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Urban Conversations | A City Is Sometimes a Tree

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Urban Conversations Speaker: Geoff Boeing In conversation with Carole Voulgaris In his seminal 1965 article “A City Is Not a Tree,” design theorist Christopher Alexander argued that urban planners—working centrally and top-down—tend to design cities as...

Lunch talk Dark Arts: AI for skeptics

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Beginning with the assumption that AI skeptics need to know how it works to defend against it, this lunch session will explore what AI can and can't do, ending with ideas for assignments that use AI to preserve core humanities skills like reading, writing...

Claude Cahun's Curiosity

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Hannah Freed-Thall (NYU) is giving a talk at the Mahindra Humanities Center's France and the World seminar, which is organized by RLL faculty, entitled "Claude Cahun's Curiosity". This talk explores the anti-fascistic potential of curiosity, taking avant...