Platform for Pedagogy  10 December - 16 December 2009
In Brief: The Left and a Green New Deal, The Projected Photograph, Bridge the Gap, Pop or Populus, For Pina Bausch, Paintings and Possibilities and The Plight of the Arab Intellectual.
 Thursday, 10 December
  Truffaut and Bazin, Errancy and Correction
Columbia University, Lerner Hall - 2920 Broadway, Rm 569
4 - 6pm, $0.
  John Horgan: Can Science Explain Religion?
Columbia University, Schapiro Center - 605 W 15 St, Davis Auditorium
6 - 7:30pm, $0, Rsvp.
  Capitalism and Nature: the World's Last Love Affair?
A Conversation Between Neil Smith and Frieder Otto Wolf

The New School, Kellen Auditorium - 66 Fifth Avenue
6 - 8pm, $0.
  Defining French Taste: Tradition, Quality, and Innovation in the Decorative Arts
NYU La Maison Francaise - 16 Washington Mews
7pm, $10, Rsvp.
  Confounding Expectations - Photography in Context: The Projected Photograph
with George Baker, Andrea Geyer, Paul Pfeiffer and Krzysztof Wodiczko

New School, Tishman Auditorium - 66 W 12 St
7pm, $0.
  BoomGen: Why the Media & Storytelling Matter to a New Generation
A Discussion with Reza Aslan and Mahyad Tousi

Columbia University, Int'l Affairs Bldg - 420 W. 118 St, Rm 417
7 - 8:30pm, $0.
 Friday, 11 December
  Radical Urbanism Conference
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Proshansky Auditorium
10am - 9pm, $0.
  Bridge the Gap? 6
Storefront for Art and Architecture - 97 Kenmare Street
11am - 8pm, $0.
  Supercraft: The New Insider Folk Art
School of Visual Arts - 209 E 23 St, Fl 3 Amphitheater
7 - 9pm, $0.
 Saturday, 12 December
  Two Lectures on Landscape Design:
Bringing Nature Home and Maintaining Curb Appeal

Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall - 1190 Amsterdam Ave, Rm 501
2:30 - 5pm, $30.
 Sunday, 13 December
  Pop or Populus: Art Between High and Low
Bettina Funcke in conversation with Johanna Burton

Artists Space - 38 Greene St, Fl 3
12pm, $0.
 Monday, 14 December
  Celebrating the Life and Work of Pina Bausch
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Segal Theater
10am (screenings), 6:30pm panel discussion, $0.
 Tuesday, 15 December
  Antenna Design: Design for Activation
School of Visual Arts - 136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
6 - 7:30pm, $0, Rsvp.
  The Cultivated Object: Named Things in Momoyama Japan
Japan Society - 333 East 47th Street
6:30pm, $0.
  Photojournalism Today
Museum of the City of New York - 1220 5th Avenue
6:30pm, $12, Registration incentivized.
  Svetlana Alpers, James Hyde and Barney Kulok:
Paintings/Photographs/Problems/Possibilities

School of Visual Arts Theater - 333 W 23 St
7pm, $0.
  Global Warming: James Hansen
Bell House - 149 7th St, Gowanus, Brooklyn
8pm, $4.
 Wednesday, 16 December
  Toward Anarchitecture: A conversation between Architects and Artists
Center for Architecture - 536 LaGuardia Place
6 - 8pm, $10, Rsvp.
  The Plight of the Arab Intellectual
NYU - 19 Washington Square North
6:30pm, $0.
  Money Jungle: The Aesthetics and Economics of Independent Music
Brecht Forum - 451 West St
7:30pm, $6.

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