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20 November - 26 November 2008
In Brief: Self-Orientalization, The City's End, A Black Modernism, Political Society and the Consumer Citizen, Linguistic Human Rights, Something is Missing. |
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Thursday, 20 November | |
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Akif Kireççi: Self-Orientalization or Revitalization - The Decline of Discourses in Egypt and Turkey Columbia University, Int'l Affairs Bldg - 420 W 118 St, Room 801 12:15-1:45pm, $0. |
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Art Deco Revivalist Architecture in Manhattan NYPL Humanities and Social Sciences Library, South Court Classrooms - 5th Ave and 42 St 12:30-1:30pm, $0, Rsvp. |
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Energy and the Economic Crisis: Is the Tank Half Empty or Half Full? Columbia University, Jerome L Greene Hall - 435 W 116 St 6pm, $0, Rsvp. |
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Revealing Interiors Cooper Hewitt - 2 East 91st St 6:30pm, $10-$15, Register. |
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Stanley Fish: Save the World on Your Own Time Cooper Union, Nerken School of Engineering, Wollmann Auditorium - 51 Astor Place, Room 21E 6:30pm, $0. |
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Wolf D. Prix: Coop Himmelb(l)au -Introduced and moderated by Thom Mayne Architectural League at Cooper Union, Great Hall - 7 E 7th St 7pm, $10, tickets required. |
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Friday, 21 November | |
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Artists Talk on Art Presents: The Artist's Cut School of Visual Arts - 209 E 23rd St, 3rd Floor Theater 7pm, $0-$7. |
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Larry Silver: East is East - Images of the Turk in Sixteenth-Century Northern European Prints NYU Institute of Fine Arts - 1 E 78th St at 5th Ave 4pm, $0. |
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Saturday, 22 November | |
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Sunday, 23 November | |
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Monday, 24 November | |
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The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction Gotham Center at CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, Recital Hall. 6:30pm, $0, Register. |
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Richard J. Powell: Aaron Douglas's Call to Modernism Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - 515 Malcolm X Blvd 7pm, $0. |
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Tuesday, 25 November | |
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Albi Cathedral & the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn Center for Architecture - 536 LaGuardia Place 5:30-8pm, $0, Rsvp. |
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Beauty and Its Successors - Part 2 of The True, the Beautiful, and the Good: Reconsiderations in a Postmodern, Digital Era
Museum of Modern Art, Titus Theater 1 - 11 W 53rd St. 6:30pm, $10/$8. |
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Linguistic Human Rights: Ireland, Israel, and the United States
CUNY Lehman College, Carman Hall - 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Rm 263, The Bronx. 12-1pm, $0. |
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Political Society and the Consumer Citizen: Reflections on Politics and Women's Self-Help Groups in Kerala, India - a lecture by J. Devika NYU Kimmel Center - 60 Washington Sq South, Rm 803 5:30-7pm, $0. |
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Wednesday, 26 November | |
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Marco de Michelis: Architecture and Utopia (Something is Missing) CUNY Graduate Center - 356 5th Ave, Room 3421 6:30pm, $0. |
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