Arts and Sciences

Alair Townsend, Publishing Director of Crain’s New York Business, makes her presentation to business journalism and English students, touching on topics as diverse as the differing leadership styles of city mayors over the years to the prohibitive cost of doing business in New York state as a whole.

brTownsend also shares her concerns over the future of the print media industry.

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brThe event takes place on October 31 2006 at the Baruch Vertical Campus, Room 14-270.

Baruch College Journalism Programs present Red State vs. Blue State, featuring Jonathan Alter, columnist for Newsweek and author of iThe Defining Moment: FDRs Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope/i. Mr. Alter discusses the media and the mid-term elections.

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brThe event takes place on October 5, 2006 at the Oak Room, Newman Hall, 2nd Floor, 137 East 22nd Street, moderated by Professor Andrea Gabor in Journalism, Baruch College.

Angela Anselmo, Director of Baruch’s SEEK program and her sister Alma Rubal-Lopez, a professor at School of Education, Brooklyn College talked about their co-authored book On Becoming Nuyoricans. Part autobiography, part reflection on culture, curricula and pedagogy, the book details their uneasy relationship to both Puerto Rican and mainstream American culture.

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brThe event took place on October 24, 2006 at the Newman Conference Center 750, co-sponsored by the Department of Black and Hispanic Studies, and the Department of Modern Languages Comparative Literature, Baruch College.

A reading and conversation with Susan Choi, the author of two novels: iThe Foreign Student/i, which won the Asian-American Literary Award and the Steven Turner Award for first fiction in 1999; and iAmerican Woman/i, a iNew York Times/i Notable Book and a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.

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brThe event took place on October 24, 2006 at the Newman Conference Center, with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program. Paula Berggren, Professor of English at Baruch College, introduces the author and the topic.

Lorrie Moore, a distinguished fiction writer and scholar in the Spring 2000 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program, discusses her works and includes reading from her publications and writings. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

This lecture includes a reading of the works by Yehuda Amichai, an Israeli poet and a scholar of the Fall 1998 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program at Baruch College. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

Poet April Bernard is a scholar in the Fall 2003 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program. She discusses the poems from her latest book, Swan Electric. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

Colum McCann, a scholar in the Spring 2004 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program at Baruch College, is the award-winning author of three novels and two short story collections. The lecture includes readings and short stories extracted from his works. The event begins with an introduction by Professor Paula Berggren.

Jane Kramer, the Fall 1999 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College, is the European correspondent for The New Yorker and writes on the Letter from Europe column for the magazine. The lecture covers readings from her works. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

Readings from the distinguished playwright and scholar, Edward Albee, of his Counting the Ways in the Readers Theatre Workshop, directed by Jeffrey Stocker. Edward is the 2004 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. It was followed by a conversation between Albee and Mel Gusso, New York Times reporter and the author of iEdward Albee: A Singular Journey: A Biography/i. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.