Havel at Columbia

The Residency

The Residency: Schedule

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Sep 19,
7:30pm to 9:00pm

Lecture: Václav Havel: Acts of Courage, with Carol Rocamora
Lerner Hall, Arledge Cinema
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Oct 26

Milestone: Václav Havel, Official Start of Residency,
Columbia University

Oct 27,
1:00pm to 2:00pm

Back by popular demand , Lecture: Václav Havel: Acts of Courage, with Carol Rocamora
702 Hamilton
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Nov 02,
7:30pm

Conversation: Literature and Citizenship, Arthur Danto and Orhan Pamuk
Miller Theater
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Nov 03-Nov 05

Performance: Largo Desolato, a play by Václav Havel, MFA Theatre program in the School of the Arts
Schapiro Studio, 605 W 115th Street
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Nov 09,
4:00pm to 6:00pm

Lecture: Paul Wilson: Tower of Song: How Music Doomed Communism in Czechoslovakia, Harriman Institute
Room 1512, International Affairs Building (420 West 118th Street)
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Nov 10-Nov 12

Performance: Some Hero, adapted from Havel's Letters to Olga and his dramatic works, MFA Theatre program in the School of the Arts
Schapiro Studio, 605 W 115th Street
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Nov 10,
1:00pm

Lecture: The Core Contemporary Civilization Coursewide Lecture by President Havel, Presented by The Center for The Core Curriculum
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall
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Nov 11,
8:00pm

Concert: The Plastic People of the Universe, Harriman Institute
The Cutting Room (19 West 24th Street, New York City)
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Nov 11,
10:00am to 6:00pm

Symposium, in Honor of the Columbia University Residency of Václav Havel: The Examined Life: A Symposium Dedicated to the Literature and Politics of President Havel, Harriman Institute
Room 1501, International Affairs Building (420 West 118th Street)
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Nov.11,
6:00pm

Screening: Total Denial: Doe vs. UNOCAL, Directed by Milena Kaneva, In partnership with the Columbia Law School, Followed by Q&A with director and film star
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Green Hall, Joseph M. Proskauer Room 104
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Nov 12,
3:00pm and 8:00pm

Core Presentation: Reading: The Garden Party, a play by Vaclav Havel, directed by Israel Horovitz, In partnership with The Center for the Core Curriculum
Miller Theatre
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Nov 13,
7:00pm

Panel: Music and Citizenship, Moderated by George Lewis
In partnership with Apollo Theater--253 West 125th Street, between Adam Clayton Powell Blvd (7th Ave.) and Frederick Douglass Blvd (8th Ave).
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Nov 15,
2:00pm

Kraft Program Series: Challenges of New Democracies: A Conversation with President Havel and President Clinton, Moderated by President Lee Bollinger
Alfred Lerner Hall
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Nov 17-Nov 19

Performance: Redevelopment (or Slum Clearance), a play by Václav Havel, MFA Theatre program in the School of the Arts
Schapiro Studio, 605 W 115th Street
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Nov 19,
6:30pm

Panel: Film and Citizenship, In partnership with with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Moderated by Richard Peña
Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center

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Nov 21,
7:00pm

Panel: Journalism and Citizenship, Moderated by Nicholas Lemann
Journalism
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Dec 01 & 02,
8:00pm

Performance: Beggar's Opera, a play by Václav Havel, Barnard Theatre Department and The Harriman Institute
Miller Theatre
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Dec 02,
1:00pm

Panel: Art and Citizenship, Moderated by Simon Schama
In partnership with The Museum of Modern Art
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Dec 04,
7:00pm

Panel: Theater and Citizenship, Moderated by Alisa Solomon
In partnership with Public Theater
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Dec 06,
10:30am

Special Event: Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research Event, Featured Speaker, Wole Soyinka with special guest, President Václav Havel
Miller Theatre
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Dec 7,
6:00pm to 8:00pm

Lecture: Jiří Dienstbier: Democracy Seventeen Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain, Harriman Institute
Harison Room, on the 2nd Floor of Faculty House
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Dec 15

Milestone: Václav Havel, Last Official Day of Residency,
Columbia University

Dec 15-Dec 17

Performance: Protest, a play by Václav Havel, MFA Theatre program in the School of the Arts
Schapiro Studio, 605 W 115th Street
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Dec 15-Dec 17

Performance: Memo, a play by Václav Havel, MFA Theatre program in the School of the Arts
Schapiro Studio, 605 W 115th Street
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