Arts and Sciences

Prof. Gail Levin interviews digital media artist Roz Dimon.

You are warmly invited to join us for a reading and conversation with writer Daphne Palasi Andreades, the Harman Writer-in-Residence for the Spring 2024 semester. A 2015 Baruch alumnus, Andreades is the author of Brown Girls, a New York Times Editor's Choice, and a finalist for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Andreades is the recipient of a 2018 O. Henry Prize and scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, where she won the Voices of Color Prize.

Baruch History Department Event: "Preserving the Historical Record of Afro-Colombian Resistance through the Martial Art called 'Grima' in the British Library's Endangered Archives Program." A conversation with Baruch History Associate Professor Dr. TJ Desch-Obi, co-organized with the Non-Profit American Trust for the British Library, an event for Baruch students, faculty, and the general public.

warning that climate change will bring more frequent severe weather events

around the world. International organizations such as the IPCC, United Nations

Foundation and others face the challenge of communicating about climate

scientists' projections with audiences who don't have a background in climate

science. I will discuss insights for climate change communications from my

research program on public perceptions of climate change and severe weather.

These implications also apply to science communication about other complex

topics.

by Professor Theodore Henken from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology,

this video includes a recording of Professor Henken’s class with two Cuban guest

speakers, Carlos Manuel Álvarez  and Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo.

provides a book discussion of the student reading entitled: Cuba on the

Verge: 12 writers on continuity and change in Havana and across the country. The

book spans from politics and art to music and baseball in a timely look at the

Cuban society’s profound transformations. Among the authors for the book, Carlos

Manuel Álvarez. describes his story of being among the last generation of

Cubans to be raised under Fidel Castro. 

Moderated by Ester Allen, the Spring 2023 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program invites Sam Pollard, who is not

only Emmy award-winning filmmaker but also a Baruch alum in 1973.  The program is introduced Bridgett M. Davis, also a

filmmaker and novelist. Mr. Pollard will be teaching a class on

screenwriting and documentary filmmaking.