Platform for Pedagogy  12 March - 18 March 2009
In Brief: Defunct Internationals, The High Renaissance Style, Google Books and the Law, A Failure to Perform, Class Struggle and Fiscal Crisis, Experimental Man, Subjective Histories, The Structure of Scents.
 Thursday, 12 March
  Veljko Vujacic - Nationalism, Myth and Politics:
Russians and Serbs in the Dissolution of the USSR and Yugoslavia

Columbia University, Int'l Affairds Building - 420 W. 118 St, Rm 1219
12 - 1:30pm, $0.
  Francesco Benelli on Donato Bramante
Columbia University, Casa Italiana - 1161 Amsterdam Ave
2 - 4pm, $0.
  Building a Universe of Care: Redefining Girls' Educational Engagement in India
NYU Barney Building - 34 Stuyvesant Street, 5th fl seminar room
4:30 - 7pm, $0.
  City of Words by Paul Auster
CCNY - Convent Avenue at 138th St, The Great Hall of Shepard Hall
6:30 - 8pm, $0.
  Deepak Nayyar, Developing Countries in the World Economy: The Future in the Past?
The New School - 6 E. 16th Street, Room 906/13
8 - 10pm, $0.
 Friday, 13 March
  The Google Books Settlement: What Will It Mean for the Long Term?
Columbia Law School - 435 W. 116 St
8:30am - 5:30pm, $0.
  Inez Hollander: The Skeletons in Holland's Colonial Closet
Columbia University, Int'l Affairs Building - 420 W. 118 St, Rm. 918
12 - 2pm, $0.
  Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Art of the Plausible: Belief and Doubt in Contemporary Art
NYU Institute of Fine Arts - 1 E. 78th Street
4pm, $0.
  Elizabeth Harman at CUNY
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, Room C197
4:30 - 6:30pm, $0.
  Failure to Perform: Male Body Performativity and Hegemonic Masculinity
NYU - 19 University Place, Room 222
5:30pm, $0.
  Eric Lichten - New York City, Class Struggle & Fiscal Crises: Lessons from the Past
Bluestockings - 172 Allan St
7pm, $5 suggested.
  Tyler Coburn, IRL: Docent Tour of Art on the Internet
Capricious Space - 103 Broadway, Brooklyn
8 - 10pm, $0.
 Saturday, 14 March
 Sunday, 15 March
 Monday, 16 March
  Subjective Histories of Sculpture III: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
The New School - 55 W. 13th Street, 2nd Fl, Arnold Hall
6pm, $5, Rsvp.
  Across Histories: Leeza Ahmady on Contemporary Art and Central Asia
Cabinet Magazine - 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
7 - 9pm, $0.
 Tuesday, 17 March
  A Criminal Injustice: A True Crime, a False Confession, and the Fight to Free Marty Tankleff
John Jay College of Criminal Justice - 899 10th Avenue, Haaren Hall, Rm 630
4 - 6pm, $0.
  Chandler Burr, Invisible Design: The Structure of Scents
School of Visual Arts - 136 W. 21 Street, 2nd floor
6 - 8pm, $0, Rsvp.
  Experimental Man: Revealing the Truth Behind Medical Testing
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave
6:30pm, $0.
  Shifting Images: Changing Perceptions of Italian Immigrant Women
A Lecture with Miriam Cohen

Judson Memorial Hall - 239 Thompson Street
6:30 - 8pm, $0, Rsvp required.
  Ken Jacobs and Amy Taubin: Return to LH6
Light Industry - 220 36th Street, 5th Fl, Brooklyn
7:30, $7.
 Wednesday, 18 March
  Decorative Cast-Iron Work
Museum of the City of New York - 1220 5th Avenue
6:30pm, $9.
  Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson: Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
The Bell House - 149 7th St, Gowanus, Brooklyn
8pm, $3 (its at a bar, 21+).

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