A Talk Presented by NYU's Romanticist Reading Group, 4/18

The NYU Department of English &  
The Romanticist Reading Group of NYU 

(nyurrg.org) 

PRESENT:

"Modern Nature; or, Imagination Revisited"

Anahid J. Nersessian (Presenter, Columbia English and Comparative Literature)

Maureen N. McLane (Respondent, NYU Department of English)

20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Flex Space

Wednesday, April 18th

6 - 8 pm

**Snacks and wine will be served**

"This talk suggests some new possibilities for ecological critique by revisiting the familiar, gently antiquated concept of the Romantic imagination. Through readings of William Cowper, Dorothy Wordsworth, and the late-Romantic artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman, I propose a return to literary and aesthetic questions about how we imagine, represent, and make sensible phenomena which are intermittently or not at all available to the senses." 

- Anahid J. Nersessian

Witness to an Extreme Century: Thoughts on Scholarship and Activism. A Talk by Robert Lifton, 4/4

Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies
and
The Humanities Initiative
Interdisciplinary Freud Colloquium

are proud to present a lecture by

Dr. Robert J. Lifton
Lecturer in Psychiatry at Columbia University; author of numerous books, including Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir; Death and Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (Winner of the National Book Award ); and The Nazi Doctors (Winner of the Los Angeles Times book prize).

Witness to an Extreme Century:
Thoughts on Scholarship and Activism
Wednesday, April 4 from 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.12 Waverly Place, Room G08

Everyone is welcome.
Given that space is limited, we suggest that you arrive early.

CEMS Talk w/ J. Lezaun, March 5: "Biopolitical exceptionalism in Europe"

You are invited to a lecture on

"Biopolitical exceptionalism in Europe: the limits of coexistence"

Javier Lezaun, James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance

University of Oxford

Monday, March 5, 2012, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
285 Mercer Street, 7th floor seminar room

Lunch will be served.

To attend, RSVP by return e-mail (to jennifer.denbo@nyu.edu) by Friday, March 2.

Architecture and Deconstruction: A Conversation between Peter Engelmann & Peter Eisenman (2/28)

You are cordially invited to a conversation between Peter Engelmann and Peter Eisenman at Deutsches Haus at NYU, February 28th, 6:30 pm

Deutsches Haus at NYU, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY, 10003

Peter Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect and educator whose award-winning large scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and series of inventive private houses attest to a career of excellence in design.

Since 1987 Peter Engelmann has been the publisher and editor of Passagen Verlag Publishers in Vienna, whose specialization in French philosophy was groundbreaking for the entire German-speaking world.

http://deutscheshaus.as.nyu.edu/object/dh.event.peterengelmann.022812

Burden of Choice: Guns (A Talk w/ John Feinblatt, 2/29 -- Columbia University)

The Institute for religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia invites you to the following event.

Burden of Choice: Guns

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012, 6:30-8pm
International Affairs, Room 707
420 West 118th Street

A conversation with John Feinblatt, the chief policy adviser to Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York and the lead architect of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Moderated by Gillian Metzger, Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law at Columbia University.

Burden of Choice is a conversation series about how proliferating choices in a liberal democracy both liberate and constrain us, including charitable giving on February 15; waste on March 28; and debt on April 3.

Talk Tonight, 2/16 - The Spectral Politics of DEFA: Hamlet in the East

The Department of German invites you to a talk by

Professor Larson Powell (University of Missouri, Kansas City)

The Spectral Politics of DEFA: Hamlet in the East

Thursday, February 16th at 5:00pm
Great Room, 1st Floor of 19 University Place

This talk will be given in English

Prof. Powell specializes in 20th century literature and film (especially DEFA and film music). His first book, The Technological Unconscious in German Modernist Literature centers on the representation of nature in German prose and -- especially -- poetry by Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Döblin from the years 1900 to 1945. He is currently, an Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

DSO Forum (with Pizza) This Friday, 2/17, Noon - 2:00 PM

Hey everyone,

The D.S.O. Forum is back this semester. We'll have our first meeting this Friday, the 17th from high noon 'til 2pm in the Map room.

There will be free pizza!

This week we'd like to talk about the presidential election. So if you'd like, bring an article or editorial loosely pertaining to American politics to discuss. If you don't feel like talking politics that's fine too. Just come, eat, and hang out; it's very casual!

Here's a couple of articles Valentine and I at the D.S.O. thought were worth discussing... Eurozone leaders 'call of Greece crisis talks' and Repulsive Progressive Hypocrisy, by Glenn Greenwald.

And If you wouldn't mind, please RSVP at dsonyu@gmail.com (so we know how much pizza to buy).

See you on Friday!
Scott
Draper Student Organization

Two Upcoming Talks: Latin American Media Today / Building American Indian Studies Inside and Outside of Academia

Two Upcoming Talks of Interest at NYU:

Latin American Media Today

NYU Steinhardt professor Juan Pinon, visiting scholars, and journalists will examine the nature and ongoing global configuration of Latin American media today. The panel will analyze new developments in traditional media and discuss issues of representation, diversity, and democracy. The event will be held on Thursday, Feb. 16, 5:30 pm at 20 Cooper Square, 4^th floor. For details, click here.

Building American Indian Studies Inside and Outside of Academia

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Ned Blackhawk, Professor of History and American Studies at Yale, and Dr. Theodore Van Alst, Assistant Dean of Yale College and Director of Yale’s Native American Cultural Center. All are welcome. Thursday, Feb. 23, 12:00 noon at the NYU School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall, Room 201. Please RSVP at cmep@nyu.edu.

via the NYU Minute e-newsletter

Sex, Empire & Literature in the Anglo-American World, 1700-2020: Henry Abelove and “The Gay Science” (Feb 16,17)

Sex, Empire, and Literature in the Anglo-American World, 1700-2020: Henry Abelove and “The Gay Science”

a two-day conference with Henry Abelove, Rebecca Connor, Jasper Cragwall, Douglas Crimp, Lisa Duggan, Phil Harper, Neville Hoad, Allan Isaac, Janet Jakobsen, Michael Lucey, Steven Maynard, Tavia Nyong’o, Claire Potter, Daniel Rosenberg, Michael Roth, Todd Shepard, Marc Stein, Michael Trask, and Dorothy Wang




February 16 & 17, Thursday & Friday

For more information: abelove.wordpress.com
or contact the NYU Department of Performance Studies @ 212 998 1620 or performance.studies@nyu.edu

Thursday, February 16
5 to 8 pm

Fales Library and Special Collections
70 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor

5 to 5:15 pm Welcome

5:15 to 6:45 pm Panel 1: Pedagogy

Chair: Claire Potter (Wesleyan University)

Panelists:
Steven Maynard (Queen’s University)
Tavia Nyong’o (New York University)
Michael Roth (Wesleyan University)
Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins University)

7 to 8 pm Reception

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Friday, February 17
10 am to 6 pm

The Humanities Initiative
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor

10 to 11:30 am Panel 2: Eighteenth Century

Chair: Marc Stein (York University)

Panelists:
Rebecca Connor (Hunter College)
Jasper Cragwall (Loyola University)
Daniel Rosenberg (University of Oregon)

11:30 to 1 pm lunch

1 to 2:30 Panel 3: Poetry and Literature

Chair: Allan Isaac (Rutgers University)

Panelists:
Phil Harper (New York University)
Michael Trask (University of Kentucky)
Dorothy Wang (Williams College)

2:30 to 2:45 pm Break

2:45 to 4:15 pm Panel 4: Queer Studies

Chair: Lisa Duggan (New York University)

Panelists:
Janet Jakobsen (Barnard College)
Michael Lucey (University of California, Berkeley)
Neville Hoad (University of Texas, Austin)

4:15 to 4:30 pm Break

4:30 to 5:30 pm Keynote: Douglas Crimp (University of Rochester)

5:30 to 6 pm Closing Remarks from Henry Abelove (Wesleyan University, visiting New York University, Spring 2012)

This event is free and open to the public. Venues are wheelchair accessible.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Performance Studies, English, and Social & Cultural Analysis; the Programs in American Studies, Women’s & Gender Studies; the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality; Fales Library and the Humanities Initiative at NYU.

Aberrant Waste: Ocean Plastics: A talk by Max Liboiron, 2/15

NYU Bobst Library's Coles Science Center presents:

"Aberrant Waste: Ocean Plastics" A talk by Max Liboiron

DATE: Wednesday, February 15, 2012
TIME: 5:30-7:00PM
LOCATION: Bobst Library, 2nd floor, South wing, Avery Room
RSVP required: http://tinyurl.com/oceanplastics

There is plastic in every ocean in the world. Plastic is a unique pollutant that defies current theories and practices of pollution control we have come to depend upon. This illustrated talk will focus on a single sample of ocean plastics taken from the North Pacific Ocean and follow the threads of how it was collected, how samples are used in science and advocacy, their place in the popular imagination, and how an individual specimen can and cannot scale up to illuminate a new global pollution that will characterize the twenty-first century.

Max Liboiron is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU and is the Regional Co-Director of the Plastic Pollution Coalition East Coast. You can find more about Max's work on plastics at http://maxliboiron.com/.

For more information about the talk, please contact Jill Conte at jill.conte@nyu.edu.

Jennifer Egan: Rewiring the Real (Conversation at Columbia, 2/7)

Columbia University is sponsoring a conversation with the author Jennifer Egan. Read on for an event description and links to further information.

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Jennifer Egan: Rewiring the Real

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012, 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
420 West 118th Street

A conversation with Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit From the Goon Squad as well as Look at Me and The Keep. Moderated by Willing Davidson, fiction editor of The New Yorker.

Rewiring the Real is a yearlong series of conversations with writers about the interplay of literature, technology and religion, including Mark Z. Danielewski on April 24.

Cyber Crime. Discussion w/ SEN Gillibrand, Helen Nissenbaum (1/23)

The Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU and the The Citizens Crime Commission of New York City are hosting a public discussion on Cyber Crime. The event will take place on Jan 23, 2012, from 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM in the Kimmel Center, at 60 Washington Square South, in the Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, 4th Floor.

Please RSVP here: http://www.nyu.edu/ipk/events/214

Cyber crime is a growing concern for law enforcement, corporations, and individuals costing billions per year. Each data breach costs American businesses an average of $6.6 million, and every hour, the FBI processes 35 cases through the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The panel will address the policy and law enforcement challenges from a broad perspective, as well as the unique issues facing social media sites and users.

This discussion will feature:

-Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
-Associate General Counsel of Facebook, Chris Sonderby
-FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Cyber/Special Operations Division, Mary Galligan
-Senior Faculty Fellow at the Information Law Institute and NYU Media, Culture, and Communication Professor, Helen Nissenbaum

NYU President John Sexton will introduce the speakers, and Crime
Commission Director Richard Aborn will moderate the discussion.

Asian American Comics in a "Post-Race" Era, 12/20

NYPL librarian Raymond Pun invites all Draperites to the following event!

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Program: Asian American Comics in a "Post-Race" Era

Tuesday, December 20th, 1:15-3 pm
in the South Court Auditorium in the NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
42nd St and 5th Ave

More info here:
http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/36/node/124820

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!

"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.

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

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).

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.