. 31 Men’s Soccer vs. Carnegie Mellon University. 1:30 pm. HOME (At Gaelic Park).
Sat., Nov. 1 Men’s Wrestling vs. Hunter College. 2:30 pm. COLES.
Sun., Nov. 2 Women’s Soccer vs. Emory University. 11 am. HOME (At CSI).
Sun., Nov. 2 Men’s Soccer vs. Emory University. 1:30 pm. HOME (At CSI).
Sat., Nov. 8 Women’s Soccer vs. Brandeis University. 11 am. HOME (At Gaelic Park).
Sat., Nov. 8 Men’s Soccer vs. Brandeis University. 1:30 pm. HOME (At Gaelic Park).
Tues., Nov. 11 Men’s Fencing vs. Stevens Institute of Technology. 5 pm. COLES.
Tues., Nov. 11 Women’s Fencing vs. Fairleigh Dickinson University. 5 pm. COLES.
Tues., Nov. 11 Men’s and Women’s Fencing Alumni Meet. 7 pm. COLES.
Wed., Nov. 19 Men’s Wrestling vs. The College of New Jersey/Yeshiva University. 7 pm. COLES.
Fri., Nov. 21 Women’s Basketball Tip-Off Tournament. 6 pm. COLES.
TALKS
Tues., Oct. 21 “The Future of Liberal Arts Colleges.” With William Durden, president, Dickinson College. For more information call 212-998-5860. 5 pm. Jurow Lecture Hall, 1st floor, SILVER CTR.
Tues., Oct. 21 “Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (2008).” With Ahmed Rashid, author and journalist based in Lahore, Pakistan. 6:30 pm. CTR FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS.
Tues., Oct. 21 “Jouer vrai: pratiques actuelles de declamation, gestuelle et scénographie ‘baroques.’” With Benoit Bolduc, author and professor, NYU. 7 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Wed., Oct. 22 “Cultural Identity and Immigrant Civic Engagement: A Zero-Sum Game?” Featuring Dr. Lene Jensen, Clark University. For more information email niobe.way@nyu.edu. 12-1:30 pm. PLESS HALL.
Wed., Oct. 22 “International Careers with NGOs and Volunteer Organizations.” With Carolyn Kissane, moderator, Center for Global Affairs; William Abrams, director, Trickle Up; Devin Stewart, director, Global Policy Innovations and editor, Policy Innovations, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs; Sarah Wikenczy, advocacy and armed conflict specialist, Open Society Institute. 6:30 pm. CTR FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS.
Wed., Oct. 22 “The Northern Ireland Peace Process: A Tricky Business with Awkward Moral Judgements.” A lecture with Reverend Dr. John Dunlop CBE. 7 pm. Room 914, KIMMEL CTR.
Thurs., Oct. 23 “The Neglected 95%: Why American Psychology Needs to Become Less American.” Featuring Dr. Jeffrey Arnett, Clark University. For more information email niobe.way@ nyu.edu. 12-1:30 pm. PLESS HALL.
Thurs., Oct. 23 “Competition and Development: Using Law and Policy to Harness Globalization and Markets for Developing Countries.” With Eleanor Fox and Walter J. Derenberg. To RSVP visit www.wagner.nyu.edu/events/. 12:30 pm. The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue, 2nd floor, PUCK BLDG.
Thurs., Oct. 23 “Weapon of Dictators: Preventive War and Its Critics during the Truman and Eisenhower Years.” With Thomas Heinrich, Baruch College. 5 pm. TAMIMENT LIBRARY.
Thurs., Oct. 23 Guest lecture with Nick Couldrey, professor of media and communications at the University of London. For more information email mcc.events@nyu.edu. 5:30-7 pm. Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square.
Thurs., Oct. 23 “America’s Edge: A Global Country in a Global Century.” With Anne-Marie Slaughter, a globally renowned scholar of international law and the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. For more information visit http://remarque.as. nyu.edu/. 6 pm. Tishman Auditorium, VANDERBILT HALL.
Thurs., Oct. 23 Alon Ben-Meir in conversation with Zalmay Khalilzad, United States Ambassador to the United Nations. 6:30 pm. CTR FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS.
Fri., Oct. 24 Author Jeff Sharlet in conversation with Heather Hendershot. 4:30-6 pm. GREAT ROOM, 19 University Place.
Fri., Oct. 24 “Rethinking HIV Strategy: Debating What Works.” With Daniel Halperin, Harvard School of Public Health; Bill Easterly, NYU; and Helen Epstein, author, The Invisible Cure. RSVP at www.nyu.edu/mph/events. 6:30 pm. Tishman Auditorium, VANDERBILT HALL.
Mon., Oct. 27 “Faut-il aimer son pays?” With Pascal Bruckner, essayist and novelist. 7 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Tues., Oct. 28 “School, Society, and State in Early Twentieth Century America.” With Tracy Steffes, Brown University. 12-1:15 pm. HMSS Seminar Room, 3rd floor, KIMBALL HALL.
Tues., Oct. 28 “International Careers with the U.S. Government.” With Vera Jelinek, moderator, Center for Global Affairs; Shane Christensen, U.S. Mission to the United Nations; Robert Dry, U.S. Department of State; Judith Siegel, U.S. Department of State; Vincent Wickes, U.S. Peace Corps New York Office. 6:30 pm. CTR FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS.
Tues., Oct. 28 “Claude Lévi-Strauss. A propos d’une Pléiade et d’un centenaire.” With Vincent Debaene, Columbia University. 7 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Tues., Oct. 28 “Hatching, Writing, Reading: W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz.” With Carol Jacobs, Yale University. DEUTSCHES HAUS.
Wed., Oct. 29 Lecture featuring Dr. Jaan Valsiner, professor of psychology, Clark University. For information email niobe.way@nyu.edu. 12-1:30 pm. PLESS HALL.
Wed., Oct. 29 “Is Film a Modern Art?” A lecture by Francesco Casetti in conjunction with the publication of his book Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity. Reception to follow. 6 pm. The Humanities Initiative, 5th floor, 20 Cooper Square.
Wed., Oct. 29 “Claude Lévi-Strauss Across the Disciplines.” With Vincent Debaene, Columbia University; Tom O. Beidelman, NYU; Denis Hollier, NYU; Susan C. Rogers, NYU. 6:30 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Wed., Oct. 29 “Hope, Not Fear.” A discussion concerning leadership and moral courage. With Irshad Manji and Edgar M. Bronfman. 6:30-8 pm. The Great Hall, Cooper Union, 7 East 7th St.
Thurs., Oct. 30 “Neither Here Nor There: Eastern Europe in Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s Post-War Jewish Cold War.” With Nancy Sinkoff, Rutgers University professor and author of Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands. 5 pm. TAMIMENT LIBRARY.
Thurs., Oct. 30 “What Would Jesus Do NOW? Evangelicals, the Iraq war, and the Struggle for Position.” With Melani McAlister, George Washington University. 6-8 pm. CASA ITALIANA.
Thurs., Oct. 30 “When Versailles Was Furnished in Silver.” Illustrated lecture with Guy Walton, NYU. 7 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Thurs., Oct. 30 “Abolition Democracy and Global Politics.” Angela Davis connects the abolition of slavery, the death penalty, and prisons themselves to the possibility of substantive democracy. 7-9 pm. Great Hall, Cooper Union, 7 East 7th St. at 3rd Ave.
Thurs., Oct. 30 “A Conversation about Joan Miró.” A conversation between Joan Punyet Miró and Anne Umland. 7 pm. KING JUAN CARLOS CTR.
Thurs., Oct. 30 “The New Salon: Fiction Writers in Conversation.” Author Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Darin Strauss. 7 pm. CREATIVE WRITERS HOUSE.
Thurs., Oct. 30 Distinguished journalist and author of The Basque Country: A Cultural History, Paddy Woodworth compares the Northern Irish and Basque conflicts. 7 pm. GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE.
Mon., Nov. 3 “Higher Education in Israel: Access and Opportunity.” With Sigal Alon, Tel-Aviv University. For more information call 212-998-5860. 1 pm.
Wed., Nov. 5 Lecture featuring Dr. Geoffrey Cohen, associate professor of psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder. For more information email niobe.way@nyu.edu. 12-1:30 pm. PLESS HALL.
Thurs., Nov. 6 Visiting artist talk with Eric Ficshl. 5 pm. Einstein Auditorium, 1st floor, BARNEY BLDG.
Thurs., Nov. 6 “When Kafka Says We.” With Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp. 6 pm. Great Room, 1st floor, 19 University Place.
Thurs., Nov. 6 “Michael Davitt (1846-1906): Cosmopolitan Irish Nationalist?” Professor Joe Lee, Glucksman Chair of Irish Studies at NYU, explores the impact of the diasporic experience on Davitt’s concept of Irish nationalism. 7 pm. Room 914, KIMMEL CTR.
Thurs., Nov. 6 “Surrealist Masculinity.” Illustrated lecture with Michele Cone, School of Visual Arts. 7 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Fri., Nov. 7 “The U.S. Elections – Transatlantic Perspectives.” A roundtable discussion with Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, Sciences Po Paris; James Goldgeier, George Washington University; Stephanie Hofmann, European University Institute in Florence; Marcia Pally, NYU; Simon Reich, Rutgers University; Andrew Rutten, Stanford University; Gregory Wawro, Columbia University. 2:30 pm. DEUTCHES HAUS.
Fri., Nov. 7 “Théâtre et philosophie.” With Martin Puchner, Columbia University; Bruno Bosteels, Cornell University. 4 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Sat., Nov. 8 “Poets Forum.” Four panels featuring the Academy of American Poets’ Chancellors in a day-long series of conversations. Participants include Frank Bidart, Victor Hernández Cruz, Lyn Hejinian, Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, Gary Snyder, Gerald Stern, Susan Stewart, Ellen Bryant Voigt, C. K. Williams, and others. 10 am-4 pm. Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, KIMMEL CTR.
Mon., Nov. 10 “French Literature in the Making.” Novelist Marie Nimier in conversation with writer and journalist Olivier Barrot. In French. Simultaneous translation available. 7 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Tues., Nov. 11 “TRAVEL ITALIA: The Golden Age of Italian Travel Posters.” Illustrated lecture and book presentation by the author, Lorenzo Ottaviani. 6 pm. CASA ITALIANA.
Tues., Nov. 11 “On Being Directed: Promises, Happiness, Deviations.” Sara Ahmed examines the family as a “happy object.” 7-8:30 pm. Room 612, 721 Broadway.
Wed., Nov. 12 Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer speaks at NYU Wagner/Citizens Union breakfast series. RSVP at http://wagner.nyu.edu/events/. 8 am. The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue, 2nd floor, PUCK BLDG.
Wed., Nov. 12 Lecture featuring Karen McFadden, department of applied psychology. For more information email niobe.way@nyu.edu.12-1:30 pm. 3rd floor conference room, KIMBALL HALL.
Wed., Nov. 12 A lecture with Craigslist founder and customer service representative Craig Newmark. 5 pm. The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue, 2nd floor, PUCK BLDG.
Thurs., Nov. 13 Visiting artist talk with Nayland Blake. For more information call 212-998-5700. 5 pm. Einstein Auditorium, 1st floor, BARNEY BLDG.
Thurs., Nov. 13 “Why the Rivers Run Dry.” Featuring Professor Bryan Mark, Ohio State University, an expert on glacier environmental change and the Andes. RSVP at www.wagner.nyu.edu/ events/. 6:20 pm. The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue, 2nd floor, PUCK BLDG.
Thurs., Nov. 13 Matthew Campbell, University of Sheffield, speaks on poet James Clarence Mangan. 7 pm. GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE.
Thurs., Nov. 13 “Art and Catastophes: René Thom’s Legacy.” Illustrated lecture on the influence of René Thom’s theories on various art forms. With Marc Chaperon, Université de Paris 7. 7 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Thurs., Nov. 13 “The New Salon: Poets in Conversation.” Poet Terrance Hayes in conversation with Robert N. Casper. 7 pm. LILLIAN VERNON HOUSE
Fri., Nov. 14 “Kurt Weill in Paris.” A discussion, with musical selections, investigating the life and artistic output of Kurt Weill during his 18-month exile in Paris. With Yves Abel, Jean-Philippe Clarac, and Olivier Deloeuil of L’Opéra Francais de New York. 4 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Mon., Nov. 17 “Surrealism and the Caribbean.” A discussion of Martinique – Charmeuse de Serpents, by André Breton and André Masson. With David Seaman, Georgia Southern University; Martica Sawin, art historian and critic; J. Michael Dash, NYU. 7 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Mon., Nov. 17 “Falling Short: Irony and Aspiration.” Jonathan Lear of the University of Chicago will deliver the 2008 Frumkes Lecture. 7:30 pm. Hemmerdinger Hall, SILVER CTR.
Tues., Nov. 18 “The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship.” With Rick Hess, American Enterprise Institute. 12-1:15 pm. HMSS seminar room, 3rd floor, KIMBALL HALL.
Tues., Nov. 18 “Downtown: Archiving the Alternative Art Scene.” A panel discussion with Dena Muller, ArtTable; Marvin Taylor, NYU; Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace. 6-8 pm. FALES LIBRARY.
Wed., Nov. 19 Lecture featuring Dr. Paola Uccelli, department of applied psychology, Harvard University. For more information email niobe.way@ nyu.edu. 12-1:30 pm. Payne room, 4th floor, PLESS HALL.
Wed., Nov. 19 “The Albert Gallatin Lecture: Peter Galison and Robert Moss.” A lecture with the co-directors of Secrecy. 6:30 pm. The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, 715 Broadway.
Thurs., Nov. 20 “The Political Culture of Journalism in the Age of Totalitarianism.” With Sam Lebovic, University of Chicago. 5 pm. TAMIMENT LIBRARY.
Thurs., Nov. 20 “Magic of the Masquerade: Africa and the Caribbean.” Illustrated lecture with Phyllis Galembo, photographer and professor of fine arts, University at Albany, SUNY. 7 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Fri., Nov. 21 “Bandes dessinées.” An illustrated lecture with writer and illustrator of graphic novels, Nicolas De Crecy. In French. 4 pm. LA MAISON FRANÇAISE.
Fri., Nov. 21 “L’ITALIA ALL’ONU: Gli anni con Paolo Fulci: Quando la diplomazia fa gioco di squadra.” Book presentation with Ambassador Francesco Paolo Fulci and Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata. 6:30 pm. CASA ITALIANA.