Platform for Pedagogy  May Day Edition
30 April - 06 May 2009
In Brief: The Balkans Before Ethnicity, A Whitman Poetry Lab, Wildflowers of New York, The Violence of Galaxies, If Gaza Falls, Ed Park on Amnesia & Martha Rosler in South Africa.
 Thursday, 30 April
  John V.A. Fine: When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans
Columbia Univeristy, Int'l Affairs Building - 420 W. 118 St, Rm 1219
12 - 1:30pm, $0.
  Creative Writing in Spanish Series: Translating Other, Translating Self:
A Colloquium on Translation

King Juan Carlos Center - 53 Washington Square South
1 - 7:30pm, $0.
  Responsive Environments Lab & Things That Think Consortium
NYC College of Technology, Voorhees Building - 186 Jay St, Brooklyn, Room 111
6pm, $0.
  Seminars with Artists at the Whitney: Anthony McCall
Whitney Museum - 945 Madison Ave
7pm, $8.
  (Alternative) Arts Funding for Sustainable Creative Practice
NYU - 34 Stuyvesant Street, Einstein Auditorium
7 - 9pm, $0.
  Poetry Lab: Walt Whitman: A Democratic Experiement
Cabinet Magazine - 300 Nevins St, Brooklyn
7 - 9pm, $0.
 Friday, May Day
  Borders and Boundaries at the School Of Social Work (Day 1)
Columbia University, School Of Social Work - 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Concourse 05
10am - 5pm, $0.
  James Paul Gee: Games and 21st Century Learning
NYU Warren Weaver Hall - 251 Mercer St, Room 109
2 - 3pm, $0.
  Wildflowers of New York City
NYU Silver Center - 100 Washington Sq East, Rm 408
4 - 6pm, $0, Rsvp.
  Antara Basu-Zych: The Violent Tendencies of Galaxies
Astronomy Department Public Outreach, Public Lecture and Stargazing

Columbia University, Pupin Hall - 538 W 120 St
8 - 10pm, $0.
 Saturday, 02 May
  Borders and Boundaries at the School Of Social Work (Day 2)
Columbia University, School Of Social Work - 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Concourse 05
10am - 5pm, $0.
  We Are Gaza: Connecting the Dots Between
Gaza, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir & Pakistan

Brecht Forum - 451 West St
6:30 - 9pm, $6.
 Sunday, 03 May
  Richard Ford in Conversation with Nam Le
Morgan Library and Museum - 225 Madison Avenue
2pm, $15.
  Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture by Nawal El Saadawi
Cooper Union, The Great Hall - 7 E. 7 St
6:30 - 8pm, $15.
 Monday, 04 May
  Ed Park: The Amnesia of Influence
Picnic Market Cafe - 2665 Broadway (near 101st St)
6 - 7pm, $10.
  KRAZY! Chiptune Music
Japan Society - 333 E. 47 St
6:30pm, $5.
  Unpacking My Library: 12 Architects and Their Books
Municipal Art Society - 457 Madison Avenue
6:30 - 8pm, $15.
  Neurocinematics! Where Neuroscience Meets Filmmaking
New York Academy of Science - 7 WTC, 250 Greenwich St., 40th Fl.
7 - 8:30pm, $20/$10, Rsvp required.
 Tuesday, 05 May
  Julie V. Iovine: The Difference between Newsworthy and New
School of Visual Arts - 136 W. 21 St, 2nd Fl
6 - 8pm, $0, Rsvp.
  Lovesick Japan: Stories of Intimacy from Courts to Keitai (Cell Phone) Novels
Japan Society - 333 E. 47 St
6:30pm, $10.
 Wednesday, 06 May
  Who's a Filmmaker? Cinema beyond the Darkened Room
Museum of Modern Art, Cullman Building, Bartos Theater 3 - 11 W 53rd St
6:30pm, $10.
  Martha Rosler: The South Africa Tapes
Light Industry - 220 36th St, 5 Fl, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $7.

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