Platform for Pedagogy  15 April - 21 April 2010
In Brief: Educating Scholars, Ethical Skepticism, Pleasure and Cultural Production, Sculpture in the Expanded Field, Tariq Ali on Obama's War, The City as Romance, The Privatization of Public Space, Design as Literature, On Not Writing History.
 Thursday, 15 April
  Susan Yelavich: Petrified Curtains, Animated Architextiles
New School - 80 Fifth Ave, Rm 802
12 - 1:30pm, $0.
  Potentials for Collective Research and Action: Activism, Analysis,
and Aesthetics at a Crossroads

New Museum - 235 Bowery
4 - 9pm, $0.
  Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities
Columbia University, Faculty House - 64 Morningside Dr
4pm, $0.
  Eric Sundquist: Obama, King, Ralph Ellison, and the American Dream
Columbia University, Schapiro Center - 530 W 120 St, Davis Auditorium
6:15 - 8:15pm, $0.
  Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, A Radical Democratic Vision
Brecht Forum - 451 West St
7:30pm, $6.
 Friday, 16 April
  The Hannah Arendt and Reiner Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy: Varieties of Ethical Skepticism (Day One of Two)
New School, Lang Center - 55 W 13 St, Fl 2
1 - 7pm, $0.
  Access to Pleasure: Aesthetics, Social Inequality, and the Structure of Culture Production
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Ave
3 - 6pm, $0.
  A Conversation with James Hoge, Editor of Foreign Affairs
The New School, Johnson/Kaplan Hall - 66 W 12 St, Orozco Rm
4 - 6pm, $0.
  Feminism and Capitalism: A Panel Discussion
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Ave, Rm C201
4 - 6:30pm, $0.
  Lets Talk About Sex: Gender Issues in a Post-Feminist World
National Academy - 1083 Fifth Ave
6:45pm, $10.
  Bunk Bed Conversation: Memory Is Your Own Museum
With Albert Mobilio & Geoffrey O'Brien

Cabinet Magazine - 300 Nevins St, Brooklyn
7 - 9pm, $0.
 Saturday, 17 April
  The Hannah Arendt and Reiner Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy: Varieties of Ethical Skepticism (Day Two of Two)
New School, Lang Center - 55 W 13 St, Fl 2
1 - 5pm, $0.
  Iran: New Generation, New Perspectives, New Media
Columbia University, Low Memorial Library - 535 W 116 St (Sessions One)
Columbia University, Int'l Affairs Building - 420 W. 118 St (Session Two)
8:30am - 2pm; 3 - 5:30pm, $15/Register by 15 April.
 Sunday, 18 April
 Monday, 19 April
  Expanded, Exploded, Collapsed? Thirty years after Sculpture in the Expanded Field
With Johanna Burton, Josiah McElheny, William Pope L., Fionn Meade

New School, Lang Center - 55 W 13 St, Fl 2
6:30 - 8:30, $8.
  Fighting the War, Breaking the Mould: Notes for a "Life" of Bill Aalto,
International Brigader and Writer (1915-1958)

NYU King Juan Carlos Center - 53 Washington Sq South, Suite 201
7pm, $0.
  Tariq Ali: Obama's War
School of Visual Arts Theater - 333 W 23 St
7pm, $15.
 Tuesday, 20 April
  Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and the Private Sector in Haiti
Columbia University, Int'l Affairs Building - 420 W 118 St, Rm 1501
6pm, $0.
  Design As Literature: The Changing Shape of the Novel. A lecture by David Barringer.
School of Visual Arts - 136 W 21 St, 2nd floor
6 - 8pm, $0, Rsvp.
  Arte East Across Histories: Talk with Yara El-Sherbini
Swiss Institute - 495 Broadway, Fl 3
6:30pm, $0.
  George R. Packard: Edwin O. Reischauer & the American Discovery of Japan
Japan Society - 333 E 47 St
6:30pm, $11.
  Michael Rutschky: Berlin, the City as Romance
Goethe-Institut, Wyoming Building - 5 East 3rd St
7pm, $0.
 Wednesday, 21 April
  The Privatization of Public Space? Resisting Enclosure
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Ave, Elebash Recital Hall
9am - 5pm, $0.
  Elio Caccavale: Design in the Age of Biotechnologies
School of Visual Arts - 136 W 21 St, 2nd floor
6 - 8pm, $0, Rsvp.
  A.J Woodman: On Not Writing History
NYU Silver Center - 100 Washington Sq E, Classics Conference Rm, 5th Fl
6pm, $0.
  The Cosmopolitan Idea and Translation
NYU - 19 Washington Square North
6:30pm, $0.
  Jacqueline Rose, J'accuse: Dreyfus in Our Time
The Asia Society - 725 Park Ave
7pm, $15.

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