New York University’s
Gallatin School of Individualized Study invite you to enjoy an innovative, evening-long event: “Celestial Twins? Conversations, Performances, and Readings on the Relationships between Music and Poetry,”
Thursday, February 28, 4:00 - 9:00 pm at the Jerry Labowitz Theatre (1 Washington Place, at Broadway).
Music and poetry share terminology – lyric, rhythm, melody, line – as well as methods: composers write tone poems and poets write preludes and nocturnes. They are, as a recent critic labeled them, “celestial twins.”
Like all twins, however, their relationship is one of difference and antagonism as much as similarity and harmony. “Celestial Twins?” will question the immediacy of experience, the materiality of the score and of sound, the role of improvisation and voice, and the porous lines between hearing, reading, imagining, and remembering. The event’s schedule is as follows:
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Discussion with scholars, musicians, and poets, including Emily Fragos, Lisa Goldfarb, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Michael Zapruder; moderated by Gregory Erickson.
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm: Wayne Koestenbaum reads selected poems; Mohammed Fairouz introduces new musical compositions, including settings of Koestenbaum’s work; poet Susan Howe and musician David Grubbs perform an excerpt from their collaboration “Frolic Architecture.”
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm: Performances by Infuse Chamber Ensemble, jazz musician and poet Roy Nathanson, and songwriter, composer, and phonographer Michael Zapruder, who recently set poems to music for his album
Pink Thunder.
The event, co-organized by the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the
Poetry Society of America, with the support of the
NYU Humanities Initiative, is free and open to
the public. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more
information about the program, call 212.998.7365 or email
mollykleiman@nyu.edu.
Friday, March 8th, 2013, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
At “Triggering the Debate,” these opinion leaders,
lawmakers,
and mental health professionals will address the core issues of the gun
control debate, measure the success of local initiatives, and offer
their insights into President Obama’s proposals. Panelists will discuss
whether gun laws can confront mental illness without stigmatizing the
mentally ill and consider the complicated history that race has
historically played in the debate. The panel will be moderated by Vanderbilt
University Professor
Jonathan Metzl, a psychiatrist and author of The Protest Psychosis.
Join the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality for "Dirty Care: Violence, Feminism and Subjectivity," a public talk by Elsa Dorlin, an expert in feminist philosophy and theory and the historical epistemology of sexuality. 
Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet says, "Amid the (entirely warranted) gloom of rapidly advancing climate change, there are rays of light – and Bill Hewitt has followed them all. This book makes clear that we lack neither the technology nor the policy necessary to deal with global warming, merely the political will. And that, happily, we can create if we want!" Learn more »
Join New York University for a reading of The Cat in the Hat in observance of Dr. Seuss's birthday, part of the National Education Association's Read Across America Program.
On Wednesday, join a reading by four NYU
Gallatin faculty poets: Emily Fragos (Hostage: New & Selected Poems), Jean
Gallagher (Start), Scott
Hightower (Self-evident), and Idra Novey (whose most recent collection, Exit, Civilian, was a 2011 National Poetry Series
Selection). The event is co-sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing
Program. 
Thursday's program features poets and writers from the publication Mudfish:
Terry Phelan, author of Fires in Sonoma; Alison Jarvis, winner of the
Mudfish Poetry Prize; Nancy Hechinger, awarded an honorable mention in the Mudfish Poetry
Prize; Stephanie Dickinson, poet/novelist and editor of Mudfish;
Lawrence Applebaum, poet/artist and editor of Mudfish; and novelist Robert
Steward.
Join us for Dr. Shapiro's public talk, “Endless Pigeons Most Beautiful: Darwin’s Favorite Birds Enter the Molecular Age.” The talk, intended for all audiences, is New York
University’s annual Darwin Lecture. The event is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 | 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 @ 6:30 PM
Monday, February 25th, 2013, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 
Jump into the action as the NYU Violets hold court against the Brandeis Judges during Family Day at Coles Gymnasium—free of charge for you and your family.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
