Public Events
The New York Institute for the Humanities produces numerous public events
throughout the academic year, both on-campus at NYU and at the Angel
Orensanz Foundation for the Arts at 172 Norfolk Street.
All of our events are free and open to the public unless a cover charge is
explicitly stated. Check here often for the most up-to-date information on
all NYIH-sponsored and co-sponsored events.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Our next event, on June 6th, is a one-day symposium on the cultural significance of comics, entitled POST BANG: Comics Ten Minutes After The Big Bang! This event will take place at NYU's Cantor Film Center at 36 East 8th Street (at University Place), and is being held in association with the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. Please click on below link for program information and details.
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Post Bang: Comics Ten Minutes After the Big Bang!
Friday, June 6, 2008, 11 am – 9:30 pm
Cantor Film Center at NYU, 36 East 8th Street
Free and open to the public.
Over the past few years comics have escaped from the shtetl and entered the salon. A “big bang” has exploded the assumption that the medium is inherently immature, and comics have hurtled into the worlds of book publishing (as literature for adults and children), contemporary art, literary criticism, and even musical theatre.
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