Platform for Pedagogy  05 March - 11 March 2009
In Brief: Carlo Ginzburg, Michael Taussig, Mrs. Dalloway, Liam Gillick, Exhibiting Online, Václav Klaus, Peace Through Education, Ritual Murder, A Relevant Marxism, An Arab-African Narrative.
 Thursday, 05 March
  Visiting Artist Talk: Jonathan Horowitz
NYU Steinhardt - 34 Stuyvesant Street, Einstein Auditorium
5 - 6pm, $0.
  Next American City: Launch and Lecture with Seth Pinsky
Center for Architecture, Hines Gallery - 536 LaGuardia Place
6 - 8pm, $20 incl. subscription.
  Carlo Ginzburg, The Letter Kills: On Some Implications of 2 Corinthians 3:6
Columbia University, The Schapiro Center - 530 W. 120 St
6:15 - 8:15, $0.
  Living in the Blur Zone: Art, Craft, Design, and Creativity
Museum of Arts and Design - 2 Columbus Circle
6:30pm, $0.
  Michael Taussig, I Swear I Saw That: Drawings in Anthropological Fieldwork Notebooks
Visual Arts Theater - 333 West 23 Street
7pm, $0.
 Friday, 06 March
  A Century of Asian American Art: Archives, Scholarship, Curation
NYU Casa Italiana - 24 West 12th Street
12 - 6pm, $0.
  The Beat Generation on Morningside Heights: A walking tour led by Bill Morgan
Leaving from Columbia University's Philosophy Hall - 1150 Amsterdam Avenue, Rm 301
2 - 3pm, $0.
  Philippe-Alain Michaud: Painting of Film
NYU Institute of Fine Arts - 1 East 78th Street
4pm, $0.
  David Taylor on Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway Goes to the Lighthouse
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, Room 4406
4 - 6pm, $0.
  Convergence of Craft and Industry - Claudy Jongstra and Kathryn Walter
Cooper Hewitt Design Museum - 2 East 91st St
6:30pm, $15, Rsvp.
  Technocultures: The History of Digital Art (a conversation)
School of Visual Arts - 133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
6pm, $0, Rsvp.
  A Dangerous Dilemma: The Impacts of the Global Gag Ruler
NYU Puck Building - 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Fl.
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0, Rsvp.
 Saturday, 07 March
  Communities and Cornices
Museum of the City of New York - 1220 5th Avenue
8:30am - 5pm, $25, Rsvp required.
  Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II (Day 1)
NYU Institute of Fine Arts - 1 East 78th Street
10am - 7pm, $0, Rsvp "front to rear".
  Custom Car Commandos at Art in General, A Lecture by Liam Gillick
Art in General - 79 Walker St
3pm, $0.
  Browser as Exhibition Space: A Roundtable Discussion
Capricious Space - 103 Broadway, Brooklyn
8 - 10pm, $0.
 Sunday, 08 March
  Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II (Day 2)
NYU Institute of Fine Arts - 1 East 78th Street
10am - 6pm, $0, Rsvp "front to rear".
  Joyce Antler: A Moment in Time: Radical Feminism and Jewish Women
NYU - 53 Washington Square South, Screening Room
3pm, $0, Rsvp.
 Monday, 09 March
  Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic:
"Europe, Global Warming and the Current Economic Crisis: As Seen from Prague"

Columbia University, Low Memorial Library - 535 W. 116 St
3 - 4pm, $0/registration required.
  The General Circulation of the Atmosphere, from Colombus to Meteosat
NYU Bobst, Avery Fisher Center East Room - 70 Washington Square South, 2nd Floor
5:30 - 6:30pm, $0, Rsvp.
  Greg Mortenson: Promoting Peace Through Education
NYU Skirball Center - 566 LaGuardia Place
6 - 7pm, $0, Rsvp.
  Ayreen Anastas, Michael Naas and Jason Smith: The Rogue State
The New School, Lang Building - 66 West 12th Street, 5th Fl, Wollman Hall
6:30pm, $8, Rsvp.
 Tuesday, 10 March
  Andrew Bacevich: The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
NYU Center for Global Affairs, Woolworth Building - 15 Barclay Street
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0, Rsvp required.
  Attracting Investment through Intellectual Property Rights
Americas Society - 680 Park Avenue
8 - 9:30am, $0, Rsvp.
  The Curious Case of Casa Malaparte:
Literal Deconstruction and the Surrealist Building Enclosure

Center for Architecture - 536 LaGuardia Place
6 - 8pm, $20, Rsvp.
  Hauntings: Memory, Patrimony, and the Contested Past
"Public memorialization in perspective: Truth, justice and memory
of past repression in the Southern Cone of South America"

King Juan Carlos Center - 53 Washington Square South
5 - 7pm, $0.
  From Planets to Plutoids - Our New Solar System
American Museum of Natural History, LeFrak Theater - 77th St at Central Park W, 1st Floor
7:30pm, $15.
 Wednesday, 11 March
  Lecture with Professor Deb Willis
NYU Hemmerdinger Hall - 100 Washington Sq E, 1st Floor
6pm, $0, Rsvp.
  Duncan Foley, David Harvey and Prabhat Patiak: Is Marxism Relevant Today?
Columbia University, Schapiro Center - 530 W 120 St
6:15 - 8pm, $0.
  Changing States of Memory: Feng Mengbo
Museum of Modern Art, Cullman Building, Bartos Theater 3 - 11 W 53rd St
6:30pm, $10.
  The Raphael Levy Case: An Accusation of 'Ritual Murder' in 17th Century France
NYU La Maison Francaise - 16 Washington Mews
6:30pm, $0.
  Two Worlds, One History - An Arab/African Narrative Explored
Columbia University, Int'l Affairs Building - 420 W. 118 St, Rm 1501
7:30 - 9:30pm, $0.

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