Feb 12

12:30p.m.
Pacifica Quartet Performs Beethoven's Opus 95
Complete Beethoven String Quartet series.
FREE
Philosophy Hall at Columbia University
1150 Amsterdam Ave. - between 116th and 120th St.
1-212-206-1450

12:30p.m.
“Courageous Conversations: The Politics of Race”
This conversation with Professor George Shulman will explore three basic questions:
- How are we to understand the idea of race?
- What explains the persistence but also the reworking of racial categories?
- What should be our political goal in regard to racial categories and to the inequality with which they have always been tested?
FREE
The Gallatin School, NYU
715 Broadway - Room 501. 1-212-998-7380.

7p.m.
Best New Poets 2007
Each year, Meridian Magazine from the University of Virginia chooses fifty emerging poets selected from nominations by writing programs, literary magazines, and an open internet competition. These fresh talents are published in the yearly anthology Best New Poets.
This evening is featuring four of these new American poets reading from their work in the 2007 anthology: Robin Beth Schaer, Cecily Parks, Jee Leong Koh, and Robert Sawyer.
FREE
McNally Robinson Booksellers
52 Prince Street - between Lafayette and Mulberry Streets.
1-212-274-1160
Take the 6 train to Spring Street, R to Prince Street,
or B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette Street.