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Title: Gallatin Book Launch
Runtime: 2:52
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: NYU celebrated the 250th anniversary of the birth of Albert Gallatin, a founding father of both the United States of America and NYU, on Sept. 23 at the school bearing his name, NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. President John Sexton, Gallatin Dean Susanne Wofford, Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, and Nicholas Dungan, parent of a Gallatin alumnus and author of "Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father" (NYU Press) spoke at the event, which was held in the Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts.

Gallatin, who was born January 29, 1761 and who emigrated from Switzerland to America in 1780, served as secretary of the treasury in the Jefferson and Madison administrations—the longest-serving treasury secretary in U.S. history. Gallatin, who also was president of the New-York Historical Society, is buried in Trinity churchyard at Broadway and Wall Street.

20th Annual Greenwich Village Children's Halloween Parade

Title: 20th Annual Greenwich Village Children's Halloween Parade
Runtime: 4:38
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: New York University and Manhattan Community Board 2 hosted hundreds of children, moms, and dads at the 20th Annual Greenwich Village Children's Halloween Parade. Led by the Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps. Marching Band, children and families will march around Washington Square Park. Following the parade, the children will be treated to candy, face-painting, rides and live entertainment, including a special performance by the NYC based children's music band, Jeremy Plays Guitar.

"Climate Ethics," a roundtable discussion at NYU October 28, 2010

Title: "Climate Ethics," a roundtable discussion at NYU October 28, 2010
Runtime: 1:17:06
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The discussion covers a range of topics in the area of climate ethics: human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering.

Participants include:Dal e Jamieson, a professor in the Departments of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at NYU; Simon Caney, a professor in Political Theory and Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Oxford University; Stephen Gardiner, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington; and Henry Shue, a senior research fellow at Oxford University's Centre for International Studies. Richard Stewart, the John Edward Sexton Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and director of its Center for Environmental and Land Use Law, will moderate the session.

The discussion marks the launch of Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford), a volume co-edited by Jamieson, Gardiner, Caney, and Shue.

Rites of Rule in Cities of the Spanish Empire

Title: Rites of Rule in Cities of the Spanish Empire
Runtime: 45:03
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: This CLACS Research Colloquium aims to query Latin American cities as sites for the performance and contestation of authority, rights, and personhood. Are Latin American cities palimpsests of social memory, haunted by the coloniality of social relations bound into their structures? How do their 16th-century roles as 'global cities' play into their siting within 21st-century global networks? How have gated communities, 'urban renewal', or UNESCO patrimony programs reshaped them as theaters of signification? What are the implications of social movements seeking reversion of sovereignty and patrimony, or of rising rates of violence and fear? Alejandra B. Osorio is Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College. She offers courses in modern and colonial Latin America. Her researchfocuses on the intersection of politics and urban culture in colonial LatinAmerica. Her current project examines the baroque political and culturalmaking of Lima, the colonial capital of the Viceroyalty of P...

Indigenous Founding and Governance of Colonial Tlaxcala

Title: Indigenous Founding and Governance of Colonial Tlaxcala
Runtime: 1:15:10
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: This CLACS Research Colloquium aims to query Latin American cities as sites for the performance and contestation of authority, rights, and personhood. Are Latin American cities palimpsests of social memory, haunted by the coloniality of social relations bound into their structures? How do their 16th-century roles as 'global cities' play into their siting within 21st-century global networks? How have gated communities, 'urban renewal', or UNESCO patrimony programs reshaped them as theaters of signification? What are the implications of social movements seeking reversion of sovereignty and patrimony, or of rising rates of violence and fear?Jovita Baber is Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work focuses on Colonial Latin America and Early Modern Iberia.

Title: The Changing Climate for Development
Runtime: 50:04
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Rosina M. Bierbaum, Dean of U of MI's School of Natural Resources and Environment, explores the linkages between climate change and the world's enormous development challenges. Bierbaum argues that developing countries can shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and reducing poverty.

Title: Archelon: Saving the Loggerhead Turtle
Runtime: 39:23
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Currently active in designing and implementing innovative green projects throughout Greece, Sophia Kalantzakos writes widely on economic, labor, and environmental issues in the press and has published a series of educational books on historical and environment.

Private Equity - Eye of the Storm or Global Opportunities

Title: Private Equity - Eye of the Storm or Global Opportunities
Runtime: 15:11
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate presents the 42rd Annual Conference on Capital Markets in Real Estate. November 19th, 2010

Title: New York City: Still the Golden Apple?
Runtime: 15:02
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate presents the 42rd Annual Conference on Capital Markets in Real Estate. November 19th, 2010

Keynote Address: Commercial Real Estate in the Future

Title: Keynote Address: Commercial Real Estate in the Future
Runtime: 14:12
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate presents the 42rd Annual Conference on Capital Markets in Real Estate. November 19th, 2010

Title: Financing Liquidty Returns
Runtime: 10:42
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate presents the 42rd Annual Conference on Capital Markets in Real Estate. November 19th, 2010

Speakers on the Square: Mississippi Burning

Title: Speakers on the Square: Mississippi Burning
Runtime: 56:31
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: On June 20, 1964 Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner met in Mississippi to help train volunteers for a statewide voter registration drive, as part of "Freedom Summer." One day later, they lost their lives at the hands of Ku Klux Klan members in rural Neshoba County. This act of violence spurned one of the largest F.B.I. manhunts in US history, lasting six weeks, and culminating with the discovery of the bodies of the victims. Although seven men were convicted on federal civil rights charges, the perpetrators never faced state murder charges.

Join Pulitzer prize-winning author Dr. David Oshinsky for a discussion of his New York Times investigation that helped bring justice to the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" civil rights murders. A leading historian of modern American politics and culture, Dr. Oshinsky was the 2009 Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professor at New York University and holds the Jack S. Blanton Chair in History at the University of Texas. His essays and ...

Title: Back to the Back-to-the-Land
Runtime: 1:04:20
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The presentation, entitled "Back to the Back-to-the-Land," was third in a series called "Situating Sustainability," started by director of metropolitan studies and environmental studies professor Anne Rademacher.

Former Mayor Ed Koch hails public service careers in NYU Wagner discussion

Title: Former Mayor Ed Koch hails public service careers in NYU Wagner discussion
Runtime: 58:29
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Former Mayor Edward I. Koch visited NYU Wagner on October 14, 2010, for an informative and engaging hour of discussion about his eventful years at City Hall -- years that generated a remarkable turnaround in the condition and character of New York City, visible to this day. Joining Koch was Jonathan Soffer, NYU Polytechnic Institute associate professor of history and author of the critically acclaimed new biography Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City (Columbia University Press, 2010),

Creating a Sustainable Athens for the 21st Century

Title: Creating a Sustainable Athens for the 21st Century
Runtime: 1:12:09
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Sophia Kalantzakos was born in Athens. After graduating from Yale and Columbia, she became a Member of the Hellenic Parliament in 2000, the first woman to be elected from the State of Messinia. As a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, she was responsible for Greek-US relations. She was also a member of the European Affairs Committee, the Committee for Education, and served as Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Employment and Social Protection. During her tenure at the Ministry, the government passed far reaching pension reforms and she was especially concerned to promote the creation of green jobs through EU structural funds and to help environmental NGOs create new job openings. Currently active in designing and implementing innovative green projects throughout Greece, Sophia Kalantzakos writes widely on economic, labor, and environmental issues in the press and has published a series of educational books on historical and environmental issues.

Title: Neo-Liberal New York
Runtime: 1:12:37
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Neo-Liberal New York.

Title: New York City Real and Imagined
Runtime: 1:08:16
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: New York City Real and Imagined - how does social history change the story?

Multicultural New York at the end of the 20th century

Title: Multicultural New York at the end of the 20th century
Runtime: 26:56
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Multicultural New York at the end of the 20th century. A trip on the number 7 train.

Race and the struggle for social justice in the Sixties

Title: Race and the struggle for social justice in the Sixties
Runtime: 1:12:44
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Race and the struggle for social justice in the Sixties: Hippies, Mobilization for Youth, welfare strikes to Ocean Hill-Brownsville community control of schools.

The myth and realities of the diversity and tolerance narrative

Title: The myth and realities of the diversity and tolerance narrative
Runtime: 1:13:35
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The myth and realities of the diversity and tolerance narrative in the second half of the 17th century with the rise of New York as a capital of commercial global capitalism.

Push and pull - Divers New Immigrants and the cash value of racism

Title: Push and pull - Divers New Immigrants and the cash value of racism
Runtime: 1:13:52
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Push and pull: Diverse New Immigrants and the cash value of racism.

Title: The Draft Riot of 1863
Runtime: 48:18
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The Draft Riot of 1863: Irish whiteness, industrialization and how contemporaries and media since have "black-washed" the events.

Postwar Cold War New York City and the challenges to New York as a "labor city"

Title: Postwar Cold War New York City and the challenges to New York as a "labor city"
Runtime: 1:16:26
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Postwar Cold War New York City and the challenges to New York as a "labor city."

Progressive reform - how and why Bobos helped hobos learn to fish

Title: Progressive reform - how and why Bobos helped hobos learn to fish
Runtime: 1:06:13
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Progressive reform: how and why Bobos helped hobos learn to fish. Making respectable bodies in respectable urban spaces, 1900-1930

Fleeing the Fifties. The geography of race, poverty and settlement

Title: Fleeing the Fifties. The geography of race, poverty and settlement
Runtime: 55:03
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Fleeing the Fifties. The geography of race, poverty and settlement; Suburbanization, Whiteness and New York television.

The making of Greenwich Village and Harlem - Alternative New Yorks, 1900-1930

Title: The making of Greenwich Village and Harlem - Alternative New Yorks, 1900-1930
Runtime: 1:15:43
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The making of Greenwich Village and Harlem: Alternative New Yorks, 1900-1930.

Making the Socialist Republic of New York City in the New Deal City

Title: Making the Socialist Republic of New York City in the New Deal City
Runtime: 49:42
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Making the Socialist Republic of New York City in the New Deal city.

Transit, 1830-1950. Manure, money and malfeasance

Title: Transit, 1830-1950. Manure, money and malfeasance
Runtime: 1:13:26
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Transit, 1830-1950. Manure, money and malfeasance.

Conservative reform and the New York bourgeoisie in Gilded Age New York

Title: Conservative reform and the New York bourgeoisie in Gilded Age New York
Runtime: 1:09:38
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Conservative reform and the New York bourgeoisie in Gilded Age New York: economic, political and culture institutional capital. From the Ladies Mile to baseball as a spectator "sport."

Growth - why sewing machines and entrepreneurs are more important than the war

Title: Growth - why sewing machines and entrepreneurs are more important than the war
Runtime: 1:16:41
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Growth: why rivers, sewing machines and entrepreneurial speculators are more important than the war of 1812. The transformation of work in the market economy.

Industrialization of everyday life and work

Title: Industrialization of everyday life and work
Runtime: 1:17:50
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Industrialization of everyday life and work: the long winding road to the Eight Hour Day. From Taylorization to the Henry George campaigns to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

Fear in the bustling metropolis - disease, fires, urban squalor

Title: Fear in the bustling metropolis - disease, fires, urban squalor
Runtime: 1:16:12
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Fear in the bustling metropolis: disease, fires, urban squalor and 'professional' municipal services.

Reform - Lady Bountifuls, Presyterianism and the Dangerous Classes

Title: Reform - Lady Bountifuls, Presyterianism and the Dangerous Classes
Runtime: 1:11:52
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Reform: Lady Bountifuls, Presyterianism and the Dangerous Classes

African Americans in antebellum New York and New York abolitionism

Title: African Americans in antebellum New York and New York abolitionism
Runtime: 1:17:57
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: African Americans in antebellum New York and New York abolitionism

The naming of things and the presentness of the past

Title: The naming of things and the presentness of the past
Runtime: 1:18:05
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The naming of things and the presentness of the past: the "Stonecutters Riot of 1834"

The origins of Homeland Security, the Zenger Affair and the "Negro Riot of 1741"

Title: The origins of Homeland Security, the Zenger Affair and the "Negro Riot of 1741"
Runtime: 1:17:02
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The origins of Homeland Security: the Zenger Affair and the "Negro Riot of 1741."

Life in pre-Revolutionary New York for the poor and the Yankee Doodle Dandies

Title: Life in pre-Revolutionary New York for the poor and the Yankee Doodle Dandies
Runtime: 1:13:31
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Life in pre-Revolutionary New York for the poor and the Yankee Doodle Dandies. Hints of change coincide with persisting ideas of social order in early benevolence and relief. Who is to pay for the costs?

On the nature of the revolution in the Tory city

Title: On the nature of the revolution in the Tory city
Runtime: 1:11:38
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: On the nature of revolution in the Tory city.

The English sweet tooth and the New York slave trade, 1690 - 1725

Title: The English sweet tooth and the New York slave trade, 1690 - 1725
Runtime: 1:14:25
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The English sweet tooth and the New York slave trade, 1690-1725: Social inequality and elite factionalism shape competing elites' quest for political and economic power.

Establishment of a Dutch colonial imperial commercial base

Title: Establishment of a Dutch colonial imperial commercial base
Runtime: 1:05:15
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Establishment of a Dutch colonial imperial commercial base while displacing Lenape Native Americans.

High school students learn about bioinformatics at NYU

Title: High school students learn about bioinformatics at NYU
Runtime: 1:46
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: NYU's Department of Anthropology has partnered with the Harlem Children's Society to teach high school students about bioinformatics—how to program computers to analyze biological data—through internships in the Molecular Primatology Lab, directed by Anthropology Professor Todd Disotell.

Dean's Lecture Series: The Fate of Vulnerability in the Self During Midlife: Clinical Perspective

Title: Dean's Lecture Series: The Fate of Vulnerability in the Self During Midlife: Clinical Perspective
Runtime: 59:30
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring Dr. Eda Goldstein, NYU Silver

The Urbanizing of Global Challenges: Can Cities Re-invent their Civic Capacities

Title: The Urbanizing of Global Challenges: Can Cities Re-invent their Civic Capacities
Runtime: 44:14
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: This CLACS Research Colloquium aims to query Latin American cities as sites for the performance and contestation of authority, rights, and personhood. Are Latin American cities palimpsests of social memory, haunted by the coloniality of social relations bound into their structures? How do their 16th-century roles as 'global cities' play into their siting within 21st-century global networks? How have gated communities, 'urban renewal', or UNESCO patrimony programs reshaped them as theaters of signification? What are the implications of social movements seeking reversion of sovereignty and patrimony, or of rising rates of violence and fear? Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. She is the author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages. This talk was discussed by Thomas Bender, University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at NYU.

Title: Introduction
Runtime: 1:12:45
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of cosmopolitanism and deliberative democracy; Raymond Williams's model of dominant, residual, and emergent cultures; Puritanism and Jeffersonianism; the horizon of expectations and the aesthetics of reception; canonization; ideology; and American Exceptionalism.

Künstlerplakate: Artists' Posters from East Germany, 1967-1990

Title: Künstlerplakate: Artists' Posters from East Germany, 1967-1990
Runtime: 9:32
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: On View: September 07--December 04

Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East , New York, New York 10003

Title: NYU Reality Show 2010
Runtime: 3:28
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The show lasts approximately one hour. The Reality Show always provides an exciting launch to the undergraduate academic calendar. With a new, and very talented set of NYU students, The Reality Show was performed for all freshmen and new transfer students

A Conversation with The Right Honorable Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister UK

Title: A Conversation with The Right Honorable Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister UK
Runtime: 46:37
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Following a brief introduction by Dean Schall, the Deputy Prime Minister will deliver an opening statement and then open the floor to questions from students and faculty on any subject, from the economy and foreign affairs, to political reform.

Title: Moby-Dick (IV)
Runtime: 1:12:56
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Melville's Moby-Dick; race and slavery in nineteenth-century America; and Lemuel Shaw.

Title: American Neoclassicism
Runtime: 1:08:17
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Augustan and neoclassical poetic style; John Dryden; Alexander Pope; Samuel Johnson; Aristotle's Poetics; mimesis; Francis Scott Key's "Defense of Fort McHenry"; Phillis Wheatley.

Title: Nathaniel Hawthorne (I)
Runtime: 1:14:02
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories; American romance; allegory; dream-visions; Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene; and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

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