Fall Soiree with the Master's College: Tomorrow!

Classes have started and we are ready for a year of fantastic events. Let's start the year off right! Join the GSAS Master's College for the annual Fall Soiree:

This Friday, September 16th
5:30 - 8:00 PM

The NYU Torch Club

18 Waverly Place

wine and cheese

To register for this event, send an email with your name and the name of this event to: gsas.masterscollege.rsvp@nyu.edu

Draper's New Winter Session Course: Issues in Public Art

For the first time ever, Draper students can take a course during the three weeks of winter session, which runs from January 3 - 21. Mario A. Caro, Professor of Art Worlds, will teach “Issues in Public Art” (a more detailed description of the class is below).

The winter session class structure allows an intense immersion into the kinds of themes and considerations that normally stretch across a full semester. It’s also an opportunity for you to start and finish a four-credit course in a compressed time frame. Such a schedule, while demanding, might be especially appealing to those of you who want to graduate within a tightly defined time frame.

Because this is a new initiative, and because Draper is the only program within the Graduate School to offer a winter session class in this academic year, it is important for us to determine the level of student interest. If you would like to enroll in Prof. Caro's class or even if you just want to more information, please email Larissa directly at larissa.kyzer[at]nyu.edu.

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Winter Session 2012
January 3 - 21

DRAP-GA.3008.001
Topics in Art Worlds: Issues in Public Art
Prof. Mario A. Caro
4 pts

This course will explore contemporary issues that affect the production and consumption of public art. Claims for this art can range from this genre being perceived as government or corporate propaganda to it being seen as an egalitarian possibility for the voice of the people to be heard. We will survey current local, national, and international efforts to produce public art that is diaologic, art that furthers dialogue among communities. We will also look at the history of public art in order to gain an appreciation for its present state. Because much of the contemporary work emphasizes the performative aspects of dialogue, works may not always be recognizable as art. The ultimate challenge for us will be in being able to recognize public art when we confront it.

Fall Orientation Pictures on Facebook

Draper is now easier to find on Facebook--check out our page (http://www.facebook.com/#!/DraperMAProgram.NYU) and help us tag recent pictures of our fall 2011 orientation party.

CFP: NYU Colloquium in American Literature and Culture, Fall 2011

New York University

Colloquium in American Literature and Culture

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Colloquium in American Literature and Culture (CALC) at New York University is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for our Fall 2011 events. CALC is an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of new Americanist scholarship by both junior and senior researchers. In the upcoming semester, we will focus on questions of American book history, aiming to provide a forum for those researching topics like material texts, print culture, and reading practices in an American context, broadly construed. We encourage paper proposals by graduate students and faculty that focus on any subject relevant to these fields.

A typical CALC event features two presentations of 20-25 minutes, followed by audience questions and discussion. Sessions are open to the public, and we invite the attendance of all faculty and graduate students, regardless of specialty. For more information, please visithttp://nyugeo.wordpress.com/calc/.

To submit your work for consideration, please email an abstract of your project to Annie Abrams and Blevin Shelnutt at nyucalc@gmail.com by Monday, September 19th. Submission of a CV is encouraged, but not required.

Unpacking Emotions: The Humanities and Sciences / Conference: NYU/CNRS (Sept. 23-24)

Unpacking Emotions: The Humanities and Sciences

CNRS/NYU
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
SEPTEMBER 23 - 24, 2011

8:30 a.m - 5 p.m., Friday September 23
8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m., Saturday September 24

At the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, 972 5th Ave, New York N.Y., 10075

To register, email : unpackingemotions@gmail.com

Fee waived for students but PLEASE REGISTER AS SPACE IS LIMITED

http://sites.google.com/site/unpackemotions/

Co- organized by the "TRANSITIONS" Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Emotional Brain Institute, this conference inaugurates an interdisciplinary research program aimed at considering the nature of reason and emotions.

It will focus on the simple but fundamental question: "WHAT ARE EMOTIONS", from the perspectives of the HUMANITIES, SCIENCES and the ARTS.

Contacts:
Emilienne Baneth ebn216@nyu.edu
Joseph Ledoux joseph.ledoux@nyu.edu