Archive

Thu May 10, 7:00pm | Reading and Conversation

An Evening with Poets Ari Banias, Tonya Foster, Brenda Iijima and Ricardo Maldonado

Ari Banias, Tonya Foster, Brenda Iijima, Ricardo Maldonado

Tue May 8, 6:30pm | Conversation

Extraordinary Lives: Bill Kelly in Conversation with Chuck Close

Tue May 8, 6:00pm | Lecture

Disability and Depression: Lennard Davis

Tue May 8, 12:00am | Event

Transforming Assembly

Mon May 7 (All day) | Conferences

Victorianopolis: The CUNY Annual Victorian Conference

Judith Walkowitz

Fri May 4, 6:00pm | Event

Beyond Biopolitics: The Governance of Life and Death

Steve Goodman, Craig Willse, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Una Chung, Randy Martin, May Joseph, Luciana Parisi

Fri May 4, 5:00pm | Panel

Beyond Biopolitics: The Governance of Life and Death

Steve Goodman, Craig Willse, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Una Chung, Randy Martin, May Joseph, Luciana Parisi, Jasbir Puar

Fri May 4, 4:00pm | Conversation

Orlando Patterson in Conversation

Orlando Patterson, David Scott

Fri May 4, 10:30am | Symposium

Just Law: Intervention, Reparation, Emancipation

Talal Asad, Keynote

Thu May 3, 6:00pm | Conferences

Just Law: Intervention, Reparation, Emancipation

Thu May 3, 5:00pm | Reading and Conversation

Lost & Found Launch

Joanne Kyger, Michael Rumaker, Ammiel Alcalay

Wed May 2, 12:00pm | Conversation

Nancy Biberman and Susan Saegert: New York

Nancy Biberman, Susan Saegert

Wed May 2, 12:00pm | Event

Nancy Biberman and Susan Saegert: New York

Nancy Biberman, Susan Saegert

Wed May 2 (All day) | Conferences

Protest and Public Space

Michelle Fine, Farha Ghannam, Setha Low, Ida Susser

Tue May 1, 6:30pm | Conversation

Limited Definition(s) and Sound Cultures: MP3s, Soundscapes, Power

Jonathan Sterne, Licia Fiol-Matta

Mon Apr 30, 6:00pm | Panel

Sovereignty Redefined: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Freedom

Stathis Gourgouris, Helga Tawil-Souri, Michael Hanchard, Bilge Yesil

Sat Apr 28, 11:00am | Conversation

The Least of All Possible Evils

Eyal Weizman, Tom Keenan

Sat Apr 28, 11:00am | Event

Forensic Aesthetics

Eyal Weizman, Tom Keenan

Wed Apr 25, 6:30pm | Panel

Un/learning: Latin American Thought Today

Linda Martín Alcoff, Herman Bennett, Mary Louise Pratt, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Kyoo Lee

Wed Apr 25, 6:30pm | Panel

Un/learning: Latin American Thought Today

Linda Martín Alcoff, Herman Bennett, Mary Louise Pratt, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Kyoo Lee

Tue Apr 24, 6:30pm | Lecture

Animism

Sun Apr 22 (All day) | Conferences

Cripples, Idiots, Lepers, and Freaks: Extraordinary Bodies / Extraordinary Minds

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Jasbir Puar

Fri Apr 20, 4:00pm | Reading and Conversation

Keorapetse Kgositsile

Keorapetse Kgositsile, Meena Alexander

Thu Apr 19, 6:00pm | Lecture

The Statue of Liberty

Edward Berenson

Thu Apr 19, 12:00pm | Symposium

China and the Human

Wed Apr 18, 12:00pm | Lecture

Shea McManus: Beirut

Wed Apr 18, 12:00pm | Lecture

Shea McManus: Beirut

Tue Apr 17, 6:30pm | Lecture

Performing Theory

Tue Apr 17, 6:00pm | Conversation

Feminism Meets Neuroscience

Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Rebecca Jordan-Young

Mon Apr 16, 6:30pm | Event

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency

Alessandro Petti

Mon Apr 16, 6:30pm | Reading

Turnstyle Reading Series: Jan Heller Levi, Lyn Di Iorio

Jan Heller Levi, Lyn Di Iorio

Mon Apr 16, 6:00pm | Event

Turnstyle Reading Series: Jan Heller Levi, Linsey Abrams

Jan Heller Levi, Linsey Abrams

Thu Apr 5, 7:00pm | Reading and Conversation

Tendencies: Poetics and Practice

D’Lo, Sarah Schulman, TC Tolbert, Tim Trace Peterson

Thu Apr 5, 6:30pm | Lecture

Markopoulos' Vision

P. Adams Sitney

Wed Apr 4, 7:00pm | Conversation

Un/learning to Sense: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Kyoo Lee

Wed Apr 4, 6:30pm | Lecture

Design for the Just City

Tue Apr 3, 7:00pm | Lecture

A Willfulness Archive

Mon Apr 2, 6:30pm | Conversation

The Femicide Machine

Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

Thu Mar 29, 7:00pm | Panel Discussion

State of Translation: Trends in Innovative Publishing

Ammiel Alcalay, Esther Allen, Susan Bernofsky, Ivan Herceg, Anna Moschovakis, Damir Šodan, Eliot Weinberger, Ana Božičević

Thu Mar 29, 10:00am | Festival

2012 Chapbook Festival

Wed Mar 28, 6:30pm | Panel

100 Issues of PAJ and the Future of Performance Art Criticism

Bonnie Marranca, Claire MacDonald, Thom Donovan

Wed Mar 28, 6:30pm | Panel

Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art

Ken Johnson, Carroll Dunham, Nicolas Langlitz, Miciah Hussey

Wed Mar 28, 12:00pm | Lecture

Einat Manoff: Miska

Tue Mar 27, 6:00pm | Reading

Turnstyle Reading Series: Nicole Cooley, Meera Nair

Nicole Cooley, Meera Nair

Mon Mar 26, 6:00pm | Conversation

Radical Freedom: Feminist Collaborations and Hybrid Aesthetics

Chitra Ganesh, Simone Leigh

Fri Mar 23, 1:00pm | Lecture

Marx and Lincoln: A Curious Convergence

Robin Blackburn

Thu Mar 22, 6:30pm | Lecture

On Freedom with Violence

Chandan Reddy, Piper Anderson, Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Thu Mar 22, 2:00pm | Lecture

Slavery and Capital

Wed Mar 21, 6:30pm | Conversation

Against all Odds: Ten Myths Shattered by the Tunisian Revolution

Taoufik Ben-Amor, Peter Hitchcock

Wed Mar 21, 12:00pm | Lecture

Exploring Innovative Transitions: Rio de Janeiro

Alessandro Angelini

Mon Mar 19, 6:30pm | Conversation

Telling Histories

Laurent Dubois, Greg Grandin, Gary Wilder

Mon Mar 19, 6:30pm | Conversation

Poetry After Genocide

Damir Arsenijevic, Ammiel Alcalay, Colette Daiute, Sinan Antoon, Meena Alexander

Mon Mar 19, 6:30pm | Conversation

POSTPONED: Un/Learning to Move: Elizabeth Streb

Elizabeth Streb, Kyoo Lee

Thu Mar 15, 6:30pm | Reading

Turnstyle Reading Series: Kimiko Hahn and Patrick McGrath

Kimiko Hahn, Patrick McGrath

Wed Mar 14, 6:00pm | Exhibition Opening

Exhibition Opening: Common Assembly

Wed Mar 14 (All day) | Exhibitions

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency

Tue Mar 13, 6:00pm | Lecture

To Love What Is

Alix Kates Shulman, Jason Tougaw

Mon Mar 12, 7:00pm | Reading and Conversation

Tendencies: Poetics and Practice

Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Byron Kim, Tim Trace Peterson

Mon Mar 5, 4:30pm | Lecture

Coffee-Colored People (By the Score)

Fri Mar 2, 4:00pm | Lecture

“An Incandescent Atmosphere”: Internationalist Cinema for Today

Thu Mar 1, 6:30pm | Conversation

Migration, Race, and the Carceral State

Mizue Aizeki, Lilliam Araujo, Kenyon Farrow, Pooja Gehi, Mae Ngai

Wed Feb 29, 6:00pm | Reading

Turnstyle Reading Series: Ben Lerner and Michelle Valladares

Ben Lerner, Michelle Valladares

Tue Feb 28, 7:00pm | Lecture

Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about Power from the Maoists

Mon Feb 27, 6:00pm | Panel

Freedom to Occupy? Reclaiming Space and Reinventing Protest

Radhika Balakrishnan, Helena Ribeiro, Ken Wark, Moustafa Bayoumi

Fri Feb 24, 9:00am | Conferences

Sentimental Geographies: Geography, Affect, and Contemporary Cultural Practice

Thu Feb 23, 6:00pm | Lecture

Feeling Beauty: A Neuroscientific Framework for Understanding Why the Arts May Be Sisters

G Gabrielle Starr

Wed Feb 22, 6:00pm | Screening and Conversation

Artists and Writers Series: Women Without Men

Shirin Neshat, Shahrnush Parsipur

Thu Feb 16, 6:30pm | Conversation

Protest and Sacrifice: A Discussion on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

Jeffrey B. Ferguson, Uday Singh Mehta, Sujatha Fernandes

Wed Feb 15, 7:00pm | Reading and Conversation

Tendencies: Poetics and Practice

Kate Bornstein, Kaplan Harris, Camille Roy, Tim Trace Peterson

Wed Feb 15, 7:00pm | Conversation

Curator’s Perspective: Maria Lind

Fri Feb 10, 4:00pm | Lecture

What Do Keywords Do?

Bruce Burgett, Glenn Hendler

Fri Feb 10, 12:00pm | Workshop

Revolution, Bodies, and Urban Space in Egypt

Setha Low, Claire Panetta, Karim Tartoussieh

Wed Feb 8, 6:30pm | Conversation

Soundtracks for Change

Alessandra Ciucci, Licia Fiol-Matta

Wed Feb 8, 6:00pm | Tribute

Archipelagos and Words: A Tribute to Édouard Glissant

Mary Ann Caws, Olivier Glissant

Fri Feb 3, 6:00pm | Reading and Performance

SAFE Shimmy SLAM: An Eruption of Prose, Poetry & Performance

Linda Martín Alcoff, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Alyson Cole, Hamid Dabashi, Elena Glasberg, Brenda Iijima, Delores Jones-Brown, Kyoo Lee, Jasbir Puar, Avital Ronell, Ann Snitow, Jack Tchen, Lady Aye, Nasty Canasta

Thu Feb 2, 6:30pm | Conversation

Artist Dialogue: Shifters

Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Peter Hitchcock

Thu Jan 12 (All day) | Conversation

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Fri Dec 9, 6:00pm | Tribute

Jerome Rothenberg @ 80: A Celebration

Homero Aridjis, Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Steve Clay, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, George Economou and Rochelle Owens, Al Filreis, Susan Howe, Pierre Jorris, Charles Morrow, Jeffrey C. Robinson, Diane Brodatz Rothenberg, Jerome Rothenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Sally Silvers, Danny Snelson, Anne Tardos, Anne Waldman, Heriberto Yepez

Tue Dec 6, 9:00pm | Lecture

Historical Times: The Capacities of an Art Museum and How it Comes to Terms with the World Today

Mon Dec 5, 2:00pm | Discussion

Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex: Bridging Struggles, Transforming Resistance

Andrea Ritchie, Rose Braz, Beth Richie, Nada Elia

Fri Dec 2, 4:00pm | Lecture

Ghosting Human Capital: Neoracial Logics in Neoliberal Times

Thu Dec 1, 2:00pm | Mini-Conference

Growing Up Policed

Mon Nov 28, 6:00pm | Panel

Feminist Scholarship Inside Palestine

Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Premilla Nadasen, Barbara Ransby

Tue Nov 22, 6:00pm | Book Launch and Panel

Visual Century: South African Art in Context 1907–2007

Mon Nov 21, 7:00pm | Reading

Tendencies: Poetics and Practice

Samuel Ace, Stephen Motika, Robert Fitzgerald Reid-Pharr

Fri Nov 18, 6:00pm | Opening Reception

Exhibition Opening: Shifters

Fri Nov 18, 4:00pm | Panel

Writing Jewish Worlds

Mikhal Dekel, Marianne Hirsch, Lara Vapnyar, Nancy K. Miller, Wayne Koestenbaum

Fri Nov 18, 12:00pm | Lecture

Paranoid Empire: Perpetual War and the Twilight of US Power

Anne McClintock

Fri Nov 18, 12:00pm | Exhibitions

Shifters

Thu Nov 17 (All day) | Conferences

Intellectual History Conference

Pauline Maier, Eric Foner, Michael Kazin

Tue Nov 15, 6:00pm | Book Launch and Panel

Evasions of Power

Tue Nov 15, 4:00pm | Discussion

Artists and Writers

Nancy K. Miller, Deborah Kass

Fri Nov 11, 3:00pm | Conversation

Visceral Reflections: Nicholos Hlobo and Vicente Todoli in Conversation

Nicholas Hlobo, Vicente Todoli

Thu Nov 10, 6:00pm | Lecture

See Me if You Can: Meditations on Art, Choreography and Neuroscience

Alva Noë, Maria Brincker

Thu Nov 10 (All day) | Conferences

Desire: From Eros to Eroticism

Peter Brooks, David Konstan

Wed Nov 9, 7:00pm | Lecture

Walking with the Comrades

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Arundhati Roy

Wed Nov 9, 5:30pm | Conversation

The Failure and Success of the American Left

Richard Wolin, Michael Kazin

Mon Nov 7, 8:45pm | Lecture

Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa's Journey from Lab to Literature

Mon Nov 7, 8:45pm | Conversation

Paper and Cinema: Gary Giddins in Conversation with Geoffrey C. Ward

Fri Nov 4, 8:30am | Conference

Afro-Latin@s Now! Strategies for Visibility and Action

Fri Nov 4 (All day) | Conferences

Black American Popular Religon

Michael Eric Dyson , Josef Sorett , Marla Frederick

Thu Nov 3, 6:00pm | Panel

Is There Anything More to See? Civil War Photography and History

Anthony Lee, Mary Niall Mitchell, Martha A. Sandweiss, Deborah Willis

Tue Nov 1, 6:00pm | Event

Scenes from a Jamaican Childhood

Tue Nov 1, 6:00pm | Endowed Lecture

Scenes from a Jamaican Childhood

Thu Oct 27, 6:30pm | Lecture

Virtually Collecting

Branko Franceschi

Thu Oct 27, 6:00pm | Lecture

A Child Surrounds This Brain: Negotiating Neurodiversity and Science

Rayna Rapp, Ann Jurecic, Kate Jenkins

Wed Oct 26, 6:30pm | Lecture

Metabolic Objects

Hannah Landecker

Tue Oct 25, 6:30pm | Endowed Lecture

Steady Work: The Unmessianic Nature of Jewish Messianism

Leon Wieseltier

Mon Oct 24, 6:30pm | Book Launch and Panel

Close to the Edge: The Global Hip Hop Generation

Sujatha Fernandes

Thu Oct 20, 7:00pm | Panel

No Thing Unto Itself

Noortje Marres, Shannon Mattern, David Turnbull, Katherine Behar

Thu Oct 20, 7:00pm | Event

Tendencies: Poetics and Practice

Joy Ladin, Sarah Dowling, Tony Leuzzi

Thu Oct 20, 4:00pm | Panel

Freedom and Abolition in Latin America

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Celso Castilho, Jason McGraw, Emily Kay Berquist

Tue Oct 18, 7:00pm | Event

Artists & Writers

Mary Ann Caws, Linda Nochlin

Mon Oct 17, 4:00pm | Lecture

WWWL presents Works In Progress: "Sara Bard Field, Poet and Radical Suffragist: Parsing the Heart"

Fri Oct 14, 7:30pm | Performance

Prelude.11: Mangle Me Slowmo

Fri Oct 14, 7:00pm | Performance

Prelude.11: ThisisitIsthisit (Shit Shit Shit): A Map Of The Known World

Jake Hooker/The Plastic Arts

Fri Oct 14, 7:00pm | Discussion

An Evening with Families of US Terror Suspects

Kathleen Chalfant, Danny Glover, Wallace Shawn, Deborah Eisenberg, Gareth Peirce

Fri Oct 14, 5:00pm | Performance

Prelude.11: Seagull (Thinking of You)

Tina Satter/Half Straddle

Fri Oct 14, 4:00pm | Panel

Prelude.11: We Present a Presentation

Fri Oct 14, 4:00pm | Lecture

Indigenous as Alien

Thu Oct 13, 9:00pm | Performance

Prelude.11: Extreme Appropriation

Robert Fitterman, Will Holder, Donelle Woolford

Thu Oct 13, 7:00pm | Conversation

America's Prison Empire: A Conversation

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robert Perkinson

Thu Oct 13, 4:00pm | Panel

Prelude.11: Text as Texture

Helen Shaw, Jeffery Jones, Sibyl Kempson, Otso Huopaniemi, Mac Wellman

Wed Oct 12, 9:00pm | Performance

Prelude.11: Joseph Beuys in NYC

Jackson Pollock Bar

Wed Oct 12, 7:00pm | Performance

Prelude.11: A supposedly FUN THING I'll never do again: (after david foster wallace)

Wed Oct 12, 5:00pm | Panel

Prelude.11: Repurposing

Claire Bishop, Robert Fitterman, Richard Move, Julia Robinson

Wed Oct 12, 12:00pm | Reading

Prelude.11: YES (2011)

Wed Oct 12, 12:00pm | Exhibitions

Prelude.11 Performances

Fri Oct 7, 8:30am | Conferences

Defending Public Higher Education

Gary Rhoades, Frances Fox Piven, Barbara Bowen

Thu Oct 6, 7:00pm | Conversation

What is Conservatism?

Corey Robin, Christopher Hayes

Thu Oct 6, 6:00pm | Lecture

Contemporary Art and Neuroscience

Mon Oct 3, 6:30pm | Lecture

Vodou and Haiti’s Environmental Catastrophe

Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

Thu Sep 29, 4:00pm | Panel and Reading

Tangled Spaces: Poets Writing Motherhood

Meena Alexander, Kimiko Hahn, Nicole Cooley, Lee Ann Brown, Tina Chang, Marcella Durand, Betsy Fagin, Idra Novey, Tracy K. Smith, Leah Souffrant, Karen Weiser, Rachel Zucker, Cate Marvin, Erica Hunt

Fri Sep 23, 7:00pm | Mini-Conference

Tendencies: Poetics and Practice

Cyrus Cassells, Kate Rushin, Sara Jane Stoner

Fri Sep 23, 4:00pm | Performance and Conversation

Back & Forth / Poetry & Jazz: A Conversation and Performance with David Meltzer & Marty Ehrlich

David Meltzer, Marty Ehrlich, Ammiel Alcalay

Fri Sep 23, 4:00pm | Lecture

Activism and Repression: The Struggle for Free Speech at CCNY, 1931–42

Wed Sep 21, 7:00pm | Lecture

The Fourth Annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture: Hilary Spurling

Hilary Spurling

Tue Sep 20, 6:30pm | Conversation

Art, Again

Bernard Stiegler, Kyoo Lee

Mon Sep 19, 12:00pm | Conferences

9/11 Plus Ten: New York City in the Aftermath of September 11th

Daniel Libeskind, Michael Arad

Thu Sep 15, 6:00pm | Panel

Speculative Realism

Levi R. Bryant, Jane Bennett, Graham Harman

Thu Sep 15, 6:00pm | Panel

Speculative Realism

Levi R. Bryant, Jane Bennett, Graham Harman

Thu Sep 15, 4:00pm | Lecture

Roderick Ferguson: Lumumba-Zapata and the Proliferation of Minority Difference

Roderick A. Ferguson

Wed Sep 14, 6:00pm | Opening Reception

And Another Thing

Katherine Behar, Emmy Mikelson

Wed Sep 14 (All day) | Exhibitions

And Another Thing

Katherine Behar, Emmy Mikelson

Mon Sep 12, 6:30pm | Lecture

Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn

Cathy N. Davidson

Thu Sep 8, 6:30pm | Conversation

Freedom, Fences, and Fallacy: Public Education and Prison in California

Damien M. Schnyder

Fri Sep 2, 7:00pm | Book Launch

How Venezuela & Cuba Are Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care

Ambassador Jorge Valero, Steve Brouwer, Ida Susser

Mon Aug 29, 7:00pm | Book Launch

Tropic of Chaos: The Catastrophic Convergence of Poverty, Violence, and Climate Change

David Harvey, Christian Parenti, Vijay Prashad

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