Platform for Pedagogy  Late City Final Edition
19 March - 25 March 2009
In Brief: Tigers and Triangles, The Contemporary Lecture, School Pictures and their Afterlives, Scholarship in the Digital Age, Obama and a New Racial Politics, Working Through the Great Depression, Power and Fashion & The Apples of our Eyes.
 Thursday, 19 March
  Biographies: Whose Life Is It, Anyway?
The New School, Lang Student Center - 55 W 13th Street, 2nd Fl, Arnold Hall
6:30pm, $0, Rsvp required.
  From The Triangle To The Tiger:
New York's Garment Center in American Popular Culture, 1920-1970

CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, Recital Hall
6:30pm, $0, Rsvp required.
 Friday, 20 March
  The Burgeoning of Emerging Technologies
NYC College of Technology, Voorhees Building - 186 Jay Street, Brooklyn Room 111
2pm, $0.
 Saturday, 21 March
  Gym, Theater, Cafe: Some Provisional Notes on the Contemporary Lecture
Capricious - 103 Broadway, Brooklyn
2 - 3pm, $0.
  Experimental Geography Panel Discussion: An Aesthetic Investigation of Space
New Museum - 235 Bowery
3:00pm, $8.
 Sunday, 22 March
 Monday, 23 March
  Hauntings: Memory, Patrimony, and the Contested Past
School Pictures and Their Afterlives

King Juan Carlos Center - 53 Washington Square South
5 - 7pm, $0.
  Jack Kerouac: An Unlikely Franco-American Writer
Americas Society - 680 Park Avenue
7pm, $0, Rsvp required.
  Thomas Friedman in conversation with Nandan Nilekani: Imagining India
NYPL - 5th Avenue at 42nd St
7pm, $25.
 Tuesday, 24 March
  Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet
Columbia University, Butler Library - 535 W. 14 St
3 - 5pm, $0.
  Bonnie Yochelson: Berenice Abbott's Changing New York
The Trials and Triumphs of New Deal Patronage

Queens College, Klapper Hall - 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, Room 405
6 - 8pm, $0.
  Manning Marable: Barack Obama and the New Racial Politics
Columbia University, Heyman Center - 74 Morningside Dr
6:15 - 8:15pm, $0.
  Laura Kurgan: Mapping Justice
School of Visual Arts - 136 W. 21 Street, 2nd floor
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0, Rsvp.
  Guy Trebay, Isabel Toledo and Gabi Asfour: Power & Fashion
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, Elebash Recital Hall
7pm, $0.
 Wednesday, 25 March
  Christophe Jaffrelot on Hindu Nationalist Militias
Columbia University, Int'l Affairs Bldg - 420 W. 118 St, 7th Fl
12:30 - 2pm, $0.
  Eve Meltzer - Damaged Romanticism: After Affects
NYU Silver Center - 32 Waverly Place, Room 300
7pm, $0.
  The Apples of Our Eyes: Innovation, Art, and Intellectual Property in American Fruits
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, Rm 9206
6 - 7pm, $0.
  Karim Rashid at the Museum of Art and Design
Museum of Arts and Design - 2 Columbus Circle
6:30pm, $10.

Platform for Pedagogy is an initiative to advance a culture of cross-disciplinary public lecture attendance and to develop the lecture as form. Platform Mailer is a weekly events e-mail promoting public lectures in and around New York City.

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