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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin (I)
Runtime: 1:03:31
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Fugtive Slave Law; sentimental fiction; anti-slavery narratives; and domestic slavery.

Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin (II)
Runtime: 1:10:13
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Fugtive Slave Law; sentimental fiction; anti-slavery narratives; and domestic slavery.

Title: Moby-Dick (II)
Runtime: 1:15:21
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Melville's Moby-Dick; intertextuality; Owen Chase's narrative of the sinking of the whaleship Essex; cenotaphs; Biblical culture; and typology.

Title: Moby-Dick (V)
Runtime: 53:19
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Melville's Moby-Dick, as well as John William De Forest and the idea of the Great American Novel; cosmopolitanism and deliberative democracy; Raymond Williams; the horizon of expectations; the Melville Revival; and Zoroastrianism.

Title: Nathaniel Hawthorne (II)
Runtime: 1:06:07
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of the logic of allegory and romance; liminality; and The Scarlet Letter.

Title: Moby-Dick (III)
Runtime: 1:16:36
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Melville's Moby-Dick; agency; free will; fate and destiny the logic of principal and agent

Title: American Transcendentalism (I)
Runtime: 1:15:56
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Ralph Waldo Emerson; ontological individualism and the state of nature; Alexis de Tocqueville; Immanuel Kant; philosophical idealism; Unitarianism; Transcendentalism; Lockean psychology; and Neo-Platonism.

Title: Frederick Douglass
Runtime: 1:07:19
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative as well as John Locke's Second Treatises of Government (1690); ontological individualism and possessive individualism ; Orlando Patterson and the idea of social death.

Title: American Transcendentalism (III)
Runtime: 1:13:41
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry David Thoreau; "Resistance to Civil Government"; and Walden.

Title: The American Enlightenment
Runtime: 1:10:56
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; perfectionism; Deism; Benjamin Franklin; errata; Thomas Jefferson; syllogisms; John Locke; and the Declaration of Independence.

Title: American Transcendentalism (II)
Runtime: 1:15:10
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Ralph Waldo Emerson; "The American Scholar" and "Self-Reliance," and "Experience"; John Locke's view of property; and possessive individualism.

Title: American Gothic (III)
Runtime: 1:14:33
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of copyright law and the profession of authorship; Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly; Philip Freneau's "To a New England Poet"; Washington Irving's History of New York, "Rip Van Winkle," and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Title: American Gothic (II)
Runtime: 1:10:19
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of the Copyright Act of 1790 and the marketplace for books; literature of virtue; Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and the English Gothic Novel; Edmund Burke; Samuel Richardson; and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly.

Title: American Gothic (I)
Runtime: 1:05:51
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism; Alexander Pope's "Windsor-Forest"; pastoralism; the graveyard school; fancy and imagination; Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Wordsworth's preface to Lyrical Ballads; William Cullen Bryant; and the Doppelgänger.

Edwards and the Transition to Enlightenment

Title: Edwards and the Transition to Enlightenment
Runtime: 1:13:30
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Raymond Williams's model of culture; Edward Taylor; Jonathan Edwards; Benjamin Franklin; George Whitefield; and the Great Awakening.

Title: American Puritanism (III)
Runtime: 1:14:42
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Puritan poetry; The Bay Psalm Book; English metaphysical poetry, including John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw; Samuel Johnson on Wit; intertextuality; paratext; Michael Wigglesworth; Anne Bradstreet; and Edward Taylor.

Title: American Puritanism (II)
Runtime: 1:13:51
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Anne Hutchinson and Antinomianism; preparationism; justification vs. sanctification ; morphology of conversion; The "Half-Way Covenant"; election sermons; the jeremiad; and Mary Rowlandson.

Title: American Puritanism (I)
Runtime: 1:16:28
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of typology; John Calvin; Arminianism; materialism and idealism; phenomenal vs. noumenal; Puritan "plain style"; the form of the Puritan sermons; the Great Migration; William Bradford; and John Winthrop.

Title: American Transcendentalism (V)
Runtime: 1:11:43
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Emerson, Whitman, and slavery; the Wilmot Proviso; Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore; the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Law; and Lemuel Shaw.

Title: Moby-Dick (I)
Runtime: 1:14:45
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of New York and cosmopolitanism; paralipsis; exempla; synecdoche and metonomy; Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism; Michel Foucault; humanism; and the opening chapter of Moby-Dick.

Title: American Transcendentalism (IV)
Runtime: 1:04:55
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman.

Title: The Literature of Settlement
Runtime: 1:14:59
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Featuring discussions of oral vs. written literary cultures; Native American creation stories; typological hermeneutics; the covenants of works and grace; original sin; John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion; the Synod of Dort; and TULIP.

How Street Cleaners Saved the City: Garbage, Goverment, and Public Health in New York

Title: How Street Cleaners Saved the City: Garbage, Goverment, and Public Health in New York
Runtime: 44:18
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: By the end of the 19th century, New York was one of the filthiest cities in the world. Though mortality rates from preventable disease rivaled those of medieval London, entrenched political corruption continued to fuel this decades-old crisis...

How Street Cleaners Saved the City: Questions & Answers

Title: How Street Cleaners Saved the City: Questions & Answers
Runtime: 10:59
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: By the end of the 19th century, New York was one of the filthiest cities in the world. Though mortality rates from preventable disease rivaled those of medieval London, entrenched political corruption continued to fuel this decades-old crisis...

Title: Arte y Política: Los Últimos Años
Runtime: 1:06:45
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Linked to the CLACS Interdisciplinary Seminar titled Cuba: History Culture Revolution, this speakers series by the same title presents new work on Cuban history, literature and culture from scholars in the United States, Cuba, and Spain. Antonio José Ponte is director of "Revista Encuentro." Event filmed 10/27/09.

Ghost Dance in the Field of the Cold War

Title: Ghost Dance in the Field of the Cold War
Runtime: 1:04:12
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Linked to the CLACS Interdisciplinary Seminar titled Cuba: History Culture Revolution, this speakers series by the same title presents new work on Cuban history, literature and culture from scholars in the United States, Cuba, and Spain. Jean Franco is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Event filmed 11/2/2009.

Title: Lezama's Fiestas
Runtime: 1:21:59
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Linked to the CLACS Interdisciplinary Seminar titled Cuba: History Culture Revolution, this speakers series by the same title presents new work on Cuban history, literature and culture from scholars in the United States, Cuba, and Spain. Roberto González Echevarría is Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale. Event filmed 10/26/09.

Cuba, 1959: From Political to Social Revolution

Title: Cuba, 1959: From Political to Social Revolution
Runtime: 46:42
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Linked to the CLACS Interdisciplinary Seminar titled Cuba: History Culture Revolution, this speakers series by the same title presents new work on Cuban history, literature and culture from scholars in the United States, Cuba, and Spain. Samuel Farber is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Brooklyn College. Event filmed 11/9/09.

Estado Nacion y Crisis del Discurso del Mestizaje en Ecuador

Title: Estado Nacion y Crisis del Discurso del Mestizaje en Ecuador
Runtime: 1:42:07
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Linked to the CLACS Regional Seminar on the Andes, this speakers series presents scholars, public intellecutals, and political actors from Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. The speakers will reflect on current conflicts and changes under way in the region.

Title: Parapolitics in Colombia
Runtime: 2:23:50
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Political analyst and journalist Claudia Lopez speaks about the Colombian paramilitary groups and their entrance into mainstream politics.

Rebelion en los Andes y la Amazonia del Peru

Title: Rebelion en los Andes y la Amazonia del Peru
Runtime: 1:52:02
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Linked to the CLACS Regional Seminar on the Andes, this speakers series presents scholars, public intellecutals, and political actors from Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. The speakers will reflect on current conflicts and changes under way in the region.

Title: plaNYC: A Greener, Greater New York
Runtime: 23:50
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: NYU's Schack Institute of Real Estate Sustainability Lecture Series hosts Hilary Beber, Policy Analyst from the NYC Mayor's Office. She presents the plans for plaNYC, released by Mayor Bloomberg on Earth Day 2007 to reduce citywide carbon emmisions.

Hilando Fino desde el Feminismo Comunitario

Title: Hilando Fino desde el Feminismo Comunitario
Runtime: 1:11:38
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Linked to the CLACS Regional Seminar on the Andes, this speakers series presents scholars, public intellecutals, and political actors from Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. The speakers will reflect on current conflicts and changes under way in the region.

La Lucha de los Pueblos Indigenas de la Amazonia peruana

Title: La Lucha de los Pueblos Indigenas de la Amazonia peruana
Runtime: 53:26
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Linked to the CLACS Regional Seminar on the Andes, this speakers series presents scholars, public intellecutals, and political actors from Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. The speakers will reflect on current conflicts and changes under way in the region.

Epistemic Rupture, Affirmative Action or 'Reverse Racism'?: Decolonizing Knoledge in Evo's Bolivia

Title: Epistemic Rupture, Affirmative Action or 'Reverse Racism'?: Decolonizing Knoledge in Evo's Bolivia
Runtime: 46:15
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Linked to the CLACS Regional Seminar on the Andes, this speakers series presents scholars, public intellecutals, and political actors from Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. The speakers will reflect on current conflicts and changes under way in the region.

Title: Children and Human Rights in Haiti
Runtime: 45:16
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: As one of UNICEF's regional hild protection experts, Nadine Perrault was immediately deployed to Hiti after the earthquake. On the ground she supported UNICEF's efforts to identify and protect unacompanied children.

Title: A History of Haiti's Poverty
Runtime: 36:44
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: In this talk, Professor Casimir examines and historically contextualizes "poverty in Haiti's history, showing that in reality, Haiti has not always been poor materially, but that its riches have often been for the benefit of other countries.

Jake Alspector Interview on NYU Bobst Renovation 2010

Title: Jake Alspector Interview on NYU Bobst Renovation 2010
Runtime: 17:14
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Interview with Jake Alspector about the NYU Bobst Library renovations overseen by the architectural firm Alspector Architecture.

Senator Christopher Dodd--The Health Care Debate: A Look at Policy and Process--Part 3

Title: Senator Christopher Dodd--The Health Care Debate: A Look at Policy and Process--Part 3
Runtime: 22:54
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: The 4th Annual Bernard and Irene Schwartz Lecture on Congress will examine the motivations, policies and strategies employed to move the health care bill through Congress and to the President's desk for signature. An expert panel will discuss the role of the major players, the meaning of this legislation for our country, and the impact it will have on the American people.

Indigenous politics: Beyond politics as usual

Title: Indigenous politics: Beyond politics as usual
Runtime: 47:30
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Linked to the CLACS Regional Seminar on the Andes, this speakers series presents scholars, public intellecutals, and political actors from Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. The speakers will reflect on current conflicts and changes under way in the region. In this talk, Marisol de la Cadena argues that current indigenous movements propose an ontological pluralization of politics as they conjure other-than-human beings (mountains, water, and soil--i.e. what we call nature) into the public political arena. Epistemically, she argues, this process cancels the nature-culture divide central to modern forms of representation, and exceeds notions of political plurality conceived as the inclusion of human marked by gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, religious believe-- or any other diacritic of human difference.

Indocumentales-Discussion of Al Otro Lado by Natalia Almada

Title: Indocumentales-Discussion of Al Otro Lado by Natalia Almada
Runtime: 32:28
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: "INDOCUMENTALES/UNDOCUMENTARIES THE US/MEXICO INTERDEPENDENT FILM SERIES is a collaborative series (sponsored by What Moves You?, Cinema Tropical, and NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies-CLACS) designed to inform, inspire, and enable an open exchange of views on some of today's most pressing immigration-related issues. In addition to showcasing documentary feature films by directors from both sides of the border, each screening will be followed by an informal interactive discussion with special guests of diverse backgrounds, sectors and experience. From hate crimes, to drug trafficking as an industry and cultural phenomena, to grappling with cultural identity, to cross-border activism, to coping with discrimination in the U.S. legal system, and understanding the impact of emigration in Mexico, Indocumentales/Undocumentaries explores the web of complicity, indifference, and economic interests involved in maintaining the status quo, in both U.S. and Mexican societies, and...

Senator Christopher Dodd--The Health Care Debate: A Look at Policy and Process--Part 1

Title: Senator Christopher Dodd--The Health Care Debate: A Look at Policy and Process--Part 1
Runtime: 22:54
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: The 4th Annual Bernard and Irene Schwartz Lecture on Congress will examine the motivations, policies and strategies employed to move the health care bill through Congress and to the President's desk for signature. An expert panel will discuss the role of the major players, the meaning of this legislation for our country, and the impact it will have on the American people.

Senator Christopher Dodd--The Health Care Debate: A Look at Policy and Process--Part 4

Title: Senator Christopher Dodd--The Health Care Debate: A Look at Policy and Process--Part 4
Runtime: 22:54
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: The 4th Annual Bernard and Irene Schwartz Lecture on Congress will examine the motivations, policies and strategies employed to move the health care bill through Congress and to the President's desk for signature. An expert panel will discuss the role of the major players, the meaning of this legislation for our country, and the impact it will have on the American people.

Senator Christopher Dodd--The Health Care Debate: A Look at Policy and Process--Part 2

Title: Senator Christopher Dodd--The Health Care Debate: A Look at Policy and Process--Part 2
Runtime: 22:54
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: The 4th Annual Bernard and Irene Schwartz Lecture on Congress will examine the motivations, policies and strategies employed to move the health care bill through Congress and to the President's desk for signature. An expert panel will discuss the role of the major players, the meaning of this legislation for our country, and the impact it will have on the American people.

Senator Christopher Dodd--The Health Care Debate: A Look at Policy and Process--Part 5

Title: Senator Christopher Dodd--The Health Care Debate: A Look at Policy and Process--Part 5
Runtime: 22:54
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: The 4th Annual Bernard and Irene Schwartz Lecture on Congress will examine the motivations, policies and strategies employed to move the health care bill through Congress and to the President's desk for signature. An expert panel will discuss the role of the major players, the meaning of this legislation for our country, and the impact it will have on the American people.

Itamar Rabinovich--Israel and America: Where We Stand Now--April 22, 2010

Title: Itamar Rabinovich--Israel and America: Where We Stand Now--April 22, 2010
Runtime: 1:09:24
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: New York Universitys Taub Center for Israel Studies presented Israel and America: The Special Relationship, a lecture series that features speakers who have played important roles in shaping and analyzing the diplomatic relationship between Israel and America over the past 20 years. Rabinovich, Israels ambassador to the United States from 1993 to 1996 and chief negotiator with Syria under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, has authored The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations and The Brink of Peace: Israel and Syria, among other works.

Aaron David Miller--The U.S., Israel and American Jews: A Negotiator Looks Back--April 15, 2010

Title: Aaron David Miller--The U.S., Israel and American Jews: A Negotiator Looks Back--April 15, 2010
Runtime: 1:07:51
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: New York Universitys Taub Center for Israel Studies presented Israel and America: The Special Relationship, a lecture series that features speakers who have played important roles in shaping and analyzing the diplomatic relationship between Israel and America over the past 20 years. Miller, whose published works include The Much Too Promised Land: Americas Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (2008), served at the U.S. Department of State as an advisor to six secretaries of state, including managing Arab-Israeli negotiations in the Clinton Administration.

Title: NYU Commencement 2010 Procession
Runtime: 7:18
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: New York University Bestows Honorary Degrees on Actor Alec Baldwin, Educator Robert Max Berdahl, Xerox CEO Ursula M. Burns, Social Entrepreneur Bill Drayton, Jazz Musician and Alum Wayne Shorter, and Sociologist William Julius Wilson

NYU Student Speaker Jessica Mason's Speech at Commencement 2010

Title: NYU Student Speaker Jessica Mason's Speech at Commencement 2010
Runtime: 7:37
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: The student speaker at the 2010 Commencement Exercises was Jessica Mason, a 2010 recipient of a bachelors degree from NYUs Silver School of Social Work (where she majored in both social work and history) and one of 10 NYU students named a Reynolds Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship.

NYU President John Sexton's Speech at Commencement 2010

Title: NYU President John Sexton's Speech at Commencement 2010
Runtime: 4:00
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: NYU President John Sexton officiated at NYUs 178th Commencement in Yankee Stadium. Some 6,000 students receiving undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, and 20,000 guests attended the morning ceremony, which was also attended by alumni, faculty, and other NYU community members.

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