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2 October - 8 October 2008
In Brief: Yeats and the Tragic, Trafficking the Traffickers, Death in Motion, Lolita in New York, Trying Leviathan and the Aura of Walter Benjamin. |
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Thursday, 2 October | |
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Klaus Ottman: What is Art? School of Visual Arts - 209 East 23 St, 3rd fl amphitheater 7pm, $0. |
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Ronald W. Walters on the Social Contract New School, Lang Center, Arnhold Hall - 55 West 13th St, 2nd Fl. 7pm, $0/$8. |
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Yeats and the tragic sense of life NYU Glucksman Ireland House - 1 Washington Mews at 5th Ave 7-8pm, RSVP/212-998-3951, $0. |
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Friday, 03 October | |
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New York Computer Science and Economics Day New York Academy of Sciences - 7 WTC, 250 Greenwich St, 40th Fl. 9am-5pm, RSVP, $0. |
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Lionel Trilling and his Legacy: A Conference Columbia University, Graduate Student Lounge, Philosophy Hall - 1150 Amsterdam Avenue 1:30-7pm, RSVP, $0. |
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Death in Motion: Funeral Processions in the Roman Forum NYU's Institute for Fine Arts - 1 East 78th Street 4pm, $0. |
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Orhan Pamuk, Jason Epstein and Michael Wood: Lolita in New York, 50 Years Later Columbia University, Miller Theatre - 2960 Broadway 7:30-9pm, free reservation, $0. |
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Saturday, 04 October | |
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Sunday, 05 October | |
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The Left in Indonesia & the Struggle Against Neoliberal Globalization: Book Party and Forum Brecht Forum - 451 West St 7:30pm, $6/$10/$15. |
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Monday, 06 October | |
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Trafficking the Traffickers - Undercover Ethnography in the Organs Trafficking Underworld Wenner-Gren Foundation - 470 Park Av S 6-9pm with reception at 6pm, RSVP, $0. |
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Buildings and Cities: Green is the new Black -- A Talk by Steffen Lehmann Goethe Institute's What is Green Architecture? Series Galapagos Art Space - 16 Main Street, Brooklyn 7pm, $0. |
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Tuesday, 07 October | |
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A Conversation with Jane Friedman and Victoria Wilson New School, Johnson/Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th St, Rm 510 6:30pm, $0/$5. |
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Jenni Sorkin: The Pottery Seminar at Black Mountain College, 1952 School of Visual Arts - 136 West 21 St, 2nd Fl 6pm, RSVP, $0. |
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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature CUNY Graduate Center, Recital Hall - 365 5th Ave 6:30pm, RSVP required $0. |
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Wednesday, 08 October | |
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Leslie Hewitt at Parson: An Artist's Talk Parsons, Kellen Auditorium - 66 Fifth Avenue 3:15p - 5pm, $0. |
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David Cohen:
"The Exemplary Diasporist" - R B Kitaj in the Aura of Walter Benjamin New York Studio School - 8 West 8th St 6:30pm, $0. |
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