Schedule Your Fall 2010 Advisement Appointment Next Monday, July 12

Please be reminded that we will start scheduling appointments for fall 2010 academic advisement next Monday, July 12. Draper's advisement period runs from Monday, August 16 through Thursday, September 2. In person appointments are preferable, but phone appointments can be scheduled for students who will not be in New York on the day of their scheduled meeting.

All students who are registering for credits *must* have an advising appointment.

To schedule an advising appointment, call Draper's main line (212.998.8070) on or after Monday, July 12. Feel free to email draper.program@nyu.edu with any questions about this.

Short Term Office Closure, 6/29

Due to a building issue, the Draper Offices will be closed from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 29. We apologize for any inconvenience!

Student News!

Several Draper students have exciting news to share. Please join us in congratulating them! If you have news you'd like to share with the Draper community, let us know. Email us at draper.program@nyu.edu.

Dani Limos has a new job working with Peace First, an organization whose goal is to integrate social-emotional learning into the schools' curriculum and culture. Dani will be working as a Peace First Americorps Member for 10 months, going into schools in NYC and teaching kids the skills of conflict resolution and civic engagement through games and community service projects. In the fall, she'll be leading weekly experiential activities, and in the spring, she'll be helping each classroom create and implement community service learning projects to apply their learned skills in a community context.

Faith Merino-Davies will be presenting a paper entitled "Grotesque: Writing, Naming, and Disfiguring Women's Bodies in and Wide Sargasso Sea and Myal"at the "Hybrids, Monsters, Aliens, and Other Creatures in 20th and 21st Century Writing" Conference at the University of London's Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies this September.

April Pierce has had papers accepted at three upcoming conferences. In August, she'll be presenting a paper entitled "Representation, Concealment, and Techne: 21st Century Reimaginings of Heidegger's Work" at the International Society for Hermeneutics and Science's annual conference in Vienna. The paper examines artificial intelligence, avatars, and bioengineering from a Heideggerian perspective.

In September, she'll be presenting her paper "Where Does the Poem Go?" at the “Cosmopoetics: Mediating a New World Poetics”conference at St. John’sCollege, Durham University. The paper is an experimental essay which seeks to uncover the poetic audience: their motivations, their modes of listening, and their philosophy.

April and Seth Taylor Garrison will be co-presenting "The Metaphorical Horizon: Between Facts and Fiction," at the 5th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in Cambridge, UK. April and Seth's proposal can be read on the conference website.

Free Summer Film Series: Weimar on Screen

Draper graduate Leah Ammon now works at the Neue Galerie Museum, which is curating a free film series this summer called "Weimar on Screen." Leah thought the series might be of interest to Draper students. Some information on the series is below, but film descriptions and further information is available on the Neue Galerie website, here: http://www.neuegalerie.org/programs/film-series

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NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK ANNOUNCES
FREE SUMMER FILM SERIES
"WEIMAR ON SCREEN"

This summer, the Neue Galerie presents the film series "Weimar on Screen." The tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) were a time of far-reaching social, political, and cultural upheaval. In spite of this turmoil, they brought about a flowering of art and culture in Germany, particularly in cinema. The films in this series are brilliant examples of Weimar-era filmmaking, and they illuminate aspects of the culture of the period.

Films are presented to the public free of charge on Mondays at 4 p.m. in Café Fledermaus. For more information about Neue Galerie programming, please visit our website at http://www.neuegalerie.org/programs.

Updated Draper Course Descriptions, Fall 2010

Draper is still finalizing course offerings for the fall 2010 semester, but many new classes and updated descriptions have been added to the website. Check out the latest offerings (here: http://www.draper.fas.nyu.edu/object/draper.courses.fa10) and keep checking back throughout the summer for last minute changes before registration.