Platform for Pedagogy  25 September - 01 October 2008
In Brief: French Film and the Right to Silence, Self-Organization and Utopia, Lolita in America, David Harvey at the Armory, Senghor as Philosopher, Benedict Anderson on Bracing Cosmopolitanisms and Soybean Wars.
 Thursday, 25 September
  Phil Watts: French Film Noir and the Right to Silence
Columbia University, Maison Française, Buell Hall, East Gallery - W 116 St & Amsterdam Ave
12 - 2pm, $0.
  A Discussion with UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband
NYU Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge - 40 Washington Sq South
3-4:30pm, $0, RSVP.
  The Science of Emotional Awareness: An Evening with Paul Ekman
New York Academy of Sciences - 250 Greenwich St at Barclay St, 40th Fl.
6:30-8pm, $25/$15, RSVP.
  People and Buildings: Positioning the City
Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day School - 240 2nd Ave (14th/15th Sts.)
7pm, $0, RSVP.
  Rirkrit Tiravanija at Night School: The Land, and Phillippe Parreno’s Boy from Mars
New Museum - 235 Bowery
7:30pm, $0, RSVP.
 Friday, 26 September
  Accessorizing the Renaissance Body
NYU Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts - 715 Broadway, 1st Fl.
9am-6:30pm, $0.
  Annabel J. Wharton, "Jerusalem: Topography, Architecture, Violence"
NYU Institute of Fine Art - 1 East 78th Street
4pm, $0.
  Souleymane Bachir Diagne: Senghor as Philosopher
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 W 118 St
6-8pm, $0.
  Nikolaus Hirsh, Neil Logan, Molly Nesbit, and Rirkrit Tiravanija: Self-Organization, Alternative Living, Architecture, and Utopia.
New Museum - 235 Bowery
7:30pm, $12, RSVP.
 Saturday, 27 September
  Lolita in America
New School, Tishman Auditorium, Johnson/Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th St.
10am-10pm, $0, RSVP required.
  Rirkrit Tiravanija at Night School
New Museum - 235 Bowery
3pm, $12, RSVP.
  David Harvey at the Park Avenue Armory, Creative Time's Democracy in America
Park Avenue Armory - 643 Park Avenue
7pm, $0.
 Sunday, 28 September
 Monday, 29 September
  The Challenges of Writing a Textbook Today:
A Discussion with Thomas Bender and James Fraser

NYU - 726 Broadway, Rm. 542
12-1:30pm, $0.
 Tuesday, 30 September
 Wednesday, 01 October
  Neurocinematics: The Neuroscience of Films
NYU Bobst Library, Avery Room - 70 Washington Sq S, 2nd Fl.
5pm, $0.
  Soybean Wars
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9204
6pm, $0.
  Benedict Anderson:
Peculiar, Bracing Cosmopolitanisms among the Colonized in the Twilight of Empire

Columbia University, Schapiro Center - 530 W. 120 Street
6:15 - 8:15, $0.
  Public Art Fund Talks with Rob Pruitt
New School, Tishman Auditorium, Johnson/Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th St.
6:30pm, $5/$0.
  Sacred Mathematics with Tony Rothman
Bell House - 149 7th St, Gowanus, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $0.

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