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New York City is packed with amazing culture and inspiring art, but sometimes it’s difficult to break the Morningside-bubble and experience it all first-hand. “Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/ theatrically-inclined on campus.

Monday, October 3rd

• Writing the Brazilian Telenovela: A Discussion and Q&A with João Emanuel Carneiro, 7-10 PM, Heyman Center for the Humanities in EC Common Room – “In conversation with Richard Peña, Professor of Film Studies in the School of the Arts Film Program, and Ana Paulina Lee, Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Carneiro will discuss his experience in the lm and television industry in Brazil, reflecting in particular on the international appeal of his work. He will address the challenges of today’s globalized media, as well as the role played by issues of class, race, and gender when writing for a popular audience.”

Wednesday, October 5th

• Combat Paper, 10 AM – 5 PM, Dodge Plaza – “Participatory paper-making workshop, transforming military uniforms into handmade paper, led by David Keefe and Student Veteran Initiatives.” Exhibition to follow on October 14th.
• Mid-Day Music @ Columbia featuring Yong Murray on the piano, 12-1 PM, Garden Room 2 in the Faculty House – Yong Murray will be performing a program that includes Chopin’s 10 Etudes Op. 25, Nos. 6-10 and Beethoven’s Sonata in A major, Op. 101. This event is free.
• The B*tch is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier, 6:30 PM, Diana Event Oval – “Join bestselling writer and editor Cathi Hanauer, writer Lizzie Skurnick, Barnard’s own President Debora Spar, and Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan as they explore how our concepts of womanhood and feminism have evolved over the last decade. Hanauer made headlines in 2002 with her New York Times bestselling collection of essays, The Bitch in the House. She will discuss the soon-to-be-released sequel—The Bitch is Back—and the varied ways that bold and intelligent women are choosing to age today. Come hear Lizzie Skurnick share thoughts on having a baby on your own and, as a mixed-race woman, determining the baby’s race; Debora Spar discuss beauty and aging; and Jennifer Finney Boylan reads from her essay on returning to NYC in midlife as a successful professional woman after once living there as a struggling young man. Book signing to follow.”

Thursday, October 6th

• The Lionel Trilling Seminar | “Symbiosis of Nature and Art: a new Neo-Mannerism?”, 6:15 PM, Heyman Center for the Humanities in the EC Common Room – “Horst Bredekamp presents the next installment of the Lionel Trilling Seminar. Bredekamp studied art history, archeology, philosophy and sociology in Kiel, Munich, Berlin and Marburg. In 1974 he received his doctorate at the Philipps-Universität Marburg with a thesis on art as a medium of social conflicts, especially the “Bilderkämpfe” of late antiquity to the Hussiterevolution.”

By Governo do Brasil [Public domain], via Wikipedia