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Festival Albertine 2019: The Climate Moment

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

At this point in human and geological history, dealing with climate chaos is a race: can we move fast enough to prevent civilization-scale collapse? —Bill McKibben Festival Albertine 2019, curated by environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, will take on climate change. For three days, leading thinkers, politicians, activists, artists, and authors will come together to discuss the urgency to act,…

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Rewiring Democracy: Beyond “Us” and “Them” – Conference

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

An international conference co-organized by Jeanne Etelain and Phillip John Usher Our current moment is one in which our understanding of democracy is placed under critical pressure, making it increasingly difficult to divide the world into "them" and "us"‐‐ and equally difficult to even know what is meant when we say "we." Whereas a certain modern tradition defies the political via the…