The Center for Communication has just added an exciting new panel, Funny Business: Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. Former Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj is changing up the traditional late-night formula with his new Netflix weekly political comedy show. On Thursday, February 28, at NYIT, hear from the creative minds
The BLUEPRINT Networking series is a series of social events with discussions from music Industry Gurus. The goal of this event is to discover, engage, learn, exchange with a community of managers, producers, artist, and other music enthusiasts. All attendees will listen to key note
Social Playground is an environment for people to authentically connect to each other. We do this by hosting weekly and one time events in The New School that promote and facilitate listening, expression, movement, and conversation. RSVP to our events on Socialplaygroundny.eventbrite.com
How do you grow up to create a global content studio that helps some of the most exciting companies on planet Earth spread their stories and marketing messages? If there’s anyone who can answer that question, it’s Megan Cunningham. In the latest of NYWIFT’s informal breakfasts
June Is Pride Month! Celebrate NYC Pride 2019 with a private tour of the companion exhibitions The Voice of the Village: Fred W. McDarrah Photographs and PRIDE: Photographs of Stonewall and Beyond by Fred W. McDarrah, opening June 6. Book a Tour Meet the Curators Experience an exhibition
NOFLASH VIDEO SHOW 2019 PRESS RELEASE Based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the third annual NOFLASH Video Show is coming up May 3-5, 2019. Dedicated to showcasing ambitious new works by emerging filmmakers and time-based artists, NOFLASH 2019 will feature 29 works from 11 countries,
Join Mickey Boardman, Editorial Director of Paper Magazine, as he sits down with footwear mogul Steve Madden to discuss how he built his billion dollar empire from the ground up. Time: Thursday, May 2, 6:30 PM (Doors Open at 6:00 PM) Location: Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall – The Auditorium
Saturday is Record Store Day and we are taking you on a city trip! Starting at noon we will be streaming one-hour live sets from each of this incredible record stores across the city: 12pm: SECOND HAND RECORDS with Toribio 01pm: THE MIXTAPE SHOP with
Join us for our first meeting in the new GSC space, FRIDAY APRIL 19, 12-2pm, 123 W. 18th Street, Manhattan, Third Floor (stairs), Lunch will be served: We will discuss: 1) GSC opportunities for next year; 2) Formation of Working Groups and Research Clusters; 3)
EVENTS THIS WEEK Please join the Center for the Humanities for an exciting week of events which are free and open to the public at the Graduate Center, CUNY and across the city. We hope to see you this week! To view our complete spring schedule of
In the last several years, foundations and festivals have developed incubator labs to help filmmakers in the development and post production of their documentaries. It is an exceptional opportunity, and the many labs offer a variety of experiences. While these creative bootcamps seek to expand
The Future is Global: Role of The New School Tuesday, April 16 Wollman Hall, 65 W. 11th Street Roundtable discussion: 1:30-3:30pm Reception: 3:30-5:00pm Join The Global Platform Committee, comprised of faculty from across the university, including faculty at SPE, on April 16 to learn how
Join the Milano School for Policy, Management, and Environment and learn how to identify good sources, solid facts, and verifiable information. Fighting Fakes: News Literacy in the Digital Age Being a better news consumer in the digital age is critical! As everyone struggles to deal
RSVP: by Friday, April 19, 2019 to allegra.favila@nyu.edu or 212/998-6789
Join us for the “Noise, Quietness, and the Healthy City” Workshop and the Soundwalk, which will take place at NYU on April 24, 2019. The program is available here. Please, RSVP here.
Sexuality & Borders A Two-Day International Symposium Thursday/Friday, April 4-5 239 Greene Street, Floor 8 Keynotes Radha Hegde, New York University Miriam Ticktin, New School for Social Research Alyosxa Tudor, SOAS, University of London How do sexuality and borders intersect? What role does sexuality play in the production,
Explore the explosive visual language that emerged from punk’s powerful subculture. On view on two floors, the exhibition brings together hundreds of punk’s most memorable graphics—from the shocking remixes of expropriated images and texts to the DIY zines and flyers that challenged the commercial slickness of
Thursday, April 18 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Kellen Auditorium Room N 101 66 Fifth Avenue New York Register here. To celebrate the release of Nina Khrushcheva’s co-authored book In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones,
DOC STUDIES PRESENTS: Union Docs: Collaboration, Community, and Formally Adventurous Documentary Monday, Apr 8 at 1 PM Kellen Auditorium, Ground Floor, 66 Fifth Avenue UnionDocs: Collaboration, Community, and Formally Adventurous Documentary Screening and Conversation with CHRISTOPHER ALLEN, Founder and Executive Artistic Director “Brave cinema can only exist
SONYA ATALAY APRIL 4, 5-7pm, Alumni Reading Room, Pratt Institute Library Sonya Atalay will give a talk: Braiding Strands Of Wellbeing: Reclaiming, Healing, & Sending Knowledge Into The Future. Dr. Atalay is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UMass, Amherst. Her work is in the area of engaged (public) anthropology,
“The Ecological Turn of Metaphysics” Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 9am-12pm La Maison Française 16 Washington Mews In the waning days of the anthropocene, the challenge to define new subjectivities induces us to return to an anti-phenomenological lineage of modern French philosophy. Reaching from Bergson to Deleuze,
Reporters Who Seek Right Wrongs Polk Award winning journalists reveal what motivates them to right society’s wrongs. Find out what it takes to pursue and publish a major story that has impact. Free RSVP! Featuring: Madeleine Baran, Investigative Reporter, APM Reports Julie K. Brown, Investigative Journalist, The Miami
Records of Resistance Listening Party with Josh MacPhee Wed, Mar 13th, 2019, 6:30 PM, The James Gallery at the Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave, NYC. In the early 1960s, 12” long-playing albums and 7” “singles” took over the recording industry. The Civil Rights Movements
Columbia’s Oral History Master of Arts program is hosting a workshop this Thursday, March 14, with Voice of Witness, titled: “Say It Forward: Art and Social Justice” Thursday, March 14, 2019 | 6:10 – 7:30pm Columbia University Oral History Master of the Arts (OHMA) invites you to
March Events This March, join the Center for the Humanities for these timely public events and collaborations: a conference dedicated to Black Women Philosophers and their research across a wide variety of philosophical topics; a new seminar series exploring objects as a route to knowledge; an exhibition reception in the
The Lot Radio is inviting you to a special concert at our neighbor’s house: Alex Zhang Hungtai (fka Dirty Beaches) @ The San Damiano Mission on March 14th, 2019 After retiring his project Dirty Beaches, Zhang has been focusing on explorations of improvised music, Free Jazz, and his new role as
sterling ruby: ceramics Experience Sterling Ruby: Ceramics before it closes on Sunday, March 17 with Jeff Fleming, the curator of the exhibition. On Saturday, March 9 from 2 to 3 pm, Fleming will discuss Ruby’s interdisciplinary approach to ceramics and clay (the artist’s “monumental material”) and welcome
Please note: Our Indocumentales screening of The Unafraid– scheduled for this evening at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I Center – has been postponed due to New York University’s weather-related closure. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see you at the re-scheduled program. Stay tuned! Mark your calendars for Latin American film events
Current feminist movements such as the Women’s March and the viral #MeToo call attention to the mistreatment of women and other forms of gender inequalities. Yet, there is one particular group of women who you won’t see widely supported at any protest or trending on
No documentary journey is the same, but every documentary faces similar challenges from concept to community engagement. Producer/Director Lara Stolman had her own ups and downs as she made her way through the process of making her film Swim Team. The film chronicles the rise of
Avery Gordon will give a talk entitled “Letters from The Utopian Margins: The Hawthorne Archive”.The Hawthorne Archive represents voices from the utopian margins, where fact, fiction, theory, and image converge. It is a fugitive space for the development of a political consciousness of being, indifferent to