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The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU 285 Mercer St. 9th Floor New York City, NY 10003 CLIMATE OF CONCERN The Second Annual NYU Humanities Festival A week of programming around themes of global warming April 19-23, New York City in commemoration of EARTH DAY 2008 The Humanities Initiative at New York University presents a week of urgent programming in observance of Earth Day 2008 CLIMATE OF CONCERN curated by The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU with the support of NYU’s Sustainability Task Force, and The Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Fund and the participation of The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, The Institute for Figuring, Los Angeles arts>World Financial Center, The Harlem Knitting Circle, The NYC Crochet Guild, The Broadway Windows of NYU’s Steinhardt School, The Continuum Company (Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Alumni) The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (The Graduate Center, CUNY) and The Chicago Humanities Festival APRIL 19-23, 2008 http://nyih.as.nyu.edu NASA photographs from Michael Benson’s Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes fold 1 fold 2 fold 1 fold 2 outside front panel inside back panel outside back panel
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CLIMATE OF CONCERN
The Second AnnualNYU Humanities Festival
A week of programmingaround themes of global warmingApril 19-23, New York Cityin commemoration of
EARTH DAY 2008
The Humanities Initiative at New York Universitypresents a week of urgent programming
in observance of Earth Day 2008
CLIMATE OF CONCERN
curated by The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU
with the support ofNYU’s Sustainability Task Force, andThe Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Fund
and the participation ofThe Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
for Scholars and Writers,The Institute for Figuring, Los Angeles
arts>World Financial Center,The Harlem Knitting Circle,
The NYC Crochet Guild,The Broadway Windows of NYU’s Steinhardt School,
The Continuum Company(Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Alumni)
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center(The Graduate Center, CUNY)
and The Chicago Humanities Festival
APRIL 19-23, 2008http://nyih.as.nyu.edu
NASA photographs from Michael Benson’s Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes
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the hyperbolic crochet coral reef projectby the Institute For Figuring
Owing in part to global warming, coral reefs the world over are dying off at a rate faster than rain forests. In part to call attention to this catastrophe, the LA-based Institute For Figuring has put out a call for citizen craftspeople to help fashion a giant, exponentially expanding, crocheted coral reef, in a sort of global warming equivalent to the AIDS Quilt. The Reef—the standout hit of this past November’s Chicago Humanities Festival, en route to the Hayward Gallery in London this summer—arrives in New York (with fresh New York contributions) the weekend of April 5th.
the exhibition NYU’s Broadway Windows at 10th Street and Broadway April 5-May 18
and the World Financial Center Winter GardenApril 7-August 31 (preview April 6)
the symposium NYU Cantor Film Center, 38 E. 8th StreetSunday, April 20th, 11 am – 3 pm
An evocation of the hyperbolic geometry and feminist art traditions informing the crocheted reef (morning session) and the biology of and perils facing its real world counterparts (afternoon), curated by and featuring the iff’s Margaret Wertheim, with Nancy Knowlton (Smithsonian), Niles Eldridge (amnh), and others.
free and open to the public.
CLIMATE OF CONCERNthree evenings of readings of nine new short playsevoking one fraught future
Monday, April 21NYU’s Atlas Room111 2nd Avenue, 3rd floorplays written bySarah Ruhl Jon Robin BaitzLisa Kron
Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22Segal Center, CUNY, Elebash Hall 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Streetplays written byDon DeLilloJohn JesurunBrian Tucker
Wednesday, April 23Rosenthal Pavilion of the Kimmel Center, 10th floor 60 Washington Square Southplays written byJose RiveraLisa DillmanTanya Saracho
Free & open to the public6:30 pm each night First come, first served
In collaboration with the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at The New York Public Library
WHALESONGPast and Future | New York and the World
Saturday April 19, 11 am to 4 pmSouth Court Auditorium, The New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
A symposium on the history, science and perennial romance of the Leviathan in America
11 am – 1 pm
Cetology and the City: Whales in Nineteenth-Century New York
with Thomas Bender and Cyrus Patell (NYU), Joyce Chapin (Harvard), Stuart Frank of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and sea chanties performed by Ellen Cohn (Yale). Session curated by D. Graham Burnett (Princeton), author,
most recently, of Trying Leviathan.
2 pm – 4 pmThe Song and Future of the Humpback Whale
with Roger Payne and Scott McVay (joint discoverers of the song), Sal Cerchio (American Museum of Natural History). Session curated by David Rothenberg, author, most recently, of Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound, who will perform with
Michelle Makarski, violin; Lukas Ligeti, percussion.
Admission to Whalesong is free, but advance registration (via e-mail at [email protected])
is recommended as seating is limited.
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Photo: John Atkinson
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