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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Sixty Years of Journalism: Celebrating Jimmy Breslin
Sixty Years of Journalism:
Monday, December 7th at 7pm
A host of eminent journalists and writers, convened by Pete Hamill, celebrate the career of Pulitzer Prize-winner Jimmy Breslin. An inimitable New York voice, the city’s “steadiest and most accurate chronicler” (Tom Robbins, The Village Voice, March 19 2002), Breslin was born in Queens, New Yo
rk in October 1929. He started as a copy-boy at the age of fifteen at the Long Island Press and then worked as a reporter covering fires, crime and sports for that paper. In the late 1950s he became a sports columnist at the New York Journal-American and in 1963 he published his first book, Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets’ First Year. Breslin wrote his city-side column for the New York Herald-
Tribune from 1963 to 1966. He was at The Daily News from 1976 to 1988 where he received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1986. He then joined Newsday from 1988 until his retirement as a columnist in 2004. Pioneering in style and in focus, his columns were peopled with the prominent, the shady and those struggling with poverty and crime. He also reported from Northern Ireland, Vietnam and other places beyond New York. His first novel, The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight, was published in 1970 and was made into a successful film. His most recent book The Good Rat: A True Story was published in 2008. In all, he has published seven novels and ten works of non-fiction.
FREE to NYU community: to reserve your ticket, please go to https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/7785945. Please bring your NYU ID card and confirmation e-mail with you to the event: actual tickets will not be issued, rather your name will be on a list generated by NYU Ticket Central.
Celebrating Jimmy Breslin
Monday, December 7th at 7pm
Eisner & Lubin Auditorium
NYU's Kimmel Center for University Life,
60 Washington Square South, 4th floor
A host of eminent journalists and writers, convened by Pete Hamill, celebrate the career of Pulitzer Prize-winner Jimmy Breslin. An inimitable New York voice, the city’s “steadiest and most accurate chronicler” (Tom Robbins, The Village Voice, March 19 2002), Breslin was born in Queens, New Yo
rk in October 1929. He started as a copy-boy at the age of fifteen at the Long Island Press and then worked as a reporter covering fires, crime and sports for that paper. In the late 1950s he became a sports columnist at the New York Journal-American and in 1963 he published his first book, Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets’ First Year. Breslin wrote his city-side column for the New York Herald-Tribune from 1963 to 1966. He was at The Daily News from 1976 to 1988 where he received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1986. He then joined Newsday from 1988 until his retirement as a columnist in 2004. Pioneering in style and in focus, his columns were peopled with the prominent, the shady and those struggling with poverty and crime. He also reported from Northern Ireland, Vietnam and other places beyond New York. His first novel, The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight, was published in 1970 and was made into a successful film. His most recent book The Good Rat: A True Story was published in 2008. In all, he has published seven novels and ten works of non-fiction.FREE to NYU community: to reserve your ticket, please go to https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/7785945. Please bring your NYU ID card and confirmation e-mail with you to the event: actual tickets will not be issued, rather your name will be on a list generated by NYU Ticket Central.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Making Book: Mike and Beth Norman
This event is sponsored by the Journalism Department at NYU and is located on the 7th floor of 20 Cooper Square (the Journalism building!)
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Don't Forget! 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.
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.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
ANKA MUHLSTEIN: Balzac, Restaurants, and Gastronomy
ANKA MUHLSTEIN, author of Napoléon à Moscou; A Passion for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine, Elisabeth d’Angleterre et Marie Stuart ou les périls du mariage. will be speaking on Balzac, Restaurants, and Gastronomy in English. Followed by a conversation with OLIVIER MULLER. Chef de Cuisine, DB Bistro Moderne.
This event is Free and Open to the Public
This event is Free and Open to the Public
| Date: | Thursday, November 5, 2009 | |||
| Time: | 7 p.m. | |||
| Contact: | Francine Goldenhar | |||
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
“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 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.
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.
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.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
THE CAUSE OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS - GOVERNMENT MEDDLING
Monday, September 14th at 8:00pm
Kimmel Center, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, 4th Floor
Yaron Brook, President of the Ayn Rand Institute, and John Allison, chairman of the board of BB&T Corporation, will discuss the causes of the financial crisis and why capitalism, incorrectly, has received the blame. Visit the website for more information.
Tickets available 9/11 at Ticket Central!
Tickets are FREE with NYU ID.
Must have NYU ID to pick-up advance tickets at Ticket Central.
Limit 2 advance tickets per NYU ID.
Presented by: The Objectivist Club at NYU
Thursday, August 27, 2009
“THE FUTURE OF JERUSALEM AND THE PEACE PROCESS
NYU’S TAUB CENTER TO HOST PUBLIC LECTURE, SEPT. 16
New York University’s Taub Center for Israel Studies will host “The Future of Jerusalem and the Peace Process,” a public lecture by Menachem Klein, who has been involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, on Wednesday, September 16, 5:30 p.m. at New York University’s Kimmel Center for University Life (60 Washington Square South, Room 914, 9th Floor [at LaGuardia Place]).
The lecture is free and open to the public. RSVP to fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu or 212.998.8981
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
NYU Game Center Lecture Series: Eric Zimmerman & Katie Salen
Eric Zimmerman & Katie Salen, co-authors of the groundbreaking book on game design, Rules of Play.
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Location: NYU-TSOA, 721 Broadway, Room 006, Lower Level, New York, NY 10003
The format for the evening will focus on dialogue and conversation. The audience is encouraged to join the discussion. Please bring your questions and ideas around the general topic of games.The talk is open to students, faculty, and the general public. We welcome everyone, whether your research and teaching is related to games or you are simply curious about this rapidly evolving field.
Please come, and feel free to bring any interested NYU colleagues.The NYU Game Center is housed in the Skirball Center for New Media at the Tisch School of the Arts and is a collaboration between Tisch, NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. The Center is supported by generous grants from an anonymous donor, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Sharon Chang and the TTSL Charitable Foundation.
RSVP: gamecenter@nyu.edu
Refreshments will be served.
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Location: NYU-TSOA, 721 Broadway, Room 006, Lower Level, New York, NY 10003
The format for the evening will focus on dialogue and conversation. The audience is encouraged to join the discussion. Please bring your questions and ideas around the general topic of games.The talk is open to students, faculty, and the general public. We welcome everyone, whether your research and teaching is related to games or you are simply curious about this rapidly evolving field.
Please come, and feel free to bring any interested NYU colleagues.The NYU Game Center is housed in the Skirball Center for New Media at the Tisch School of the Arts and is a collaboration between Tisch, NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. The Center is supported by generous grants from an anonymous donor, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Sharon Chang and the TTSL Charitable Foundation.
RSVP: gamecenter@nyu.edu
Refreshments will be served.
The NYU Game Center Lecture Series: Marc "Mahk" LeBlanc
Come hear Marc “Mahk” LeBlanc, creator of the MDA framework, a powerful conceptual approach to game design.
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009
Location: NYU-TSOA, 721 Broadway, Room 006, Lower Level, New York, NY 10003
Time: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
The talk is open to students, faculty, and the general public. We welcome everyone, whether your research and teaching is related to games or you are simply curious about this rapidly evolving field. Please come, and feel free to bring any interested NYU colleagues.
Marc LeBlanc is a long-time veteran of the game industry, most notably for his work on the Ultima Underworld games, but also for his involvement with the acclaimed Looking Glass series Thief and System Shock.
The NYU Game Center is housed in the Skirball Center for New Media at the Tisch School of the Arts and is a collaboration between Tisch, NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. The Center is supported by generous grants from an anonymous donor, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Sharon Chang and the TTSL Charitable Foundation.
RSVP: gamecenter@nyu.edu
Refreshments will be served.
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009
Location: NYU-TSOA, 721 Broadway, Room 006, Lower Level, New York, NY 10003
Time: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
The talk is open to students, faculty, and the general public. We welcome everyone, whether your research and teaching is related to games or you are simply curious about this rapidly evolving field. Please come, and feel free to bring any interested NYU colleagues.
Marc LeBlanc is a long-time veteran of the game industry, most notably for his work on the Ultima Underworld games, but also for his involvement with the acclaimed Looking Glass series Thief and System Shock.
The NYU Game Center is housed in the Skirball Center for New Media at the Tisch School of the Arts and is a collaboration between Tisch, NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. The Center is supported by generous grants from an anonymous donor, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Sharon Chang and the TTSL Charitable Foundation.
RSVP: gamecenter@nyu.edu
Refreshments will be served.
Friday, March 27, 2009
2009 NEW YORK SPEAKER SERIES
2009 NEW YORK SPEAKER SERIES:
Anderson Cooper interviewing Arianna Huffington, D.L. Hughley and Mike Huckabee
Tuesday, March 31st at 8pm
Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas
MSG Entertainment is proud to announce the second annual "Speaker Series: The Minds That Move The World," a timely and important series of events that will provide attendees with a unique framework for understanding America's current political landscape and place in world politics, through the insights of some of the most prominent political figures of our time.
The topic of discussion on March 31st will be Free Speech and the Power of the Press.
Free Ticket Information: Starting 12:30pm on Thursday, March 26th, Ticket Central will be distributing free tickets to this event. Limit 4 tickets per NYU ID. There are a limited number of tickets available. First come, first served.
For more information, visit speakerseries2009.com.
Anderson Cooper interviewing Arianna Huffington, D.L. Hughley and Mike Huckabee
Tuesday, March 31st at 8pm
Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas
MSG Entertainment is proud to announce the second annual "Speaker Series: The Minds That Move The World," a timely and important series of events that will provide attendees with a unique framework for understanding America's current political landscape and place in world politics, through the insights of some of the most prominent political figures of our time.
The topic of discussion on March 31st will be Free Speech and the Power of the Press.
Free Ticket Information: Starting 12:30pm on Thursday, March 26th, Ticket Central will be distributing free tickets to this event. Limit 4 tickets per NYU ID. There are a limited number of tickets available. First come, first served.
For more information, visit speakerseries2009.com.
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