Robin Nagle talk at NYU Langone tonight

Draper's fearless leader, Robin Nagle, will be giving a talk tonight entitled How Street Cleaners Saved New York City.

Monday, July 26
5:30 p.m.NYU School of Medicine, Smilow Multipurpose Room
550 1st Avenue (enter facility at main entrance--550 1st Avenue at E. 32nd Street; once inside, signs direct you to Smilow Multipurpose Room).

More info here.

Anamesa blog!

Exciting new additions to the Anamesa scope have come for Summer 2010!

Anamesa, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of graduate student writing and art based at New York University, has added a blog to its breadth of academic offerings. Beginning mid-summer, we will host a live-active blog on our website, to augment our print issues and provide a forum for the topics, themes and musings that concern the graduate student community.

We are now accepting submissions for our blog from graduate students across all disciplines. We encourage you to send writing (including but not limited to essays, creative non-fiction, reportage, interviews, reviews, short stories, poetry, and other unclassifiable prose creations) and art of all sorts (such as photography, drawings, paintings, film stills, posters, prints, etc.) that would be appropriate for a blog or short-format setting. Anamesa considers material on a diversity of subjects, and publishes creative and intelligent works that exemplify the transdisciplinary spirit of the graduate community.

Since the blog is in continuous publication, there are no deadlines; however, the sooner you send in your work, the sooner it will be considered for posting. Likewise, there are no word limits or citation-requirements, yet do keep in mind that a 6000 word essay is better formatted for our print publication and will most likely be passed over for the blog.

Please send all submissions and queries to anamesa.blog@gmail.com Please include a cover page with your name, departmental affiliation, expected degree and date, telephone number, and email address. We accept multiple submissions, but we ask that you place each submission in a different email message with the subject heading listing the relevant genre (e.g., "essay," "fiction," or "photography").

Student News!

Draper graduate Scott Bankert (May 2010) will be presenting his paper,"Impossible Cities (Personal Accounts of Wonder in the Global Everyday)" at the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs' conference on "The Transformation of the 21st Century City" in October. Scott's paper description is below:

In Rio de Janeiro’s downtown, a vast tented city cloaks beneath its pitched blue tarps myriad, provisional, black-market businesses that can be seen uncannily from the windows of adjacent high-rise global commerce and governing institutions. Encountering this double occupancy in Rio’s downtown leaves one with a feeling of wonder–-an unsettled urgency requiring movement, encounter, revelation in order that these seemingly contradictory spaces divulge their secret inner workings and relationships. Through scholarly research, participant observation, photography and the written word, this project engages the spatial predicaments erupting in Rio de Janeiro and in cities across the planet in hopes of finding better ways of addressing the perplexing social conditions that emerge from everyday spatial situations.

Congrats, Scott!

Thesis Submission Deadline, September Grads: August 16 (One month from today!)

Dear Students:

Please be reminded that those of you who intend to graduate this coming September will need to submit your completed and approved Master's thesis to Draper no later than one month from today: Monday, August 16th. Any theses received after 6:00 PM on August 16th will be held over for January graduation. There will be no exceptions.

For more information on thesis guidelines, please see Draper's Web site, here: http://www.draper.fas.nyu.edu/object/draper.program.thesisguidelines

All thesis related forms--including a sample cover page and second reader sheets--can also be downloaded from the Draper website, here: http://www.draper.fas.nyu.edu/object/draper.forms

If you have any questions or concerns about the thesis submission or graduation processes, please feel free to email us at draper.program@nyu.edu.

Student News!

David Ferris has launched a new blog called "Humble Piety: Meditations on the Politics of Limited Knowledge." About this project, David writes,

Ranging widely in topical content, Ferris ponders knowledge and belief in the public sphere. Often approaching feature-length articles in a style inhabiting the interregnum between academic and pop-political, the long-form posts may be unwieldy for the blogosphere but hopefully justify their verbosity. They should appeal to a wide range of Draper students. Participation through comments is highly encouraged and diversity of perspective deeply valued. Ask a question. Throw out a challenge to think in new light. Share your experience and erudition."

Check out David's blog at http://humblepiety.com/

Salvador Olguin presented his paper "Towards a Genealogy of the Posthuman Subject: Traces of a Prosthetic Impulse in Philosophical Materialism During the Enlightenment and in Gnostic Theology" at The University of Surrey's interdisciplinary conference on "The Emergence of the Posthuman Subject." Salvador has also published an article called "Giorgio Agamben: Posthumanism and Bare Life" in Interfolia, a magazine published by the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico.