Platform for Pedagogy  06 November - 12 November 2008
In Brief: Eric Fischl and the Psychosexual, Alain Badiou and Communism, Human Rights and Education Reform, Politics and Cultural Power, Martha Rosler and Anton Vidokle, Linda Nochlin on Art Criticism, Video in Search of an International, Alexander Nagel on Avatars of the Golden Calf, Martin Puchner on Manifestos and the Avant-Garde.
 Thursday, 06 November
  Visiting Artist Talk: Eric Ficshl
New York University - 34 Stuyvesant St, Einstein Auditorium
5-6pm, $0.
  Credit Crisis: Actions Taken and Lessons Learned
New York Academy of Sciences - 7 WTC, 250 Greenwich St, 40th Fl.
5-6:30pm, $20/$10, Registration required.
  The History and Future of the Upper West Side's Underground Waters
Bloomingdale Library - 150 W 100th St (Columbus/Amsterdam Aves), 2nd Fl.
6-8pm, $0.
  Jeff Madrick: The Case for Big Government
Cooper Union, Great Hall - 7 E 7th St at 3rd Ave
6:30pm, $0.
  Alain Badiou: Is the Word "Communism" Forever Doomed?
Henry Street Settlement, Harry de Jur Playhouse - 466 Grand St.
7pm, $0.
  Les Grands Magasins and the Petite Magazine: Notes on Arts Journalism
School of Visual Arts - 209 E 23rd St, 3rd fl amphitheater.
7pm, $0.
  Why is design booming now?
ECCO Design - 900 Broadway, 4th Fl.
7-9pm, $0.
  Martha Rosler and Anton Vidokle in conversation
New Museum - 235 Bowery
7:30pm, $0.
 Friday, 07 November
  Orientalism from the Standpoint of its Victims - An Edward Said Conference (Day 1)
Columbia University, Int'l Affairs Bldg - 420 W 118 St, Room 417
9am-7pm, $0, free registration required.
  Alain Badiou: Theatre et Philosophie
New York University, La Maison Francaise - 16 Washington Mews
4pm, $0.
 Saturday, 08 November
  Orientalism from the Standpoint of its Victims - An Edward Said Conference (Day 2)
Columbia University, Int'l Affairs Bldg - 420 W 118 St, Room 417
9am-5:45pm, $0, free registration required.
  Remembering the Manhattan Project
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, Room C198
10:15-11:30am, $0.
 Sunday, 09 November
 Monday, 10 November
  Chocolate and the Ancient Maya - a lecture by Michael D. Coe
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, Room 9205
5:30-7:30pm, $0.
  Civil Society and a Human Rights Approach to Education Reform
New York University, Kimball Hall Lobby - 246 Greene St at Waverly Pl.
5-6:30pm, $0.
  Tom Stoppard and Derek Walcott: A Conversation about Cultural Power
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, Proshansky Auditorium
7-8:30pm, $0, Registration required.
  Dr. Michael Wolfe: The Science of Alzheimer's
Disease and Prospects for Preventionand Treatment

Cooper Union, Great Hall - 7 E 7th St at 3rd Ave
6:30pm, $0.
  Games, Groups, Knots, Equations and Cryptography
Center for Worker Education Division of CCNY - 25 Broadway, 7th Fl.
6pm, $0.
  Linda Nochlin on the Goals of Art Criticism
New School, Lang Community and Student Center - 55 W 13th St, 2nd Fl.
7pm, $8/$0, Rsvp.
  International Pastimes
(Video program: Ricardo Valentim, Tirdad Zolghadr, Martha Rosler)

Emily Harvey Foundation - 537 Broadway
7pm, $0.
  Mending a Broken Heart... One Stem Cell at a Time
Picnic Market Cafe - 2665 Broadway (101/102nd Sts)
6-7pm, $10.
  Food, Energy, and Social Justice in Latin America
New School, Lang Community and Student Center - 55 W 13th St, 2nd Fl.
9:30am-6pm, $0, Rsvp required.
 Tuesday, 11 November
  Sustainable Urbanization in the 21st Century
Columbia University, Avery Hall - 1172 Amsterdam Ave, Wood Auditorium
6:30-8pm, $0.
  Fearful Brains in an Anxious World: An Evening with Joseph LeDoux
New York Academy of Sciences - 7 WTC, 250 Greenwich St, 40th Fl.
7-8:30pm, $20/$10, Registration required.
 Wednesday, 12 November
  Alexander Nagel: Avatars of the Golden Calf in the Work of Andrea Riccio
The Frick - 1 E 70th St
6pm, $0.
  International Pastimes
Martin Puchner - Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes

Emily Harvey Foundation - 537 Broadway
7pm, $0.
  Confounding Expectations - Photography in Context: Framing the Presidency
New School, Tishman Auditorium, Johnson/Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th St
7pm, $0.
  If Reasoning Purposes Personal Identity, What Follows?
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, Room 7112
4:15pm, $0.

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