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Brenda and Shireen are joined by the indomitable Stephanie Yang for a Hot Take on the Women's World Cup. Recorded at New York University's Institute of Public Knowledge for the 2019 Women's World Cup Symposium on Thursday, May 16, 2019.
Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. Her work appears in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Frieze and New York Times. She's a Yaddo and MacDowell Fellow and was 2014 Eccles Writer in Residence at the British Library. Her first book, To the River, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. Her latest book The Lonely City has been shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, New York, Harper's, the Believer, Artforum, and the Nation, among many other publications. Educated at Yale and Berkeley, he is the co-editor, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, and a visiting scholar at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge. He is the author of... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We are pleased to welcome Michael Likosky, Senior Fellow at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge, for our latest Rappaport Center Public Policy Podcast. Mr. Likosky's latest book, Obama's Bank, is available from Cambridge University Press, http://bit.ly/iPF8b8.
Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities - Globalism and its Origins
Great encyclopedic museums collect art from all cultures. Philippe de Montebello, Fiske Kimbell Professor in the History and Culture of Museums at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, David Carrier, Champney Family Professor at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Noelle Giuffrida, Assistant Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University will discuss this issue. Is a world art history possible and, if so, what would it look like? This lecture, in memory of Walter A. Strauss (1923-2008), who was the Elizabeth and William T. Treuhaft Professor of Humanities, is generously supported by funds provided by the Paul Wurzberger Endowment and co-sponsored by the Case Western Reserve University Department of Art and Art History.
Artist Audrey Flack gave a lecture at Center for Creative Photography, followed by a reception, book signing and meet the artist event at The University of Arizona Museum of Art. The event was held in conjuction with the UA Musem of Art's exhibition of Flack's work, "Audrey Flack's Marilyn: Still Life, Vanitas, Trompe l'Oeil." Audrey Flack holds a graduate degree and an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. She attended New York University's Institute of Fine Arts where she studied the history of art. She was awarded the St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union, and the honorary Albert Dome professorship from Bridgeport University. She is an honorary professor at George Washington University, and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Audrey Flack has taught and lectured extensively both nationally, and internationally.