IRHC's FLURRY

Join Housie and the IRHC for the 2nd annual FLURRY! We'll treat you to a wonderful night of free ice skating in Central Park! You even get a swanky bus ride on a double decker bus as your FREE transportation. Once you've arrived enjoy the candy tent and a magical night in the park! Tell your friends!!!!

WHAT: FREE Ice Skating, Double Decker Guided Bus Tours, & TONS of Free Candy!

WHEN: Tuesday, November 10th from 7 - 10pm!

WHERE: Wollman Rink in Central Park. 

HOW: Double Decker buses leave every 15 minutes from the Kimmel Center starting at 6:15PM!

NOTE: You can also transport yourself by subway. Wollman Rink is a two-minute walk into the park from the entrance at 59th Street & 6th Avenue. Take either the A, B, C, D, 1, or 9 trains to 59th Street or N, R to 5th Avenue or the B, Q to 57th Street.

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE FACEBOOK EVENT!

Free Flu Shots

Increase your chance of staying healthy this flu season - stop by for your seasonal flu vaccine (H1N1 is currently only available at the SHC during specific walk-in and appointment times), available for NYU students at the following locations (note specific dates and times):

FALL 2009 SCHEDULE:
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• Thursday, Oct. 29
  11am - 1pm
  Student Resource Center, Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Sq. South, 2nd Floor
• Friday, Oct. 30
  10am - 12pm
  Goddard Hall, Room 203, 79 Washington Sq. East
  1:30 - 3:30pm
  Broome Street, 1st Floor Lounge, 400 Broome St.
  

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Wind-Down Wednesday

It's Wind-Down Wednesday at HPO in the House! Stop by the Student Health Center's Health Promotion Office (HPO) - relax, breathe deep, and receive a stress-reducing 5-7 minute backrub, compliments of Stressbusters! Free for NYU students.

“Causation: What Can Be the Use of It?

Nancy Cartwright, a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics, will deliver New York University’s Annual Lewis Burke Frumkes Lecture on Monday, November 16, 7:30 p.m. at NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East [at Washington Place]). Cartwright’s lecture is titled “Causation: What Can Be the Use of It?” [Subway Lines: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street); R, W (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place)]

The lecture is hosted by New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Science and the Department of Philosophy. The event is free and open to the public, which may call 212.998.8320 for more information. 

Cartwright, who is also a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego, is a philosopher of the natural and social sciences who works on issues of causation, modeling, and objectivity. Much of her current research is concerned with how to improve evidence-based policy. Her published works include: How the Laws of Physics Lie (1983); Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement (1989); Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics (1995), a co-authored volume, The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science (1999), and Hunting Causes and Using Them (2007).

The Frumkes Lecture was established to showcase the work of the world’s most prominent philosophers and is supported by NYU alumnus Lewis Burke Frumkes. Past lecturers have been: Jonathan Lear, Susan Wolf, Harry Frankfurt, Noam Chomsky, Simon Blackburn, Peter Singer, Dame Onora O’Neill, Bernard Williams, and Jonathan Bennett. 

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A Tragedy of Race and Medicine

New York University’s College of Arts and Science will host a public lecture, “The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A Tragedy of Race and Medicine,” by author James H. Jones, on Thursday, November 12, 4 p.m. at NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102, 100 Washington Square East (at Washington Place). Enter at 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible). Subway Lines: 6 (Astor Place); A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street); R, W (8th Street).

Jones is the author of Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, America and Its People and Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life. He will be introduced by Dr. Rueben Warren, director of Tuskegee University’s National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care and former director of Infrastructure Development for the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the College Dean’s Office at 212.998.8100 or email ken.kidd@nyu.edu.

Lectures on U.S.-Latin American Relations

NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Hosts Lectures on U.S.-Latin American Relations, Spanish Photographer Salgado, Beginning Oct. 20

New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center will host a series of lectures on U.S.-Latin American relations and Spanish photographer Sebastião Salgado beginning October 20. All lectures, which are free and open to the public, take place at the Center (53 Washington Square South, between Thompson and Sullivan Streets) and begin at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 212.998.3650 or visit www.nyu.edu/kjc.

The events have been organized by James Dunkerley, who holds the Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations at NYU this fall. A professor at the University of London, Dunkerley’s published works include: Power in the Isthmus. A Political History of Modern Central America (1988); The Pacification of Central America. Political Change in the Isthmus, 1987-93 (1994); and Warriors and Scribes: Essays on the History and Politics of Latin America (2000). 

Tuesday, October 20
Lecture: “William Walker and his ‘American Empire’ in Nicaragua, 1855-1857”
Michel Gobat, an associate professor of history at the University of Iowa, takes us back to a quite extraordinary episode in U.S.-Latin American relations that it is both singular in its sheer idiosyncrasy and yet unnervingly familiar as a precedent for similar expansionist enterprises in the 20th century.

Tuesday, November 3
Lecture: “The Photography of Sebastião Salgado: Toward a Polity of the Planet” 
Parvati Nair, a professor of Hispanic Cultural Studies at the University of London, has worked primarily on Spanish cultural studies and is the author of a forthcoming major study of the Spanish photographer Sebastião Salgado. In this talk, she will reconsider the parameters for understanding the work of this remarkable contemporary photographer. 

Tuesday, November 17
Lecture: “Andrés Bello and the Role of Scholarship in Nation-Building”
Andres Bello, author of the Chilean Civil Code and founder of the Universidad de Chile, has often been celebrated or dismissed as a conservative without much attention to the ‘non-heroic’ tasks of building republics in the 19th century. The lecture, delivered by Dunkerley, will review Bello’s record as a post-colonial intellectual comparable to that of Albert Gallatin, the longest-serving U.S. treasury secretary (1801-1814) and an NYU founder.