Lecture Calendar
Lectures are free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Please RVSP by email to 19wsn.rsvp@nyu.edu.
November 23, 2009
From the Garden to the Garrison: Sustainability and Insecurity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Greg Beckett Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Fellow, University of Chicago
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December 2009
Andrew Moore: The Urban Landscape of Abu Dhabi
Photo Exhibition
Opening: December 1
Location: 19 Washington Square North
Andrew Moore Photographer, New York; Visiting lecturer, Princeton University
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December 2, 2009
Fantasies and Fears: Reading Eco-City Development in Shanghai
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Julie Sze Associate Professor, American Studies, University of California, Davis; Director, John Muir Institute of the Environment
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December 9, 2009
Policing the World: Financial Regulation Across Borders
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
H.E. Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi UAE Minister of Foreign Trade
H. Rodgin Cohen Chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Boris Vujcic Deputy Governor, Croatian National Bank
Viral Acharya Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, NYU
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December 14, 2009 
Vedanta University, Orissa India
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Adam Gross Design Principal, Ayers Saint Gross
Pawan Agarwal Civil servant in the Indian Government and author of Indian Higher Education, Envisioning the Future
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December 16, 2009
The Plight of the Arab Intellectual
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Sadik Jalal Al Azm Professor Emeritus of Modern European Philosophy, University of Damascus; Harry C. Payne Visiting Professor of Liberal Arts in Philosophy and Religion, Williams College
Bilal Khbeiz Writer, L.A.
More about the Romanticide, Art and Cultural Politics lectures
January 25, 2009
Cosmopolitanism and Multiculturalism
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
David A. Hollinger Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, University of California, Berkeley
Walter Benn Michaels Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Cyrus Patell Associate Professor of English, NYU
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January 27, 2010
FOXP2
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Bassam El Baroni Curator, Co-Director of the Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum and Manifesta 2010
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February 4, 2010
The Cosmopolitan Idea and National Sovereignty
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Homi Bhabha Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard, Harvard University
Bruce Robbins Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Robert JC Young Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, NYU
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February 10, 2010
Dense Objects and Sentient Viewings: Contemporary Artistic Production and the Middle East
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Omnia El Shakry Associate Professor of History, University of California, Davis
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February 17, 2010
Cosmopolitan Faces
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Zubin Shroff Photographer, New York City
Shelley Rice Associate Arts Professor, NYU
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February 22, 2010
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Monte Wilson Senior Vice President, HOK Planning
Bernard Haykel Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
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March 10, 2010
The Universal Claims of Cosmopolitanism
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 7:00 PM
Pauline Kleingeld Chair of Practical Philosophy, University of Leiden
Béatrice Longuenesse Professor of Philosophy, NYU
Samuel Scheffler University Professor of Philosophy, NYU
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March 24, 2010
The Shape of the Argument
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Hassan Khan Artist, Writer, and Musician, Cairo
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April 5, 2010
A Tale of Two Cities and of Climate Change: Future Sea Level Projections in New York and Abu Dhabi
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
David Holland Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; Director, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, NYU
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April 7, 2010
Fortune-teller: Reflections on the Future of Arts, Education and Economy in the Middle East
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Mishaal El Gergawi The Dubai Arts and Culture Authority
Kiren Aziz Chaudhry Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Saskia Sassen Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
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April 14, 2010
The Cosmopolitan Idea and Religion
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law School of Law, Emory University
Jean Bethke Elshtain Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago
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April 19, 2010
The University of California at Merced, CA
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Tom Lollini Associate Vice Chancellor, Physical Planning, Design, and Construction, University of California, Merced
Keith Alley Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, University of California, Merced
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April 21, 2010
The Cosmopolitan Idea and Translation
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Tahar Ben Jalloun Novelist, Paris and Tangiers
Jacques Lezra Professor of Comparative Literature, NYU
David Damrosch Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
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April 26, 2010
University of Singapore and Abu Dhabi University Education Park
Location and Time: 19 Washington Square North | 6:30 PM
Dennis Pierpz President, Sasaki Associates
Joshua Ka-Ho Mok Associate Dean and Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
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