Events: Readings and Talks
February 2, 2013, 1:30 pm
Richard Greeman on Victor Serge’s Russian Heritage
Brecht Forum, New York
This inaugural lecture is designed as an introduction to the reading of Serge’s Memoirs of a Revolutionary, the complete English translation of which has just been published by NYRB.
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February 6, 2013, 6:30 pm
Yasmine El Rashidi and Michael Walzer discuss the Arab Spring at CUNY
The Graduate Center, New York
Join two eminent writers and experts on the Middle East, Yasmine el Rashidi and Michael Walzer, as they seek to illuminate these vexed political circumstances with an eye toward what the future portends.
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February 9, 2013, 1:30 pm
Richard Greeman on Victor Serge and the Novel of the Revolution
Brecht Forum, New York
This second lecture is designed as a general introduction to the reading of Serge’s seven surviving novels.
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February 11, 2013, 7 pm
Daniel Mendelsohn with John Freeman at The Morgan Library and Museum
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York
To mark the publication of his latest collection of review-essays, Waiting for the Barbarians, Daniel Mendelsohn discusses the ethics and pleasures of reviewing with John Freeman, editor of the prestigious literary magazine Granta.
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February 12, 2013, 7 pm
A Short Performance and Discussion of Raymond Kennedy’s ‘Ride a Cockhorse’
The Irish Repertory Theatre, New York
Stephen Ruddy, director of Upright Citizens Brigade’s “Gravid Water,” directs a performance of select scenes from Raymond Kennedy’s darkly comic 1991 novel, recently reprinted by NYRB Classics.
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Selected by Gabriel Winslow-Yost
February 15, 2013 – February 17, 2013
IndieCade East
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria
A festival of independent games with a quirky array of workshops, lectures, contests, and parties.
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February 17, 2013, 4 pm – 6 pm
1913 Armory Show Centennial Event
The Abrons Art Center, New York
The show's opening reception will be preceded by two panel discussions, one on the legacy of the 1913 Armory Show, and the other on perception and art in the digital age.
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Selected by Yasmine El Rashidi
February 20, 2013, 7:30 pm
‘Islamaphobia’: A Forum
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
A public forum on the rise of anti-Islamic sentiment in the years since 9/11.
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