Draper and Anamesa parties this Friday, 12/16!

Once more, with feeling!

Please Join the Draper Master's Program for our Year-End Celebration

Friday, December 16

Starting at 5:00 PM

14 University Place, 1st Floor

There will be food, drink, and good cheer. We hope to see you there!

If you know your plans, RSVPs are much appreciated: draper.program@nyu.edu

Afterwards...

Don't forget about the Anamesa Launch Party!

Friday, December 16, 8pm-10pm

Peculier Pub, 145 Bleeker St.

Anamesa will cover your first 2 drinks

The editors look forward to celebrating the new issue with you!

Draper Student Profile: Angela Leroux-Lindsey

Angela Answers the Draper Dozen

1. When did you start at Draper?

Fall 2010.

2. Are you a full or part-time student?

Part-time; I work full-time at NYU to subsidize my MA tuition.

3. Where are you from?

I grew up just outside of Boston.

4. What are your primary research interests?

Science studies and its intersections with lit theory.

5. Why did you choose to pursue an interdisciplinary degree at Draper?

My interests are sort of widespread, and I wanted a program that would allow me to explore the connecting threads of what could be considered disparate fields.

6. What do you plan to do after Draper?

I’m not sure yet.

7. Do you have any special activities or projects outside of your academic work?

I’m the editor of a literary magazine, as well as for an independent publishing company; I’m also a freelance writer.

8. How does living and studying in New York impact your educational experience?

The access to so many intellectual and artistic outlets—from the NYPL to the Bowery Poetry Club to the World Science Festival—is intoxicating, and really inspires me to participate in events and projects outside of NYU, which in turn inform my academic work.

9. Is there any one place (museum, library, shop, park, etc.) in New York that is your favorite? Why?

That’s an impossible question, ha! I love Central Park, and the Frick, and the Strand, but would have to say that listening to live music or a poetry reading in the East Village is my favorite “place” in the city. Working full-time and being in school can be a hectic schedule, and occasionally it’s a relief to sit, have a drink, and let my mind do nothing but enjoy what’s happening around me.

10. Coffee or tea?

Tea.

11. Are you a fan and/or user of social media? Why or why not?

Sure, I think social media is an easy, effective, and fun way to connect. I use Facebook, I blog.

12. What was the last book you read for fun (not for class or research)?

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. Also—if I can plug—Instructions for Killing the Jackal by Erica Wright is phenomenal.

13. If you were not in academia, what would you be doing?

I think being a nature photographer would be pretty awesome.

Teach-In on Immigrant Rights, 12/11

December 11

Noon - 4:00 PM

61 Broadway at Wall Street (PSC-CUNY Building)

Lunch Provided / Spanish Translation

http://www.facebook.com/events/197525226999799/

The IWJC [http://www.nycga.net/groups/immigrant-worker-justice] is hosting a teach-in on Sunday, Dec 11 that is open to the public. Although immigrants’ and immigrant workers’ rights have been emphasized in protests on the West Coast, these issues and populations have been less attended to in this area. The teach-ins will present an opportunity for people interested in these issues to hear from members of workers' centers, immigrant community groups, and non-traditional labor organizations. Students interested in popular education styles would particularly enjoy themselves.

Draper Offices Close for Thanksgiving, 11/23 at 4pm

Please be informed that the Draper offices will close for Thanksgiving break tomorrow, 11/23 at 4:00pm and will remain closed until resuming regular hours on Monday, 11/28.

Wishing everyone a lovely long weekend and happy Thanksgiving!

Today: The Crisis of the Humanities and Prospects for Language Students in the US (MLA President Russell Berman)

You are cordially invited to a talk by MLA President Russell Berman at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Today 6:30 p.m.

42 Washington Mews, New York, NY, 10003

The Crisis of the Humanities and Prospects for Language Students in the US.

A talk by Russell Berman

Russell Berman's talk deals with the challenges to language study as a component of a wider crisis faced by the humanities in US higher education. This paper provides a historical frame to evaluate this crisis, while relating it to problems in student learning, especially with regard to language skills. The role of recent government education policy in contributing to the decline of language learning is discussed. The paper concludes with some specific proposals to expand second language learning in the US.

Carlos Alonso and Catherine Porter will act as respondents to the talk.

Biography: Russell A. Berman is the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, with appointments in the Departments of Comparative Literature and the Department of German Studies, which he now chairs.

Berman specializes in German literature and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and on wider problems of European and trans-Atlantic culture. He is the author of numerous articles and books including Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture (1998) and The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma (1986), both of which won the Outstanding Book Award of the German Studies Association. Other books include Anti-Americanism in Europe: A Cultural Problem (2004) and Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty and Western Culture ( 2007). At Stanford, he is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institutions and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and he is a recipient of the Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is also the 2011 President of the Modern Language Association, as which he has consistently advocated for expanded opportunities for second language learning.

DAAD sponsored event

"A Citizen's Guide to Plastic Pollution" Talk -- Tuesday 11/15

A citizen’s guide to plastic pollution

A presentation by Max Liboiron, brought to the NYU community by Earthmatters

Tuesday, November 15th 2011 from 8-9:30pm in Rosenthal Pavilion on the 10th floor of Kimmel.

Refreshments will be served.

How safe am I eating from plastic take out containers? Can I put them in the microwave? Can I reuse them? What’s this I hear about BPA? Am I at risk? What about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Does that affect me? How can I help stop the patch from growing?

First we will talk about how plastic pollutes your body and in the global environment. Then we will discuss how to be as healthy as possible in this Very Plastic world, and what sorts of things need to change to deal with plastic pollution effectively. Past participants of this presentation have reported that it was the most enthralling hour of education they've ever experienced, opening their eyes to a host of body mutations, early death and food chain disasters that they knew nothing about.

Max Liboiron is a PhD candidate at New York University and Co-Coordinator for the Plastic Pollution Coalition- East Coast. Her research focuses on models of pollution and how twenty-first century waste such as ocean plastics or plastic chemicals that accumulate in human bodies defy those models. The ultimate propose of her dissertation is to extend notions of pollution to include these cases so that future practices can be more environmentally viable. Max previously coordinated NYU’s Green Grants, a grassroots stakeholder granting program run by the Office of Sustainability to increase the university’s environmental performance and culture. She is also a trash artist. More information on this presentation and her other work is available at www.maxliboiron.com.

Please email questions to earth.club@nyu.edu. See you Tuesday!

Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity conference Saturday, 11/12/11

Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity | Saturday, November 12, 2011
301 Philosophy Hall

Program:

9:00am-9:30am | Welcome and Breakfast

PANEL 1: "Edutecture CU Teachers College Collaborative"
9:30am-11:00am
"Edutecture: Post-Representiationalist Design as Post-Modern Praxis."

CU Teacher's College collaborative
Blake Victor Seidenshaw (Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, Teachers College, CU)
Victoria Netanus (Sociology and Education, Teachers College, CU)
Chris Moffett (Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, CU)
Monica Patrice Barra (Cultural Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY)
David Backer (Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, CU)
Ethan Jucovy (Independent Scholar)

PANEL 2: "Interdisciplinarity Between Art and Science"
11:00am - 12:30pm
Disscussant: Jay Gundacker, History

John R. Blakinger, UC Berkeley
Models for Art and Science Collaboration:
Gyorgy Kepes at MIT and the Rise of Cold War Interdisciplinarity in the Visual Arts

Matthew Ramirez, UC Berkeley
Towards a Physiology of Drama: Plot Algorithms with Applications in Playwriting, Interactive Drama, and Collaborative Filtering

Robert Lewis and Matthew Luckett, Michigan State and UCLA
Cowboy morality in historical mass media: Barriers to an interdisciplinary investigation of dime novels and westward expansion

12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch

KEYNOTE LECTURE
D. Graham Burnett presenting with Artist Lisa Young
1:30pm - 2:30pm

"In Lies Begins Responsibilities: Parafiction and Interdisciplinary Practice"

D. Graham Burnett is a professor of History, Princeton University and Editor, CabinetMagazine
Discussant: Marwa El Skakry, Associate Professor, Department of History

PANEL 3: Historical Interdisciplinarities and Interdisciplinary Histories
2:30pm - 3:30pm

Discussant: Owen Cornwall, MESAAS

Arthur Dudney, MESAAS, Columbia University
"Interdisciplinarity before Disciplines, the View from Early-Modern South Asia"

Irene Plantholt, Near Eastern Languages, Columbia University
"An interdisciplinary approach towards ancient Mesopotamian medicine"

3:30pm-3:45pm | Coffee

PANEL 4: Borders, Spaces, Disciplines
3:45pm - 5:15pm

Discussant: Yohann Ripert, Department of French and Romance Philology

Lori Cole, Department of Comparative Literature, NYU
"Reading Revista de Avance Across Disciplines"

Alvram Alpert, University of Pennsylvania
"Rousseau's Modernity and Suzuki's Zen"

Ginger Nolan, History of Architecture, Columbia University
"'Great Books for Fat Men' and Simple Tests for 'Savage Minds': How the Humanities Made a Global Humanity"

CONCLUDING PANEL:
5:15pm - 6:15pm

"On Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity"

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University
Lydia Liu, Wu Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, EALAC, Columbia University

Moderated by Stathis Gourgouris, Professor of Classics and Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

The ICLS Graduate Student Planning Committee would like to thank the following departments for their generous support: GSAC, GSAPP, EALAC, History, French and Romance Philology, MESAAS at Columbia University

For more information, please visit our website: icls.columbia.edu.

Free Creative Writing Workshop at Draper, Nov. 18 (Led by Draper Student Vanessa Hamra)

Draper student Vanessa Hamra is completing training to lead creative writing workshops for the New York Writer's Coalition, an organization which facilitates creative writing workshops for those historically without a voice in New York City. As the final step of her training, Vanessa will be leading a creative writing workshop here at Draper. Vanessa would like to invite Draper students to attend this free workshop. All the information is below, but please email Vanessa directly to RSVP. The workshop will be capped at 12 people.

Creative Writing Workshop Led by Vanessa Hamra

Friday, November 18

6:00 - 7:00 PM

Draper Map Room

The details:

• The workshop is a free New York Writer's Coalition workshop
• All writing genres and levels are welcome.
• There will be coffee & treats
  

RSVP Required! Email Vanessa at vanassa.sue@gmail.com to register.

Upcoming Lecture 11/14: The National Museum of the American Indian after 9/11

John Haworth -- Monday, November 14, 2011, at 6:30 p.m.
Director, National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center
The National Museum of the American Indian after 9/11:
Lessons Learned in Cultural Representation, Civic Engagement and Reconciliation
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 301

Co-Sponsored by the Program in Museum Studies, the Native Studies Forum, and the Department of Anthropology

Museum Studies Fall 2011 Speaker Series: http://museumstudies.as.nyu.edu/page/news_events .

Program in Museum Studies
Graduate School of Arts and Science
New York University
240 Greene Street, Suite 400, New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212-998-8080; Fax: 212-995-4185

E-mail: museum.studies@nyu.edu

Web: http://museumstudies.as.nyu.edu

Bobst Hosts Research Breakfast for Grad Students, Nov. 15

NYU Libraries are getting ready for the final stretch of the semester and invite you to join them for a special event. Come have breakfast, talk with librarians about your project, and take care of those lingering research to-do list items. There will be specialists from across the disciplines who can help get you (re)oriented to library resources, get you started with citation management tools, and help you get the most out of library collections and services. This informal event lasts for two hours, and you can come and go as you like during that time.

Tuesday, November 15, 10:00am-12:00noon
Bobst Library
10th-floor Graduate Research Exchange (northwest corner)

To RSVP, go to http://library.nyu.edu/grads 

"Queer Baroque: Perlongher strolls on Parque Lezama" (Nov 7, Comp Lit/CLACS)

The Department of Comparative Literature, Department of
Spanish and CLACS present a talk by …

Rubén Ríos Ávila
"Queer Baroque: Perlongher strolls on Parque Lezama"
Monday, November 7
6-8:00 pm
19 University Place – Great Room (1st floor)

Light reception to follow.

Rubén Ríos Ávila is Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico, where he teaches literary theory, the work of Jacques Lacan, Queer theory, and Latin-American literature and film. He is author of La raza cómica: del sujeto en Puerto Rico and of Embocadura, as well as numerous articles on Puerto Rican and Caribbean literature. He was for a number of years the literary reviews editor for the newspaper El Mundo, and served as the cultural critic for the TV program Cultura Viva; he coordinates the TV program EnCinta, a forum for film discussion and criticism. Ríos Ávila's journalism and critical work have been widely recognized. He has been awarded prizes by the Instituto de Literatura and the Pen Club.

Good News! Updates & Announcements from Draper Community Members

Hilarie Ashton (January 2011) will be publishing her essay, "Urban (as) Flâneur: Narrator and City in Edgardo Vega Yunque's The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into The Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle," in LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES: Critiques of Contemporary Cinema, Literatures, Politics and Revolution (Academica Press) later this year or early in 2012.

Hilarie will also present her paper "The Doppelganger Artist: Reuse and/or Originality in Postmodernity and Popular Music" at the Canadian Association for American Studies Conference this November.

Mario Cancel-Bigay is a musician and songwriter. He will be performing his original compositions "I Got my NYU Card," "I Don't Have to Wear a Tie," "Please Forgive Me, I'm Unemployed," "Matriarchal Revolution," "In the Subway," and other witty and poetically critical songs at Shrine (2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. in Harlem) on Thursday November 10^th. Have a listen to Mario’s music and find out about his upcoming performances at http://www.myspace.com/mario-cancel/

Heather Dodge (December 2010) recently presented her paper, "The New Animal Taxonomy: 'rendering' animals visible in Sue Coe's slaughterhouse sketches," at the 2nd Annual European Conference for Critical Animal Studies in Prague. In March, she will present another paper entitled, "Going to the Dogs: human and dog relationships in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf" at the Northeast Modern Language Association's 2012 Convention.

She is also delighted that a co-authored paper, "The New Virtual Librarian: Learning to teach and teaching to learn digital literacy, " will be published in a special issue of Learning, Media and Technology sometime in 2012.

Russell MacKenzie Fehr (January 2009) presented at the Graduate Student History Conference and at the California Conference for the Promotion of History in October. He expects to be ABD by June of 2012.

April Fisher (May 2009) published her short story "Ecology" in the October edition of Burnt Bridge (http://burntbridge.net/). She gave her first reading in Brooklyn on Oct 12, 2011, at Linger Cafe's short story writer series. More of her stories can be found at http://aprilbacon.com.

Yvonne C. Garrett (Draper 2010) and her fellow-poet Mary Ellen Sanger have put out their first book of poetry, Waiting for the end of the world: Thoughts of bullfrogs and guerrillas, through their own small press. The collection is available through Amazon, here.

Andrea Hines (May 2010) began a new position in August as the Executive Assistant to the Institute Director at NYU’s Neuroscience Institute.

Jess Kelly was invited to present her paper "Post-Colonial City Planning and Police Homicide in Derry, Northern Ireland and Los Angeles” at UPenn for the International Herbert Marcuse Society's "Critical Refusals" conference in October.

Jess’ paper, which discusses the similarities between the racialized violence and riots that occurred after the Rodney King incident and The Troubles in Northern Ireland, is the jumping-off point for her thesis research on the reactionary punk subculture of 1970s Northern Ireland - an exploration of the anti-capitalist, anti-establishment subculture (ethnicity?) and its rejection of the religious sectarianism and subsequent violence.

Additionally, Jess’ thesis abstract was accepted as one of 14 finalists for a special punk issue of the journal Patterns of Prejudice which will publish 12 of the 14 finalist papers in 2013.

Ji Hyuck Moon (May 2011) published his first collection of short stories, Two Nights With a Lion, in Korea this September. Ji Hyuck plans to translate this work into English in the near future and is currently looking for a literary agent.

Ji Hyuck was also recently hired as an adjunct instructor in NYU’s East Asian Studies Department. He is teaching one Elementary Korean Class this fall and says that teaching students the Korean language inspires him as a writer.

Devin D. Moss, M.S. Ed has been hired as LGBT Program Coordinator at the University of South Carolina November 1^st. This is a newly created position at the institution, and he is thrilled to lead initiatives that will create safe and inclusive environments for LGBT students.

Kathleen Reeves (May 2011) published her article "Bodied Time and Ghosted Narrative in The Body Artist" in Concordia University's Journal of Religion and Culture in September. Kathleen presented the article as a paper at Concordia's 16th annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference "Crossroads and Borders," in February. She attended the conference with additional assistance from one of Draper's Travel Grants, which she was the recipient of in November/December 2010.

Kathleen's article can be downloaded in .pdf format from the journal website, here. (Her article is second to last in the issue.)

Cara Ryan began an internship at the Interfaith Center Of New York, working on the Catholic-Muslim Social Services Project on September 1st. The project, which involves Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, various churches, mosques and social services in the Bronx, Staten Island and Manhattan, complements Cara’s thesis, a study of the relationship between American Catholic and Muslim communities.

Corinne Woods was recently hired as the Production Manager for the inaugural year of the All for One Theater Festival, a ten day festival celebrating solo performance which begins 11.11.11 at Theatre 80 St. Marks.

And lastly...

Congratulations to former Draper Global Histories Fellow/current adjunct Maia Ramnath on her first major publication: Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire.

You can read the first chapter and/or purchase the book at the publisher website: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520269552

Aerial Dance Theater Show Features Draper's Maia Ramnath

Draper's own Maia Ramnath is not just a recently-published author, she's also an aerialist artist. Info below on her upcoming aerial-dance-theater collage:

Constellation Moving Company is pleased to share with you our latest aerial-dance-theater collage: Xenophilia, presented November 10-13 by Theater for the New City.

Not long ago, in the Milky Way Galaxy, there lived a writer of science fiction called Alice Bradley Sheldon, aka James Tiptree, Jr., and a writer of songs called Connie Converse. To many, their identities remained a mystery. They never met, but they should have. In our alternate universe they do. This full-length production is an homage to their work and lives, woven through text and movement. So come for astronauts, aliens, and astonishing airborne events...stay for moments of strange beauty and debates on love and death.

Assembled, directed and choreographed by Maia Ramnath (ground, rope, silks) with assists from Scott Combs and Rebecca Stronger (trapeze) and Elena Delgado (lyra).

Performed by Scott Combs, Elena Delgado, Lauren Ferguson, Jen Kovacs, Lisa Natoli, Maia Ramnath, Satomi Shikata, Lynda Sing, Rebecca Stronger, Nicole Tourtelot, and Susie Williams.

Costume design by Elena Delgado and Juanita Cardenas.
Lighting design by John Wilder.

Shows are at 8:00 Thursday-Saturday, 3:00 Sunday.
Tickets are 15$ general admission, 10$ for students and seniors.
Available at www.brownpapertickets.com; box office at 212-254-1109.

Theater for the New City is located at 155 First Avenue, between 9th and 10th Streets.
(www.theaterforthenewcity.net). Take L train to First Avenue or 6 train to Astor Place.


This piece was created in part through The Field’s Artist Residency program supported by the Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation, and presented through the help of Theater for the New City, with Executive Director Crystal Field.

A note on TNC: this space is a longtime mainstay of artistic community and innovative independent theater in the East Village. I’m proud to be part of that tradition, honored to contribute to it, and committed to the collective task of keeping this neighborhood alive far into the future as a center of non-commercial art and progressive politics, gentrification be damned.

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Constellation Moving Company is a project based performance group specializing in multi-disciplinary collaborations that combine elements of dance, aerial acrobatics, music, text and/or video art. We aim to explore complex themes by allowing each medium do to what it does best, while mutually expanding their creative possibilities through the juxtaposition.

More information available at http://constellationmovingco.wordpress.com.

If you like what we do, please consider helping to make it possible by making a donation in support of this and future projects. We are resourceful, dedicated and creative, and we know how to tie good knots; but even so our shoestrings can only hold together so much

Donations can be made here:
https://www.thefield.org/ContributionToSA.aspx?

The Field is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the New York City performing arts community. Contributions made to The Field and earmarked for Maia Ramnath/Constellation Moving Company are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

For more information about The Field contact: The Field, 161 Sixth Avenue, 14th Floor, New York NY 10013, (212) 691-6969, fax: (212) 255-2053, www.thefield.org.

A copy of The Field’s latest annual report may be obtained, upon request, from The Field or from the Office of the Attorney General,Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

Nov 4: Desire for the Other: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory in Conversation

Draper's very own Amber Musser will speak at this upcoming event!

The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University presents

Desire for the Other: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory in Conversation

a roundtable on the new book With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories

November 4, Friday4 to 6 pm

13-19 University Place (map)

Lecture room 102 (please note room change)

between 8th Street and Waverly Place

Panelists include:

contributing authors Orna Guralnik and Eyal Rozmarin

Ben Kafka, Media & History, NYU

Amber Musser, Draper Program, NYU

moderated by Muriel Dimen, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU

This panel continues the project of developing a shared vocabulary between clinical and cultural theorists. With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories (Routledge, 2011) reflects a movement emerging in the psychoanalytic world in the wake of feminist, postmodernist, and queer theory, and of gender and race politics. Traditionally, analysts maintain a remote stance towards the social, and are inclined to privilege the wild unconscious as a private space. Not so the writers in this book, all of them analysts, who immerse themselves in the here and now of people’s lives, attempting to navigate the complexity of different paradigms held by psychoanalytic and other critical approaches. They begin with the premise that subjectivity – interior life – is steeped in socio-political forces, and work to demonstrate how this assumption enhances clinical technique.

On this panel, two of the authors — Orna Guralnik and Eyal Rozmarin — demonstrate how critical and cultural theory shapes their very clinical work, including their theses about desire and identity. They will show not only what the clinical experience is like, but how theory lives, how changes when it moves from textual to clinical practices. The psychoanalytic consulting room is a scene of address that requires a way of being with ideas that is continuously responsive to the enigma of the Other. This is theory in the making.

At this forum, Guralnik and Rozmarin will be joined in conversation by two university-based cultural theorists, both of whom are faculty members at New York University: Ben Kafka and Amber Musser. Kafka and Musser will engage with the new psychoanalysis from their own (inter)disciplinary perspectives to rethink how bodies take shape intersubjectively and in relation, as well, to such socio-cultural variables as gender, national origins, race, and sexuality. Along with moderator Muriel Dimen, a clinician who is also the editor of With Culture in Mind, the roundtable as a whole will indicate how theory and embodied subjects live and breathe in different and overlapping kinds of spaces.

This event is free and open to the public. Venue is wheelchair accessible.

No RSVPs — seating is on a first-come basis.

For more information, please call CSGS at 212-992-9540, email csgs@nyu.edu or visit: http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/10/desire-for-the-other-psychoanalysis-and-critical-theory-in-conversation/

Facebook event page click here.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, NYU; Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, NYU; Humanities Initiative: Interdisciplinary Freud Reading Group, NYU; and Studies in Gender and Sexuality

Attend NYU-SCPS Panel Discussions at DOC NYC

Celebrate documentary filmmaking and gain insights from leaders and innovators in the industry at the second annual DOC NYC Film Festival.

The NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies Department of Design, Digital Arts, and Film will participate in the Festival by co-presenting three panels.

Join us on November 5 at the NYU Kimmel Center.

10 a.m.—Case Study: Making and Distributing Buck explores the key steps that first-time filmmaker Cindy Meehl took to make this film about the real-life horse whisperer Buck Brannaman, and to get it into theaters. Panelists include director Cindy Meehl, producer Julie Goldman, sales agent Josh Braun, and distribution specialist Ryan Werner of Sundance Selects.

1 p.m.—Telling Global Stories, co-presented by the NYU-SCPS Center for Global Affairs, features veteran filmmakers discussing the challenges and the rewards of filming in foreign locales. If you've ever wanted to travel the world making films, this class is for you!
4 p.m.—How Film and Philanthropy Work Together, co-presented by the NYU-SCPS George H. Heyman, Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising, examines opportunities for partnerships between philanthropists and filmmakers to obtain financing, and to reach wider audiences. Dan Cogan of Impact Partners leads this lively discussion

For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.

The DOC NYC Film Festival, held Wednesday, November 2 through Thursday, November 10, also will include new documentaries by—and conversations with—renowned filmmakers Jonathan Demme (I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad and the Beautiful) and Werner Herzog (Into the Abyss); a tribute to celebrated documentarian Richard Leacock; film competitions; premieres; and more.

Understanding #OCCUPYWALLSTREET: Event at Columbia Tomorrow, 10/26

Understanding #OCCUPYWALLSTREET

Wed, Oct 26th, 2011, 7:30 pm
501 Schermerhorn
1190 Amsterdam Ave

On September 17th, 2011, a group of protestors began their occupation of Zuccotti Park in the financial district of Manhattan. The #OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement has grown to include hundreds of people who live in the park and thousands more who occupy it during the day. Similar protests have begun in other cities around the United States and throughout the world. The leaderless movement has spread largely via the Internet and through the use of mobile technology and social media. How do we understand this movement? What is new about it, and how has it arisen? Where is it going, and how has it already changed? A roundtable of Columbia University professors will explore these questions and provide a platform for campus-wide discussion.

Participants include Saskia Sassen (Sociology), Nadia Urbinati (Political Science), Stathis Gourgouris (ICLS), andSuresh Naidu (Economics and SIPA).

Seating is limited, and registration is required. Please RSVP to jlb2210@columbia.edu.
Sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL).

Call for Submissions: Edgar Allan Poe

Love Poe? NYU’s Office of Government and Community Affairs and Lois Rakoff, Community Director of the Poe Room announce open call tryouts.

Looking for creative submissions to showcase the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Mediums such as dance, drama, music, paintings, sculptures, magic, readings, and other expressions are encouraged to illuminate Poe’s life.

ALL AGES ARE WELCOME TO SUBMIT WORK
on a rolling basis until Monday, November 7, 2011 to Arlene Peralta at arlene.peralta@nyu.edu or 212.998.2401

SAVE THE DATE
THE POE ROOM SHOWCASE WILL BE:
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 6:00PM
NYU School of Law, 245 Sullivan Street, Furman Hall - Room 216
*Reception to immediately follow in the Poe Room*

The Poe room event is a partnership with NYU and the Community.
This event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

Cultures Of Resistance: Artists On Arts & Activism

“Cultures Of Resistance” — Artists On Arts & Activism
Suheir Hammad, Sidd Joag, Iara Lee, Paul D. Miller

Workshop | Film Screening | Panel Discussion

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
RSVP to WORKSHOP and FILM/PANEL:
www. apa.nyu.edu | apa.rsvp@nyu.edu | 212.992.9653
FREE and open to the public.

A/P/A Institute asks four artists — Suheir Hammad, Sidd Joag, Iara Lee and Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) — to explore the idea of being “the change they want to see” as set forth by filmmaker Iara Lee in her film “Cultures of Resistance.” The workshop, screening and discussion will provide launching points for artists, scholars and community to come together in discussion on artistsʼ roles in global change and resistance.

WORKSHOP with Artist Sidd Joag, freeDimensional
NYU Institute for Public Knowledge
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
3:00PM-5:00PM

Artist Sidd Joag of freeDimensional will facilitate a workshop on its new region-specific model for providing distress services to artists and culture workers in areas of conflict. Participants will engage with the concept, purpose, structure and outcomes of Regional Triage Teams - network activators designed to advocate for and access resources on behalf of artists facing political repression as a result of their activist work.

FILM "Cultures of Resistance" dir. Iara Lee
NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
24 West 12th Street, Auditorium
6:00PM-7:30PM

Does each gesture really make a difference? Can music and dance be weapons of peace? In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict and, as she saw it, heading for self-destruction. After several years, travelling over five continents, Lee encountered growing numbers of people who committed their lives to promoting change. This is their story. From Iran, where graffiti and rap became tools in fighting government repression, to Burma, where monks acting in the tradition of Gandhi take on a dictatorship, moving on to Brazil, where musicians reach out to slum kids and transform guns into guitars, and ending in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, where photography, music, and film have given a voice to those rarely heard, “Cultures of Resistance” explores how art and creativity can be ammunition in the battle for peace and justice.

PANEL DISCUSSION
NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò,
24 West 12th Street, Auditorium
7:30PM-9PM

The film is the launching point for the post-screening panel featuring filmmaker Iara Lee (“Cultures of Resistence”), Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky on the Vanuatu Pacifica Project and Tanna Center for the Arts), poet Suheir Hammad, and artist Sidd Joag. The panel will explore the role of the artist in a global society, including that of the diasporic artist. The panel will be moderated by NYU Tisch School of the Artsʼ Art & Public Policy Program chair Randy Martin.

Co-sponsored by: The Institute for Public Knowledge; Tisch School of the Arts’ Art & Public Policy Program; NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions; NYU Students for Justice in Palestine; and the NYU Center for Media, Culture and History

Comp Lit talk: ETIENNE BALIBAR- TODAY (WED 10/19)

Etienne Balibar
"Bourgeois Universality & Anthropological Differences"

Wednesday, October 19
7-8:30 pm
at La Maison Francaise
16 Washington Mews

There will also be a presentation/discussion with Jacques Lezra on Professor Balibar's new book from puf publications: Citoyen sujet et autres essais d'anthropologie philosophique (Citzen Subjects and Other Essays of Philosophical Anthropology).

Co-sponsored by the NYU Department of Comparative Literature and La Maison Francaise.

Bronx Museum, Architecture Conference: Beyond the Super-Square

BEYOND THE SUPER-SQUARE:
At the Corner of Art & Architecture
October 28-30, 2011
Beyond the Super Square: At the Corner of Art & Architecture is a three-day conference designed to draw attention to an important historical period of modernist architectural production in Latin America and the Caribbean that, 50 years later, continues to resonate among contemporary artists. Held on October 28–30, 2011, the conference strives to contextualize the impact of modernist architecture throughout the Americas through a series of panels and presentations by architects, urban planners, and contemporary artists.

Conference events are free with registration, except where noted. For more information and registration visit www.bronxmuseum.org

Friday October 28, 2011
THE ARCHITECTURE CHALLENGE! & RECEPTION

Conceived by artist Pedro Reyes

6:00PM-8:30PM

The New School | Tishman Auditorium | 66 W. 12th Street | New York NY

Beyond the Super-Square inaugurates with The Architecture Challenge! In lieu of a traditional opening night lecture, our conference speakers will come together as contestants to test their knowledge of modernist architecture in a playful game show style competition. Our charming hosts, Eva Franch i Gilabert (Director, Storefront for Art and Architecture) and Terence Gower (artist) will grill conference participants on the most obscure architectural facts.
This evening of game and celebration is conceived by artist Pedro Reyes and organized by The Bronx Museum of the Arts in collaboration with The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.

Saturday October 29, 2011
BEYOND THE SUPER-SQUARE SYMPOSIUM
9:00AM-6:00PM
The Bronx Museum of the Arts | 1040 Grand Concourse | Bronx NY
Beyond the Super-Square Symposium brings together architects, artists, scholars, and urban planners for a daylong series of panels to explore the varied and dynamic exchanges between Latin America’s vanguards of modern architecture and contemporary art. Masterworks by modernist Latin American and Caribbean architects such as Mathias Goertiz, Lina Bo Bardi, Max Borges, Mario Pani, and Carlos Raul Villanueva, among others, will be evaluated through the unique perspective of contemporary artists to offer a broad critical understanding of the transformative environments that hailed Latin America’s transition into modernity.

Sunday October 30, 2011
MODERNISM IN THE BRONX STUDY TOUR
10:30AM-2:00PM
Various Sites | Meets at Lexington & E. 59th | $30.00 includes lunch
Discover New York City’s overlooked modern architectural heritage in the Bronx. A bus tour led by architectural historian Matthew Postal will cover various sites in the Bronx including two university campuses, government offices, and high-rise structures designed by renowned architects Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, and Paul Rudolph, among others.