The New York Institute for the Humanities

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...a forum for promoting the exchange of ideas between academics, professionals, politicians, diplomats, writers, journalists, musicians, painters, and other artists in New York City - and between all of them and the city.

Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 1:00pm to 6:00pm

The Winter of Our Discontent

Stepping Back, Taking Stock, and Gazing Forward in the Wake of Occupy Wall Street

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Second Thoughts on the Memory Industry

Audio From the “Writing Hell” Event

The David Markson Celebration

Important Notice

SAVE THE DATES!!  February 11: The Winter of Our Discontent;  February 25: Survival of the Beautiful, an all-day symposium on Art, Science, & Evolution, curated by David Rothenberg; March 10: Tarkovsky Interruptus, with Geoff Dyer, Walter Murch and others. (Check back for details.)

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Second Thoughts on the Memory Industry

May 5, 2011

Event: Second Thoughts on the Memory Industry

WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show takes on "The Memory Industry":  Lawrence Weschler, director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, Ian Buruma, frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard, and Kanan Makiya, professor of Middle East studies at Brandeis University and a founder of the Iraq Memory Foundation, take a critical look at our urge to commemorate. All three are participants in the all-day symposium this Saturday May 7 (10:45 am till 9:30 pm; Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th Street).